Truefire Tim Sparks' Solo Factory: Country Blues

Soloing & Improvisation for Fingerstyle Country Blues Guitar
When learning how to perform, compose or improvise a fingerstyle country blues piece, you'll first need command of a wide and versatile vocabulary of country blues phrases. The next step is learning how to connect that vocabulary of phrases into full-length solo guitar compositions and performances.

With Country Blues Factory, master performing and recording artist Tim Sparks presents an accelerated and comprehensive curriculum designed to get you up and running quickly and very musically.

Most fingerstyle Country Blues songs share similar 1-4-5 chord progressions. In this course, Tim shows you a vocabulary of phrases that work each of the chords in the progression. You'll learn 6 phrases for the I chord, 6 phrases for the IV chord, 6 phrases for the V chord, and 6 phrases that work over the entire 12 bar blues form.

Tim will then show you how to connect these phrases across the entire 1-4-5 progression to form a complete solo guitar performance. Once you grasp the basic principles, you can mix up the selection of phrases anyway you wish, and then vary them to make them your own.

As you play your way through the course, Tim will also show you many ways to alter the phrases to make them more sophisticated and more suitable for contemporary fingerstyle blues performances and improvisations.

Tim will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You'll get standard notation and tabs for all the performance studies. Plus, you'll be able to use TrueFire's learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.

Grab your guitar and let's dig in with Tim Sparks!