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Nashville Country Lead Guitar
This classic honky tonk style course is designed for intermediate to advanced guitarists and features 25 great twangy solos.
If the country sound of the Telecaster guitar is your thing, you will love playing all the guitar solos in this course. It is one of the better books on the subject available.
The solos aren’t beginner material and you will need some experience to tackle them but an ambitious new guitarists could attempt them at a slower speed.
The big advantage of the course is the solos and licks you learn can be used over and over again as the basis for your own style of lead guitar. Everything in in both standard notation and guitar tab and the solos are all recorded on the companion CD,
Country music is one of the truly timeless styles of music. Over the years, country music has developed from the rural Southern string band sound to the raw honky-tonk of the postwar period, the Nashville pop sounds of the late 50s and 60s, and finally the overly slick modern country sound we’re used to hearing today.
The solos in this book sound like the breaks one might hear on classic 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 guitar solos.
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 several popular songs.
A solo incorporating various concepts and techniques was composed to each progression. The result is a wonderful sets of solos that can be recycled and used to add an extra flavor to your playing.
Amazon User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Good, solid book
I’m glad I found this book. I used to have one of the earlier printings a few years ago and I really enjoyed it. For the last several months I’ve been trying to hunt down a copy of it, so I was very happy to see it available again here recently.
This book is good and solid in that it covers a wide variety of country “flavors” such as fast single-note soloing, double-stops, pedal-steel type licks, bluesy sounds and string snapping.
It’s a great collection of classic and contemporary sounds. The price was great and it came with a cd that also includes rhythm parts to play along with.
5 Stars A country work out!
I obtained this book to help with my country chops and give me some new ideas for my own solos in a country setting. Mission accomplished! The book contains 25 solos over a variety of classic country chord progressions.
This book is definitely geared towards the intermediate level player – I found several of the solos to be challenging and I’ve been playing for several years.
I will likely end up using a few of the solos as technique exercises as they are excellent chop builders. And I’ve already found myself incorporating some of the licks in the solos in my own improvised solos.
Like the other books I have by Larry McCabe the notation and symbols are explained in depth. The book also contains suggested listening for various country styles and instruments.
The included CD contains a recording of each solo, as well as just the rhythm changes (guitar, bass, drums) for each solo so the user can play by himself/herself over the changes.
A friend just got a call to go on a short tour with a country band (not his usual genre). I will be loaning him this book to help with his country chops, and I hope he doesn’t keep it too long. Great book!
5 Stars Highly recommended for personal and professional guitarists and guitar instructors
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.
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August 21, 2008 at 10:06 pm | Learn Guitar Books | No comment