Chords for Tony Trischka Banjo Lessons: Sixths, First and Third Strings

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This lesson is [G] about sixths.
[A] Not the easiest word to say, sixths.
_ _ The sound of sixths is much different than Scrug style.
[G] It's a very pretty sound.
You've undoubtedly heard it for a million years, just listening to music in general,
classical music or almost any music uses sixths.
You hear this kind of a sound.
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_ What a sixth is, is an interval of two notes that are six notes apart from each other.
Let's say you're starting on G.
_ Do, re, mi, fa, so, la.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
[Em] Those two notes, the open third string and the second fret of the first string, are a
sixth apart from each other.
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Now, if you go to the next note of the G scale on each string, let's say you're going up
the G scale on the first string.
Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do.
_ _ Zero, two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven, twelve on the third string.
And you do the same on the first string.
Do, re, mi, fa, [E] so, la, ti, do, re, [G#] mi, fa, so.
_ _ _ So it's one, two, three, [E] four, five, six, [G] seven, eight, two, three, four, five.
_ _ [Em] _ What you're kind of doing is leapfrogging between the two strings.
So you'll have zero on the third string open, two on the first string, [D] _ and then the next
[C#] sixth using the notes of the G scale will be the second fret of the [A] third string, the
fourth fret of the first [D] string, _ [F#] and then jump to the fourth fret of the [G] third, fifth
fret of the first, [Am] five and seven, seven [G] and nine, _ [C] nine and ten, [C#] eleven and twelve, _
[D] _ _ twelve and fourteen.
_ [Em] _ _
[F#m] Now, [Em] you can do what you'd like, _ [F#m] but I use the index and pinky [F#] for all of [D] these.
So here it's comfortable when there's a two fret spread.
[B] When there's a [G] one fret spread, it's a little tight, but not too bad.
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And that way [A] you're not having to switch out fingers, otherwise you might want to go [D] index
and pinky, [G] and index and ring, index, pinky, index, [C] pinky.
_ I think for me anyway, it's easier [A] just _ [G] to use the same two fingers [C] throughout. _
[D] _ That's going up an [Em] octave from there to there.
You can also continue [F#m] on fourteen and [F#] sixteen, sixteen and seventeen, [A] seventeen and nineteen,
[G] _ nineteen and twenty-one.
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_ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ You can also _ go up on that interval [F#m] and down on that interval.
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Get [G] some really pretty sounds just by manipulating the music.
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Then we can do a little bit of an Osborne roll, _ [G] _
_ integrate these sixths.
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_ _ _ _ Alright, now let's play a little bit of Goodnight Ladies, _ just to integrate the sixths into a tune. _ _ _ _ _
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[Bm] So what I'm doing is just _ [D] extracting certain _ sixths _ [Bm] right there, because the melody note
is on the first string.
[G] Goodnight _ Ladies, _ [Bm] good, good.
So I take the [D] _ interval that [G] has that melody note on top.
Goodnight Ladies, nine five zero five. _
Here's the sixth position for that melody note, _ _ which is the third one that we've played so far. _ _
_ _ And then just go open on the first and third strings.
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [E] There's a melody note there.
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