Unbelievable Double Stop Sequences - Unlocking the Secrets of Country Guitar

Hey friend, welcome back to the channel here. I'm super excited to share this lesson here with you today. And what this is, this is kind of a part 2 to my last country chicken picking video that I did to talking about, um, essential double stop sequences that you need to know when getting into country guitar here. Um, so, you know, a lot of players do them in a different way, but a lot of these ideas kind of keep showing up, um, you know, just in years and years of studying this kind of guitar playing. So I'm super excited to share this with you here. Hey, if you would like a free half-hour country guitar chicken picking crash course complete with printable and downloadable tabs. Hit the link in the description to this video to grab that. And we're going to jump in, and I'm just going to show you a lot of the essential ideas like double stops, like picking finger technique, uh, like, um, string bending and mimicking pedal steel guitar and all kinds of other really cool stuff. I've jammed a lot of information into that little half-hour lesson, so hit the link in the description to grab that, and let's jump into the lesson here. Okay. So here's what we're going to do. So for today, for the last video that I did, and be sure to check that out if you haven't, I'm going to kind of— the structure of this one will be similar to that one. Um, and what, what we're going to do here is what I'm going to play is an A Mixolydian scale harmonized in 6ths. So again, if you don't know what any of that means, don't worry about it at all. Just learn what I'm showing you here. Um, if you do, fantastic. Uh, so let me go through and I'm going to show you the basic pattern here. So here's what's going to happen. These ideas are going to be played on the 5th string and the 3rd string simultaneously. So as far as the technique goes, you want to have your pick hitting the 5th string and your middle finger hitting the, um, hitting the 3rd string. Okay, so let me go through and show you the basic sequence here. It's going to go like this. We're going to do Okay, so again, that's the basic idea there. So you will hear a lot of the great country players use ideas like this. If you've ever heard Ray Flack's solo to Uncle Penn, you know, he does a— you know, you'll hear Johnny Hyland play like— you know, and there's just these, these ideas are very commonly used here. So one more time, we'll do Okay, so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna add some variations on it like I did in the last video. So now instead of playing those as double stops, we're gonna play those one at a time.

We'll do—

and then just do the opposite coming down. Hit the 3rd string first and then the 5th. We'll All right, and now let's kind of walk into each idea, and we'll do it like this.

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and then you can do that in a descending way, uh, kind of in, in, in reverse. So one more time, kind of walking into each idea. Okay, so now, now we're going to do some pull-offs and turn these ideas into triplets. So what we're going to do is we're going to do— and we're going to pull off to the open 3rd string. We're going to do Okay, which has like a really flashy effect, you know, and is really cool sounding. So again, we'll do, and then we'll just do that, um, on each shape as we move up, uh, move up the sequence. Okay, so let's go through each of these one more time here. So let's go through and do just the basic sequence played as double stops, and we'll do And now let's play each note one at a time, and then, uh, in descending. And now let's walk into each idea. And then let's add some pull-offs on this 3rd string to kind of make a triplet idea out of it. And again, for all of those, have your pick hit the 5th string and have your middle finger hit that 3rd string and give it just a little bit of a pop. Now you don't want to play it so hard where you're trying to rip the string off, but you want those to have a little pop. Okay, cool. All right, well, thanks so much for hanging out today. I hope you've really gotten some valuable, um, you know, information and ideas out of this lesson today here, because again, you're kind of when it comes to learning country chicken picking guitar, you're really kind of killing two birds with one stone here because— or three birds with one stone, whatever, no birds being killed. But, um, because you're learning some of these essential double stop sequences and ideas, you're also learning single note ideas that are based around the double stops, and you're also getting used to playing with the pick and finger in that kind of country guitar hybrid picking technique. So hey, remember, um, hit the link in the description below this video here to get a free jam-packed half-hour country chicken picking guitar crash course. You'll get printable and downloadable tabs for the whole thing, and I'll just kind of go through and show you the essential ideas that you'll need to lay the foundation to develop some really killer country guitar chops. So again, thanks for hanging out today, and I'll see you in the next lesson.