Learn to play Poultry in Motion by Bill Kirchen: an absolute masterclass of Telecaster playing, packed with chicken picking, country bends, jazz chromaticism and rockabilly swagger.
Hybrid Picking
Chicken Pickin’ by Don Rich
A country guitar masterclass from the legend Don Rich. Tab and backing track can be found on Patreon .
My Best Friend’s Girl by The Cars
I’ve been meaning to make a video on this one for a while. It’s one of my favourite Cars tracks and full of amazing guitar parts. There are actually 2 videos. Part one covers Ric Ocasek’s and Elliot Easton’s rhythm parts along with some of the extra parts and fills. Then in video 2 there’s a detailed breakdown of the guitar solo – one of the greatest ever, if you ask me.
Tab & Backing Track
Tab and backing can be found on my Patreon page. You can sign-up here and pay what you like and get access to a huge library of some of the most accurate tabs around, as well as tons of professional sounding backing tracks.
You Ain’t Goin Nowhere by The Byrds
In this video I’m soloing over the Byrds/Dylan country-rock classic. I’m attempting to play some of the pedal steel licks you can hear on the recording, and also throwing in some ideas of my own, with lots of country soloing licks and tips along the way.
In the comments for his video there was quite a bit of debate about exactly who played on this recording. It seems hard to get any definite information. I’m sticking with Lloyd Green on pedal steel, but some are certain it’s Clarence White on B-bender Tele.
Update – this controversy seems to have been resolved thanks to this brilliant comment underneath the video on YouTube:
Tab and Backing Track
Head over to my Patreon page for a detailed tab of my solo as well as my backing track to download and play along to.
D For Dangerous by The Reverend Horton Heat
In this video I’m taking a detailed look at a fabulous psychobilly instrumental from The Reverend Horton Heat. It’s a real virtuoso display from the RHH guitarist Jim Heath. If you want to learn the whole track then it will be something of a commitment, but the track is full of great licks and bits of rockabilly vocabulary, so feel free to sift through it and learn one or two licks that grab you.
Tab and Backing Track
A detailed and accurate tab for the entire track can be found on my Patreon page. I cover all the little licks and variations you can hear in the recording, some of which I didn’t have time to describe in the video. You can also play long to my backing track, with awesome real drums from my friend Steve Duffy.
Rainy Night In Georgia
In this song Cornell Dupree gives us a real masterclass in soul/r&b guitar. The original recording sounds like this:
And here’s my lesson:
Tab and Backing track
A full tab for the complete song is available on my Patreon page, along with my own backing track.