So you’ve got your Fender Tele the Twin Reverb amp and your book on chicken pickin’ country guitar but you still sound more like a ‘plucked chook’ than a smoking hot country guitar player, what’s wrong with this picture you seem to be doing everything right?
I can’t fault your choice of guitar and amp and the idea of some chicken pickin’ sounds fine to me, I’d say the problem started with that country guitar book!
To be honest it doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s a country guitar book or a rock guitar book most of the information in either book is pretty much the same but as you know there’s a whole world of difference in the music.
O.K. it’s time to roll up your selves and sharpen your picks… let’s get to work on the ‘REAL’ country guitar playing.
Basically most of the information or thinking behind the stock standard published guitar books available at most music stores are drawn for the classical guitar text; which means no matter how much you practice this stuff you ain’t going to sound country; why? because fundamentally most of the scales in these books use closed strings, certainly most rock guitar playing involves playing scales where the notes are closed but for country guitar you need plenty of open strings. Read the rest of this entry »