Chords for Dixie Hoedown Guitar Lesson

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_ [G] _ [F#] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F#] _ _
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_ [A#] _ [G] _ _ [A#] _ _ [D] _ _
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_ [G] _ [A#] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ [N] What's up everyone?
Thanks for coming back for another lesson with me, Fiddle and Mike.
This week we're going to do a tune for the guitar called Dixie Hodown.
I learned this tune from this album, if you can see it.
Mark O'Connor's Picking in the Wind album.
This was one of my favorite albums when I was a kid.
Mark O'Connor, everyone knows Mark O'Connor as the greatest fiddle player of all time.
He's been into every style, played every style, won zillions of contests.
He was a major session player in Nashville for a few years.
Got bored with that, then started doing classical music and writing concertos.
The man has just done everything.
Many people don't know that he was also a phenomenal guitar player and mandolin player.
He was the Country Music Association's Instrumentalist of the Year.
I know at least one time, probably many times.
He's just a beast on every instrument.
He won the fiddle championships at a really young age.
But he also won the National Guitar Championship in 1974, I think.
When he was 12 or 13.
And I think again when he was 15.
There's a recording of his competition piece, Dixie Breakdown, on this same album,
the Picking in the Wind album.
It's just unbelievable what he does. _
I'll probably teach some other tunes off this album,
but this one, Dixie Hoedown, is a really standard tune in the key of G.
Not only am I going to teach you this tune and some of the licks that Mark O'Connor does,
but I'm also going to use this opportunity to talk to you about cross-picking.
Cross-picking is a great technique.
When you actually hit_
Basically the idea is you hit as many open strings as possible.
If you can hit an open string _ without lifting up the finger of the note you just played,
then you do it.
Because you always at all times want two notes to ring.
And so it's a really, really cool effect.
And you'll see what it sounds like in a second here when I play Dixie Hoedown.
Then I'm going to get into it.
You're going to learn this tune, Dixie Hoedown, as well as how to do cross-picking.
A great, great technique to throw into your solos.
Very, very hard, but very, very awesome.
And it'll also, if you can get the hang of that, you'll become a much cleaner picker.
So here we [G] go.
Here's Dixie [F#] Hoedown.
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