Country Thirds

This free country guitar lesson by Peter Vogl will teach you how to incorporate thirds into a country solo. We’ll learn chord specific version of these intervals and how to fit them into our lead guitar playing. Using Track 2 (Chick’n Pick’n in A) of the Let’s Jam! Country & Bluegrass as a backing track, we will practice these new concepts.

Using the first two strings, here are thirds in the key of A.

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Here are thirds in the key of A using the 2nd & 3rd strings

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We’re going to use these basic positions to play some licks. Let’s start with thirds played over a A major or A7 chord. In these examples, we will not stay strictly in the key of A, but use some chromatic licks.

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Here is another lick

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Here is lick #5

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Now let’s try lick #6

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Now we’ll take the same basic licks and apply them to a D chord starting with lick #7

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Here is another lick

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Let’s learn another one

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Here is our final lick

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