Chords for 4 Things You Should Steal From Church Street Blues - Advanced Bluegrass Guitar Lesson
Tempo:
97.65 bpm
Chords used:
C
G
Em
Am
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[G] [A] [C]
[Em] Hey there, this is Marcel from [D] lessonswithmarcel.com [C] and I'm here to talk to you about
All right in this video
I'm assuming you're familiar with Tony Rice's arrangement of the Norman Blake song Church Street Blues.
A lot of people consider it flat picking at its [G] finest.
However in this video I will not be teaching you how to play Church Street Blues, [G] but if you're interested in [C] a tab
I do have one on my website.
It's lessonswithmarcel.com slash Church Street Blues.
It's [A] completely free.
[Am] Now on to the [G] four things.
[C]
All right, let's talk about the first six notes.
They're [G] a basic cross picking pattern with a hammer-on all out of the C position.
Now those six notes work great as a kickoff,
especially if you're in the key of C and the melody you're playing starts on the fifth note of the scale or on the G string.
Here's an example using the standard more [C] pretty girls than one.
When Tony's break goes over the chorus of the tune [G] or over the I got myself a rocking chair part of the lyric
he does a run into the four chord.
[C] [F] [C] Now it's just a C major [Bm] scale with a brief suspension over the four chord,
[C] but it's an excellent way to get from C to F.
Here's an [Am] example of [C] me using it in the in the standard Dixie.
[G] [F] [Am]
[Em]
[C]
Sometimes when Tony plays Church Street Blues, especially when he's doing it live, he does a substitution in the first chord change.
[F]
[Am] [C] Now that chord that sounds so cool, that's a major flat seven chord or in other words
it's a major chord a whole step [G] below the tonic chord.
[C] In this case
that chord is a
B flat chord in between a C chord and an F chord.
It's a great [C] transition.
Now normally when you see this flat seven chord
[G] it happens in the key of G and you'll recognize it in tons of bluegrass standards like Red Haired Boy, Salt Creek, and Big [C] Mon.
It's just everywhere.
If you want to use [G] that same trick, you can use it in the key of G using an [C] F chord
between G and C.
[G] [C] A suspended chord is a chord that has no third.
Instead it has [G] a second or a fourth [C] interval.
If that doesn't make sense to you
there's a [G] link below to my website where I teach a lesson about suspended chords.
Now multiple times in Church Street [C] Blues
Tony uses those suspensions briefly, but if you take them [G] to their furthest [Em] kind of logical conclusion
[Am] you can actually use the [Em] suspended chords to imply other [C] chords.
[G]
[C] Now the three chords [G] you'll likely see in songs that [C] are in C major or the C position are [G] C, F, and G major.
Now
the interesting thing about those second [G] two chords is they're super similar to Csus2 and [Em] Csus4.
So the take-home from this section is that [C] if you can [G] you should substitute an
F chord for a Csus4 chord or a G chord for a Csus2 chord.
All [F] [G] [C]
[C]
[G] right, remember to practice these concepts and try to incorporate them into your playing immediately so you don't forget them.
[Em] If you like this video you can subscribe for more content.
You can also find me on Facebook [C] and Instagram at Lessons with Marcel.
You can also find even [A] more content on my [Em] website lessonswithmarcel [G].com. I have tons of free [C] lessons, licks, chord [C] charts, etc.
etc.
All [G] about bluegrass, jazz, country, and blues guitar.
So it's really anything you [Em] might need to get [A] better at American guitar [C] styles.
Thanks for watching.
[Em] Hey there, this is Marcel from [D] lessonswithmarcel.com [C] and I'm here to talk to you about
All right in this video
I'm assuming you're familiar with Tony Rice's arrangement of the Norman Blake song Church Street Blues.
A lot of people consider it flat picking at its [G] finest.
However in this video I will not be teaching you how to play Church Street Blues, [G] but if you're interested in [C] a tab
I do have one on my website.
It's lessonswithmarcel.com slash Church Street Blues.
It's [A] completely free.
[Am] Now on to the [G] four things.
[C]
All right, let's talk about the first six notes.
They're [G] a basic cross picking pattern with a hammer-on all out of the C position.
Now those six notes work great as a kickoff,
especially if you're in the key of C and the melody you're playing starts on the fifth note of the scale or on the G string.
Here's an example using the standard more [C] pretty girls than one.
When Tony's break goes over the chorus of the tune [G] or over the I got myself a rocking chair part of the lyric
he does a run into the four chord.
[C] [F] [C] Now it's just a C major [Bm] scale with a brief suspension over the four chord,
[C] but it's an excellent way to get from C to F.
Here's an [Am] example of [C] me using it in the in the standard Dixie.
[G] [F] [Am]
[Em]
[C]
Sometimes when Tony plays Church Street Blues, especially when he's doing it live, he does a substitution in the first chord change.
[F]
[Am] [C] Now that chord that sounds so cool, that's a major flat seven chord or in other words
it's a major chord a whole step [G] below the tonic chord.
[C] In this case
that chord is a
B flat chord in between a C chord and an F chord.
It's a great [C] transition.
Now normally when you see this flat seven chord
[G] it happens in the key of G and you'll recognize it in tons of bluegrass standards like Red Haired Boy, Salt Creek, and Big [C] Mon.
It's just everywhere.
If you want to use [G] that same trick, you can use it in the key of G using an [C] F chord
between G and C.
[G] [C] A suspended chord is a chord that has no third.
Instead it has [G] a second or a fourth [C] interval.
If that doesn't make sense to you
there's a [G] link below to my website where I teach a lesson about suspended chords.
Now multiple times in Church Street [C] Blues
Tony uses those suspensions briefly, but if you take them [G] to their furthest [Em] kind of logical conclusion
[Am] you can actually use the [Em] suspended chords to imply other [C] chords.
[G]
[C] Now the three chords [G] you'll likely see in songs that [C] are in C major or the C position are [G] C, F, and G major.
Now
the interesting thing about those second [G] two chords is they're super similar to Csus2 and [Em] Csus4.
So the take-home from this section is that [C] if you can [G] you should substitute an
F chord for a Csus4 chord or a G chord for a Csus2 chord.
All [F] [G] [C]
[C]
[G] right, remember to practice these concepts and try to incorporate them into your playing immediately so you don't forget them.
[Em] If you like this video you can subscribe for more content.
You can also find me on Facebook [C] and Instagram at Lessons with Marcel.
You can also find even [A] more content on my [Em] website lessonswithmarcel [G].com. I have tons of free [C] lessons, licks, chord [C] charts, etc.
etc.
All [G] about bluegrass, jazz, country, and blues guitar.
So it's really anything you [Em] might need to get [A] better at American guitar [C] styles.
Thanks for watching.
Key:
C
G
Em
Am
A
C
G
Em
_ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [Em] Hey there, this is Marcel from [D] lessonswithmarcel.com [C] and I'm here to talk to you about_ _ _ _
_ All right in this video
I'm assuming you're familiar with Tony Rice's arrangement of the Norman Blake song Church Street Blues.
A lot of people consider it flat picking at its [G] finest.
However in this video I will not be teaching you how to play Church Street Blues, [G] but if you're interested in [C] a tab
I do have one on my website.
It's lessonswithmarcel.com slash Church Street Blues.
It's [A] completely free.
[Am] Now on to the [G] four things.
_ [C]
All right, let's talk about the first six notes.
They're [G] a basic cross picking pattern with a hammer-on all out of the C position. _ _ _ _ _
_ Now those six notes work great as a kickoff,
especially if you're in the key of C and the melody you're playing starts on the fifth note of the scale or on the G string.
Here's an example using the standard more [C] pretty girls than one. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ When Tony's break goes over the chorus of the tune [G] or over the I got myself a rocking chair part of the lyric
he does a run into the four chord.
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] Now it's just a C major [Bm] scale with a brief suspension over the four chord,
[C] but it's an excellent way to get from C to F.
Here's an [Am] example of [C] me using it in the in the standard Dixie.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Sometimes when Tony plays Church Street Blues, especially when he's doing it live, he does a substitution in the first chord change.
_ _ [F] _ _
[Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ Now that chord that sounds so cool, that's a major flat seven chord or in other words
it's a major chord a whole step [G] below the tonic chord.
[C] In this case
that chord is a
B flat chord in between a C chord and an F chord.
It's a great [C] transition.
Now normally when you see this flat seven chord
[G] it happens in the key of G and you'll recognize it in tons of bluegrass standards like Red Haired Boy, Salt Creek, and Big [C] Mon.
It's just everywhere.
If you want to use [G] that same trick, you can use it in the key of G using an [C] F chord
between G and C.
[G] _ [C] A suspended chord is a chord that has no third.
Instead it has [G] a second or a fourth [C] interval.
If that doesn't make sense to you
there's a [G] link below to my website where I teach a lesson about suspended chords.
Now multiple times in Church Street [C] Blues
Tony uses those suspensions briefly, but if you take them [G] to their furthest [Em] kind of logical conclusion
[Am] you can actually use the [Em] suspended chords to imply other [C] chords.
_ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ Now the three chords [G] you'll likely see in songs that [C] are in C major or the C position are [G] C, F, and G major.
Now
the interesting thing about those second [G] two chords is they're super similar to Csus2 and [Em] Csus4.
So the take-home from this section is that [C] if you can [G] you should substitute an
F chord for a Csus4 chord or a G chord for a Csus2 chord.
All [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] right, remember to practice these concepts and try to incorporate them into your playing immediately so you don't forget them.
[Em] If you like this video you can subscribe for more content.
You can also find me on Facebook [C] and Instagram at Lessons with Marcel.
You can also find even [A] more content on my [Em] website lessonswithmarcel [G].com. I have tons of free [C] lessons, licks, chord [C] charts, etc.
etc.
All [G] about bluegrass, jazz, country, and blues guitar.
So it's really anything you [Em] might need to get [A] better at American guitar [C] styles.
Thanks for watching. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] Hey there, this is Marcel from [D] lessonswithmarcel.com [C] and I'm here to talk to you about_ _ _ _
_ All right in this video
I'm assuming you're familiar with Tony Rice's arrangement of the Norman Blake song Church Street Blues.
A lot of people consider it flat picking at its [G] finest.
However in this video I will not be teaching you how to play Church Street Blues, [G] but if you're interested in [C] a tab
I do have one on my website.
It's lessonswithmarcel.com slash Church Street Blues.
It's [A] completely free.
[Am] Now on to the [G] four things.
_ [C]
All right, let's talk about the first six notes.
They're [G] a basic cross picking pattern with a hammer-on all out of the C position. _ _ _ _ _
_ Now those six notes work great as a kickoff,
especially if you're in the key of C and the melody you're playing starts on the fifth note of the scale or on the G string.
Here's an example using the standard more [C] pretty girls than one. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ When Tony's break goes over the chorus of the tune [G] or over the I got myself a rocking chair part of the lyric
he does a run into the four chord.
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] Now it's just a C major [Bm] scale with a brief suspension over the four chord,
[C] but it's an excellent way to get from C to F.
Here's an [Am] example of [C] me using it in the in the standard Dixie.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Sometimes when Tony plays Church Street Blues, especially when he's doing it live, he does a substitution in the first chord change.
_ _ [F] _ _
[Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ Now that chord that sounds so cool, that's a major flat seven chord or in other words
it's a major chord a whole step [G] below the tonic chord.
[C] In this case
that chord is a
B flat chord in between a C chord and an F chord.
It's a great [C] transition.
Now normally when you see this flat seven chord
[G] it happens in the key of G and you'll recognize it in tons of bluegrass standards like Red Haired Boy, Salt Creek, and Big [C] Mon.
It's just everywhere.
If you want to use [G] that same trick, you can use it in the key of G using an [C] F chord
between G and C.
[G] _ [C] A suspended chord is a chord that has no third.
Instead it has [G] a second or a fourth [C] interval.
If that doesn't make sense to you
there's a [G] link below to my website where I teach a lesson about suspended chords.
Now multiple times in Church Street [C] Blues
Tony uses those suspensions briefly, but if you take them [G] to their furthest [Em] kind of logical conclusion
[Am] you can actually use the [Em] suspended chords to imply other [C] chords.
_ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ Now the three chords [G] you'll likely see in songs that [C] are in C major or the C position are [G] C, F, and G major.
Now
the interesting thing about those second [G] two chords is they're super similar to Csus2 and [Em] Csus4.
So the take-home from this section is that [C] if you can [G] you should substitute an
F chord for a Csus4 chord or a G chord for a Csus2 chord.
All [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] right, remember to practice these concepts and try to incorporate them into your playing immediately so you don't forget them.
[Em] If you like this video you can subscribe for more content.
You can also find me on Facebook [C] and Instagram at Lessons with Marcel.
You can also find even [A] more content on my [Em] website lessonswithmarcel [G].com. I have tons of free [C] lessons, licks, chord [C] charts, etc.
etc.
All [G] about bluegrass, jazz, country, and blues guitar.
So it's really anything you [Em] might need to get [A] better at American guitar [C] styles.
Thanks for watching. _ _ _