Chords for Ron Block: From Bluegrass To AKUS Guitar

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[G] _ _ _ Hi, I'm John Wallace with [Em] Accutad and today we're very [C] fortunate to have Ron [G] Block with us here.
_ And we had Ron last year to do a [Dm] banjo DVD and now we're going to talk about your guitar playing.
Great.
[Bb] I think [G] you can't let yourself get discouraged because of all you don't know.
You just have to go on learning what you can every day.
So that's the first thing that I would say is make sure that you don't look at all the
stuff there is to learn and go, _ I'm just going to play what I know.
And that causes a problem I know for a lot of bluegrass players who _ may learn a song
and be comfortable with it in one key and then find themselves having to put the capo somewhere else.
_ And then once they're out of first position everything looks really bizarre.
_ Well that's one of the benefits of learning this.
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[G] _ _ You know the one string up and down is just like learning anything. _ _
_ _ It teaches [Ab] you not only do you get the sound in your head you also get your finger memory. _ _
So you know I can play an A flat if I don't [Eb] look.
[F] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Db] [Ab] If I don't look at the dots I'm okay.
Some of these other keys if I don't look.
Because _ _ _ my finger memory and my ear they know where the notes are.
But that's a lot of drill work to get there.
It is.
And that's what I'm talking about.
This is all work.
You can learn [Eb] chords in several different fingerings.
So it's [Bb] important in some of these [Eb] tunes that have a lot of ringing notes _ you _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
[Cm] want to keep
that finger down [Eb] because it's going to ring.
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[Abm] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
So sometimes not always but sometimes I play this chord like this.
_ _ _ Because then this note can stay there the whole time through the whole thing.
Watch.
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Fourth finger stays there.
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_ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ So those are [Bbm] the basic chords on the verse.
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[Ab] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
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[Cm] _ [Gb] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Fm] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
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I think one of the main things to not _ let yourself _ feel too much is feel overwhelmed
by the amount of information.
Because I'm overwhelmed sometimes by how much there is still to learn.
But it isn't about how much there is left.
It's about how much [Bbm] you are learning today.
_ [Eb] And so [Bb] eat the elephant one bite at a time and don't get _ _ _ [Ebm] completely [Cm] _
_ frustrated [Eb] or feel
like _ you're [Bb] not _ [Eb] _ progressing.
[Bb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _
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