3-Note Country Guitar Solo System

[Music] so i started out as a rock and blues guitar player but what i realized is that you don't choose your journey the journey really chooses you [Music] and after a whirlwind of head rattling events i was thrust into country music and man i'm proud to say i'm a country guitarist [Music] hey hey eddie here with guitar mastery method and in this video i'm going to show you my bulletproof three-note country guitar solo system that allows you to play tasty country guitar solos that'll knock the socks off of anybody who years you play you're getting a complete walk through on how to solo to the chords how to inject full flavor by playing the perfect notes at the perfect time my country hot licks so you'll be able to fit into any key and a whole lot more and i'll let you in on exactly how we're going to do that in just a sec but first you may be wondering who the hell i am well i'm eddie haddad and when i'm not performing country shows around the world or filling in as a session guitarist at epic recording studios that kind of thing i create transformational guitar lessons for guitar mastery method members guitarists just like you who know there's got to be an easier way to be a great guitarist and because you're here with me right now i know that you got that go-getter attitude and you're wanting more so you got to know with hundreds of thousands of happy guitar students around the world it's pretty safe to say we give you the results you want all right all right all right so let's get into how you can start playing some tasty country solos with just three notes now in order to find these notes you gotta become good buddies with the major scale [Music] so we're using a major scale pattern here and i'm not going to dive into the theory of it all you got to know is that it's positioned here starting on the the third fret on the low e string which is a g and that makes this the g major scale so the major scale is made up of seven notes [Music] and this note right here which would be the eighth note is what's called the octave and it's basically a g note just at a higher octave and what would happen is if we kept the scale going the major scale would just repeat in a higher octave but we'll get to that in a minute so within these seven notes we want to find three very special notes in particular and they're going to be identified as numbers so the notes are the first the third and the fifth and they are known as chord tones now in order to find these notes all we have to do is play through the scale and then count it out in order and we'll automatically land on the notes we want pretty much until we get to five so starting on one there we go we already found our one and then we have there's two and then aha three right there and we got four and then five there's our fifth so we've just now found our one our three and our five so we have [Music] those are our chord tones so now that you know these chord tones what's really important is not just knowing where they're at on the fretboard but also how they sound [Music] knowing how this sounds very important because we're going to be finding more groups of these notes right now remember when i said how the major scale will start over once we reach the octave of g and we keep the scale going so we're going to go ahead and do that and extend the scale that we just learned so when we're playing the major scale [Music] starting on this note right here the octave of g we're going to play a whole new major scale which is basically the exact same notes a higher octave [Music] and i added two extra notes in there which i'll explain why in a second so real quick let's go over the entire major scale pattern that we've just [Music] learned [Music] we've added a bunch more notes so now we can find more groups of first thirds and fifths so we already know this one so the next group would be here starting on the fifth fret of the d string and then the fourth fret on the g string and then third fret on the b string remember how i said remember how these notes sound right so you may be hearing a resemblance here these are the exact same notes right just in a higher octave [Music] okay and there's just two more since we've extended the scale pattern we have so this is a a one right a root note which is on the third fret of the high e string and then we're gonna have the seventh fret on the e string that's our third so we're not gonna go up to the the higher fifth here we don't need it because the licks that we're gonna be learning in a minute are just going to be within this neighborhood here so these are all the three groups of the chord tones so a quick fun fact you may be wondering why these are called core tones if we're playing notes in a scale well they're called chord tones because these are literally notes that make up a chord so that being said if we were to play the g major chord tones that we just learned over a g chord it will always sound good 100 of the time so every single one of those chord tones sounded just fine over a g chord right because we were literally playing notes within a g chord hence the name chord tones i can pretty much guarantee you that any great country guitar player that you can think of highlights chord tones when they're playing their solos which leads me to the best part now we're gonna learn some country licks that use every single one of these chord tones and there are four of them and they go like this [Music] so all these licks work perfectly over a g chord check it out now you could use the major scale pattern and create licks of your own but i wanted to give you these four pro level sounding licks right off the bat so let's break down these licks okay lick number one goes like this so what i'm doing is i'm starting on the one right g third fret of the low e string and then i'm sliding in to the second fret on the a string here i'm sliding in from the first fret to the second fret [Music] this gives a little bit of flavor you know and notice how i'm landing on the third there so i got i went from the first to the third and guess what we're going straight to the fifth so all three chord tones right there okay so then we play the fifth fret here on the a string then we're going to play the second fret on the d string then we're going to end it by playing the fifth fret on the d string which is the octave of g right one more time [Music] lick number two is going to start on the third fret of the g string right and we're going to hammer on from the third fret to the fourth fret here okay now that fourth fret on the g string there that's the third all right so we're going to be hammering from the third fret to the fourth fret but we're also going to be playing the third fret on the b string so we're hammering from the third fret to the fourth fret on the g string here and then playing the third fret on the b string and we're kind of repeating that pattern okay so we'll do it three times at normal speed and the second the fourth time is going to be a little bit faster because we're going to resolve the lick like this so we have [Music] so we do that hammer-on thing four times all right remember the fourth time's faster and then we're going to do a short little blues band on the third fret of the g string with our first finger so we're just doing a just really quick and we're not even really bending to um any specific place it's just a very very quick very short bend all right what's known as a blues bend and then we're going to resolve it on the fifth fret of the d string here which is g again all right so we have we're hammering on to the third here all right then we're playing our fifth right and then resolving on the one so another great use of chord tones and that lick lick number three is a lot of fun i like this one so we're going to start with barring the b and the high e string on the second fret with our first finger here okay we're gonna slide in from the second fret to the third fret [Music] just like that okay then we're gonna play what's called a double stop which is just basically two notes at once right so we're playing the fifth fret on the b string and the g string with our third finger here so then what we're going to do is we're going to play the fifth fret on the d string so in order to make that move from barring the g and the b string and then moving over to the d string we just kind of have to do this slight sort of roll with our third finger okay it's a it's a very very quick movement so it doesn't have to be too complex right just okay so just kind of practice out a little bit back and forth and just kind of get familiar with that pattern it happens really fast like i said but it's meant to be done with as little actual movement as possible right then we're going to end the lick here by playing another double stop on the third fret so it's uh third fret on the g and the b strings here then we're going to hammer on to the fourth fret while we're letting that ring out we're gonna hammer on just on the g string to the fourth fret with our second finger so we're resolving on a third and a fifth so we have and little fun fact about that lick is it's very repeatable you can just i like to play that like over and over again it's a lot of fun but or you can just play it once really doesn't matter the the what matters is that it covers all those chord tones right so we slide in on the fifth and the one right the first and then we're gonna go another one right here and then and then we just resolve with the fifth and the third [Music] there you go look number four is going to be a little bit challenging but it is a classic classic country lick [Music] so what we're doing here okay is we're sliding on the g string from the third fret to the fourth fret here [Music] and then we're catching the third fret on the high e string okay and then we're gonna be moving it up to the fifth fret [Music] and then catching the fifth fret on the high e string as well okay and then we're moving up to the seventh fret same same shape here see so we have right and then next we're going to be sliding from the the same shape but on the sixth fret down to the fifth fret and we're playing both of those notes at once when we slide down from the sixth fret to the fifth fret [Music] now since we're skipping strings here right we're playing the g and the high e string we're skipping the b string so if you're having trouble muting it i'll show you what i do here what i do okay because i'm picking each one of these notes with my second finger right which i'm using basically to play all the notes on the g string i'll use the obviously the very tip to play the actual fret right but then i kind of have this part of my finger gently kind of resting on the b string so that it mutes it so i can play the note i want right but if my pick is going across both strings the b string is nice and muted so it's the same idea right i'm using just the second finger to mute the b string by just kind of gently letting it sort of naturally rest on the string right [Music] so that way i can play and not worry about letting the open g or open b string ring out [Music] okay so here's the lick again sliding up from the third fret to the fourth fret then catching the third fret on the high e string then sliding up to the fifth fret then to the seventh fret and then we're going to play the sixth fret [Music] slide down to the fifth fret and then and we're going to resolve here which is fourth fret on the g string first fret on the uh high e string so we know all these licks use chord tones right and we found the chord tones by using the major scale pattern which you can totally create licks of your own using the same pattern in the same chord tones but i wanted to give you four pro level licks right off the bat okay now that you got these licks and you're sounding awesome already i'm going to let you in on something that's going to blow your mind okay but first let me tell you this a lot of country songs follow what's called a one four five chord progression now you don't need to know what that means yet but in the key of g what that does mean is that you'd be playing g c and a d chord in that chord progression stay with me here the reason i bring this up is because a good country guitar player will know how to play over all of the chords in a chord progression so g c and d in this case are all major chords do you remember our good buddy the g major scale [Music] i'm going to show you a stupidly simple way to play over multiple chords with just that exact same pattern so when i talked about a 1 4 5 chord progression which in our case is going to be a g a c and a d chord played together that's what's called a chord progression we have multiple chords played together okay so we're going to learn how to take that same pattern and apply it when we're playing over a c and a d chord so what makes this stupidly simple is that you know how we start on the major scale right we start with our second finger here playing the third fret right on the low e string that's g right and then we just play the pattern right because it's just our fingers going through a a pattern on the fretboard right so we're going to take that and we're going to shift it over to c so if g is the third fret on the low e string i'm going to go ahead and find c there it is that's the eighth fret on the low e string now you don't need to know yet how i found that but just know that that's where a c note is okay so eighth fret on the low e string is a c so check this out when we start on c with our second finger and we follow through with that whole major scale that extended major skill pattern check it out [Music] so we just took the exact same pattern that i played here in g and just just shifted it over to c so that's all we needed to do we took that exact same pattern and we just moved it we didn't have to change any of the notes we didn't have to do anything crazy literally we took that same pattern and we just moved it up okay so that's how we would play over a c is by using that same pattern okay and because there are chord tones within the pattern we'd be able to find the chord tones for c which are in the exact same place like they were for g right [Music] so now we only have one more chord in the progression that we gotta find which is d hm i wonder how we're gonna find it oh let's just take this pattern and move it to d right so we found c which is on the eighth fret of the low e string right when we're starting now d is on the 10th fret okay so same basic idea right we just played on the jeep the g pattern right we just played it in c now we do the exact same thing starting on d here [Music] and the chord tones in the exact same [Music] place pretty cool right i mean all we're doing is taking the one pattern basically so we have one pattern and we're turning it into three patterns basically for the price of one so now i'm gonna take these three patterns i'm going to isolate their chord tones and i'm going to play them over a chord progression of just g c and d i'm going to play the chord tones for g c and d over the backing track and you'll see exactly how good it sounds [Music] so [Music] so that was just to quickly show you how playing the chord tones over each chord worked perfectly right i started off with the g chord tones then i played the c chord tones and the d chord tones and then back to the g chord tones but i was using the exact same finger pattern the entire time but oh it gets even better because remember the four licks that we learned not too long ago well now i'm going to show you how to turn those four licks into 12 licks using what i like to call the country lick multiplier see all the licks that we first learned revolve around the major scale right and they hit those chord tones that make up the three note country guitar solo system you know what i'm talking about so if we were to say i don't know shift that pattern up to uh i don't know maybe c maybe we could play those exact same licks using the exact same pattern but now we're playing them and see i don't know let's try them out [Music] sounded pretty good to me why don't we try moving them to d now [Music] hmm that worked pretty good too so we just took four licks that we learned in g using the g major scale pattern right with those chord tones we shifted them up to c so now we have four more licks that we can use over a c chord and then when we shifted it up to d we got four even more licks that we can use over the d chord so we basically now have 12 licks that we can play over that 145 gcd chord progression pretty cool so what do you say we try these licks out and see how they sound over the backing track [Music] literally all i did was take those four licks right and i just played them in different positions over the chords as i heard them coming in the backing track which was just an easy order of g c d and then back to g before it ended so knowing that i just played two licks over g another two licks over c another two over d and then finally two over g again and what i tried to do was because i had four lick patterns to choose from i would just pick two in a different combination over each chord so it sounded like a dedicated solo it didn't sound repetitive it didn't sound wrong in any way it just really worked over every single chord and the reason it worked out so well is because i'm using licks that highlight the chord tones right the three notes that we need in our three note country guitar solo system the first or the root the third and the fifth those three notes all we need i was just highlighting those three notes and all the licks i was playing and it worked over every single chord and if you follow that system you will never ever play a wrong note and i mean all we did was take that one major scale pattern and we just moved it to two other positions and that's what allowed us to multiply four licks into twelve so if you apply this system to any one four five country chord progression not only will you never play a wrong note but you'll be able to take a simple pattern like the major scale pattern that we learned just now and make a couple licks out of it you know highlighting those chord tones and then you can apply your own country lick multiplier and turn two licks into six or three into nine or four into twelve or however many that you want to create literally the options are endless you know when i first discovered this system it was like i mean it explained everything because i'll listen to my favorite country guitar players you know guys like brad paisley or brett mason or jerry donahue you know i'll listen to them and it's just disgusting how good they are i mean they'll play a thousand notes a second and it just sounds so cool and melodic not to mention using clean tone i mean that's nuts but what i didn't realize at the time and i realized now is that all they're really doing is focusing on those three chord tones they are targeting certain notes and they're making sure that whatever else they play around it always leads to one of those chord tones and that's how every single time they play it never sounds wrong it's like every single note counts because it all leads to those three simple notes man that was a lot of fun huh so remember you have below this video the reference material that covers everything we went over in the three-note country guitar solo system it covers the tabs for the licks that we just went through and it includes the jam track that we were playing along to so you can take that jam track and download it to your computer you can put it on a disk or you can just play it on this page right here now we've covered a hell of a lot here quite frankly more than you can shake a stick at right i wanted to make sure that you had a full understanding of my tried and true three-note country guitar solo system even if that means filling your head to the brim with new information if you're feeling a little overwhelmed don't worry here's something i want you to do right now take a break grab a coffee a beer i mean it's five o'clock somewhere in the world right plus you know you've earned it then you'll want to come back to this video for round two because i guarantee you go through it again you're gonna pick up some crucial tips and tactics that you might have missed the first time you do need to take a minute to let that brain of yours relax from playing guitar for just a moment though then when you come back and you hit play again and you watch the video again things are going to become so much clearer and every time you watch through the video you're going to be picking up more and more things that you missed now to recap we've covered the steps to playing tasty country guitar solos using the three note country guitar solo system we've also covered the country lick multiplier using the same patterns from our country solo system and we've also jammed those licks to a country cord backing track now if you have any questions about anything we went over today just let me know in the comments below and i'll be sure to get back to you as soon as i can i really want to make sure that you understand everything because it's a whole lot of fun but it's also a complete game changer when you start to incorporate it into your playing so if you have any questions at all just let me know in the comments below so in closing for this lesson i've got two questions for you and i'd like for you to leave the answers in the comments section below question one who's your favorite country artist for me it's gotta be brad paisley i mean he really opened my eyes up to country because not only he's such a great songwriter but he's a damn good guitar player and question two if you had to pick one thing what's your biggest takeaway from this lesson alrighty i hope you enjoyed this lesson as much as i enjoyed bringing it to you make sure to leave me a comment below and i will see you in real soon [Music] you

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Length: 28min 48sec (1728 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 16 2020