Chords for Tony Trischka Banjo Lessons: Sixths, First and Third Strings
Tempo:
117.15 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
D
A
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Em] [G]
[D#] [C]
[G] [D]
[C]
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.
[D]
[D] [G] [G]
[A] [D] [G]
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.
[G]
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.
[D]
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.
[A] [C] [A]
[D] [Em] You can also go up on that interval [F#m] and down on that interval.
[A] [E]
[A]
[A] [Em]
Get [G] some really pretty sounds just by manipulating the music.
[Em]
Then we can do a little bit of an Osborne roll, [G]
integrate these sixths.
[Em]
[G]
[C] [D] [A]
[G#] [G]
[C#] [C]
[G] [D] [G]
Alright, now let's play a little bit of Goodnight Ladies, just to integrate the sixths into a tune.
[D]
[G] [C]
[G]
[Am]
[D] [G] [C]
[G]
[C]
[G]
[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.
[A] [G] [C] [G]
[D#m]
[F#m] [C]
[F] [C] [F]
[G] [C]
[C] [G] [F]
[C] [A#]
[C] [Am] [D] [Dm]
[C]
[G] [C] [G] [C]
[D#] [C]
[G] [D]
[C]
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.
[D]
[D] [G] [G]
[A] [D] [G]
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.
[G]
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.
[D]
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.
[A] [C] [A]
[D] [Em] You can also go up on that interval [F#m] and down on that interval.
[A] [E]
[A]
[A] [Em]
Get [G] some really pretty sounds just by manipulating the music.
[Em]
Then we can do a little bit of an Osborne roll, [G]
integrate these sixths.
[Em]
[G]
[C] [D] [A]
[G#] [G]
[C#] [C]
[G] [D] [G]
Alright, now let's play a little bit of Goodnight Ladies, just to integrate the sixths into a tune.
[D]
[G] [C]
[G]
[Am]
[D] [G] [C]
[G]
[C]
[G]
[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.
[A] [G] [C] [G]
[D#m]
[F#m] [C]
[F] [C] [F]
[G] [C]
[C] [G] [F]
[C] [A#]
[C] [Am] [D] [Dm]
[C]
[G] [C] [G] [C]
Key:
G
C
D
A
Em
G
C
D
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [D#] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ 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.
_ _ [G] _
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.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [A] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ You can also _ go up on that interval [F#m] and down on that interval.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
Get [G] some really pretty sounds just by manipulating the music.
[Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Then we can do a little bit of an Osborne roll, _ [G] _
_ integrate these sixths.
_ [Em] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ Alright, now let's play a little bit of Goodnight Ladies, _ just to integrate the sixths into a tune. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[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.
_ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [A#] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _
_ [D#] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ 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.
_ _ [G] _
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.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [A] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ You can also _ go up on that interval [F#m] and down on that interval.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
Get [G] some really pretty sounds just by manipulating the music.
[Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Then we can do a little bit of an Osborne roll, _ [G] _
_ integrate these sixths.
_ [Em] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ Alright, now let's play a little bit of Goodnight Ladies, _ just to integrate the sixths into a tune. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[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.
_ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [A#] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _