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🎸 Lead Guitar Licks over "America the Beautiful" — Jam Track Included!
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Hey there, friends! Brand new lesson today looking at America the Beautiful — where I'll show you two approaches you might take to playing melodic lead guitar over this traditional song. Whether you're into acoustic or electric, this one has plenty for you to sink your teeth into! I'll start off on my acoustic, teaching you how to play the melody notes as part of basic chords in open position, with a touch of strumming thrown in. Then I'll switch to my electric, showing the same melody but played up the neck. Both of these were a blast to learn, and I'm excited for you to give things a go. ALSO AVAILABLE I made a bunch of extra content to go along with my free YouTube video. This includes:
Get all these over on my lesson page » WHILE YOU'RE HERE... If you're interested in other tutorials related to this one, here's two recent ones that come to mind. Both of these are focused on melodic lead guitar — and likewise, each has a print-friendly PDF and jam track you can use to practice things. #521 – Soulful Lead Guitar Over Amazing Grace #526 – Lead Guitar Improv Basics (ft. Wagon Wheel) There we have it, my friends! Again, I hope you give this one a shot – as I had an absolute blast practicing over my jam track while putting this together. I need to give a quick shout-out to Post Malone, whose Super Bowl performance of this song got this song stuck in my head. He approached this song using acoustic fingerstyle — and when starting to learn it like him I got swept away in the melody — eventually leading to the lesson above. That's the way it goes sometimes :) Next couple weeks I'm getting back to the blues course — with aims to finish it up by the end of February! Stay tuned for that. Until then, stay warm and cozy — and happy strumming! ✌️ David
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Learn to play guitar with weekly video lessons & print-friendly guides! Learn your favorite songs & techniques with step-by-step tutorials that actually explain how to get from here to there.
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