Chords for Kentucky Waltz Style Country & Bluegrass Strumming with Chord Fills - Easy Guitar Lesson

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_ _ _ _ In _ this guitar lesson, I'm going to show you all another [Bb] strumming pattern that is really
good for classic country and bluegrass music.
[G] So after we learn the strumming pattern, we're going to [Ab] practice it over a couple of chord
progressions that we'll borrow from the song Kentucky Waltz by Bill Monroe.
[Eb] And I'm also going to show you all a couple of [Bb] nice fills that you can add into these chord progressions.
And these fill riffs, they'll really make your rhythm guitar sound a little bit fancier.
_ So let's go ahead and zoom in here.
Let's work through the strumming pattern first, and then we'll just go from there.
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ Now here is the strumming pattern.
It goes pick, strum, strum, pick, strum, strum, pick, strum, strum, pick, strum, strum.
Just over and over. _
Do a D major chord.
Practice it.
[D] Pick, strum, strum, pick, strum, strum, pick, strum, strum, pick, strum, strum, pick,
strum, strum, pick, strum, strum. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] And like a lot of these other classic country style strumming patterns, we're [Gb] going to be
alternating the bass line.
[F] So every time we do those picks, the picks on the [D] bass notes, we're going to be alternating
[A] between two strings.
_ [A] And over the D major chord, I like to [D] start on the fourth string and then go to the fifth
string, which is back and forth.
Four, strum, strum, five, strum, strum, four, strum, strum, five, _ pick, strum, strum,
pick, strum, strum.
_ _ _ And this strumming pattern [A] here, it is in 3-4 time.
[Eb] You know, most songs are in 4-4 time, [E] but this one's got kind of an [N] odd time signature.
It's 3-4 time, which is also known as waltz time.
Sounds like a waltz, you know.
One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, [D] three. _
_ _ _ Waltz time. _ _ _
_ Really common for these old classic songs. _ _
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_ [A] So that's the strumming pattern.
Real simple, but you can get a long way with that [Eb] strumming pattern because you're using
a bunch of songs.
And when you start singing with it, it's actually pretty tricky to add some vocals to it.
[Gb] So pause the video if you want to work on that a little bit, but now let's work through
these Bill Monroe-style chord progressions here. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So here on the screen is the first chord progression we're going to be working on.
This is the B part chord progression.
And we've got another chord progression we're [Eb] going to learn here in a minute, and we'll
call [Ab] that one the A part.
But we're going to start with the B part.
It's my [C] favorite _ [Gm] progression right here.
So [Gb] take a listen.
We're going to be using this pick-strum-strum pattern over each of these chords.
[Em] I'll count us in a couple of [Gb] measures. _
One, two, [Bb] three, one, two, three.
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_ _ D7, [D] _ D7, _ [G] E, _ _ _ _ G, _ G7, _ D, [D] _
[B] B7, _ _ [E] E, [A] A7, _ [D] D. _ _ _ _ _ _
Let's repeat that one [Ab] more time.
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_ _ _ [A] So that's the B part chord progression.
_ _ [E] And depending on what skill level you are on the guitar, and we've got a lot of different
levels here on the site [Ab] here at Country Guitar Online, a lot of those chord changes, there
may be some tricky little changes for you in there.
But real [F] cool chord progression.
[E] I think it sounds really nice.
[Ebm] It kind of resolves itself very nicely [Bb] with the melody line there.
_ _ So relax that grip on the right [G] hand.
Really focus on [D] getting nice, soft, _ and clean _ picks and strums.
Pick-strum-strum, pick-strum-strum. _ _
_ _ _ _ It's a real simple strumming pattern, but it can be kind of deceiving [B] because it's a
little trickier than you would think to get it nice and clean and make it sound [Ab] right.
So work on that right there.
_ _ But let's go ahead and check out the A part chord progression next.
And after we go through these chord progressions, we're going to have a jam track here at Country Guitar [Bbm] Online.
You can, right above the video, there's a tab [Gb] that says jam track.
You can click that and you can practice along with the jam track.
But let's go ahead and zoom in here and let's go, [D] let's check out this A part chord progression.
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