Chords for Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar - Beginner Guitar Lesson - Foggy Mountain Rock - Strumming and Walk-Ups
Tempo:
100.7 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
Eb
E
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
In this lesson, I'm going to teach you all the guitar part for Foggy Mountain Rock.
It's a standard bluegrass song.
If you've ever been to a bluegrass jam, odds are you've heard this song played there.
Really common one.
It's an instrumental, [N] really fun song to jam on and practice your country and bluegrass strumming.
[Ab] So this is a [G] continuation lesson on [N] the series we've got going on at Country Guitar Online
where we're working on our country and bluegrass strumming patterns.
Strumming patterns that actually sound country and bluegrass.
That's what we're going to do in this lesson.
We're going to continue expanding upon the strumming that we learned in the previous
lessons of this series.
So in this lesson, we're going to learn all the chord progressions for Foggy [F] Mountain
Rock and then we'll [Em] also learn some other [F] cool stuff.
Some little [N] fills and bassline walk-ups and turnaround licks, a little intro lick.
All sorts of cool stuff that will make your rhythm guitar sound a little more country and bluegrass.
So this is [Ab] going to be a great lesson series.
[Gb] I think I'm most excited about the walk-up chord transition fills in this lesson [Eb] because
this is such a common technique used in country and bluegrass [D] music.
So here's an example of a bassline [Gb] walk-up.
And this is stuff [E] that you just add in between your chord changes.
You know, so something [G] like this.
Right here.
[C] There's a simple one.
[G] Here's one.
[D] Here's another one.
[G]
So those are going to be pretty cool.
You can not only use those with this song that we're learning in this lesson today,
[Abm] but you can use them with a [C] ton of different other songs that you know or you're trying to learn.
So [Eb] real helpful stuff to know.
Anyways, let's get into the chord [C] progression of the song first and [Eb] then we'll learn all
those other [C] fun fills and all that stuff.
Let's learn the A part chord progression of Foggy Mountain Rock and then we'll learn the B part.
[Db] We're using the boom chick strumming pattern like we've been covering in this lesson [G] series.
Boom chick, boom chick, boom chick, boom chick.
And just like the earlier lessons in the series, we're going [Fm] to count this boom chick [Eb] pattern
like [G] this.
One, two, three, four.
So right there, that's four quarter note counts.
[D] And four quarter notes will be one [Eb] measure's worth since we're in 4-4 [G] time.
One, two, three, four.
So let's start [Bb] going through this progression and I will quickly [Fm] give you all an overview
of the alternating [E] bass line notes that I'm doing [Abm] over each of these chords here in a minute.
But I'm going to play through the progression first.
So if you watched lesson one in the [E] series, you should recognize this chord progression.
[F] It's the exact same [Eb] chord progression that we used [D] in lesson one to practice this boom [Fm] chick pattern.
But we're [E] going to go over it one more time here.
Just get ready, up to speed.
So here we go.
So I'm going to count us in four counts and play through this A part.
[D] One, two, [G] three, four.
G, G, E, G,
[C] Z, C, [G]
G, G, [D] D, D, [G] G.
That's the first line of the A part.
You play [D] that what I just played [Eb] two times and that'll be the whole A part.
[E] Now let me go through each of these chords and I'll tell you all the strings that I'm
using to play these [Eb] alternating bass line notes.
[G] You know, boom chick, boom chick.
So on the booms, that's [E] when I'm playing the bass [G] line notes.
Boom chick, [D]
[G] boom chick, boom [D] chick, boom chick.
So those individual picks, that's when I'm going to [Eb] shout out.
And we're going to do it exactly like we've been doing in the previous lessons in this [Ab] series.
But just so we're all on the same page, [G] I'll shout out the string numbers.
Here's the G major chord.
[E] I pick [G] the sixth string, strum, [D] and then fourth [G] string, strum.
Sixth strum, fourth strum, sixth strum, fourth strum.
Every time you come up to a G major in this song, that's the pattern you're going to use.
Now over the C [Fm] major chord, [C] I do fifth string, strum, fourth string, strum.
Five strum, four strum, five strum, four strum.
So up until this point in this series, we've been looking at the boom chick strumming pattern.
Let's make this strumming pattern a bit more [E] complex and add one more accent strum to it.
[G]
So we've been using this strumming pattern, [D] boom chick, boom [G] chick, boom chick, boom chick.
Or pick down, pick down, pick down, pick down.
Now let's turn it into pick down, pick down.
[Abm] Before the [Eb] lick, you're playing the D major [D] chord.
The reason that's important is because [G] next you're about to play the lick, but how I play
that first note of this lick, I pick it up with my left middle finger.
[Em]
[D] D chord, [G] left middle.
The reason I use my left middle [Em] finger on this lick in this [Ab] case is because we were
[Eb] playing that D major chord [D] right before it.
And I like to leave my left ring finger planted [G] as long as possible just [E] to let that note,
[D] that left ring finger note of the D major chord ring out [Ab] as long as you can because
it makes for a nice [Gb] smooth transition.
[G] Let that note ring and then there's a couple different types of walk-ups we're going to
cover in this lesson.
The first one is going to be pretty simple and then the second [E] kind is going to be [G] a
little bit more intermediate.
So let's take a look at the first one here.
This one's pretty simple.
[Ab] This is a very standard bassline walk used in [E] bluegrass and country music.
It's a [N] bassline walk between a G major chord and a C major chord.
So here's what it sounds like.
[G] G.
[C]
[G] Once again, G.
Walk [C] up.
They're called walk-ups [G] because you're just walking note by note up the scale.
So in this case we were playing a G major chord.
We're starting with a G right there, that third fret down on the low E string.
That's a G.
And then the next note in the musical [A] alphabet is an A, [C] B, C.
We just walk straight up that major scale.
[G] G, A, B, C.
It's a standard bluegrass song.
If you've ever been to a bluegrass jam, odds are you've heard this song played there.
Really common one.
It's an instrumental, [N] really fun song to jam on and practice your country and bluegrass strumming.
[Ab] So this is a [G] continuation lesson on [N] the series we've got going on at Country Guitar Online
where we're working on our country and bluegrass strumming patterns.
Strumming patterns that actually sound country and bluegrass.
That's what we're going to do in this lesson.
We're going to continue expanding upon the strumming that we learned in the previous
lessons of this series.
So in this lesson, we're going to learn all the chord progressions for Foggy [F] Mountain
Rock and then we'll [Em] also learn some other [F] cool stuff.
Some little [N] fills and bassline walk-ups and turnaround licks, a little intro lick.
All sorts of cool stuff that will make your rhythm guitar sound a little more country and bluegrass.
So this is [Ab] going to be a great lesson series.
[Gb] I think I'm most excited about the walk-up chord transition fills in this lesson [Eb] because
this is such a common technique used in country and bluegrass [D] music.
So here's an example of a bassline [Gb] walk-up.
And this is stuff [E] that you just add in between your chord changes.
You know, so something [G] like this.
Right here.
[C] There's a simple one.
[G] Here's one.
[D] Here's another one.
[G]
So those are going to be pretty cool.
You can not only use those with this song that we're learning in this lesson today,
[Abm] but you can use them with a [C] ton of different other songs that you know or you're trying to learn.
So [Eb] real helpful stuff to know.
Anyways, let's get into the chord [C] progression of the song first and [Eb] then we'll learn all
those other [C] fun fills and all that stuff.
Let's learn the A part chord progression of Foggy Mountain Rock and then we'll learn the B part.
[Db] We're using the boom chick strumming pattern like we've been covering in this lesson [G] series.
Boom chick, boom chick, boom chick, boom chick.
And just like the earlier lessons in the series, we're going [Fm] to count this boom chick [Eb] pattern
like [G] this.
One, two, three, four.
So right there, that's four quarter note counts.
[D] And four quarter notes will be one [Eb] measure's worth since we're in 4-4 [G] time.
One, two, three, four.
So let's start [Bb] going through this progression and I will quickly [Fm] give you all an overview
of the alternating [E] bass line notes that I'm doing [Abm] over each of these chords here in a minute.
But I'm going to play through the progression first.
So if you watched lesson one in the [E] series, you should recognize this chord progression.
[F] It's the exact same [Eb] chord progression that we used [D] in lesson one to practice this boom [Fm] chick pattern.
But we're [E] going to go over it one more time here.
Just get ready, up to speed.
So here we go.
So I'm going to count us in four counts and play through this A part.
[D] One, two, [G] three, four.
G, G, E, G,
[C] Z, C, [G]
G, G, [D] D, D, [G] G.
That's the first line of the A part.
You play [D] that what I just played [Eb] two times and that'll be the whole A part.
[E] Now let me go through each of these chords and I'll tell you all the strings that I'm
using to play these [Eb] alternating bass line notes.
[G] You know, boom chick, boom chick.
So on the booms, that's [E] when I'm playing the bass [G] line notes.
Boom chick, [D]
[G] boom chick, boom [D] chick, boom chick.
So those individual picks, that's when I'm going to [Eb] shout out.
And we're going to do it exactly like we've been doing in the previous lessons in this [Ab] series.
But just so we're all on the same page, [G] I'll shout out the string numbers.
Here's the G major chord.
[E] I pick [G] the sixth string, strum, [D] and then fourth [G] string, strum.
Sixth strum, fourth strum, sixth strum, fourth strum.
Every time you come up to a G major in this song, that's the pattern you're going to use.
Now over the C [Fm] major chord, [C] I do fifth string, strum, fourth string, strum.
Five strum, four strum, five strum, four strum.
So up until this point in this series, we've been looking at the boom chick strumming pattern.
Let's make this strumming pattern a bit more [E] complex and add one more accent strum to it.
[G]
So we've been using this strumming pattern, [D] boom chick, boom [G] chick, boom chick, boom chick.
Or pick down, pick down, pick down, pick down.
Now let's turn it into pick down, pick down.
[Abm] Before the [Eb] lick, you're playing the D major [D] chord.
The reason that's important is because [G] next you're about to play the lick, but how I play
that first note of this lick, I pick it up with my left middle finger.
[Em]
[D] D chord, [G] left middle.
The reason I use my left middle [Em] finger on this lick in this [Ab] case is because we were
[Eb] playing that D major chord [D] right before it.
And I like to leave my left ring finger planted [G] as long as possible just [E] to let that note,
[D] that left ring finger note of the D major chord ring out [Ab] as long as you can because
it makes for a nice [Gb] smooth transition.
[G] Let that note ring and then there's a couple different types of walk-ups we're going to
cover in this lesson.
The first one is going to be pretty simple and then the second [E] kind is going to be [G] a
little bit more intermediate.
So let's take a look at the first one here.
This one's pretty simple.
[Ab] This is a very standard bassline walk used in [E] bluegrass and country music.
It's a [N] bassline walk between a G major chord and a C major chord.
So here's what it sounds like.
[G] G.
[C]
[G] Once again, G.
Walk [C] up.
They're called walk-ups [G] because you're just walking note by note up the scale.
So in this case we were playing a G major chord.
We're starting with a G right there, that third fret down on the low E string.
That's a G.
And then the next note in the musical [A] alphabet is an A, [C] B, C.
We just walk straight up that major scale.
[G] G, A, B, C.
Key:
G
D
Eb
E
C
G
D
Eb
In this lesson, I'm going to teach you all the guitar part for Foggy Mountain Rock.
It's a standard bluegrass song.
If you've ever been to a bluegrass jam, odds are you've heard this song played there.
Really common one.
It's an instrumental, [N] really fun song to jam on and practice your country and bluegrass strumming.
[Ab] So this is a [G] continuation lesson on [N] the series we've got going on at Country Guitar Online
where we're working on our country and bluegrass strumming patterns.
Strumming patterns that actually sound country and bluegrass.
That's what we're going to do in this lesson.
We're going to continue expanding upon the strumming that we learned in the previous
lessons of this series.
So in this lesson, we're going to learn all the chord progressions for Foggy [F] Mountain
Rock and then we'll [Em] also learn some other [F] cool stuff.
Some little [N] fills and bassline walk-ups and turnaround licks, a little intro lick.
All sorts of cool stuff that will make your rhythm guitar sound a little more country and bluegrass.
So this is [Ab] going to be a great lesson series.
[Gb] I think I'm most excited about the walk-up chord transition fills in this lesson [Eb] because
this is such a common technique used in country and bluegrass [D] music.
So here's an example of a bassline [Gb] walk-up.
And this is stuff [E] that you just add in between your chord changes.
You know, so something [G] like this. _ _ _ _ _ _
Right here.
[C] There's a simple one.
_ [G] Here's one.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Here's another one. _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
So those are going to be pretty cool.
You can not only use those with this song that we're learning in this lesson today,
[Abm] but you can use them with a [C] ton of different other songs that you know or you're trying to learn.
So [Eb] real helpful stuff to know.
Anyways, let's get into the chord [C] progression of the song first and [Eb] then we'll learn all
those other [C] fun fills and all that stuff. _ _
_ _ _ Let's learn the A part chord progression of Foggy Mountain Rock and then we'll learn the B part.
[Db] We're using the boom chick strumming pattern like we've been covering in this lesson [G] series.
Boom chick, boom chick, boom chick, boom chick.
And just like the earlier lessons in the series, we're going [Fm] to count this boom chick [Eb] pattern
like [G] this.
One, two, three, four.
So right there, that's four quarter note counts.
[D] And four quarter notes will be one [Eb] measure's worth since we're in 4-4 [G] time.
One, two, three, four.
_ So let's start [Bb] going through this progression and I will quickly [Fm] give you all an overview
of the alternating [E] bass line notes that I'm doing [Abm] over each of these chords here in a minute.
But I'm going to play through the progression first.
So if you watched lesson one in the [E] series, you should recognize this chord progression.
[F] It's the exact same [Eb] chord progression that we used [D] in lesson one to practice this boom [Fm] chick pattern.
But we're [E] going to go over it one more time here.
Just get ready, up to speed.
So here we go.
So I'm going to count us in four counts and play through this A part.
_ _ [D] One, two, [G] three, four.
G, _ _ G, _ E, _ G, _ _
[C] Z, _ C, _ _ [G]
G, _ G, _ [D] D, _ _ D, _ [G] G. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That's the first line of the A part.
You play [D] that what I just played [Eb] two times and that'll be the whole A part.
_ _ [E] Now let me go through each of these chords and I'll tell you all the strings that I'm
using to play these [Eb] alternating bass line notes.
[G] You know, boom chick, boom chick.
So on the booms, that's [E] when I'm playing the bass [G] line notes.
Boom chick, [D] _
[G] boom chick, boom [D] chick, boom chick.
So those individual picks, that's when I'm going to [Eb] shout out.
And we're going to do it exactly like we've been doing in the previous lessons in this [Ab] series.
But just so we're all on the same page, [G] I'll shout out the string numbers.
Here's the G major chord.
[E] I pick [G] the sixth string, strum, [D] and then fourth [G] string, strum.
Sixth strum, fourth strum, sixth strum, fourth strum.
Every time you come up to a G major in this song, that's the pattern you're going to use. _ _
_ Now over the C [Fm] major chord, [C] I do fifth string, strum, fourth string, strum.
Five strum, four strum, five strum, four strum.
_ _ So up until this point in this series, we've been looking at the boom chick strumming pattern.
Let's make this strumming pattern a bit more [E] complex and add one more accent strum to it.
[G]
So we've been using this strumming pattern, [D] boom chick, boom [G] chick, boom chick, boom chick.
Or pick down, pick down, pick down, pick down.
_ Now let's turn it into pick down, pick down.
_ [Abm] Before the [Eb] lick, you're playing the D major [D] chord. _
_ _ The reason that's important is because _ [G] next you're about to play the lick, but how I play
that first note of this lick, I pick it up with my left middle finger.
_ [Em] _ _
_ [D] D chord, _ _ [G] left middle.
_ _ _ The reason I use my left middle [Em] finger on this lick in this [Ab] case is because we were
[Eb] playing that D major chord [D] right before it.
And _ I like to leave my left ring finger planted [G] as long as possible just [E] to let that note,
[D] _ that left ring finger note of the D major chord ring out [Ab] as long as you can because
it makes for a nice [Gb] smooth transition.
[G] Let that note ring and then there's a couple different types of walk-ups we're going to
cover in this lesson.
The first one is going to be pretty simple and then the second [E] kind is going to be [G] a
little bit more intermediate.
So let's take a look at the first one here.
This one's pretty simple.
[Ab] This is a very standard bassline walk used in [E] bluegrass and country music.
It's a [N] bassline walk between a G major chord and a C major chord.
So here's what it sounds like.
[G] G.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ Once again, G.
_ _ Walk [C] up. _ _
_ _ _ They're called walk-ups [G] because you're just walking note by note up the scale.
So in this case we were playing a G major chord.
We're starting with a G _ right _ there, that third fret down on the low E string.
That's a G.
And then the next note in the musical [A] alphabet is an A, [C] B, C.
We just walk straight up that major scale.
[G] G, _ _ A, B, C. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It's a standard bluegrass song.
If you've ever been to a bluegrass jam, odds are you've heard this song played there.
Really common one.
It's an instrumental, [N] really fun song to jam on and practice your country and bluegrass strumming.
[Ab] So this is a [G] continuation lesson on [N] the series we've got going on at Country Guitar Online
where we're working on our country and bluegrass strumming patterns.
Strumming patterns that actually sound country and bluegrass.
That's what we're going to do in this lesson.
We're going to continue expanding upon the strumming that we learned in the previous
lessons of this series.
So in this lesson, we're going to learn all the chord progressions for Foggy [F] Mountain
Rock and then we'll [Em] also learn some other [F] cool stuff.
Some little [N] fills and bassline walk-ups and turnaround licks, a little intro lick.
All sorts of cool stuff that will make your rhythm guitar sound a little more country and bluegrass.
So this is [Ab] going to be a great lesson series.
[Gb] I think I'm most excited about the walk-up chord transition fills in this lesson [Eb] because
this is such a common technique used in country and bluegrass [D] music.
So here's an example of a bassline [Gb] walk-up.
And this is stuff [E] that you just add in between your chord changes.
You know, so something [G] like this. _ _ _ _ _ _
Right here.
[C] There's a simple one.
_ [G] Here's one.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Here's another one. _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
So those are going to be pretty cool.
You can not only use those with this song that we're learning in this lesson today,
[Abm] but you can use them with a [C] ton of different other songs that you know or you're trying to learn.
So [Eb] real helpful stuff to know.
Anyways, let's get into the chord [C] progression of the song first and [Eb] then we'll learn all
those other [C] fun fills and all that stuff. _ _
_ _ _ Let's learn the A part chord progression of Foggy Mountain Rock and then we'll learn the B part.
[Db] We're using the boom chick strumming pattern like we've been covering in this lesson [G] series.
Boom chick, boom chick, boom chick, boom chick.
And just like the earlier lessons in the series, we're going [Fm] to count this boom chick [Eb] pattern
like [G] this.
One, two, three, four.
So right there, that's four quarter note counts.
[D] And four quarter notes will be one [Eb] measure's worth since we're in 4-4 [G] time.
One, two, three, four.
_ So let's start [Bb] going through this progression and I will quickly [Fm] give you all an overview
of the alternating [E] bass line notes that I'm doing [Abm] over each of these chords here in a minute.
But I'm going to play through the progression first.
So if you watched lesson one in the [E] series, you should recognize this chord progression.
[F] It's the exact same [Eb] chord progression that we used [D] in lesson one to practice this boom [Fm] chick pattern.
But we're [E] going to go over it one more time here.
Just get ready, up to speed.
So here we go.
So I'm going to count us in four counts and play through this A part.
_ _ [D] One, two, [G] three, four.
G, _ _ G, _ E, _ G, _ _
[C] Z, _ C, _ _ [G]
G, _ G, _ [D] D, _ _ D, _ [G] G. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That's the first line of the A part.
You play [D] that what I just played [Eb] two times and that'll be the whole A part.
_ _ [E] Now let me go through each of these chords and I'll tell you all the strings that I'm
using to play these [Eb] alternating bass line notes.
[G] You know, boom chick, boom chick.
So on the booms, that's [E] when I'm playing the bass [G] line notes.
Boom chick, [D] _
[G] boom chick, boom [D] chick, boom chick.
So those individual picks, that's when I'm going to [Eb] shout out.
And we're going to do it exactly like we've been doing in the previous lessons in this [Ab] series.
But just so we're all on the same page, [G] I'll shout out the string numbers.
Here's the G major chord.
[E] I pick [G] the sixth string, strum, [D] and then fourth [G] string, strum.
Sixth strum, fourth strum, sixth strum, fourth strum.
Every time you come up to a G major in this song, that's the pattern you're going to use. _ _
_ Now over the C [Fm] major chord, [C] I do fifth string, strum, fourth string, strum.
Five strum, four strum, five strum, four strum.
_ _ So up until this point in this series, we've been looking at the boom chick strumming pattern.
Let's make this strumming pattern a bit more [E] complex and add one more accent strum to it.
[G]
So we've been using this strumming pattern, [D] boom chick, boom [G] chick, boom chick, boom chick.
Or pick down, pick down, pick down, pick down.
_ Now let's turn it into pick down, pick down.
_ [Abm] Before the [Eb] lick, you're playing the D major [D] chord. _
_ _ The reason that's important is because _ [G] next you're about to play the lick, but how I play
that first note of this lick, I pick it up with my left middle finger.
_ [Em] _ _
_ [D] D chord, _ _ [G] left middle.
_ _ _ The reason I use my left middle [Em] finger on this lick in this [Ab] case is because we were
[Eb] playing that D major chord [D] right before it.
And _ I like to leave my left ring finger planted [G] as long as possible just [E] to let that note,
[D] _ that left ring finger note of the D major chord ring out [Ab] as long as you can because
it makes for a nice [Gb] smooth transition.
[G] Let that note ring and then there's a couple different types of walk-ups we're going to
cover in this lesson.
The first one is going to be pretty simple and then the second [E] kind is going to be [G] a
little bit more intermediate.
So let's take a look at the first one here.
This one's pretty simple.
[Ab] This is a very standard bassline walk used in [E] bluegrass and country music.
It's a [N] bassline walk between a G major chord and a C major chord.
So here's what it sounds like.
[G] G.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ Once again, G.
_ _ Walk [C] up. _ _
_ _ _ They're called walk-ups [G] because you're just walking note by note up the scale.
So in this case we were playing a G major chord.
We're starting with a G _ right _ there, that third fret down on the low E string.
That's a G.
And then the next note in the musical [A] alphabet is an A, [C] B, C.
We just walk straight up that major scale.
[G] G, _ _ A, B, C. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _