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    Country Guitar Lesson - Intro To Chicken Picking

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    The document provides tips for achieving a country guitar playing style. It recommends using a clean Telecaster tone with minimal effects like reverb and compression. It emphasizes using a thumb pick to achieve a "chicken pickin'" sound by popping the strings percussively. Country playing relies on playing over chords rather than scales, and uses open position chords and riffs that revolve around chord shapes. It then demonstrates several licks and bending techniques based on common country chords like D7, G, and C.

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    Country Guitar Lesson - Intro To Chicken Picking

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    The document provides tips for achieving a country guitar playing style. It recommends using a clean Telecaster tone with minimal effects like reverb and compression. It emphasizes using a thumb pick to achieve a "chicken pickin'" sound by popping the strings percussively. Country playing relies on playing over chords rather than scales, and uses open position chords and riffs that revolve around chord shapes. It then demonstrates several licks and bending techniques based on common country chords like D7, G, and C.

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    The document provides tips for achieving a country guitar playing style. It recommends using a clean Telecaster tone with minimal effects like reverb and compression. It emphasizes using a thumb pick to achieve a "chicken pickin'" sound by popping the strings percussively. Country playing relies on playing over chords rather than scales, and uses open position chords and riffs that revolve around chord shapes. It then demonstrates several licks and bending techniques based on common country chords like D7, G, and C.

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    Country Guitar Lesson - Intro To Chicken Picking

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    The document provides tips for achieving a country guitar playing style. It recommends using a clean Telecaster tone with minimal effects like reverb and compression. It emphasizes using a thumb pick to achieve a "chicken pickin'" sound by popping the strings percussively. Country playing relies on playing over chords rather than scales, and uses open position chords and riffs that revolve around chord shapes. It then demonstrates several licks and bending techniques based on common country chords like D7, G, and C.

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    The passage discusses using a thumb pick and index finger technique for a 'chicken pickin' sound in country guitar playing.

    Using a thumb pick frees up the right index finger to pop the strings for a percussive sound.

    Country music uses basic open position chords like D7 and also relies on riffs around the chord shape rather than just the notes in the chord.

    For country guitar playing, I lean towards a clean telecaster sound.

    I don’t use much in the


    way of effects, a tiny bit of reverb and compression. I sometimes use a little bit of delay, set
    at a very quick time - somewhere around 100 milliseconds, but I find this sound over used
    with many country players. A good tone doesn’t really need any of this stuff.

    Here comes the hard part. To achieve the chicken pickin' sound that I like (popping the
    strings with a percussive, quick sound) I use a thumb pick. I tried a long time to get around
    using a thumb pick, but was never successful at achieving the sound I like. Once I put a
    thumb pick on, it was like magic - the sound I was looking for. It took me a good 6 months
    to begin to play well with one. The thumb pick is important because it frees the right index
    finger to play strings and pop them whenever you feel like it. The index finger seems to be
    the perfect size and weight to achieve this sound. It also frees up the other fingers for quick
    playing. This takes some getting used to because ever line and every scale can be played
    numerous ways with the right fingers.

    Country isn’t dependent on one set of scales, like rock or blues. To play country, you must
    play over the chords much like a bluegrass or jazz player. It is no coincidence that many
    country players are also jazz players and vice versa. Every chord has different lines, chord
    shapes, or riffs associated with it. The better the player, the more tricks he has for each
    chord. In country, there are a few basic chords you must be able to play over - C, D, E, G,
    and A.

    Country also uses a great deal of first position playing, based on chord shapes like bluegrass.
    This means the riffs played revolve around the chord shape, not just the notes in the chord
    but others around the chord. Try an open position chords like D7. Here is a lick based on a
    D7 chord.

    The second lick is in G

    Here is a lick based on the C Major Chord


    Country players also use many creative bends to approach notes from different angles. Here
    are some basic bend ideas. Here is Lick #4

    Another bend for lick #5

    And now let's learn lick #6

    Let's take a look at our last bending lick

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