“Nothing To It” in the Style of Billy Strings | Guitar Lesson
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Find this lesson at Country Guitar Online here countryguitaro...
Gear used in this video:
- Collings D2H
- Woodtone Bluegrass Series woodtonestring...
- Woodtone Classic Triangle Pick (1.0mm) woodtonestring...
Lesson ID: A0201
In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a variation of the song “Nothing To It” written by Doc Watson in the style of Billy Strings. This song is loaded with some classic Doc Watson style guitar licks that you can use when you’re improvising guitar solos in the key of C. The guitar riffs and melody line walks in this song use some unusual note combinations which will really help push your flatpicking to the next level.
If this song is a bit out of your comfort zone, we recommend trying to learn it at a very slow pace. Focus on getting clean pick strokes, relax the grip on your guitar pick, and pick each note softly. This practice method will help you build the right technique and muscle memory - your picking speed and volume will develop over time. Overall, this is a great song for working on flatpicking technique!
I like this song a lot. It is fitting all together now
Down home cooking, in the key of fun. God bless.
thank you from tunisia .. very good
Thanks for watching!
This bluegrass styles are really helping me be smoother on the fretboard. Thanks for always adding new materials!
This gent is one heck of a picker. Would give anything to be able to pick like him.🎸
Just practice. It isn't a secret technique.
If you would give anything then give your time to sit down and actually do it. Ain’t no shortcuts.
@@MrEvergreenLayne
I'm not a bad picker
myself. Been picking for 49 years. Just giving a fellow guitar player a compliment.
If you learn to play, and even make a video.....I'll give you a pat on the back too.🎸
Completely agree. His face would be on every TV if he had one.
@@t4texastom587 Texas Tom you’re a hell of a man
thank you very much for giving us a clean easy to follow breakthrough of this. Will help better my understanding of learning this style of music
Thanks professor ,you are the best.Im learning from you.blessings
Yeeeeeeee ain't nothing to it! You make it look so easy 😎
Great lesson, one of my favorites that you've done.. I love the songs in the key of C, I don't know nearly enough, so all these licks in here are really helpful ..
Thanks Lucas!
Brilliant playing
I'm a new brand beginner. I think it will help better my understanding and your lesson is very clear and easy to practice .thank you so much Sir.
Love this channel! It is getting me to enjoy playing country music.
Thanks Jason!
Great playing
Excellent
Omg yes!!! Thank you for posting this
Very nice arrangement. Well played. Thanks
Well done my friend. Take care and god bless.
Yes!!!!! That was incredible
I've learned it now I have to speed it up may take a bit of time but thank you so kindly 🇬🇧🍻👍
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This is great pickin!
excellent!
I hope we get the part two here as well. I really enjoyed learning this.
Beautiful! 😍
Great lesson Devin! Week and a half and I can play the 1st page of the tab. The melody was hard to follow but persistent practice and I've got it. Great website! Ps cover sturgill simpson please!
Nice picking! Lot of Doc Watson there.
some great picking as always man!
Thanks Randy! Hope you’re doing well!
Nice playing and guitar
This was a great lesson. Looking forward to part 2; I can't wait to learn that a to e breakdown 🎶
Haven't seem your vids in some years. Wow. You got burnin' and this tune is very smartly arranged.
Thanks!
Awesome::::::::::::
He sounds so much like Doc Watson Tony rice and Clarence white all mixed in one
Edit: the. Your reference Doc after I comment this haha nice I knew it had that feel to it
need part 2!! this is great
Props. That was pretty fkn good
You sound good like that you can help anytime
I made it right through the first 6 notes and thats about it! LOL For me to get it this video would have to be about 4 days long. I kind of play that way now but its all done by ear! I think I will get it in about 20 years but I might be dead by then. I am older than the tree in my backyard and its been dead for 20 years! LOL My goal at this point is learning the first 20 notes!
I have been playing for over 50 years, and never got to a level of comfortable confidence, constantly criticizing myself. Now with the Grim Reaper waiting just backstage, my hands are stiffer and and my stamina is diminished. The way I learn this stuff is to divide it into sections and once I think that I"ve got it I try to p ut it all together. If there is a phrase that I just can"t seem to get, I pass trying to learn it and improvise with something that pleases me. I don"t want to waste the time I have left trying to be a clone of someone else! Keep on picki"n!
"Nothin To It" perfectly defines my ability play "In the style of Billy Strings"
Cada vez que juego al Red dead Redemtion 2 me acuerdo de ti! Jajajjaja
Do you have tips on picking? I’m still semi new and when I try to speed it up I feel like my pick is getting stuck on the higher strings do I just need to pick more aggressively?
Usually I tell people to relax the grip on your pick. Also, practice at a slow speed, master it at the slow speed, then increase your speed in increments. Practice at each level of speed until you get it clean and keep increasing speed in increments. The speed will develop on its own, but this way you'll build the right technique and muscle memory. That's what I've always done and it works for me. Sometimes I'll play a little too fast out of comfort zone and it usually backfires on me too and I get sloppy. Hope that helps!
Practice slow , practice practice practice …. One note, add a second , get it perfect, add a note, pick pick pick , practice until you’ve blisters on your fingers.
Then , practice some more!
10,000 hours and you’ll be close too being as good as you want.
Then it’s time to practice and practice.
Billy Strings devoted much of his waking time Practicing .
If you dedicate your free time which is plentiful too this rather then watching TV , you’ll be amazing one day. One note at a time .
I've been playing for ages but doing that thing up to speed is really tough on the picking hand. I guess I'll just have to practice more...
You should do one on loyal halsted (idk if I spelt his last name right)
Pfft! Yes but can you play the kazoo? 😏
Lol 😋 Just kidding that was awesome! 👍
A bit over my head but what the hell, I'll give it a shot
Just slow it down a bit and you’re good to go! Nothing to it 😜
Way kewl. thx
Is there a video anywhere on your site for the rest of song? Id gladly pay for it!
Which guitar is the best to play country : D15m or d18 ?
Either would work great… I would choose a D-18 because you’ll get a little more volume and extra punch in case you want to play some bluegrass also. D-15 would probably be more of an even tone overall. Both would sound great for country though.
@@countryguitaronline thank you it helps. Would probably go with the d18. Can't wait to learn with your videos keep up!
Awas looking for the Part B..issit on here please?
even if I learned this song I couldn't execute it because I cannot hit the right strings with a pick no matter how much I practice...ugh
More practice !
how many cm is your palette?
I mixed Billys sound 2015 Bristol Rhythm and Roots Damn well thats all I have to say
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Woww
Darn, I clicked on this video because I thought I was going to be able to pick like Billy Strings because there was "nothing to it". LOL So disappointed!
In the style of Doc Watson .....
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this time stamp is so I can play along until I get it without needing to look at the tab.
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I much prefer your picking to Billy's. As much technique and energy as he has, what I hear mostly is a torrent of notes and the umpteenth quoting of Tony Rice's licks. It's like someone talking at you without really saying much. Perhaps I'm getting old - LOL.
Billy is a good player but his style is too happy.