Joe Dalton's Big Twang (2009)

Joe Dalton presents this guide to playing modern Nashville-style country guitar - aka 'Big Twang' music. The programme takes you through a wide variety of rhythm and soloing parts across five distinct Big Twang grooves selected to illustrate the diversity of the style. Learn to master the many different attacks required with the picking hand as well as the essential 'touches' required from the fretting hand. Hybrid picking, chicken-picking, pull-offs, hammer-ons, double-stops, pedal steel emulation, ending, slides, pluck-n-cluck, staccato and legato effects, tips for crafting a good solo, syncopation, vibrato and many other tricks of the Twang trade are also covered.