Monthly Archives: February 2012

Learning To Play Country Music On Guitar

Learning to play classic country songs on guitar is a popular pastime for many people especially older men. However there’s not too much help in terms of learning how to play it if you’re searching for lessons on the internet. The style is very easy going and sounds cool even today, I guess it’s true that good music never dies.

If you love this kind of music (as I do) then my best advice is to buy DVDs and books from your local guitar store or failing that there’s actually a ton of them on amazon.com. The last book I bought on country guitar was downloaded in PDF directly off the publishers site Mel Bay.

It’s called The Complete Country Guitar Book and I’ve linked it here so you can check it out for yourself.

I like it because the sample pages where exactly what I was looking for and it’s great value for the price – it’s completely jam packed with information. I’m still learning from it and getting a lot out of it.

The official description says it’s an encyclopedia of Carter style bass runs, chord fills, flatpicking, travis picking, rockabilly and Nashville lead styles.

All the examples in the book also come in audio so you can hear exactly how it all should sound. Gets my recommendation.