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Redd Volkaert...don't forget!

roy buchanan is my inspiration

Western Swing really grabbed me

I heard what you were saying. I understood what you were saying, but it wasn't until the 9 minute mark when you put it all together, that my head exploded! Laughter came out and I realized, I can do this. Thanks for turning the lights on. Great vid.

I am an old man (70), but I still learn. I was always fascinated by Country, now I want to learn this. I have seen a lot of videos, but this one is the best. It is very essential and it shows licks, but essentially You show methods, so I can build licks. That is, what I have looked for. Great work. Love it!

In the early '90s I played basically the same circuit in the DC area as Danny Gatton. The sad thing is that Danny Gatton was playing basically the same circuit as I was. He should have been filling stadiums. A more tragic figure in music you will never see. He was just phenomenal. Guitar Player's headline with him on the cover was "The World's Greatest Unknown Guitarist." That pretty much said it all.

Pete Anderson. One of the greats for sure.

Daniel Donato was my gateway into country guitar. Now I’m learning all I can

All the ones you listed but also Vince Gill

There were so many great ones but one of my favorites was Glen Campbell

sometimes i watch videos like this while im smoking weed just so i can feel a little better because im not watching "mind numbing" content, but every once in a while i come across something thats not only super useful, but i start using immediately after 😂

Roy Nichols, Albert Lee, Clarence White. This lesson is fantastic! Thanks :)

I’m not too fluent with musical terminology, but I’m really happy this made sense to me 🙏🏽

great video, really usefull stuff some personal notes/ time stamps: 07:25 - parts seperate 11:01 - E chord C shape lick

I have seen many country double-stop instructional vids. This one is on point.

Hi Jason, many great guitarist have had an influence on me , but it all started with James Burton. When I was 15 and heard his break in Ricky Nelson's Believe What You Say I knew that I wanted to play like that. Years later I became friends and a student of Danny Gatton. We were not in the same universe as guitarists but we were the same age and we both talked about tuning into Ozzie and Harriet just so we could watch James play. Both of us wanted to know how hw got that incredible sound on songs like Hello Mary Lou. We both agreed he was years ahead of his time. No One played rock/country like him.

I'm not trying to be glib, Jason, but along with the greats you mentioned, for me a guy called Jason Loughlin is right at the top. I first learned of you when I reviewed your CD "Peach Crate" for my "Buster Fayte's Rockabilly Romp" blog and was completely blown away by your playing and creativity. I also reviewed one of your True Fire courses and you are not only a great player, but a great teacher, too. I was so happy when your videos started showing up in my feeds! You deserve all the success you have and will achieve! Keep it up!

I’m interested to learn more about double stops because of grant green. I usually used to think of pentatonic scales when I’m doing double stops, but thinking of it in the caged system was really helpful

First it was Daniel Donato, then all the Don kelley Band guitarists over the years. Then I went and checked out the guys they learned from. Like Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanon, Albert Lee, and Roy Nichols.

Hi, I liked the ideas of variations from 1lick.. Really opened up... Thanks

Don Rich did it for me!

Larry Campbell! Seeing/listening to him was a double stop and lick clinic and turned me on to the thumb pick too

Thanks for the great lesson Jason. For me, it was hearing Danny Gatton and Greg Koch that totally floored me with hybrid picking/double stops.

Love this lesson! I've been through tons of "learn the licks" books and videos, and they are helpful, but. I like your approach here, conntecting the licks to the CAGED system! Instead of learning a lick and putting it away, I'm gaining a tool to use for any song in any key. Thank you for putting this lesson out there and helping me on my journey.

I played bass on a gig at Flora-Bama (lates 90's) with a young up and coming guitarist named...Guthrie Trapp (before he moved to Nashville). He was playing an orange G&L I believe....BUT what I heard him play was amazing!!! I was FLORED!! I few years later, I wanted to learn that style of guitar.

I just love the way they sound, no particular person

I'm not looking to be a country picker but if I could fire off some Danny Gatton licks, I could live with that. Thanks for the help. Think I need to work on that hybrid picking style too.

My main influence is Steve Howe. Just listen to The Yes Album and hear how he seamlessly and effortlessly glides between different styles, Including country and jazz.

My country guitar inspirations were first, Jim Messina, and later, The Hellicasters , Albert Lee (of course)

First, Thanks. This is very well put together. This has let me know what I have been lacking. My mother was a great guitar player of Rainbow Drifters who played whiskey row in Prescott Arizona. They played the Phoenix area also. This was in the 50's. She played a lot like you and this makes me remember her playing. Thanks again

Albert lee fun ranch boogie, it’s got that classic Albert double stop lick in it. Albert showed how it’s done in his highlights dvd. Love it!

really interesting ideas!

Well stated, and great video. It was definitely certain country guitar players that revived my passion not only for guitar, but music in general. I remember hearing some Alan Jackson tunes for the first time and wondering who the heck is playing these blistering solos, even underneath the vocals. So for me it was Brent Mason, James Burton, Brad Paisley, Don Rich, etc.

This lick is a classic country signature, recognizable, but not a tedious fill. Great!!!

Thanks for the lesson, I've never played double stops because i could never get the concept or process in my head, this is the best illustrated use of tying it to chords that I've seen on the style, thanks again!

im as old as dirt iv been lissining to country when i got my first am transistor radio use to put under my pillow so my mom wouldent here it... love country southern rock delta blues . but country its chalanging tuf and theres a reconing of respect it ant easy playing country and iv had a guitar alllllll my life now the inter net and good people like you and a couple others i have learned so much in the last yr and its time to find a Telecaster thank you so much inspired guitarist Mel

Great lesson! Explained everything very well.

Hendrix got me into double stops. Johnny Hiland and Daniel Donato got me into country as a genre. John 5 has an interesting approach to rock with country influences.

This is probably the single best and most useful video I have ever seen in terms of using a handful of shapes to connect with each other and open up endless combinations of soloing possibilities. You made my day, week and month. I have recently been learning licks and more licks and this lesson works straight out of chords and chord shapes to give me so many ideas. Thank you very, very much, Jason!!

I'm glad YT found you for me LOL. I've always liked double stops, probably first from Don Rich or Roy Nichols. Moved forward with Danny Gatton and Pete Anderson. This is a helpful lesson so thanks.

Excellent Jason!

To your first question: someone played me the Hellecasters back in ‘92-93. (~3,000 times, he was my boss, what can I say) and it was quite an eye opener, ya know. Got me started on all that Matchless hype and , yes, telecasters. 😅

Brendan Frazier meets Shane Smith? Sweet video thanks for posting!

Thank you for this helpful video. I've been playing blues all my life and now I'd like to play some country stuff. This is one the best lessons I found to get new ideas !

Great guitar player ...Great teacher !!

great lesson thanks!

Excellent lesson.

Another great lesson. Thanks, Jason!

I'm only about 1/2 through this video, so I don't know if you cover this or not, but your picking style also really makes the licks pop out! (And I haven't even commented on how great your guitar setup sounds!) But for the uninitiated, notice how his 3rd and 4th fingers also are involved in the total picking arsenal. My ham-hands have yet to master this technique cleanly, to be sure. Thanks to the KZfaq algorithm, I came across this video -- and Jason Loughlin -- for the first time. Subscribing now!

Thanks for this lesson...really, really useful and helpful. Two guys that I always thought blended country style double stops with a more southern or driving sound were Huey Thomason and Billy Jones from the Outlaws. While being great guitarists in general, I always thought they were great "pickers"...they knew just when to infuse a solo or a fill with the appropriate double stop or lick that gave it a country flavor.

Mastering guitar is like mastering life. A great concept but an illusion in reality. Fun and informative vid. Thanks.

Jerry Reed, Brent Mason, and Vince Gill. The new course is great, Jason. I still use those double stops I copped from your pandemic livestream, and the new stuff is helping me expand those ideas. Keep cranking them out, and I’ll keep snapping them up. Cheers.

So happy to hear you mention Danny Gatton. So good and gone so soon. Thanks for helping his style carry on.

I don’t really listen/play country… your lesson popped up as a suggestion!!! John 5 is my “Tele Guy” lol… I was shocked when I first started learning song writing techniques that Jimi and Aerosmith took country song ideas and incorporated it into their music… Great lesson. That lick you use is all over rock songs… and just Ftr… you have some GREAT TONE going on there!!!

Don Rich and the Bakersfield boys.

You never broke down those C shape licks for us.

Love it. You explain yourself so well.

Excellent lesson

It was Chet Atkins❤ for me ,well many others but Chet’s playing masterful

Nice job Jason, understanding the nuts and bolts is one thing, playing it is another, playing it with your obvious skill is something else again, BUT, I'll keep grind'n away. TY from New Zealand, GBY.

Jerry Reed was influential to me! As well as Paisley, Mason and Heiland. Also, don't forget Albert Lee or Steve Morse!

Very cool lesson Jason

Hearing Brent’s work on Alan Jackson’s “I Don’t Even Know Your Name” was a pinnacle moment for me, as was all the great stuff on Restless Heart’s “Hummingbird”.

Thank you, Jason! I got a lot out of this.

Thanks for makin life more easy

Another great lesson! Brent Mason would be my answer.

Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins and Roy Clark!

Albert, C'est le Vie (you never can tell...) with Emmylou Harris

I’ve considered Ray Flacke the father of this style and the best. Saw him live when with Skaggs in 1981.

Good day sir nice work, it may be a good idea to at lease play the shapes slowdown at lease once before after shredding through them, that's for deep insight of what you're playing,because for young inexperienced players they usually just play something thats sounding like what you're playing but not exactly what it really is or let's say just put a finger diagram that show exactly what your playing etc. Thanks and keep the licks rolling.cheers. 🎸.

I enjoyed it thanks!

Jason that was a REALLY Amazing Vid 👍🏼 ~ probably the best simple instruction I’ve seen regarding CAGED Shapes with chords I”ll be dialed in on your channel & website to learn more You’re so fluid & mellow 👍🏼 ~ I’ve always loved double-stops… Danny Gatton (INSANE) Thank you

Chet atkins...Jerry reed...Roy clark...Glen Campbell...

Didn't know who he was at the time but Eldon Shamblin (Bob Wills For The Last time) really grabbed me.

Grady Martin here.

You’re essentially doing what the bass player Anthony Wellington calls “modes of rhythm”. You simply take a set pattern of notes and start on a different note within that pattern each time. You are basically playing the same sequence of notes each time but the brain is “fooled” into thinking it’s something completely different because we perceive the melody based on the first downbeat. In a lick with 8 notes in the pattern you can therefore have 8 unique licks by making each subsequent note the 1st note of beat 1. Very clever!

For me it was Waylon 's leads , his gritty style and tone still just gets me , and of course Leon Rhodes , Don Rich, love Dale Watson too , classic picker

Great stuff👍

Another great video Jason. Thanks Brother. I bought the pentatonic and major scale course from your website last week too. Now to find the time to work through them!

Outstanding!

Miyako of Love bites, inspired me to learn to play guitar. Country, Japan😅

The guy who stuns me is Big Al Anderson of NRBQ. He can own a crowd from measure 1.

Great video, especially like the hair.

Thanks, connected a shit ton of dots!!!!!!!! Game changer

Brent Mason made me want to play.

As a rock player, I really appreciate this exposure to chicken picken! In my crowd, when I occasionally pull out country dbl stops, I’m suddenly a guitar master :)

Jason Helms Band and the late guitarist from his first record Shannon Carpenter

My biggest double stop influences are Jerry Reed and Grady Martin.

Heard country and blues guitar my whole life, been playing rock and metal since 1976...never heard the term double stop before. I would ask that you give an explanation of what a double stop is, how to use and why it is called this at the beginning of this lesson.. after watching I can get the idea and have played these types of licks...clearly communicating the technique may be helpful to others as this is the first video I have ever seen by you...maybe assume someone may watch who does not know your stuff so you have to begin with a very basic and clear introduction to these techniques. You are a very good player and seems you have a lot of knowledge to share so this no way a critique, just sharing what I experienced being outside of the country guitar circle.

Dang dude you’re a damn good teacher

Johnny Hyland his TrueFire lesson helped a lot.

Hi Jason, the two who have really grabbed my Ear in this area have been two that you mentioned.. Brent Mason and Johnny Hiland.. Monster players !!.. :)

Hmmm.... Jimmy and Charlie Loveless, I am not a country guitarist by any stretch. But I grew up with a whole family tree of great country guitarists. I know everything you just discussed, but in a different light. Jason! I just added you in my list of great country guitarists. Auto Sub Auto share auto like! You have my attention.😎

Ricky Scaggs!!

Albert Lee started it all for me.

I bet you could play it 2x and I wouldn't get bored.😀 Subscribed great lesson thank you.

Simply amazing!

Great video Jason, as soon as I hit an internet connection out of the Serengeti, I watched it. Sometimes I feel like these videos are "what's Randy struggling with this week." 🤣

Thanks for this excellent lesson and free backing track, an awesome resource, subbed cheers from New Zealand 🙂