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Bluegrass Guitar Essentials Video 2 | The Legend of Captain John Solo

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Channel: The Creative Guitarist · 2014 · Education

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Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sTX-m0bOi0
Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxjpP572roM

The 2nd sample video for my Bluegrass Guitar Essentials is for the solo to a song I wrote many years ago that many of my YouTube audience is already familiar with entitled "The Legend of Captain John."

When recording this song for our second album "Wilder Mountain Coal" I decided I wanted to add a heart-felt solo that just wasn't present on this recording on our first album "Bluer Shade of Green."

In this video, I'll show you how I approached this solo using one of the most popular chord shapes in Bluegrass Guitar: C!  I sing this song in E flat, which is what Tony Rice sings "Church Street Blues" in—a major inspiration for the picking style of this song.

This solo uses many stylish and "finesse" type licks and phrases with hammer-ons, pull-offs, and smooth, lengthy slides.  These techniques are part of what I feel are the "essential" techniques most Bluegrass guitar Legends like Tony Rice, Bryan Sutton, Steve Kaufman, David Grier, Kenny Smith, and many others use in their playing which I go over extensively in "Bluegrass Guitar Essentials."

Thanks for watching and please stay tuned to http://www.BluegrassGuitarEssentials.com for more Bluegrass Guitar videos to be released in the coming weeks as I prepare for the launch of my brand new guitar instructional course: "Bluegrass Guitar Essentials."

P.S. Apologies for the slight audio/video sync issues on this particular video.

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