Chords for I'll Fly Away Bluegrass Guitar Lesson

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hey [A#] everyone, _ welcome.
_ Today I'm going to play my version of I'll Fly Away for you,
_ _ and [F] afterwards I'm going to [A#] give a short lesson on how to play it.
_ _ [F#] Enjoy! _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _ _
_ _ Okay, _ well that was the _ quick version.
I played that at about 96 beats per minute, _ and _ _ it's
in the key of C.
It's capoed at the 2nd fret, so it's sounding like it's in the key of D. _ _ _
What I'm going to do first for the lesson portion is just play through the whole piece
at a much slower speed, and _ [E] hopefully it will enable you [A#] to get a better idea of what I'm
doing in this song.
And afterwards I'll try to break down _ chord changes _ _ _ _ and techniques
just a little bit more to help you out. _
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[F#] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ _
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_ _ [G#] Alright, so now for [A#] the up close here. _
Basically [G#] I'm starting the song out with a regular old
C chord.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ So I'm just _ picking the melody out of the C chord [F#] basically.
[D] _ _
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[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Then what I'm doing
right here is _ I'm [D] transitioning from a C partial [F#]
to an F [B] dominant 7, and I'm cross-picking
both of them, so _ [C] kind of like a [F] backwards banjo roll, if you [D] will.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ We've got a little
run down to _ [G#] an _ [B] F.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ You listen to Bluegrass enough and you [B] start to recognize _ _ some of
these stock [G] sounds, if you will.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ So we've got a bass run there.
_ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ [F#] C, E, F, F sharp, G,
and [C#m] so on and so [D] forth. _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ And from there on we [A#m] transition to the chorus. _
_ _ _ _ [A#] _ _ [E] So we move on
to the chorus, [D] _ [C#] and essentially we [G] start out with coming with a bass run, _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ ripping from
the F to the C. _
_ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ And then [Bm] basically what we're doing is we're [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ using substitutions [E] for the
one [B] dominant 7 here.
So _ [D] _
_ we've _ [A#] _ [F#] got _ an E dominant 7 partial, [C] _ _ _
_ B flat, [D] and back to C. _ _
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We carry
on, [E] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ and then we're essentially doing what we've done in the verse before. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And that's
pretty much the song. _
_ _ _ [A#] _ _ _ _
Alright, well, like I say, _ that's pretty much it for the song.
_ Hopefully I've been able to explain things clearly enough.
If _ _ anyone _ [G] _
_ out there who's
watching this has any questions, feel free to ask them in the comment section and [Em] I'll
certainly do my best [C#] to answer them in a timely and succinct fashion.
[B] _ _
_ _ _ Other than [A#] that, happy picking.
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