Bluegrass Rhythm Technique 2

HI this is Steve Gilbert for the Lick Library at Jamplay and we’re going to look at another C lick that the bluegrass style, we play the C chord, boom chuck or the C strum and now we’re going to move our—we’re still going to use our second finger for hammer on. We’re moving over to the G string though. Normal position is on the D string playing an E. [Demonstration] Now we’re moving over to the G string and hammering from G to A. [Demonstration] So I strum, I have everything else staying in the C position the entire time, C, strum, and I move my finger over, pluck the G string and hammer. And when I do that— [Demonstration] The one thing I want to be clear of doing is I'm plucking, hammering on the G string. I only want to strum the strings from that string on. I don’t want to come back here and— [Demonstration] Because I’d pick up a lot of notes I didn’t want. [Demonstration] So a piece of this one is getting your right hand pick accuracy to be where you want it to be. Let’s start out slow, C, strum, G, hammer, strum, C, strum, G, hammer, strum, C, strum, G, hammer, strum, C, strum, G, hammer, strum, C, strum, G, hammer, pick up the speed a little bit. [Demonstration] This might be kind of a one and a half kind of difficulty. You're keeping your left hand in position but you have to move your second finger out of its normal chord place. But the added difficulty comes from making sure your pick gets over to where it needs to be. Let’s do that one more time, C, strum, hammer, strum, C, strum, hammer, strum, C, strum, hammer, strum, and I'm getting over to the G string. [Demonstration] There you have it.