Learn how to Country pick like a pro with country music guitar lessons! Whether you want to learn to play country guitar with a Classic Country or a Modern Country twang we will teach you everything you need to know. Our qualified and skilled country guitar teachers will guide you through Flat picking, Travis picking, and even Chicken picking as you learn Country songs and guitar solos by Chet Atkins, Merle Haggard, Vince Gill, Glen Campbell and more with the best country guitar lessons in Toronto!
Country Guitar Lessons in Toronto
Country music is one of the oldest genres in American popular music. It began as a mixture of styles such as blues, folk, and church music. The sub-genres of country music are: Western, Honky Tonk, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, and Modern Country. Western Country music associated with cowboys and western movies started around the 1930's and became popular in the 1960's with the live country music radio show called the 'Grand Ole Opry'. Honky Tonk is actually a bar, club, or dance hall where country music is played. It is also a style of country music related to ragtime music and focused more on rhythm than melody. Bluegrass music is a combination of Scottish, Irish, and English traditions and is typically played quite fast with high energy. Rockabilly music is a combination of Western Country and Rhythm and Blues. It became popular in the 1950's. Modern country music includes elements of rock, pop, blues, bluegrass, jazz, and even rural dance music. Modern country guitar combines traditional playing techniques with modern playing techniques which are borrowed from several related American styles. Try Toronto country guitar lessons and see how much fun it can be!
Country Guitar Lessons for Adults
It's never too late to learn how to play country guitar! At Neighbour Note we teach beginner country guitar lessons as well as intermediate and advanced levels. Our country guitar lessons focus on fun. We include both traditional country music and modern country music with all their sub-genres into our country guitar lessons. This way guitar students get exposed to multiple different styles of country music. When it comes to country guitar lessons variety usually makes things interesting. Both traditional country music and modern country music feature many different ballads and dance tunes. In terms of instrumentation, both traditional country music and modern country music feature multiple different guitars such as acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and even steel guitar. Country guitar can be incredibly challenging since many songs feature fancy fast picking! For this reason it is absolutely imperative that students get a solid foundation in technique when learning country guitar lessons. Not only do we teach country guitar for adults but we also teach country guitar for kids.
Private Country Guitar Lessons
Our private country guitar lessons are fun, challenging, and rewarding. We make the lessons eclectic in terms of sub genre as well as technique. We do our best to teach elements of Western, Honky Tonk, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, and Modern Country music with our country guitar lessons. In terms of technique, we teach a wide variety of exercises to cover the many different sub-genres of country music. Guitar techniques taught in our country guitar lessons include: slurs such as slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, hammer-pulls, pull-hammers, and string bends, double stops, flat picking, hybrid picking, and finger picking. Exercises include open scale runs and movable scale runs, hybrid picking with double stops, and short guitar solo excerpts that incorporate all or most of the country guitar techniques previously listed. We also work on improvisation with the pentatonic scales (both open and movable) as well as the major scale and the country guitar scale that features a lowered third in the major pentatonic scale. To find country guitar lessons near me please check our lessons page.
