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Hey welcome to guitar lesson dot com. In this lesson we’re going to be learning the basic bluegrass strumming pattern that you're going to need to get started playing bluegrass music. Now when I learn this pattern was my dad taught it to be after he had gone to a bluegrass jam session. And it’s really cool, if you could find a bluegrass jam session around your neck of the woods, because you don’t have really have to know a lot, if you know this strumming pattern and have a capo, you can just show up, join a circle of friends and start playing.
So let me show it to you, then you can use it to learn some bluegrass songs and maybe even go jam with some friends.
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Ok it’s not too hard but it can be hard, depending on how the tempo of the song. So let’s take it really slow and I’ll show you what’s going on here.
First thing you’re going to do is make a G chord, hit your bottom note. [Demonstration]
In your 6th string and then you’ll going to take and grab the first top 4 strings. Strum down. [Demonstration] And then up, so hold that a little bit. [Demonstration] And then you're going to grab the A string, that B note right there with your middle finger. [Demonstration], just that note and then you're going to do those same strum pattern. [Demonstration] Then you go back to the G and just repeat the whole thing over again.
[Demonstration]
Move to the C Chord and it’s the same idea but instead of starting on the 6th string, you're going to start on the 5th string, so in the 5th string on the 3rd fret [Demonstration] and then same thing strum the top 3 strings down [Demonstration] up. [Demonstration] Then grab the next string over, the 2nd fret with your ring finger, D string, then the same little strum, back down to this C note, back up to E note. And to finish off this little lick you're going to play your D shape and you’re going to start on the D string open. [Demonstration] Then hit the top 3 strings move up down strum. [Demonstration] Then instead of this time going to the next string up and you go to the next string down which is your A string open. [Demonstration] Then do a strum [Demonstration], back to the D, [Demonstration] strum, [Demonstration] back to the A [Demonstration], and then start the whole thing over on your G.
[Demonstration]
So take it slow and make sure those bass notes are really pronounced [Demonstration] and make sure your strum is really playing [Demonstration] and before long you have this clean and fast enough to break and jam with just about anybody.
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