How to Get Started Chicken Picking | A Review of Educational Material
Hey Everyone! Strap in, because this is going to be an involved video description…
I wanted to put together a thorough video recommending chicken picking / country guitar educational material for different types of learners and different skill levels — I hope I have accomplished that with this video. Please see below for the content mentioned in the video:
Material for the newcomers to the style, but not newcomers to the guitar:
- Johnny Hiland’s Ten Gallon Guitar: Shed to Stage
o https://truefire.com/country-guitar-lessons/ten-gallon-guitar-shed-to-stage/c1735
- Jason Louglin’s Country Guitar Survival Guide (both rhythm and lead)
o Lead: https://truefire.com/country-guitar-lessons/country-survival-guide/c95
o Rhythm: https://truefire.com/country-guitar-lessons/country-survival-guide-rhythm/c780
Material for newcomers to the guitar who want to start with country
- Levi Clay’s “Country Guitar for Beginners”
o https://www.amazon.com/Country-Guitar-Beginners-Complete-Traditional/dp/1911267353/ref=nodl_
- Levi Clay’s The Complete Country Guitar Method Compilation
o https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Country-Guitar-Method-Compilation/dp/1911267728/ref=nodl_
- Guthrie Trapp’s Artistworks Series
o https://artistworks.com/electric-country-guitar-lessons-guthrie-trapp
Supplemental Material
- Zane Banks’ YouTube Channel o https://youtube.com/channel/UCU7VRBgl5nrL7i_IrhMWYMQ
- Johnny Hiland’s Other TrueFire Courses
o Ten Gallon Guitar: Rhythm
https://truefire.com/johnny-hiland/ten-gallon-guitar-rhythm/c950
o Ten Gallon Guitar: Lead
https://truefire.com/country-guitar-lessons/ten-gallon-guitar/c690
o Ten Gallon Guitar: Intros, Outros, and Turnarounds
https://truefire.com/johnny-hiland-guitar-lessons/ten-gallon-intros-outros-turnarounds/c1232
- Tom Bukovac’s YouTube Channel
o https://youtube.com/user/501chorusecho
- Brent Mason “Hot Wired tab book”
o https://www.amazon.com/Brent-Mason-Hot-Wired/dp/1780388535
- Brent Mason Hot Licks
o https://www.halleonard.com/product/14047858/brent-mason-nashville-chops-western-swing-guitar
- Danny Gatton Hot Licks 1 “Telemaster”
o https://www.halleonard.com/product/14012507/danny-gatton-telemaster
- Danny Gatton Hot Licks 2 “Strictly Rhythm Guitar”
o https://www.halleonard.com/product/14012508/danny-gatton-2-strictly-rhythm-guitar
- James Burton Hot Licks
o https://www.halleonard.com/product/14005456/the-legendary-guitar-of-james-burton
- Johnny Hiland Hot Licks
o https://www.halleonard.com/product/14017136/johnny-hiland-chicken-pickin-guitar
- Scotty Anderson Hot Licks
o https://www.halleonard.com/product/14029513/scotty-anderson-red-hot-guitar
- Redd Volkaert’s TrueFire Course
o https://truefire.com/redd-volkaert-guitar-lessons/redd-hot-guitar/c1354
Essential Listening
- Brent Mason: Hot Wired
- Johnny Hiland: All Fired Up and Chatham Sessions
- The Hellecasters: Essential Listening, Vol. 1, and Return of the Hellecasters
- Brad Paisley: 5th Gear, Play
- Redd Volkaert: Telewacker
- Steve Wariner: Guitar Laboratory
- Vince Gill: Guitar Slinger (song), Liza Jane (song), Bakersfield
- Waylon Jennings: Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line (song)
- Dwight Yoakam: Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
- Albert Lee: Country Boy Merle Haggard: Working Man Blues, Live at Billybob's
- Danny Gatton: Unfinished Business
- Essentially Any Song Featuring:
o James Burton
o Albert Lee
o Brent Mason
o Danny Gatton
o Johnny Hiland
o Redd Volkaert
o Steve Wariner
o Pete Anderson
o Scotty Anderson
o Vince Gill
o Jon Jorgenson
o Guthrie Trapp
o Don Rich
o Buck Owens
o Marty Stuart
o Kenny Vaughan
o Arlen Roth
Non-Guitar Lesson Resources
- Zac Childs’ “Ask Zac” YouTube Channel
o https://www.askzac.com
o https://youtube.com/c/AskZac
(I want to say a special thanks to my buddy Lewis Collins for helping me talk through the lists in this video!)
Time Stamps:
00:00 – Intro
03:19 – Sponsorship Disclaimer
04:07 – Material when Coming from Another Genre
09:01 – Material for True Beginners
13:49 – Private Lessons
15:26 – Supplemental Material
24:49 – Essential Listening
25:54 – Non-Guitar Lesson Material
27:29 - Outro
