Chords for How to play Foggy Mountain Top - Guitar Lesson

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_ _ _ _ [N] welcome back to Music with Ryan.
Thanks for joining me.
As you just saw and heard, I played the traditional bluegrass tune, Foggy Mountaintop in the key of G.
Alright, and this is a fun tune to sing and play in a standard amongst anywhere you jam
or bands you see or festivals you go to.
I kind of know it best from listening to Doc Watson sing this tune a lot.
And I created a nice little intermediate to advanced arrangement, playing the melody with
a lot of double stops but then also kind of incorporating a little bit of a hot bluegrass
picking, some Tony Rice-ish licks, so to speak.
So yeah, I got that for you.
This lesson is about 30 minutes of video.
It also comes with a rhythm lesson, so I go through my rhythm.
You know, obviously it's just a common bluegrass chord progression, like a 1-4-1-5 thing, but
I talk about some bass walks that I would do and yeah, just some more interesting and
creative ways to play the rhythm part.
So you got the 30 minute video, the rhythm lesson is about 8-10 minutes, and PDF tabs,
and then I got 5 backing tracks.
You can really work your speed up as well.
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For now, we're going to go ahead and start walking through this lesson.
A few measures at a time.
We'll bring the camera on in.
And thanks for watching.
I hope you enjoy.
Alright, so let's go ahead and break down Foggy Mountaintop and the key of G.
And I'm going to play the first few measures for you, slowly, and then we'll break them
down one at a time here.
And any markings on the bottom staff, pick [G] directions.
Make sure you follow those closely.
And any markings above the staff are left-hand fingering.
There's a few places you need to watch out for left-hand stuff.
[F] But yeah, so let's go ahead.
Starts on beat two.
And one, two, [C] three, four, one.
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Two, three, four, one.
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_ _ [F] Two, three, [E] four, one.
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[D] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ _ Alright.
So, [D] we've got kind of a nice little run up to our D note here on the third fret of the
B.
That's where the melody is.
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And it's pretty common to do this type of eighth note run up into this kind of melody.
So anytime you have a melody, again, starting on the D, or the five of the key here, then
you can do this.
So, _ zero two on the [E] D, [G] zero two on the G, [A] _ and [Bm] zero one on the B.
[C] _ And those are all eighth [Bm] notes, they're all [Dm] consecutive.
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[D] _ _ [Em] _ Three and [C] four. _
As you see, they're all [D] down, up, down, up, [F#] down, up, [C] down, up.
_ _ And then we're going to do a one three hammer on the B.
So we're going to pluck that B string
again right where you're at, _
[D] _ hammer one to three.
_ _ And then, I'm going to keep that finger there and add my pinky on the third fret of the
E, and then I'm going to strum.
_ _ _ [G] Kind of play those double stops.
If you hit the open G, that's alright too, that's part of the chord.
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ One and two and.
And then this, I'm going to play those two double stops again, but they're quarter notes.
Three, four, _ _ _ [C] _
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[D] down, down, up, down, down.
And [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] slowly go.
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_ _ [G] And then we're going to get into some other double stops.
[D] And we're going to go to the third fret B with my first finger, [Bm] fourth fret G with my second finger.
And it's a really common move here. _
So the timing, one, two, and [Am] three. _
And I just slid those down to one and two.
One on the B, two on the G.
_ [Bm] So that was a quarter note, then two eighth notes, then another [A] quarter, and another quarter
down here on [Am] one and two. _
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_ _ [Bm] Here we go, one, two, and three, [Am] four.
_ [A] So if I put all three of those measures together [Dm] now in context a little bit.
Ready, go.
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ And as you heard and saw there, I kind of slid [Bm] into the three, four double stop, right?
[D] I was here, _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] and I slid all the way down from one and two, I slid up to three and four.
So that might, if you're kind of new to sliding and stuff like that, this might throw you
off a little bit. _
_ [Bm] _ So if it does, you can [G] just try to go right to it.
_ _ _ _ My fingers are kind of sitting right above frets one and two here, my first and second
finger, so it's kind of like ready to go there for you, but you can [D] take it out.
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ But yeah, I do slide up into there where I'm comfortable with [Em] it.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ Again, [F] one, two, three, four, one.
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_ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [E] One, two, three, four, one.
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Okay, so there's the first little phrase.
[G] And then let's move on.
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