Country
There's a fine line that runs between old time string band music, bluegrass, rural blues, western swing, folk ballads and country rock, but when you put them all together you get American country music. We have instruction in all of these, making up the true American musical form.

101 Essential Riffs for Acoustic Guitar
Artie Traum
This encyclopedia of licks is jam-packed with lead lines, bends, arpeggios, flatpicking tips, speed-licks, unique runs and great playing advice! It's the ultimate way to improve your technique and gain inspiration -- fast!
Guitarist Artie Traum delivers a lesson that teaches more than a hundred powerful riffs for blues, bluegrass, country and folk styles. Players at all levels will be ...
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A Six-Pack of Country Guitar Licks
Josh Yenne
For Telecaster and Other Electric Instruments
Plug in that electric guitar and start bending and sliding your way to country guitar prowess! Multi-instrumentalist session player Josh Yenne teaches six easy but useful licks on his Telecaster that will provide a great foundation for any aspiring country picker.
Josh teaches three licks in A and three licks in E, accompanied by play-along tracks in both the “train ...
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Bluegrass and Country Fiddle: A Complete Course
Kenny Kosek
Here's a complete, step-by-step course that gets novice bluegrass fiddlers off to a great start. Kenny Kosek will have you playing right from the first lesson - even if you've never held a bow before! By the time you've worked through these lessons you'll be playing a full repertoire of songs and tunes using a range of ...
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Bluegrass Slow Jam for the Total Beginner
Pete Wernick
A Super-Easy, No-Fail Play-Along Session
Anyone, with any instrument, can get into this bluegrass jam session, even if you've never tried it before. All you need to know are four basic chords (G, C, D and A) to be able to play along with the band! This video will give you the practice and the confidence you'll need to join a real jam ...
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Contest Fiddling Championship Style
Mark O'Connor
When this lesson was recorded in 1984, Mark O’Connor was just 22 years old and was already a winner of multiple fiddle championships. His musicianship, skill and advanced musical ideas are much in evidence as he slows down his impeccable technique for aspiring players.
This lesson will show you the finer points of Mark’s remarkable fiddle style. He lets you ...
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Country Swing Back-Up Guitar
Nick Forster
Add moving bass lines and jazz-based chords to fiddle tunes and country songs for authentic Western Swing style guitar accompaniment! Nick Forster provides the tools needed to move out of open positions and into the chord shapes and progressions that give this rhythm style its distinctive sound. You'll learn to create solid flatpicking accompaniments to songs and instrumentals--Sally ...
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Country Telecaster Virtuosity
Ray Flacke
Learn to play the electric guitar techniques that will add hot solos and powerful drive to any country or rock band! On this thrilling lesson, Ray Flacke teaches the mind-boggling licks that have made him highly sought-after for record dates, jingles and live gigs on the Nashville scene for more than thirty years. You'll learn double-stops, pedal steel-like string ...
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Dobro Variations
Cindy Cashdollar
Explorations in Minor, Swing and Rockabilly Styles
In this follow-up lesson to her very popular video for beginning players, "Learning Bluegrass Dobro," Cindy moves into intermediate territory with the blues, minor key and western swing styles that have become her signature sound. Cindy builds your knowledge of the Dobro step-by-step, teaching alternate tunings, music theory and invaluable bar and fingerpicking techniques. Starting with the much-requested classic Panhandle ...
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Doc's Guitar: Fingerpicking and Flatpicking
Doc Watson
Lessons From a Master
Doc Watson, a true master of traditional guitar styles and one of the most beloved folk musicians of all time, teaches some of the most requested fingerpicking and flatpicking tunes in his vast repertoire. Split-screen images allow you to watch his picking and fretting hands at the same time. You'll see and hear Doc's guitar playing in slowed-down ...
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Easy Bluegrass and Country Guitar
Happy Traum
Guaranteed the quickest and easiest way to get into playing the real country guitar! Happy Traum will get you started in this popular American guitar style and get you ready to move on to more advanced studies. You'll learn to handle a flatpick, play a basic scale, then master these techniques: accompanying songs in straight and waltz time; picking ...
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Electric Country Blues - Two Video Set
Jim Weider
Mississippi Delta meets Memphis country and goes electric! The result: swampy blues riffs and progressions blended with the funky picking and string bends of modern country. Jim Weider has developed a powerful electric guitar sound based on this uniquely American style. He shows you how to play licks and solos in the Delta, Louisiana and Cajun-based tones influenced by James ...
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Electric Country Blues - Video 1
Jim Weider
Lesson One
Playing his vintage instruments and amps, Jim Weider teaches the powerful and important electric guitar styles that combine Mississippi Delta blues with the country music of Memphis and Nashville. This lesson contains a myriad of exercises and ideas, including right hand pick-and-finger technique; bass damping; speed work; string-bending; banjo-style rolls; shuffle and rockabilly rhythms and several great songs: Big Foot ...
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