Bluegrass Guitar with Bryan Sutton
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Course Structure Bluegrass Guitar with Bryan Sutton
Each lesson builds on the last, taking you from zero to hero!
Master bluegrass flatpicking with Grammy winner Bryan Sutton. Over 270 lessons from flatpicking basics, jam standards and bluegrass rhythm, through advanced crosspicking and improvisation techniques.
Basic Guitar
Start your flatpicking journey with fundamental chords, scales, rhythm essentials, and timeless jam-friendly tunes. Grow your strumming and picking with bluegrass basics and 50 classic tunes to enjoy. Refine your flatpicking with tone tips, steady rhythm, and essential bluegrass songs.
Intermediate Guitar
Refine flatpicking skills with crosspicking, more elaborate rhythm patterns, and embellished melodies and tunes. Explore the fretboard, improve your speed, and play along with 50+ bluegrass favorites. Develop clean, expressive playing through crosspicking, improvisation, and technique.
Advanced Guitar
Strengthen advanced rhythm, crosspicking, and improvisation for confident bluegrass soloing and jamming. Refine your flatpicking and deepen improvisation with high-level bluegrass studies. Advance your skills through crosspicking, soloing, and expressive bluegrass etudes.
The Improv Workshop
30 Day Challenge
About Bluegrass Guitar with Bryan Sutton
The Grammy award winning Bryan Sutton has created an extensively detailed library of bluegrass guitar lessons here at ArtistWorks. His students have unlimited access to hundreds of flatpick guitar lessons - plus guitar tabs, backing tracks, special guests, and worldwide community of bluegrass guitar enthusiasts. Best of all, students can receive personalized feedback from Bryan using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange® learning platform. Bryan responds to each student video with unique advice for how to improve. All of Bryan's students can access the Video Exchange Archive, which is always expanding and may contain the key to unlock your own playing.
About Bryan Sutton
Bryan Sutton is arguably the best flatpick guitarist since the late great Doc Watson. Born near Asheville, NC, Bryan first got started playing guitar at the age of 8 when his dad, also a guitarist, started to teach him. He first became known as a part of Ricky Skaggs' bluegrass band Kentucky Thunder and later went on to be the guitarist for the legendary bluegrass band Hot Rize. Aside from his solo career, Bryan continues to appear on numerous recordings as a leading session guitarist with everyone from Rhonda Vincent, the Dixie Chicks, Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, and many more. Bryan won a Grammy in 2007, and has been honored as IBMA’s “Guitarist of the Year” in 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2014, and 2015. In 2011 he was also named “Specialty Instrument Player of the Year” at the Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
What students are saying!
The best of the best
This is absolutely the best music course I have ever taken.. I have been a member for several years and I have never regretted a penny of money spent or time invested in using it. ...
Great Teacher, Awful web site.
Things I love: * Bryan sutton. His advice on the submitted video exchanges is why I continue to pay. Things I hate with a passion: * the website. It’s a mess. I have to remind m...
Five Stars PLUS!!!
Bryan Sutton is an amazing musician and educator. Bryan's lessons are clear and his curriculum very well laid out. I'm a complete newbie to both Bluegrass and Flatpicking, this cou...
The ultimate bluegrass guitar course
This course has evidently been built over many years; it offers enough material to keep learners at all levels busy and challenged for a long time. Each of the three levels in the ...
Bryan Sutton
Great instructor
Incredible online learning experience
I am currently in my second year of studying with Bryan (having played other genres for some time) and it has been such a valuable and inspiring experience. Bryan is completely en...
A Great Experience
Bryan’s bluegrass guitar program was 5 stars from top to bottom for me. Best online program I’ve encountered.
Amazing
This series is a gem. Bryan is amazing.
Flatpicking with Bryan Sutton is excellent
I’m really glad I stumbled upon Artist works. After playing guitar for several years I was still stuck in a phase where I was uncomfortable playing in public. I had acquired enough...
Bryan Sutton Flatpicking Course
I've been playing guitar for 22 years. I started off at the very beginning as suggested and right away was met with a challenge. Flat picking flow, and keeping the stream of eighth...
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