Free Guitar Lesson-Open string country lick
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Here’s a quick Brent Mason style country lick for you. It starts out with a rather nifty open string run. I’ve played around with these for a while and you can get some pretty cool ideas going with this technique.
The basic premise is that every time you go to fret a note that is the same pitch as an open string you use the open string instead. This creates some really nice cascading runs. It’s also cool as you get some weird dissonance’s too. The idea is leave the open string ringing into the next note. (more…)