Overview

This lesson series will help you learn an Earl Scruggs riff, we'll go step-by step and learn all the techniques necessary to play it. Earl had a broad vocabulary of licks that defined his style of playing. Learning one lick in depth will help you understand and play variations of that lick. Variations of those licks is one of the ways Earl would consistently come up with new sounds.

Next up, let's take a look at the Roll pattern that will serve as the foundation for this lick.