Looking for online Country/Western guitar riffs; tabs and videos preferred

February 15, 2005 4:23 PM

For you pickers out there: I'm in need of some online resource for country & western guitar riffs. It can be any style or period of country (Merle Travis to Ricky Skaggs). Would prefer tab and/or video but mostly just a big emphasis on country music. I've tried a number of sites but maybe I'm missing a good one?
posted by KevinSkomsvold to media & arts (4 comments total)

There's the spyware laden Cowboy Lyrics for tabs.

COWPIE Song Corral

Chicken Pickin' Rock Guitar Tablature and Instruction is far more country than rock guitar.

Here's another Chicken Pickin Guitar Lesson

And here's Chicken pickin' double stops

Fender Players Club Country Guitar Single-String Licks pdf

Fender Players Club - Country Home

That's for starts--I'll add more as I find them.
posted by y2karl at 6:07 PM on February 15, 2005

Thanks Karl! I did use the Fender Players Club and copped some nice steel riffs. I'll check the others out as well.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 7:12 PM on February 15, 2005

Buy a couple Chet Atkins books and just concentrate on the top strings.
posted by The White Hat at 7:47 PM on February 15, 2005

altcountrytab is, well, not that tabby. But they have cowpie-syle choord transcriptions of folks that sometimes don't make it on to cowpie.
posted by mwhybark at 9:13 PM on February 15, 2005