Question: I want to use the Country Licks & Solos Book, but could you tell me how you create the sound, i.e, amp and effects you use? Thank you for your time. Best Wishes -JOHN
Peter: Hey John good to hear from you. My choice for country is a fender twin. I use a tele and typically play through the bridge pick up-single coil. The amp settings a pretty much middle of the road with the amp volume up pretty high as the twin is a very clean amp. If I am on a gig where volume is an issue I use a fender deluxe which is tweaked to sound cleaner than most-less distortion. I typically use a little bit of reverb, a delay pedal with a quick setting-around 100 to 120 mil sec. I use a compressor pedal and sometimes a very little bit of chorus. The best way to use these effects are as follows: run the guitar through the compressor into the main input of the amp. Use the chorus and delay into the effects loop of the amp. If you are using a mulit effect pedal always run it into the effects loop or pre amp in and out of amp. To learn how to do this correctly you will have to find some directions or ask at your local music store. I also use a hybrid set of guitar strings-starting with 9s on the first three and heavier on the bottom 3 strings. Everyone does it different so don’t be afraid to experiment. Sure hope this helps.
Question: I am really enjoying your Country Licks and Solo DVD and book. Do you have the bright switch turned on your twin amp. I’m having problems getting the sound. I am using a Boss CS3 compressor and a Boss DD6 Delay pedal. Reverb at 2 Also are you using a medium pick? – Ron
Peter: Hey Ron good to hear from you. No I don’t use the bright switch. Have never liked it. I am using a medium pick-the green tortex dunlop. Telecaster on bridge pickup-single coil. The twin I am using is a reissue black face-though I am sure the original black face would be better. Use the compressor pedal sparingly as the the boss tends to be heavy handed with it’s compression. When I recorded these tracks I had the amp in another room cranked really loud….. Hope this helps.
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The Country Licks & Solos Book features 50 pages of instruction, 107 minutes of video, and six jam tracks that will teach you how to play lead country guitar. Through the teaching of 12 solos, Peter Vogl will show you the techniques and concepts that help make country guitar so unique. You will learn the scales that make up each solo, get detailed instruction on each lick, and have the opportunity to practice playing along with a full band. You can view sample pages on the product page and watch a demo video below. This lesson is also available as a download.
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Jorma Kaukonen with Roger "Hurricane" Wilson
Roger Wilson with Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna
We’ve previously discussed Roger Wilson’s first lesson on playing I Know You Rider in the style of Hot Tuna on the blog. Now Roger has a lesson 2 that will teach you how to play lead parts from the song.
Guy Fenocchi has a new six lesson package called Jazz Up Your Country. In these video lessons you will learn how to incorporate jazz soloing ideas into your country playing. You’ll learn a variety of jazz scales, modes, arpeggios, and intervals that you can use to solo over traditional major country progressions.
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Fender has a new video interview with Vince Gill up on their site. And other than the uncomfortably close camera shot, it’s pretty good. Vince discusses first seeing Telecasters played by Buck Owens and Waylon Jennings when he was young and how it’s twangy sound has been important in country. He then goes on to discussing how he bought his first Tele. But perhaps most interestingly, Vince describes how he designed his most recent home studio. Unhappy with the sound and look of his studio, he decided to cover the walls in the same tweed fabric you’d find on an old Fender Tube Amp. If you want to learn how to play like Vince, check out Jody Worrell’s Vince Gill Style Solo Lessons
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Vintage Guitar Magazine has a new interview with Brad Paisley. Most of the interview focuses on Brad’s most recent album, Play, which is predominantly an instrumental album. I salute anyone willing to name a song on their album “Cluster Puck” and invite James Burton, Albert Lee, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Redd Volkaert, Steve Wariner, and Brent Mason to accompany them on the track. In addition to reading the interview, check out Peter Vogl’s lesson on playing Brad Paisley Style Licks
Country music tends to go in phases where Tele playing is more in vogue and out of vogue. Do you think Tele is out of favor right now?
That is certainly the case with a lot of what’s on the radio. There is some Tele playing on the radio, but even my friends who are session players in Nashville will tell you there was a time in the late 1980s and early ’90s when you could show up to a gig and if you had a Tele with a Strat pickup in the middle you could pretty much cover anything they needed. In the early ’90s, Brent Mason could just show up with his Tele and have everything he’d need, tone-wise, though I’m sure he brought more guitars to the gig.
Tell us about some of the incredible amps you’ve been using?
I never stop adding amps to my collection, and it’s certainly past the point of being excessive…
How many do you own?
I’m not even sure. We have at least 10 heads out on the road, and I have at least 10 more at home. That doesn’t include amps I have lying around, like that little Vox [points to the amp] or the Fender that James Burton gave me. And that’s also not including the amps in my music room, or those I’ve loaned out. Steve Wariner has one of my Dr. Z Maz 18s.
Live, I am still using a Z-Wreck by Dr. Z. It’s a great AC30-type amp based on the Trainwreck Liverpool 30. Dr. Z and Ken Fischer collaborated on it, and I can’t confirm this, but I believe it was the last amp Ken worked on. It’s a beautiful piece. I’ve also been using a Tony Bruno Cowtipper, which is based on a blackface Fender Twin but with a better-sounding reverb circuit. It’s a very clean amp I use for certain patches live in conjunction with a Vox-style amp. He also makes a great Vox-style amp called the Underground 30, which in my opinion is one of the great amps of our time. He modified one for me to have an old-style Vox transformer, and I have what you’d call a “standard” Underground 30. But that’s a bit of a misnomer in that there is really no such thing as a standard model for him. He tweaks each amp for the customer. I also have a Fender Vibro-King that I love that sometimes takes the place of the Cowtipper. [Mike Zaite at Dr. Z] is making a couple of interesting things, like the Evan, which is his take on a Fender-type amp. And then there’s my Trainwreck Liverpool 30 I took off the road for a while, even though it’s pampered out there – it’s treated basically like a person. It travels on a padded bunk on the bus! I pulled it out because I missed it. I use it for the distorted sounds live on songs like “She’s Everything,” and the high-gain stuff, plus the B.B. King duet we do live. It makes such a great blues amp because it’s so responsive. It’s hard to live without.
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>Jody Worrel has a new video lesson teaching you a blues lick for an intermediate to advanced player. This lick is in the key of E and would sound great over a slow blues groove. You can watch the Youtube version below and click here to view the tab
We also have new premium lessons that will teach you how to play Sweet Home Chicago, an an acoustic country solo, and help you work on acoustic country rhythm guitar.
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>We have a new collection of jam tracks with a country rock feel. The Let’s Jam! Country Vol. 2 Download is a collection of seven .mp3 tracks that were recorded by professional studio musicians. These rhythm tracks play recognizable country progressions that you can use to practice leads part over with you guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and more. The collection also comes with a .pdf that features the chord progression for each song and a few tips for soloing.
Play sample track: Over the Limit
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