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I've seen great video's by:
Greg Koch, Albert lee, Johnny Hiland, Brent Mason and plenty of others.
Have a look at some on Youtube to find your particular flavour before purchasing.
For picking in general you'd be hard pressed to top Troy Grady's stuff, although this is not specifically aimed at country.
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Can we also talk about picking techniques for the other type of music, Western?
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the whole of one of his instructional videos is on YouTube. I tried about the first ten minutes of it once, goes into hybrid picking but it's one of those things that's a bit random - this is hybrid picking, this is my riff on suchandsuch, this is how I approach bending...
There's a lot of country DVDs and downloads on Lick Library, although obviously they cost.
To some extent that very fast, very clean Albert Lee style stuff is very dated in country music now - the country equivalent of shredding, made for a limited audience. It's gone much more into a roots style and it picked up some rock and blues influences on the electric stuff. Some of Eric Church's stuff is very rock - pinch harmonics, trem bar dives, the lot.
I worked my way through that Johnny Hiland HotLicks thing a while ago that's on You Tube. I understand the theory and note choice. I s'pose it's more of the bluegrass type picking speed that I need to get to grips with!
Going to attempt the metronome approach today and see how I get on with that!
All picking techniques welcomed in this thread. Maybe I should edit the thread title!
Just watched a few of those Doug Seven vid's. The guy is a great Country player and explains his approach well. There is probably enough available information without buying the course to last you a few months.
He has definitely been added to my "Must pinch some licks from" list.
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