Chords for Improve Your Rhythm Guitar for Bluegrass - Guitar Lesson

1, 2, 1, 2, 3, [D] 4.
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[G] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[G] _ Hey [N] everyone, you are at musicwithryan.com and as you just saw I did a little rhythm
lesson and I walked through a chord progression in the key of G.
And this is just a small portion of a larger package that I have about improving your rhythm playing.
And so what I want to do today is I want to go over just one of the progressions that
I have for one of the keys.
I actually have five different keys and six or seven progressions for each key.
So again, this is for the key of G and super common, it's what I call a 1-4, 1-5, _ really _
common chord progression.
You can use a lot of bluegrass tunes and country tunes and folk tunes.
I mean it runs all across the board to be honest.
Even pop tunes kind of will use some of this formula, perhaps not how I strum it.
So anyway, this is a free lesson or virtually free.
If you'd like to download the video in _ _ the tabs, click the link in the box.
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And again, I just walked through, it's like a 15 minute lesson.
I walked through my rhythm playing in the key of G and I go over some nuances about
how I'm strumming.
I go over, of course, as you've seen, lots of bass walks and trying to get creative with
our rhythm playing.
So many people tell me they want to spice up kind of what's going on when they sing
songs and they do a basic strumming pattern, but they want to do more.
And so that's kind of what this is all about.
So again, if you'd like this lesson for free, I'm going to kind of give you a little preview
here on the YouTube and then if you'd like to download _ the video in the tabs, head over
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this, check out the rest of the rhythm lessons I have.
You can buy each key or you can buy them all together.
And so check out more in detail at the site.
But again, _ key of G, 1-4-1-5, G-C, G-D, all over the place for this progression.
[G] And let's start walking through it here.
Thanks for watching. _ _ _
Alright, cool.
So let's talk about what's going on.
And again, there's a lot going on and I'll probably mention it's a lot, but I wouldn't
do all of this all the time.
If this was a song and three, four verses and solos, I wouldn't do all those walks in
every single place.
I would [D] likely just do the strumming _ [C] and [G] do a couple little bass walks here and there.
So just a reminder about that.
Also, this is using strumming pattern number one, but more of, again, the alternate bass strumming style.
It's kind of the country bluegrass thing here. _ _ _
_ _ _ Bouncing off the _ [D] low E and the D string for the [G] G chord.
[E] _ [C] For the C chord, bouncing off [G] the A string and the E string.
_ _ [D] And for the D chord, bouncing off the D and the A string. _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Alright, so just to give you an idea [A] of, [G] I mean, that totally works _ _ when you're playing
along, singing or whatever.
So we're going to give you ideas, get creative and so forth.
So let's talk about now, let's kind of just break down the first four measures here.
_ _ And I'll play it slow and then talk about it, some of those walks, how they fit in.
Sounds like this. _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ Alright, so a lot of the basic strumming, you know, strum pattern number one with the
alternate bass is the first measure. _ _ _
_ _ First measure and a half.
And also, you know, I'll note that you paid particular attention to the, you know, the
strums, the down-ups, the eighth notes in there that are connected.
You know, I have it just tabbed out as _ high three strings.
The [C] G, the B and the E.
And [G] yeah, I mean, I can go _ across _ _ all my strings when I strum, but I don't, I like it more
when I focus the strum on the bottom three or four strings.
Kind of just defines the chord a little better, cleans it up, so it's not so muddy. _
So I would pay particular attention to that too when you're just learning how to do the
basic strum for it. _ _
_ _ _ _ So, _ _ _ _ _ [A]
three, [B] four, and that's [A] just zero, two on the A string.
[B] Three, four, _ then we [C] kind of, again, walks into the C.
So then my C is ready.
_ _ [G] My third finger moves.
[C] _
_ _ _ _ Zero, two, hammer on the D.
[Em] _ _ _ _
_ [E] And [G] open G.
And I want that open G to ring when I get back to the G chord. _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ Just measure number four [C] there.
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[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _
And then when I hit the low G, the high G, this is a G note, I fret it.
It's still ringing, and it sounds really connected.
Again, we're searching for a connected plane, smooth rhythm plane.
_ _ Again, so those four measures.
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_ _ [F#] Make sure you use your second finger there because we're going to walk into the C. _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ See how the G note was still ringing when I got down to the low one. _ _
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