Chords for Argyle Bluegrass Festival Workshops - Joe Mullins 1

You can go all over this fretboard on the bottom two strings. _
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[Dm] _ _ [F] _ _ [E] _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
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[N] You got the whole neck.
You can do that all day long with two fingers.
Your right hand was _ _ way up.
Moving, yeah, yeah.
You get different tone.
You can fatten the tone up some, you know.
[Bm] _ You don't sound as good [E] down here when somebody's [G] singing.
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[D] _ _ _ [E] Same thing with chord positions, and you can do the same thing.
This is something that came to me 20 years ago, and I have used it so much.
You can do the same thing on the first and the third strings.
As you just, all that little crazy stuff on the bottom two.
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[E] _ _ _ [C] _ [E] You got, you can just, [Bb] you know, same thing on the first [Gm] and the third.
For a simple [A] backup, that's a great place [Ab] to start.
No neck, no little chord position.
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Let's play in [D] D. _ _ _ _
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_ It's just [D] one of them aggravating things. _ _
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_ Like what Sonny Osborne said about tuning a banjo?
Huh?
What Sonny Osborne said about tuning a banjo?
_ Which [E] one?
What'd he say?
There's a video on YouTube of what Sonny Osborne thinks about tuning a banjo.
[D] What'd he say?
_ Can't repeat it.
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_ _ _ Well, there's all [G] kinds of fun things out of D, but if you play a Rubens fret, it isn't.
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