Nashville Country Lead Guitar
Product Description
Classic country guitar solos book by Larry McCabe
If you love the sound of a twangy, chicken-picked vintage Telecaster or Stratocaster guitar and want to learn the exciting lead guitar style associated with classic truck driving songs, drinking songs, and cheating songs, this book is for you. (The book is not for beginners; basic picking and chording skills are required before attempting these solos.)
The solos in this book sound like the breaks one might hear on classic country recordings by Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Lefty Frizell, George Jones, and similar artists who defined the exciting honky-tonk sound of the 50s to late 60s, before rampant commercialism eliminated virtually all originality and feeling from popular country music.
Several hundred popular country recordings were researched to come up with the 25 chord progressions in this book. Each progression was found to be common to many songs. A solo incorporating various concepts and techniques was played over each progression. The result is an authentic-sounding collection of 25 country guitar solos through which various ideas can be analyzed. An ambitious and creative guitarist will find many opportunities for applying these ideas to real songs.
The book could have been named Learn Bakersfield Lead Country Guitar Solos (or something like that). The twangy, Fender Telecaster country guitar style actually emerged in Bakersfield, California, in the 1950s. With a 50s Tele (Telecaster) or 60s Tele (Telecaster) guitar and a vintage Fender Deluxe Reverb Amp, the Bakersfield Sound country musicians and bandleaders like Don Rich, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Roy Nichols, Lefty Frizzel, Red Simpson, Wynn Stewart, and others would eventually teach the Nashville guitar pickers a good deal about chicken picking and twangy country lead guitar playing.
Please note: This book is a 2007 reprint of Larry McCabe’s Country Lead Guitar, formerly published by Mel Bay Publications.
Prerequisite Ability
- Ambitious early intermediate guitarist who wants to learn to play country lead guitar.
- Intermediate guitar player.
User Profiles
- Serious hobbyist guitarist.
- Flatpicking guitar players wanting to learn the electric country solo style.
- A gigging rock guitarist, blues guitarist, or jazz guitarist who wants to learn the electric country guitar picking style.
- Guitar teachers who teach electric lead guitar.
- Country guitar, blues guitar, and rock guitar players who want to expand their rhythm guitar skills and knowledge.
Goals and Purposes
- Learn how to play Bakersfield Sound guitar, classic country lead guitar, Nashville guitar, honky-tonk guitar, chicken picking, etc.
- Explore the major pentatonic scale and the major scale on the guitar fingerboard.
- Practice country guitar solos with a CD.
- Study country chord progressions.
- Greater familiarity with guitar fingerboard.
Author-Recommended Supplemental Listening for Country Guitar Players
The author recommends that guitarists who use this book listen to as many of the following country guitarists and musicians as possible. Listening to these vintage guitar players and musicians will provide unlimited enjoyment, inspiration, and ideas.
Country Guitar Players
Chet Atkins, Norman Blake, Junior Brown, James Burton, Billy Byrd, Thumbs Carlisle, Maybelle Carter, Duane Eddy, Ray Flacke, Hank Garland, Billy Grammar, Albert Lee, Grady Martin, Joe Maphis, Sam McGee, Bob Moore, Scotty Moore, Roy Nichols, Carl Perkins, Riley Puckett, Mose Rager, Jerry Reed, Don Rich, Eldon Shamblin, Arthur Guitar Boogie Smith, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Clarence White.
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This book and cd will teach you very detailed, intricate riffs for which I would be amazed if you are ever able to insert such a riff into anything else you are playing. Not sure that you will even be able to glean any real theory of value from this very tedious exercise. If you learn a very intricate riff from a song, at least you can play the riff in that song. These are stand alone riffs that are going to be hard to extract more than bits and pieces for use elsewhere.
Rating: 2 / 5
Nashville Country Lead Guitar
This superb collection of solos is highly recommended to all ambitious country guitar students. It is not a beginner’s book but one for those who can already play with good alternate-picking skills.
The solos are written to universal country chord progressions, typically three chords and twelve or sixteen bars, the form found in thousands of songs. Learn the solos and then apply bits and pieces of them to your favorite chord progressions and songs. For example, if you need to play a two-bar phrase on a V chord, simply extract a two-measure V chord phrase from one of the solos, transpose it to the proper key, and there you are. Nearly instant application.
Need to link a I chord to a IV chord? Find an example in the book, and then apply it to anything you want to apply it to. This is a fantastic way to be creative and not only copy licks note-for-note from hit songs. The great thing is that the method requires and encourages creativity on the part of the user. Working with this book for awhile will definitely build your concept and technique.
As I mentioned, the chords for many standards are here (including “Jambalya,” which is titled here “Flying While Using a Doghouse for Wings”), so all the material is perfectly applicable to real songs. Very highly recommended to all aspiring country guitarists, especially those interested in developing an original style.
Rating: 5 / 5
Nashville Country Lead Guitar
This book was exactly what I’ve been looking for in a Country Lead Guitar book. 25 excellent solos in a wide variety of keys. I consider myself an intermediate guitar player and new to the Country Music sound. I loved the variety of the solo’s in general, covering a great mix of different Country Music sounds, speed, and difficulty. I put the CD in and made it all the way to track 4: Black Wolf, and knew that one was a great starter and the one I wanted to learn first. It is a great solo with a pretty low degree of difficulty, and sounds great plugged in! I’m in the middle of learning 1130 Grand Avenue (track:9) right now and I’m just having a blast! I own several Red Dog Music Books and I have never been disappointed with the content or quality, top notch all the way. Many thanks to the Author.
Rating: 5 / 5
Nashville Country Lead Guitar
This is an excellent book for any guitarist wanting to learn the
electric country honky-tonk style of playing. This is the postwar style
pioneered by performers such as Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Lefty
Frizzell, and similar artists.
Each solo is an improvised solo on a standard country progression. If
you write out the chord progressions for several country standards,
you’ll probably find some of the progressions here. Memorize the solos,
transpose them to other keys, extract phrases for specific uses, and
you’ll get a lot of mileage from this book.
The solos are expertly played and a delight to listen to. Some require
four fingers and a solid alternate-picking technique, a challenge for
many blues and rock guitarists. It is a valuable book and one I highly
recommend.
Rating: 5 / 5
Nashville Country Lead Guitar
Electric guitar soloist looking for a classic flare will be pleased with the selection of twenty-five electric honky-tonk solos comprising “Nashville Country Lead Guitar”, by veteran music educator Larry McCabe as he presents electric guitar solos for those playing electric guitar for aspiring and practicing country music guitarists at the intermediate level. This outstanding collection is made up of classic “twangy” country guitar style of the 1950’s and 60’s. Each of the twenty-five full length solos are played over a typical country cord progressions. The range in difficulty from early intermediate to challenging intermediate and is not intended for beginners still needing to a acquire basic expertise with the guitar. Included is an accompanying CD with each of the solos performed with a classic country band. Arranged in alphabetical order the musician can choose a piece and try it, if it is too difficult they can then select another. Written with clear instruction and explanation, “Nashville Country Lead Guitar” is an excellent choice for someone wishing to learn this style — and highly recommended for personal and professional guitarists and guitar instructors.
Rating: 5 / 5
Nashville Country Lead Guitar