Chords for SLOW & PRETTY Dobro - PART 1 - Easy Movable Shapes, Patterns, & Licks

_ _ Hi, welcome to lessons with Troy.com. I'm Troy Briningmeyer.
Well this week's lesson.
We're focusing on slow and pretty dobro and
Just some real nice
_ Shapes and positions and patterns and some ideas that I use
To be able to play in any key
_ Using real easy movable shapes and patterns, so let's go ahead and jump on in here
I touched [G] on this in a workshop, but I really wanted to go over in depth in the tablature _
Go over the tablature go over the handouts and really explain exactly
_ What I'm thinking about when I'm playing this kind of style of of dobro
And let's go ahead and switch over to this other camera angle here, _ _ _ and you can see both hands here
_ Okay, _ so the difference between slow and pretty dobro as opposed to some other styles out there
_ _ This style is more has more of a vocal quality to it
Where you're playing more single notes, so what you're doing is you're tilting that bar up
[F] _
[G] _ _ _ And you're just going to be getting more or less just one note for the most part as opposed to like old [Em]-timey dobro
Where _ _ [B] _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _
_ you're keeping that bar straight, and you're getting a lot of double stops [B] or maybe bluegrass style dobro
Where you're getting [C] more of a banjo [D] kind of sound?
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_ _ _ _ _ And also this particular style we're really focusing on the major scale as opposed to the blues scale
So we'll really be focused on these major scale shapes and patterns here, _ so [F] instead of this kind of set
_ [D] _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _
Which is real nice, and I love that style the blues bluesy style and those scales and licks and all
What we're going to be focusing with here is more of a major scale _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So a lot [E] more with the major scale and so let's go over some of these shapes and patterns
Now if you have your handouts
I suggest you get them all printed out here and the one that we're going to be focusing on just to start off here
It's going to be this one if you can see _ _ _ _
My easy shapes and patterns volume one for slow and pretty dobro
_ okay, now I want to explain what's going on with this _ and
_ What all this looks like so as you see there
It says one chord and it says from the bottom up it says root third fifth [C] root third fifth
so we're going to be in the key of C here _ _ and
In the key of C.
This is your root [G] third fifth
[C] _ [Em] _ _ _ [C]
That's C E G C E G _
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Okay, _ _ _ so what we're focusing on here with the major scale is we're not focused so much on
playing it [E] just you know just straight up [C] the scale like
_ _ [Em] _ _ [C] _ [Em] You
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We're not so much focused on that what I really want to touch on in this one is
playing the scale and
Understanding that here's your chord your one chord and what we're going to be doing is we're going to be sliding to the next note
of the scale or sliding back
to the next note of the scale or the previous note of the scale I guess it would be
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C]
And [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ memorizing these shapes these
Spacings the how many frets you're going to be sliding so as you see in that handout, and I'll show it to you again here _
_ Okay, _ _ _ _ _ _ so as you see there in the handout you see on this side
_ See how it says slide down two frets _ and then on the other side.
It says slide up two frets _
You know for the the fifth up here on the top line
_ _ _ Okay, this is showing you these shapes these amount of the amount of frets you're going to be sliding _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So when we're sliding here on our fifth fret up to our seventh fret _
_ _ _ _ Or [Gm] _ [C]
for our C [G] chord that's two frets there _
We're _ _ _ _ sliding [C] up from that G to the a but I don't want you to think so much about the notes
I do _ think that's very important, but for this particular lesson
we really want to get the chord under our belt and then get the amount of
Frets that we're going to be sliding to get to the next note of that scale so as you look on there
To slide up to the next note you're going to be sliding up two frets.
Here's our C chord
[G] so we want to tilt that bar up and
_ You [A] _
can slide up two frets to the next note of your scale
Or you could slide down two frets to the previous note of [G] your scale _ _
_ Now this is real important because you can start to make up licks just with just with it _
_ _ _ And just doing something like that sounds really nice
I'll play the jam track here _ and kind of show you what that'll sound like with the jam track
_ So _ _ _ I'm just sliding up two frets _
_ _ _ _ Let's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
get a different jam track going on here here we go _
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Oh _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ Okay, so I don't want to go go off on a tangent too far, but basically that's the idea we're on our
Honor C chord here and what we want to do is we want to memorize
What it's how many frets were sliding up to the next note on our?
Root third and fifth because what happens on the dobro is that it repeats you have root third fifth
Here, and then you have root third fifth here, so once you learn the shapes [G] for these three strings
They're the same for these three, so let's go over that for the one chord
And I'm going to go for the one chord the four chord and the five chord
_ Okay, so for the one chord you're sliding up two frets on your first string
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