Chords for How to play Black Mountain Rag - Guitar Lesson - Doc Watson Style

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_ _ _ Hey [A] everyone, welcome back to Music with [Em] Ryan.
Thanks for joining me.
This [G#m] week's featured lesson is Black Mountain [G] Rag in the key of D, the fiddle tune.
And I kind of took Doc Watson's style or his approach to this tune, is how I arranged it.
Now I know there's a few different ways to play Black Mountain Rag out there.
Some people do it in the key of A or out of G position.
But I chose to do it out of C position because I really like working out of that and I like
the way Doc does it.
But Doc also has a fourth part.
[N] This song has three parts and he has this little fourth part that's not so common for
people at the jam maybe to do it.
So I omitted that for this lesson and it's just the three parts playing out of C position.
I just want to make sure you know what the lesson is all about because again, there's
a couple different ways to play the Black Mountain Rag.
So [C] yeah, key of D, a capo on the [G] second fret, working out of C position.
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So for now, I'm going to give you a little preview of how it's going to go.
I'm going to bring the camera on in.
Close ups of the left and right hand here and start walking through Black Mountain Rag
in the key of D.
Thanks for watching.
Alright, so let's go ahead and start breaking down here the Black Mountain Rag in the key
of D.
I've got my capo on the second [D] fret.
I'm playing out of C position, thus sounding the key of D.
[F] Any markets on the bottom staff
are pick directions and any markets above the staff are left hand fingerings.
Also quick note that this lesson has three parts and the first two parts are rather short
and they just repeat.
They're actually just four bars long and they repeat.
_ So yeah, this _ _ little piece starts on beat, on the and of beat four.
So that's what we have there in the first measure.
You might see there's a quarter note, three quarter note rest and then there's a different little marking.
That's an eighth note rest.
_ So on the fourth fret of the B string is where we start and that's on the and of beat four.
So here's just what the first two measures sound like.
[E] Two, [F] three, four.
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And I landed [G] on the first beat of measure four, which you can't see on the screen, but
on the fifth fret.
Those couple bars again.
Two, [D#] three, [F] four.
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_ _ [F] _ [B] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [F] _
[B] _ _ _ And as you notice, we're going to be going, [F] going to be sliding from four to five a lot
in this first few bars. _
And sometimes I have written to slide [F#] with the third [F] finger, [F#] _ four to five or hammer [F] it
on four to five.
[F#m] _ _ [G] Now they're both very close, very similar.
[F#] _ And I'm trying to, I'm going to do what's written here for the lesson of course, but
you can really do either one.
The pick direction doesn't change, nothing really changes except you're either sliding
the left hand or hammering on.
_ _ Just know you can do both.
The first, the very first one I chose to slide and then the rest I chose to hammer on.
_ _ _ _ So sometimes my fingers kind of just do it without me, my brain telling it, it'll just
do one or the other.
So I just, a little note about that.
So that first measure again, started on the and of beat four.
I'm going to slide, so I'm going to start with my third finger on the fourth fret of
the B and slide to the fifth fret.
_ [F#m] _ Then open E, [B] fifth fret E, open E, [F#m] three, [Bm] _ [F] five, three, four, and then it'll be [G#] hammered
on the five. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ And also, make sure you start on an upstroke.
As you see right there, there's an upstroke [Fm] on the first beat, or on the and of beat four.
And that is kind of where we always start this slide or hammer on, is on the and of
beat four, _ or on an upstroke.
That can be tricky a little bit if you're not used to it.
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[Dm] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [F#m] _ [F] _
_ [B] _ _ _ Those measures.
[F] So again, that first measure, I'm going to slide, so I'll use my third finger if you're
going to slide here.
You want to slide up with your third finger. _
[F#] _ Then high [Bm] E, fifth, [B] open, three, [F#m] five, three, [E] and then here, four to five, I'm going to
[G] hammer, so second finger to third finger, hammer on, on an [F] upstroke.
_ [F#] _ _ And then going on, open E, [Bm] fifth fret E, open E, and then here's a quarter note on [F#m] the third
fret of the E, kind of snuck in there.
And then I pick it again, and then four, five, hammer [F] on the beat. _
_ [Bm] _ _ So we're kind of bouncing on this high E string a little bit.
[F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [F] _ [Bm] And sometimes it's open, [F#m] _
_ _ [F] _ [Bm] kind of going back and forth, just those two [F#] strings really.
_ So let's put those two measures in context a couple times.
[B] It'll sound like this, [F] two, three, four.
_ [F#m] _ [Bm] _ _ [B] _ _ [F] _
[Bm] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [F] _ [Bm] _
Again, I'm landing on beat one of measure four, that hammer on.
Two, [F] three, four.
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[Bm] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [F] _ [B] _ One, [F#] _ _ [Bm] _ [F] _ _ [B] _ [F] _ _
[Bm] _ _ so that and of beat four, when you get up to [D] speed, it might be a little tricky,
but one, [F#] two, [F] three, four, [B] and. _ _ _ _ _
Alright, [F#m] _ _ [F] _ [B] _ _ so then the next few measures.
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