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Bluegrass Guitar with Bryan Sutton

Master the art of flatpick guitar with Grammy-winning bluegrass virtuoso Bryan Sutton
  • Elevate your bluegrass guitar skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate, or advanced player
  • Master bluegrass and flatpick guitar techniques for both lead and rhythm playing—including crosspicking, walking bass, Boom Chuck rhythm, & more
  • Learn to solo using critical bluegrass scales & improvisation methods
  • Deepen your understanding of music theory and acoustic guitar mechanics
  • Receive personal guidance directly from Bryan along every step of your learning journey
Bluegrass Guitar: Learn more about Bryan's course
  • Elevate your bluegrass guitar skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate, or advanced player
  • Master bluegrass and flatpick guitar techniques for both lead and rhythm playing—including crosspicking, walking bass, Boom Chuck rhythm, & more
  • Learn to solo using critical bluegrass scales & improvisation methods
  • Deepen your understanding of music theory and acoustic guitar mechanics
  • Receive personal guidance directly from Bryan along every step of your learning journey
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What's In This Plan?
  • Unlimited Access to Lessons
  • Unlimited Access to Video Exchange Library
  • Unlimited Video Submissions to Teacher
  • Music Theory Workshop
  • Backing Tracks across Instruments
  • VIP Bonus Content
  • 100s of guitar lessons at your own pace
  • All levels and styles of playing welcome
  • Slow Motion & Looping on videos
Experience the Power of Video Exchange Learning®
Video Exchange Explained: how you'll connect with Bryan
  • Get personalized video feedback directly from Bryan
  • Watch and learn from 14,500+ interactions that Bryan has shared with his other students
  • The most supportive way to master bluegrass guitar online
Bryan’s Online Guitar Course: A Comprehensive Guide for Flatpickers of Every Level
  • 6 sections covering introductory methods to advanced techniques and tunes
  • 300+ multi-angle video lessons for optimal learning and fretboard understanding
  • 450+ professionally recorded play-along backing tracks to accompany the lessons
  • Tablature, notation, and supplemental materials included
About Bryan Sutton
  • The most accomplished & awarded acoustic guitarist of his generation
  • 3-time Grammy winner, 7-time Grammy nominee
  • 10-time International Bluegrass Music Association “Guitar Player of the Year”
  • Played in legendary bluegrass acts, Kentucky Thunder & Hot Rize
  • Recorded and shared the stage with Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Béla Fleck, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Chris Thile, & countless other bluegrass greats
  • Recorded on albums by Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, Dierks Bentley, The Dixie Chicks, Garth Brooks, Blake Shelton, Eric Church, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, & more
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Bluegrass Guitar Lessons

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Basic Guitar

Introduction to Basic
Posture
Introduction to Flatpicking Flow
Rhythm within Flatpicking Flow
Tone within Flatpicking Flow
Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
Musicality within Flatpicking Flow
Submit a Placement Video
Single Note Drill
Rest Strokes
Volume
Picking Pattern - Exercise 1
Picking Pattern - Exercise 2
Picking Pattern - Exercise 3
Fretting Hand and Arm Fundamentals
4 Fingers on 4 Frets
Common Scale Shapes with Open Strings - Major Scales
Common Scale Variations - Major Pentatonic Scales
Common Scale Variations - Minor Pentatonic Scales
Using Scales in the Context of Bluegrass
Hammer-Ons
Pull-Offs
Slides
Tuning the Guitar
Using a Capo
Bryan's General Practice Guidelines
The Video Exchange Process
Mindfulness - The Inner Game
Mindfulness Exercise
Self-Compassion
The Basic Rhythm Guitar Toolbox
How Chords Are Built
How 7th Chords Are Built
Common Chord Shapes in Bluegrass
Changing Chords within a Key Center
The Boom Chuck Style & Sound
Changing Chords in Rhythm
Walking Bass
Alternating Bass
Strum Embellishment
“You Are My Sunshine” - Rhythm (Basic)
“Cry Cry Darlin” - Rhythm (Basic)
“Blue Moon of Kentucky” - Rhythm (Basic)
“Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” - Rhythm (Basic)
“My Home Across the Blue Ridge Mountains” - Rhythm (Basic)
“Little Maggie” - Rhythm (Basic)
Reading Tablature
Gear Chat
"Arkansas Traveler" (Basic)
"Big Sandy River" (Basic) -NEW!
“Big Sciota” (Basic)
“Bill Cheatham” (Basic)
"Billy in the Lowground" (Basic)
"Blackberry Blossom" (Basic)
“Black Mountain Rag” (Basic)
"Bury Me Beneath the Willow" (Basic) -NEW!
“Cherokee Shuffle” (Basic)
"Clinch Mountain Backstep" (Basic)
“Dark Hollow” (Basic)
“Daley's Reel” (Basic)
"Down The Road" (Basic)
"Fireball Mail" (Basic)
“Forked Deer” (Basic)
“Give Me Back My 15 Cents” (Basic)
“Gold Rush” (Basic)
“I Am a Pilgrim” (Basic)
“Jerusalem Ridge” (Basic)
“Jimmy Brown” (Basic)
“Kitchen Girl” (Basic)
“Lonesome Fiddle Blues” (Basic)
"Lonesome Moonlight Waltz" (Basic)
"Long Journey Home" (Basic) -NEW!
“Margaret's Waltz” (Basic)
"Midnight on the Water" (Basic) -NEW!
"Old Grimes" (Basic) -NEW!
“Old Joe Clark” (Basic)
“Over the Waterfall” (Basic)
“Red Haired Boy” (Basic)
“Red Wing” (Basic)
"Salt Creek" (Basic)
“Shady Grove” (Basic)
“Soldier's Joy” (Basic)
“Squirrel Hunters” (Basic)
“St. Anne's Reel” (Basic)
"The Storms are on the Ocean" (Basic)
“Temperance Reel” (Basic)
“Turkey in the Straw” (Basic)
“Whiskey Before Breakfast” (Basic)
“Wildwood Flower” (Basic)

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Intermediate Guitar

Introduction to Intermediate
“Dark Hollow” - Key of C - Rhythm (Intermediate)
Hammer and Pull (Key of G) - Exercise 1
Hammer (Key of C) - Exercise 1
Hammer and Pull (Key of D) - Exercise 1
The Intermediate Rhythm Guitar Toolbox
Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
Alternating Bass Using a Scale
Submit a Placement Video
Choices & Voices to Fit the Song
Fast Rhythm - Breakneck Bluegrass Speed
The G Run
“The Tennessee Waltz” - Key of C - Rhythm (Intermediate)
“John Hardy” - Key of G - Rhythm (Intermediate)
“Nine Pound Hammer” - Key of A (Capo 2) - Rhythm (Intermediate)
“Big Mon” - Key of A (Capo 2) - Rhythm (Intermediate)
The 3 Tempo Method for Building Speed - Introduction
The 3 Tempo Method for Building Speed - Tempo 1
The 3 Tempo Method for Building Speed - Tempo 2
The 3 Tempo Method for Building Speed - Tempo 3
Common Major Scale Shapes with No Open Strings
Common Scale Shapes with No Open Strings - Major Pentatonic Scales
Common Scale Shapes with No Open Strings - Minor Pentatonic Scales
Opening Up the Fretboard - The 3 Shape Method
The 3 Shape Method - Exercise 1
The 3 Shape Method - Exercise 2
The 3 Shape Method - Exercise 3
Fretboard - Exercise 1
Fretboard - Exercise 2
Fretboard - Exercise 3
Fiddle Tune Up the Neck - “Arkansas Traveler”
Introduction to Crosspicking
Crosspicking (Key of G) - Exercise 1
Crosspicking (Key of G) - Exercise 2
Crosspicking (Key of C) - Exercise 1
Crosspicking (Key of C) - Exercise 2
Crosspicking with Hammer-Ons (Key of C) - Exercise 1
Crosspicking - Etude 1
Crosspicking - Etude 2
Opening the Door to Variations & Improvisation
Strums & Scales Exercise 1
Strums & Scales Exercise 2
"Arkansas Traveler" (Intermediate)
"Big Sandy River" (Intermediate) -NEW!
"Big Sciota" (Intermediate)
“Bill Cheatham” (Intermediate)
"Billy in the Lowground" (Intermediate)
"Blackberry Blossom" (Intermediate)
“Black Mountain Rag” (Intermediate)
"Bury Me Beneath the Willow" (Intermediate) -NEW!
“Cherokee Shuffle” (Intermediate)
"Clinch Mountain Backstep" (Intermediate)
“Dark Hollow” (Intermediate)
“Daley's Reel” (Intermediate)
"Down The Road" (Intermediate)
"Fireball Mail" (Intermediate)
“Forked Deer” (Intermediate)
“Give Me Back My 15 Cents” (Intermediate)
“Gold Rush” (Intermediate)
“High Heel Shoe” (Intermediate)
“I Am a Pilgrim” (Intermediate)
“Jerusalem Ridge” (Intermediate)
“Jimmy Brown” (Intermediate)
“Kitchen Girl” (Intermediate)
"Lonesome Fiddle Blues" (Intermediate)
"Lonesome Moonlight Waltz" (Intermediate)
"Long Journey Home" (Intermediate) -NEW!
“Margaret's Waltz” (Intermediate)
"Midnight on the Water" (Intermediate) -NEW!
"Old Grimes" (Intermediate) -NEW!
“Old Joe Clark” (Intermediate)
“Over the Waterfall” (Intermediate)
“Red Haired Boy” (Intermediate)
“Red Wing” (Intermediate)
"Salt Creek" (Intermediate)
“Shady Grove” (Intermediate)
“Soldier's Joy” (Intermediate)
“Squirrel Hunters” (Intermediate)
“St. Anne's Reel” (Intermediate)
"The Storms are on the Ocean" (Intermediate)
“Temperance Reel” (Intermediate)
“Turkey in the Straw” (Intermediate)
“Whiskey Before Breakfast” (Intermediate)
“Wildwood Flower” (Intermediate)
Community Arrangement Project - Angelina Baker
Community Arrangement Project - Beaumont Rag

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Advanced Guitar

Introduction to Advanced
The Advanced Rhythm Guitar Toolbox
Rhythm with Crosspicking - Exercise 1
Rhythm with Crosspicking - Exercise 2
Chords & Scales
Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
Melody Awareness
Submit a Placement Video
“St. Anne's Reel” - Key of D (Capo 2) - Advanced Rhythm
“Big Sandy River” - Key of A (Capo 2) - Advanced Rhythm
“Whiskey Before Breakfast” - Key of D (Capo 2) - Advanced Rhythm
“Banks of the Ohio” - Key of D - Advanced Rhythm
“Salty Dog” - Key of G - Advanced Rhythm
“Big Sciota” - Key of G - Advanced Rhythm
Improvisation in Bluegrass Guitar
Improvisation Building Block 1 - Fretboard Fluency
Advanced Strums & Scales Exercise 1
Advanced Strums & Scales Exercise 2
Relative Minor Exercise 1
Relative Minor Exercise 2
Adding Attitude
Mixolydian Mode
Improvisation Building Block 2 - Melody & Song Structure
Melody & Song Structure - Internalizing a Song
Improvisation Building Block 3 - Listening, Reacting & Communication
Advice for Improvisation Practice - Notice the Chords
Advice for Improvisation Practice - Notice the Melody
Advice for Improvisation Practice - Notice a Theme or Motif
Tags & Endings
“Blackberry Blossom” - Improvisation Demonstration
“Salt Creek” - Improvisation Demonstration
“Down the Road” - Improvisation Demonstration
“Your Love is Like a Flower” - Improvisation Demonstration
“Bury Me Beneath the Willow” - Improvisation Demonstration
“Nine Pound Hammer” - Improvisation Demonstration
Introduction to Etudes
Advanced Etude 1 (Key of G)
Advanced Etude 2 (Key of G)
Advanced Etude 1 (Key of D)
Advanced Etude 2 (Key of D)
Advanced Etude 1 (Key of C)
Bluegrass Guitar Etude (Key of D)
Bluegrass Guitar Etude (Key of C)
Bluegrass Guitar Etude (Key of G)
Bluegrass Guitar (Key of G) - Exercise 1
Bluegrass Guitar (Key of G) - Exercise 2
Bluegrass Guitar (Key of D) - Exercise 1
Advanced Slide & Crosspick - Exercise 1
Advanced Crosspicking (Key of E minor) - Exercise 1
Advanced Flatpicking (Key of A minor) - Etude 1
"Arkansas Traveler" (Advanced)
"Big Sandy River" (Advanced) Improv -NEW!
“Big Sciota” (Advanced)
“Bill Cheatham” (Advanced)
"Billy in the Lowground" (Advanced)
"Blackberry Blossom" (Advanced)
“Black Mountain Rag” (Advanced)
"Bury Me Beneath the Willow" (Advanced) -NEW!
“Cherokee Shuffle” (Advanced)
"Clinch Mountain Backstep" (Advanced)
“Daley's Reel” (Advanced)
“Dark Hollow“ (Advanced)
“Decision at Glady Fork” (Advanced)
"Down The Road" (Advanced)
"Fireball Mail" (Advanced)
“Forked Deer” (Advanced)
“Give Me Back My 15 Cents” (Advanced)
“Gold Rush” (Advanced)
“High Heel Shoe” (Advanced)
"I Am a Pilgrim" (Advanced)
“Jerusalem Ridge” (Advanced)
“Jimmy Brown” (Advanced)
“Kitchen Girl” (Advanced)
"Lonesome Fiddle Blues" (Advanced)
"Lonesome Moonlight Waltz" (Advanced)
"Long Journey Home" (Advanced) -NEW!
“Margaret's Waltz” (Advanced)
"Midnight on the Water" (Advanced) -NEW!
"Old Grimes" (Advanced) -NEW!
“Old Joe Clark” (Advanced)
“Over the Waterfall” (Advanced)
“Red Haired Boy” (Advanced)
“Red Wing” (Advanced)
"Salt Creek" (Advanced)
“Shady Grove” (Advanced)
“Soldier's Joy” (Advanced)
“Squirrel Hunters” (Advanced)
“St. Anne's Reel” (Advanced)
"The Storms are on the Ocean" (Advanced)
“Temperance Reel” (Advanced)
“Turkey in the Straw” (Advanced)
“Whiskey Before Breakfast” (Advanced)
“Wildwood Flower” (Advanced)

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The Improv Workshop

An Introduction to the Improv Workshop
Improvisation: Nine Pound Hammer
(Basic) Improvisation: Ragtime Annie - Rhythm
(Intermediate) Improvisation: Ragtime Annie - Rhythm
(Advanced) Improvisation: Ragtime Annie - Rhythm: Chord Voicing Embellishments
Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
Submit a Placement Video

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30 Day Challenge

30 Day Challenge - 2017 (Archive)
30 Day Challenge - 2018

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