Chords for Dark Hollow - Bluesy Guitar Solo

_ _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [N] Hey everyone, welcome back to Music with Ryan.
As you just saw and heard, I played through the tune Dark Hollow, a popular old-time traditional tune.
I've heard a lot of different bands do this and I've heard this song done a lot of different
ways, you know, from nice and slow and sad, kind of, to, you know, like, blazing hot,
bluegrass style.
So, this song can be, I kind of found somewhere in the middle to approach it.
I used to sing and play this song all the time and I kind of know it from hearing some
old Grateful Dead albums.
Anyway, as you saw the arrangement there, about a nice little intermediate _ arrangement,
sticking, you know, getting that melody stayed a little bit and then getting a little more
bluesy with some licks towards the end of the solo.
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All right, so here we are for the lesson for Dark Hollow in [G] the key of G.
And just a reminder that the markings on the bottom of the staff are the right-hand pick directions, okay?
And the H's are hammer-ons and the P's are pull-offs.
So watch your right hand closely.
There's a few little things in there going on you should be aware of.
So I'm going to play the first two and a half measures like I always do and we'll break
them down and, yeah, we'll go from there.
So it starts on beat three.
As you see those first two markings in the first measure, those are those little squiggly
lines are quarter note rests.
So there's a little pickup into the melody, okay?
The melody is the pickup.
Pickup is the melody?
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
One, [D] two.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ I actually went on to measure four.
I did the first beat of measure four.
[Ab] Again, two, three, four.
One, [G] two. _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _
All right, get [A] that triplet.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Gm] _ [A] _ _ I'll break that [G] all down.
So again, it starts on beat three there and open G string, _ [E]
hammer-on zero to two on the [G] D string.
Open D, hammer two, then open G again.
So remember, the hammer-on or the pull-off always creates the double up or double down stroke, okay?
If you've seen some of my videos, and I'm just repeating myself to you, but I didn't
know until I knew and it helped me out a lot.
Again, the hammer-ons and the pull-offs replace a pick direction, okay, thus creating a double
down or double up in the right hand, okay?
We could pick that note.
[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [G]
Okay, sorry.
_ But, I hammer it on, right?
I just want to be, I want it to sound cooler, more expressive.
_ Down, up. _
All right, _ _ _ _ [E] _ [G] really [Gm] slamming on that hammer-on.
[E] _ _ [G] _ Then, open D string, then I'm going to strum the G chord.
Then do a little G run.
One, two, slide.
[B] _ [D] Then zero-two hammer-on the D, [E] okay?
And that's both down, [D] [E] down.
[Bb] So that [B] slide is taking the place of the pick direction as well.
[D] _ [E] _ [D] And then we get to the D chord.
And I finger the D, play open D.
_ Then [Bb] one-two on the A [B] string.
And then I got to triple it here, and hammer-on pull-off.
So, [A] _ _ [A] _
_ triple it, hammer-pull.
Three notes, one pick.
_ _ _ Hard to get that pull-off.
Run slow.
_ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _
So it'll go by really quick in context.
Triple it, triple it, bicycle, [F] strawberry.
It's how I count the triple it feel.
So if you kind of forget how that feels, because it can be awkward at first.
Triple it, strawberry, bicycle.
Okay, I think they taught [G] that to me in high school.
So those three measures again.
One, two.
[D] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [D] _ [Gm] _ _ [G] _ I just kind of ended that little phrase.
Play that G note on the third fret there, on the E string.
[D]
So yeah, those are those first few measures.
_ _ [Bb] _ [D] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ So I'll play those two and a half one more time real slowly, and then we'll move on.
[G] One, two.
_ [Em] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [N] _