Chords for Two Finger Mandolin Blues

[G] _ Hi, this is Brad Laird
Today, I'm just going to do a little video as a test mostly of the lighting and the microphone just to see how things sound in here _
_ [F#] _ And if I get the system all worked out
I'll be putting up some lessons from time to time just some little
Mando stuff that I figured out that you might get a kick out of _ _
_ I'm gonna start out by playing this little _
Two-finger blues trick that I talked about in a newsletter back a few issues ago
_ _ _ Where you start out with a three-finger d7? _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] And you just play the bottom [C] two notes _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And _ _ _ _ _ if you drop it down one [B] fret
_ you _ _ magically and
_ mysteriously end up on a
_ G7 because you've got an [F] F note and a B note B note is the third of the G chord
_ And the F note is the flat seven so you've got part you've got enough of the g7 to sound like a g7 _
When _ you back up [C] one fret to the d7
[F#] _ You have an F sharp [C]
and a C
[F#] _ So again, you've got the third of [C] D seven _ _ _ [F#] _
[C] the flat seven of D seven _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
You
Might [F#] get a little bit too much so back to where I was where I was a minute ago two-finger d7
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ And [C]
for _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
[C#] the five chord you just slide it up to _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Was just looking at the playback of that and I realized that I made a little error in this _ _ _ _ I
Just said
[Am] _ You're on the d7 _ and to get to the a7 you just move it up to I actually should have said move it up [C#] one
So [G] [F#] let me [Am] go over that again
_ _ [C] D7 _
Fifth and fourth fret _ _ _ _ _ _ you take it [F] down one fret and _ you get the four chord _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
One fret [C#] _ and you end up on the a7 which is the five chord _ [F] so it's one _
[F#] _ _ _ [C#] _ Now _ _ _ I fix that we'll go back to what I was talking about
_ _ _ [A#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#m] And there you have
[B] _ [C#m] C sharp [G] _ _ _ and a G
The C sharp is the third of the a chord _ and the G is the flat seven so again
you've got a third and a seven _ that gives it the _
_ Enough information so that sounds like [F#] an [C#] a7 _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ You
Now I got to thinking the other day _ that
_ If this is the one chord if the D is the one chord and right above it is the [C#] five
_ _ Then one fret higher would be the [Fm] two
_ Because the two is always two frets higher than a one
[F#] _ So _ there's my one [C#] my [G#] five
my two chord
_ [A]
And what would be the next one?
_ It's a [Em] six.
It's two [D#] frets higher than the five
_ So if I've got a progression that goes six two five one like millions of songs do _ I?
Could get it all within a four fret range.
Here's the six chord
_ _ [G#] _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
And you could carry that farther _ there's the [C#] one the [D] five _ _ [D#] the two
_ _ _ [E] six _
_ the three
_ So you could play a three six two five one chord progression _ _
Using just two notes and moving it down _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ [C] _ _ And _ [F] of course you get four right below it [A#] which tells you there's another three here
_ _ _ [D] There's a three is always one fret below four
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ Anyway, I hope that's [N] interesting and I'll see you later.
_ _ _ _ _ I might just sit here and take a while first
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