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This fun and frantic little number by the great Hank Garland is a fantastic picking and fingering exercise that'll help you to build speed, precision and agility in equal measure. We also go into some detail on various ways to play the accompanying chords!

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Sugarfoot Rag by Hank Garland. Guitar lead & chord study for speed & agility practice! Country Jazz!

Access all lesson materials by becoming a Patreon member; https://patreon.com/AlexFarranGuitar If Patreon isn’t your bag, you can purchase the 6 pages of lesson materials at this link; https://smogfalls.gumroad.com/l/qvizmi Book in for a private Zoom lesson to level up your playing, or find new inspiration!.. just choose a slot at the link below; https://tidycal.com/alexfarranguitar/guitarlesson This fun and frantic little number by the great Hank Garland is a fantastic picking and fingering exercise that'll help you to build speed, precision and agility in equal measure. We also go into some detail on various ways to play the accompanying chords! ⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️ 00:00 - Performance 00:36 - Introduction 01:07 - Lesson materials 01:38 - “A” section melody 03:27 - “A” section metronome playthrough 04:18 - Alternate picking 05:17 - Anchored vs free floated picking hand 06:00 - “B” section melody 07:40 - “B” section metronome playthrough 08:04 - “A” section with variations; Palm muting 09:26 - “B” section variations 10:20 - “A” + “B” sections metronome playthrough 11:20 - Chordwork 12:16 - “B” section fancy inversions! 14:55 - Second “A” section 15:08 - Second “B” section; alternative options! 15:53 - Chord fingerings 16:35 - Western Swing vs Gypsy Swing styles 17:47 - Your mission! 18:13 - Tone Talk! 18:35 - Hank Garland & sign-off! Related videos to check out.. Stormy Monday chord study; https://youtu.be/Pf5IbbIRQts?si=ct-nsmh3sRsDtN28 -------------------- Sunbear "Farran Five" tele pickups; https://www.sunbearpickups.com/telecaster-pickups/lava1d28qt9czpmsd7mhh7atkh09nf?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabZQ9xFvlQdXvHLVgD10yhTA1C3Ob-NvJBdfgj77agYFSTtyHL3onjCWT4_aem_SxdVxGs7Ys1K8tL2qrq6tg -------------------- Thanks for watching! Alex :) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexfarranguitar/ Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/alexfarran #guitarplayer #countrymusic #guitartips #westernswing #hankgarland #guitar #guitarist #guitarlesson #guitarchords #guitarra #guitartutorial #guitarsolo #chords #jazz

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Johan

Coffee at hand, already looked over materials.

David Lemon

Man a barn burner of an exercise I love it 😻

Johan

This will help break-up my current obsession with long minor II V i’s that your m6 stuff has lead me to.

Sander Geerdink

Real fun to work on this sunday morning.. i'm having a tough time getting this up to 220 bpm without having it break down somewhere. Another fun and satisfying lesson Alex, thanks!

Alex Farran Guitar

Glad you're enjoying it Sander!.. man, it's still early days if you only started working on this yesterday! I reckon you'll have it up to full speed, and clean within the next week!

Tyrone Miller

Thanks for doing this one Great Stuff🤗🤗🤗

nick kizirnis

Very nice! Can’t wait to work on this one. I’ve actually been out traveling with band (crew not playing), many nice guitars around but no chance to play 😳 … I have always loved Sugarfoot Rag but never taken the time to learn it, so I’m looking forward to working on it in a week when I’m back! Thank you!

Alex Farran Guitar

That's very cool Nick, glad you're having a good time out on the road! Must be hard to be around all those guitars without being able to sneak one off to a hotel room for some Hank Garland practice! 😅

nick kizirnis

I’m helping the guitar tech tonight so maybe I’ll get my chance 🤣

Edward Toscano

Alex thank you for the lessons and introducing some of us to this great music. Your lessons have helped me connect the dots.

Alex Farran Guitar

That’s so good to hear Edward, thanks for the comment matey! 🙏🏻

Derek Sanchez

This one is different for me, I practice the first part for three hours four days ago. Now I feel I'm ready for the second part.

Michael Friedman

What the hell are those guitars they are playing?

Jonathan Fowles

Alex any chance you could do a follow up lesson on Hank’s Baby Guitar sometime…?

Jerome Oks

Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland!