Chords for easy bluegrass guitar licks

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Hello everybody, [Bm] hi I'm Dave C, novice with a capital N bluegrass picker.
I've been [N] playing
bluegrass guitar for less than a year, but I've been lucky enough to learn a few things
from some really good people that I've met along the way.
And I'm sure if you get out
there and play in jams and stuff around where you live, you'll be able to do the same thing
too.
One of [Ab] the coolest things I've learned sometime back was these one finger fill licks.
And you know, you hear these bluegrass guys playing along and they're cooking along and
they're doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
A lot of that stuff, you know, those little
fills like that are really not all that difficult.
And some of them, two of which I'm going to
show you today can be done with one finger.
There are a lot more that can be done with
just using one finger of your _ fretting hand, but I'll just show you two for sake of simplicity
and time.
So anyway, [G] they're both in the key [D] of G [Bm] and the first one goes like this.
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ Kind
of a cool lick, don't you think?
[A] And it's real simple.
_ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] And all I'm doing, I'm just doing
a series of slide ups, pull offs, and hammer ons to make that happen.
And it is not a hard
lick.
It sounds like it's hard.
You know, you're going, I can never do that.
But as
soon as you figure out what I'm doing, and [B] I'll show you what I'm doing, _ you know, any
intermediate to beginner guitar player can master this up without too much trouble.
And
it'll really make you feel like you get somewhere where you're playing in a jam and you can
throw a lick like that in and it's like, alright, that's cool man, I like that.
So
anyway, here's how I do it.
I'll break it down for you and try and do it as slow as
I can.
But I will tell you that a lot of these licks are easier to play with a little bit
of speed behind them because when you're doing hammer ons and pull offs and all those kind
of things, you need a little bit of momentum and inertia behind you to really play those
right.
So I will do my best to try and play these slow.
Here we go.
First one in the key
of G.
And you're on the second string, first [Bb] fret.
_ [G] _ _ [A] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ That's it.
That's all there [Bb] is to it.
Just slide up, [B] _ _ pick, [E]
hammer on, _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _
slide down, _ [B] hammer [E] on.
_ [D] _
[G] _ _ _ _ Nothing to it. _
_ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ And kind of learn
the structure of it if you want playing slow like that.
But I'll tell you, once you start
speeding it up a little bit, it will become easier to play.
It's weird, I know, it doesn't
sound [Bm] logical, but it's the truth.
_ [G] _ _ _ So that's it.
Practice up on that one.
[Bm] That's a good
one.
Here's another [Ab] one.
Both of these in the key of G and I'll show you how to work
them here in just a minute.
This one starts out on the third string, which is your G string,
on the third fret. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D]
Pull off, [Bm] slide, _ _ [D] _ [F] hammer on, [D] pull off, [G] _ _ downstroke. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] So just kind of
learn to do that hammer on and pull off [G] technique together. _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] And that's not hard.
I mean, you're
just using, like I say, it's [Gm] one finger.
_ [G] _ _ [B] _
_ [G] _ _ _ Now, here, I'll do that one slow for you.
_ Just
hit the G string open, [F]
hammer on the next string down below [D] it, pull off, slide up on
your G [Bm] string.
_ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] Nothing to it.
I mean, it's [A] really_
And here's how you use it.
I'll
just give you an [F] example of how you might use [G] that if you're playing.
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [B] And here's how
you can use the same other lick in the same place too.
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Kind of use it on the [Gb] downstroke
of a G series when you're playing [Em] in the key of G or in the position of G, whether you
capo it up to play it in A or whatever key you're in.
[D] Right as you come from the D back
to the G, _ [G] whenever you come back to that, _ [Bm] _ _
[A] _ _ _ you can [D] drop that lick in there and it really
does sound cool.
Now, there are a lot of great tutorials out there on the [Bm] internet,
YouTube in particular.
One fellow by the name of Banjo Ben, I can't recommend enough.
I
watch his_
Every time he comes out with a new video, I'm always all over that to watch
it.
He's a [Db] terrifically good player and a really good explainer of how all this stuff
works because it's difficult and can be daunting if you're not used to it.
So anyway, go check
out Banjo Ben.
He's a Texas boy just like me, a much better player, infinitely better
guitar player and good explainer.
So anyway, you guys [Em] go out there and have yourself some
fun and hope you get these down. _ _ _ _
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