ohiotwang
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« Thread Started on Jul 8, 2009, 3:22pm » | |
Hi guys,
I'm new here. I've read up on a lot of material for playing country guitar, I bought one of Doug's lessons (Modern Country Guitar), I understand the CAGED system, I understand modal theory, and music theory, i.e. nashville numbering system, I know chords, I know where major and minor pentatonics are, etc...
Anyway, I'm wondering if any of you who have struggled and struggled with this type of playing have any personal tips that aren't so obvious, or easily heard about. I can play licks fairly decent, still working on speed and clean-ness, but I just can't seem to make my playing "sound country" (not physical tone, e.g. compression, treble, echo, but sound of notes over chord progressions). I started off lead guitar with blues-rock pentatonic sounding stuff, and now that I feel like I'm in a that "pentatonic sqaure-box rut", and it's preventing me from getting that "major" country sound.
Has anyone out there had similar difficulty and have some tips to break-out of the bluesy-pentatonic rut?
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