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# 350+ bluegrass fingerstyle licks Official label-approved tabs 176 pages of expert-curated licks Hot Licks for Bluegrass Guitar Book - Fingerstyle Guitar Book with Over 350 Bluegrass Licks - Guitar Tab Book with Trail-Offs, Crosspicking, Floating

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## Summary

> 🎸 Unlock your bluegrass potential with every lick!

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## Key Features

- • **Official & Accurate:** Label-approved tabs ensure you learn the real deal
- • **Build Your Unique Voice:** Simplified structures to help you develop your own bluegrass style
- • **Precision Meets Practice:** 176 pages designed for intermediate players ready to innovate
- • **Trusted Legacy Since 1947:** Hal Leonard’s expertise guarantees quality and reliability
- • **Master the Art of Bluegrass:** 350+ authentic fingerstyle licks to elevate your solos

## Overview

Hot Licks for Bluegrass Guitar Book offers over 350 expertly crafted fingerstyle licks across 176 pages, designed for intermediate players aiming to master bluegrass soloing. Produced by Hal Leonard with official label approval, this book provides accurate, reliable tabs and a structured approach to developing your unique playing style.

## Description

Since 1947, millions of musicians and teachers have trusred Hal Leonard to deSince 1947, millions of musicians and teachers have trusted Hal Leonard to deliver accurate arrangements that always hit the right note. ` From Taylor Swift to Essential Elements, you'll find sheet music that will take you from first scales to full performances. Discover the world’s largest library of label-approved Official Songbooks in both print and digital format. What makes these books official and label-approved? Every Songbook is produced with official rights and approval from publishers, composers, labels, and studios. Select editions even include direct artist sign-off. The result is sheet music you can count on for accuracy and quality. Are Hal Leonard Songbooks right for me? Yes! Hal Leonard Songbooks support every step of your musical journey. Do Songbooks make a good gift? Absolutely. From classroom staples to fan favorites, Hal Leonard Songbooks are the perfect gift for the musician in your life. What makes these books official and label-approved? Every Songbook is produced with official rights and approval from publishers, composers, labels, and studios. Select editions even include direct artist sign-off. The result is sheet music you can count on for accuracy and quality. Are Hal Leonard Songbooks right for me? Yes! Hal Leonard Songbooks support every step of your musical journey. Do Songbooks make a good gift? Absolutely. From classroom staples to fan favorites, Hal Leonard Songbooks are the perfect gift for the musician in your life.

Review: This is in my top 3 Bluegrass books for guitar - Bluegrass is a deceptively challenging style of guitar to learn. The chords are simple, the songs are typically uncomplicated, and the lyrics are also likewise unadorned with fancy language. I have a lot of bluegrass "how to" books, and have learned/memorized tabs for fiddle tunes and songs, but none of these books clicked for me to be able to make good sounding leads, let alone innovate them in real time without sounding like "eighth note noodling in a scale". I think for many of us, the number of things vying for our focus/attention during bluegrass soloing is a challenge--and the more things that can be committed to habit the better. Orrin breaks it down and simplifies it so that you have the building blocks to solo effectively (relying on habits developed in the woodshed). I interpret his "not-so-hot" solos that use straight eighth notes as intentionally keeping it simple--encouraging you as the learner to develop your own "voice" with the guitar, whilst remaining true to the timing challenges of connecting phrases and licks together in a musical way. Intellectually, I can understand the circle of fifths, chord tones and passing notes, lead-in notes, etc., but have a hard time putting it to practice. This book provides a structure for practicing these skills in a simplified way in the bluegrass idiom. I think you should probably have a decent habit of alternating pick direction on eighth notes before you tackle this book. It assumes some familiarity with the concepts that are covered in more basic instructional books on flatpicking, so I would firmly place this in the Intermediate category. It is the right kind of challenging and the right kind of rewarding. Like all instructional music books, it benefits from being spiral bound--which most copy stores will do for you for a nominal fee. I'm by all means a perennial beginner/intermediate player--and this book is one of the few that I would undoubtedly replace if it was lost.
Review: Good - Good

## Features

- Pages: 176
- Instrumentation: Guitar

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #128,975 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #160 in Guitar Songbooks #223 in String Instruments (Books) #752 in Music Instruction & Study (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is in my top 3 Bluegrass books for guitar
*by T***A on May 13, 2020*

Bluegrass is a deceptively challenging style of guitar to learn. The chords are simple, the songs are typically uncomplicated, and the lyrics are also likewise unadorned with fancy language. I have a lot of bluegrass "how to" books, and have learned/memorized tabs for fiddle tunes and songs, but none of these books clicked for me to be able to make good sounding leads, let alone innovate them in real time without sounding like "eighth note noodling in a scale". I think for many of us, the number of things vying for our focus/attention during bluegrass soloing is a challenge--and the more things that can be committed to habit the better. Orrin breaks it down and simplifies it so that you have the building blocks to solo effectively (relying on habits developed in the woodshed). I interpret his "not-so-hot" solos that use straight eighth notes as intentionally keeping it simple--encouraging you as the learner to develop your own "voice" with the guitar, whilst remaining true to the timing challenges of connecting phrases and licks together in a musical way. Intellectually, I can understand the circle of fifths, chord tones and passing notes, lead-in notes, etc., but have a hard time putting it to practice. This book provides a structure for practicing these skills in a simplified way in the bluegrass idiom. I think you should probably have a decent habit of alternating pick direction on eighth notes before you tackle this book. It assumes some familiarity with the concepts that are covered in more basic instructional books on flatpicking, so I would firmly place this in the Intermediate category. It is the right kind of challenging and the right kind of rewarding. Like all instructional music books, it benefits from being spiral bound--which most copy stores will do for you for a nominal fee. I'm by all means a perennial beginner/intermediate player--and this book is one of the few that I would undoubtedly replace if it was lost.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good
*by E***O on August 26, 2025*

Good

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ good stuff
*by J***. on March 11, 2006*

This is by far the "meatiest" of the numerous guitar instruction books I've come across. Tons of licks and material here, and tons of good discussion about putting together bluegrass solos that's quite helpful. The only real downside is that some of the licks in here really aren't all that hot. In fact, i decided to buy the companion CD from the author, to see if I was somehow playing them wrong, and it turned out i wasn't. He even goes so far on the CD to admit that some of the licks aren't that hot - pretty funny. Anyway, I had a bit of a revelation while going through the book - it made me think, "hey, this is all absurd. I can come up with some better licks than this on my own." Since then, I realize that the licks that don't sound so hot still have their value, and it's worthwhile to get a bunch of different licks under your belt if you want to really fluently play bluegrass solos. The point is, this book got me to finally recognize and act on these crucial insights, which no other book did.

## Frequently Bought Together

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