Chords for How to play Acoustic Bluegrass guitar easy beginner lesson

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_ Hey, what's up?
Marty Schwartz here, _ _ NextLevelGuitar.com. _ _
Stoked to be here.
I'm having a great time doing these videos _ _ and just passing on information, you know?
_ _ [B] Handing it off like a quarterback hands off to a [G] fullback.
That's right, that's right.
_ And it's my pleasure to do so.
So what I'm trying to do is _ just diversify some of these styles that I've been talking
about and I'm kind of like entering into my fringe _ of knowledge.
So _ _ I'm kind of leaving my _ core, which is kind of like blues, rock, and funk, and wanted
to talk about the most standard _ bluegrass _ progression. _ _ _ _
In other words, this is kind of like learning the bluegrass _ equivalent of the 12-bar blues. _
So the chords that we need are a G major, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ and then _ let's see, one, _ _ _ _ _ two, _ _ _ _ _ three, _ _ _ _ and on
the fourth measure, or the fourth time you've [D] counted through one, two, three, four, _ you
go to a D chord _ _ _ _ _ for one measure. _
_ _ [G] Then we're going to play G _ to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ G7.
So I'm playing G with this particular [Em] voicing with my ring finger on the third fret of the
E string and the middle finger here on the second fret of the A string and then my [G] pinky
on the third fret on the high E.
_ _ _ Then I go to G7 [Em] with my first finger on the [G] first fret. _ _ _ _ _ _
Then I go to a C [C] major chord _ _ _ _ to C7, [B] so I'm putting my pinky on the third fret of the
G string with the C chord.
_ _ _ _ And then a G, [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] D, _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
G _ with a little bluegrass tag _ that you hear all the time if you listen
to that sort of thing.
Okay, so here it is [Fm] without any fancy _ [Bb] _ [G] percussiveness. _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Then it starts over, and then [B] it repeats, and then it repeats, and then _ _ everyone takes a solo.
So it's very much, _ bluegrass is very much like the blues.
[G] You sing a couple of lines, and then everyone takes their turn at the solo, _ and you're jamming.
It's a real improvised jamming kind of music.
Okay, so basically the other thing I was doing was I'm kind of aiming for the roots of the
chord, so like on the G chord, be the third fret on the E string.
And I kind of hit down on that, and then immediately [N] _ _
hit the rest of the chord, but I'm letting
my palm kind of hit the strings first.
[G] So it gives me _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ like that.
And you have to go, it's pretty fast music, so it's like_ _ _ _
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Okay, so then we just keep that idea.
It's going to take a little work if you've never done it before.
Just like anything, _ _ you just got to work at it.
Go real slow.
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_ _ Okay, so here it is again with that rhythm. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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[G] _ _ _ Okay, and so some of the other, when [F] I get into the changes, I'm not [D] really doing that
_ _ Chuck kind of sound quite as much.
I kind of open it up a little bit.
But that's what's nice.
You can get both sounds, and when guys are doing that, it's kind of like a little bit
So when guys start soloing, you kind of want to get back into that percussive thing.
And I think that really came from the fact that in _ traditional bluegrass, there's no drums.
So the guitar player especially, and usually there's mandolin, they're really doing that
a lot because they're literally _ the drummer.
_ They're keeping that rhythm down.
So here it is one more time, and then I'll play that little [G] tag. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _
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Okay, so here's that tag real quick.
_ Ring finger on the third fret of the E string. _ _
_ _ _ Then hammer on the second fret [E] of the A string.
_ [B] _ _
Then the open [D] D string.
_ [G] _ _ [B] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
Then hammer on and pull off on that D string.
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ [B] _ Then the open G string.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Then the whole thing starts all over again.
Then second verse, same as the first.
And so forth and so on. _ _
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Yeah, alright!
_ _ Cool, I hope that was something different and interesting to you.
_ Marty Schwartz with NextLevelGuitar.com.
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[B] Alright, see you next time.
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