Chords for "Mountain Dew" Banjo Lesson [Melodification]

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In this series I take a standard Scruggs tune like Mountain Dew and I show you how to play
first the Scruggs version and then a melodic style version that I make up.
I just want to show you the similarities between Scruggs style and melodic style and hopefully
shed some light on how you can kind of blend both into your playing.
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_ [N] _ _ _ Alright, so in this version of Mountain Dew, really what I'm doing is I'm taking the melody
down the neck and I'm interpreting it up the neck in a melodic break.
So [E] this melody.
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_ _ _ _ And then instead of [B] doing the slides [Bb] or doing it Scruggs style, [A] _ _ _ _ _
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thing, it's just in a melodic style.
And _ I'm going down.
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That's all G.
And then I'm ending [Gbm] up on the third [G] of the four chord.
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And that's really just like a melodic style lick.
You feel free to steal that from me.
That's [Ab] the point of these videos.
But _ you know, I think I've done that several times over a four chord when I'm improvising
or _ in other tunes, other arrangements maybe.
But I kind of like that ascending, then back down, [Abm] descending that leads you back to [A] _ that low G.
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And [B] that last lick that I just did of [Ab] course was a Scruggs lick.
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And then back into the melody.
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But I actually do a chromatic thing, so I [B] go to [E] _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ spice it up a little bit.
And then the melody at that part in the [B] Scruggs version _ _ is_
[A] _ _ So I go_
_ _ _ _ I've been watching a [Bb] lot of Alison Brown lately and I really like the way that she uses the
melody on the second string and [E] has the first string in like a drone.
So that's kind of what I'm doing there.
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_ _ _ [B] _ I've done these ascending scales before, but this is one, two, three, four, [E] five.
And on that fifth note, I'm actually starting a descending thirds [B] pattern.
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_ _ _ _ That thirds pattern ends right here _ [Am] on that A [E] note.
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And then I go to the [E] scale.
And that's the arrangement.
Pretty simple, [Eb] pretty straightforward.
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