Last 2 tips for playing Bluegrass: 1. Tune your guitar 2. Don't play a carbon fiber acoustic that sounds like a shoebox with rubber bands wrapped around it.
In Country and Bluegrass, use your 3rds to slide up but never back down. Solos are based more around chords than scales, but you can get buy using the blues scale but change up the position when the chords change. Last but not least, learn how to hybrid pick with your fingers on your right hand.
Growing up, I never wanted anything to do with “hillbilly music.” But a few years ago I stumbled into a Bluegrass festival in Kentucky and was absolutely blown away by what great musicians many of them are. I was complementing one of the guys and asked if he could read music. He laughed and said “Read music? Boy, I can barely read a newspaper!”
A lot of people pointed out the tuning, but a bigger mistake is thinking a beautiful woman would be line dancing. Two-step would be more likely. Second is the implied equating of country with bluegrass.
Thanks brother more of how these small movements occur help . I been playing 8 months . Haven't moved from the first 3 frets yet. Wanna learn those 3 frets first. Before I go getting into Barre and power chords.
I'm imagining the absolute disgust on the face of the old bluegrass player as Sean is playing his carbon fibre dreadnaught next to their vintage Martin D28s.
No. The first bluegrass jam he showed up to like that, everyone would either tell him to not play another note until he tunes, or politely remember that they have elsewhere to be until he’s there alone.
When you go hammering around on those G A B C low notes - you really should tune your.guitar first. I’m going to try everything you demonstrated the minute I get home in the morning. I was doing that chromatic G string thing capo way up on the five fret. I want to add a few if these licks and see what happens.
I remember you at our bluegrass jam, we asked you to stand with the banjo players for two reasons, they overpowered you, secondly, with them we never noticed you were out of Tune,...
Way to completely disrespect a rich tradition of musicianship. Not only the absurd misuse use of the word ‘master’, but also the implication that bluegrass isn’t worth tuning your guitar for.
Where did you get the idea of ‘everything is in key of G’? There are a lot of tunes in G, but also D, A, C, and songs are played in various keys depends on a range of the singer. Do you actually know Bluegrass?
Glad I'm not the only one who thought it sounded out of tune. Lol if I look at his videos and this is the one that has the most comments, I'll know exactly why.
