ArtistWorks Summer Series—Week 7: Guthrie Trapp

 

Welcome to the seventh week of the ArtistWorks Summer Series! Every week this summer, we dropped new lessons, performances, study materials, and more from some of your favorite ArtistWorks teachers.

 

This week, we’re excited to debut over a dozen brand new online country guitar lessons ArtistWorks electric country guitar instructor and one of Nashville’s most sought-after session musicians, Guthrie Trapp.

 

Guthrie’s new lessons cover material that spans the entire range of his guitar curriculum—outlining fresh concepts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced players alike. With these new lessons, Guthrie’s course now features a total of over 32 hours of guided videos.

 

Alongside Guthrie’s video instruction, these lessons include brand new learning materials to supplement Guthrie’s teaching, including tablature, notation, performance videos, play-along backing tracks, and more. Furthermore, in addition to instruction on a variety of fresh techniques and concepts, Guthrie also provides nearly a dozen performances demonstrating the styles and concepts he teaches, many using the same backing tracks that he provides for his students.

 

If you’re a current student of Guthrie’s, dive in now and enjoy learning these brand-new techniques and tunes. There’s never been a better time to roll up your sleeves and start playing…

 

Beginner Lessons:

Active Listening

Guthrie’s Teaching Approach

 

Intermediate Lessons:

Opening Up the Neck and Using Triads

Major to Minor 3 Octave Pattern

 

Brand New Department Added to Lessons: Guthrie Improvisation 2022

In this new lesson section, Guthrie improvises over many of the backing tracks provided in his course to demonstrate his methods in common musical contexts. These lessons are tremendously inspiring and will give you tons of great soloing ideas!

Country Shuffle in C – 120 BPM – Improv 1

Country Shuffle in C – 120 BPM – Improv 2

Country Shuffle in C – 120 BPM – Improv 3

Train Beat in E – 120 BPM – Improv 1

Train Beat in E – 120 BPM – Improv 2

Train Beat in E – 120 BPM – Improv 3

Train Beat in E – 120 BPM – Improv 4

Train Beat in E – 120 BPM – Improv 5

Train Beat in E – 120 BPM – Improv 6

Train Beat in E – 120 BPM – Improv 7

Train Beat in E – 120 BPM – Improv 8

Waylon in A – 100 BPM – Improv 1

Waylon in A – 100 BPM – Improv 2 

 

READ MORE:

Going Live with Bryan Sutton, Sierra Hull, & Guthrie Trapp

Guthrie Trapp & John Oates: Acoustic Duo Tour

Country Guitar Lesson: Connecting the Pentatonic Scale to Chord Shapes with Guthrie Trapp