Daniel Donato Teaches Country Hybrid Picking Style and Rhythms | Reverb Learn to Play 

"I'm glad all those guitarists never leave Nashville, because if they did, I'd be out of a job." ~ Jeff Beck

They say, "You think you can play guitar, until you go to Nashville."

Thoroughly enjoy this young man's intelligence, ability, and enthusiasm for the guitar ... Especially since it's a TELE!

What a great player -- so good to see young cats like this pushing things forward.

Love his contagious enthusiasm on top of his virtuosity. Did I also mention that he talks very smart?

Love the humble smirk after he finishes playing. His sound is wonderful.

Maybe the best young player around at the moment. Just on another level.

He’s the king of Nashville right now.

I've been hybrid picking since forever and the pick going up is a staple. It's a natural part of my strumming and I'd never be whole without it.

I'm really happy to see the younger generation of country musicians doing their thing, and adding to the lexicon. Still very country, but building and adding their personal signatures to it.

Saw this dude probably 4 years ago on Broadway. One of the slickest guitar players ever.

Every time i see a young person rippin on any instrument it gives me hope. Daniel is a great player at 23 - just taught me some stuff to work on.

I’ve been playing and teaching for 20 years. I love it when kids like this come along:)

"It just waxes on, never off." Ha!

This young lad is just awesome.period.

Danny Gatton on your shirt ... close to your heart ... surely he has been your idol of the telecaster guitar and his technique ... you are an excellent descendant of the GREAT guitar master! or not Daniel? ...

No wonder I'm so drawn to this style of playing. As a drummer/guitarist, those ghost notes make it like you're playing both a percussive and stringed instrument simultaneously. This was a great lesson!

Chicken pickin will be the new sweep picking craze. Mastodon has been doing it for years though.

This lesson is great. Not to slow, not to fast, not too much talking, easy to learn.

this is what practicing 12 hours a day will get you... awesome talent

Don Rich is smiling down from Hillbilly Heaven. I love me them old Telecasters and chicken picken and diesel electrics. Along with the entire ethos of.. something or another...

The is is the first hybrid picking lesson that mentioned replacing a pick upstroke with a finger pluck. No one else mentioned this in the ten videos I just watched. Thanks man!

Phaser=instant Waylon Jennings! Great lesson

I've been playing guitar for 20 years and I still have so much to Learn! Thank you Daniel👍

Found you on GAB.(James Woods Tweets) Must say, you're one of the better gtr teachers out there. Me? 40yr. Gtr player. TY.

This guy is a G. Such a ripper and really articulate at spelling it out for us plebs. I’ve noticed that the normal speed presentation of some of his licks (on this and other vids) that he plays them different than his slow speed demonstration. It’s hard to slow down your playing once you get it down, not his fault but notice in the first lick that he hits like 3 more notes on the normal speed than the slowed down one. He has an extra second finger pluck, if you want to copy that one for extra sauciness rather than the slowed down version for us step dads

great lesson on hybrid picking. Thank you.

Cosmic Country. Daniel Donato is so fresh and exciting. Love this dude.

This guy is fantastic. Blows my mind

Daniel is amazing... love his style. And he seems to be a really nice guy

This dude is so good in pretty much every video I've seen of him

COSMIC COUNTRY!

Love my shred. But this kid is the future. So passionate and into it. Superb.

Daniel Donato is the truth. Keep is Cosmic y’all.

When I first start playing guitar I really wanted to play bass and always had problems getting on with a pick so I developed a hybrid picking technique with my right hand and legato with my left to compensate for my alternate picking weakness. I always saw it as a handicap but then I discovered the country greats and it was a lightbulb moment. Great video Daniel and reverb!

Brilliant tutorial and demo - very clear. This young man is going to be a fearsome talent in country and country rock.

Hot damn. I would love to learn all this!

What a wonderful young man i remember few years ago he was shining like star

Daniel is the man

23 years old.. so young. I glad young gen loves guitar.

He's got a phaser goin. Waylon would love Daniel so much! We all do. I've got a phaser, now I need a tele.

Way to go kid. It's good to hear him talk about the old players.

Coolest switch tip I’ve ever seen.

The whole concept of "Ghost Notes" originated in drum and bugle corps where they would write flam patterns but not play the tap and only play the grace note and they were called ghost flams. a GRACE NOTE on drums is a little note 3 finger spaces above the head and are very quiet. Drummers using "ghost notes" are actually just playing little grace notes in between the regular back beat. Tap or Accent depending on your notation.

Huge Daniel Donato fan!

this is a good lesson! and Daniel has a great sound, I like him

This dude reminds me of Ripley from Aliens

7:15

Great video Reverb and Daniel, great playing and teaching

Beautiful fretboard

That bridge tone 😍

LOVE THIS LESSON, thanks for sharing with us mortals lol Peace !

This boy is a monster

Love these episodes

Love the way you explain things!

Divine guitarist!!!!! Great talker!!!

He kicks ass.....

I’m gonna go ahead and quit telling people I play guitar now

Brilliant. Sounds great. Never tried it this way but I will definitely work on it.

Fantastic, looking forward to hearing more!

No matter how old these country-style pickers are, you can hear the Don Rich influence in every one of them.

Ry Cooder tone on a Ry Cooder tele! Sounds excellent.

What a player!

You are an amazing guitarist !!!!!!

I'm stealing that last riff love it!! You killed me with the Beyonce. lol

Awesome playing!

Totally countrifies the playing, if you want that... Had a meeting with a ditch of glass and hard to get that one going with the feeling missing in that area but it is quite a different experience doing this stuff. Seeming to be he uses alternate pick in spots

Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies!

I'm curious - you say near the beginning that you have to get used to the pick only being used for downstrokes but at around 3:20 you show a slow playthrough of a lick where you use three downstrokes for the triplet section and then when you play at full speed it looks much more like a standard down-up-down on the triplet - is that just my eyes playing tricks or are you really so other-worldly that you can play triplets at *that* speed with three downstrokes??

That's some good pickin' right there.

Thank you beautiful and an excellent lesson paced brilliantly what a gift All the best

Great tutorial Daniel

the riff around the 5:30 mark reminds me of Steve Morse Ice Cakes

Acrylic nails haha that's interesting. I always like the sound of the flesh popping the strings. The nail thing just feels wrong if I try that

What a great player.

Absolutely wonderful 😎🎸✅

I love him. Very cool 😎

Great video and lesson

This kids got these old dudes in the comments all insecure about their playing and vocabulary. Lmfao

This dude shreds

Very inteligent kid!

Inte3resting style and very cool guy

Inspirational!

This kid knows his shit........

Watch at 1.25x. Really makes those ghost notes salient.

Good stuff

Dang He’s awesome. I think he would be a good guest on the Marc Maron podcast. Knows his stuff and is good at talking about it

Super!

Thank you James Woods

This dude is so cool. (that he plays country is even cooler)

#learning. Thanks that was instructional.

3:11 buuut he is picking up in these triplets

Amo tocar música

hot damn. love it.

Cool

Epic video, keep up the good content, could you do some spanish styles

Is that a phaser or harmonic trem or vibe I’m hearing?

just when you think you can play, Donato gives me yet another reason to sit back down lol

Please, have my phased hybrid picked babies!

#learning