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In this FREE downloadable PDF, take three bluegrass lessons with the experts at Acoustic Guitar magazine. A Private Lesson with Chris Eldridge The young bluegrass prodigy discusses chord voicings and rhythm-guitar techniques. By Scott Nygaard A Private Lesson with Chris Sharp By Orville Johnson The bluegrass phenom explains his Lester Flatt-inspired rhythm style: Use a thumbpick to power bass runs and a fingerpick to add bounce. A Private Lesson with Jim Hurst By Craig Havighurst Learn the two-time International Bluegrass Music Association Guitarist of the Year’s hybrid fingerpicking approach to Bill Monroe’s fiddle tune “Wheel Hoss.” Claim your FREE copy of Bluegrass Guitar Lesson Guide. |
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In the first bluegrass guitar lesson in this FREE downloadable PDF, Chris Eldridge explains how to manipulate the Em chord to make it more colorful that it is when played alone. Eldrige finds that it’s good to find different chords by moving one note at a time, and that “it’s easier to discover things by doing that than by trying to conceive of six new things.” He recommends just changing one thing and seeing what happens. Eldridge also talks about how incorporating simple chords into his playing is a new, yet gratifying way for him to play bluegrass guitar.
Read the full bluegrass guitar lesson with Chris Eldridge when you download your free PDF today. Claim your FREE copy of Bluegrass Guitar Lesson Guide. |
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Chris Sharp, noted for his style that recalls the playing of Lester Flatt, from the seminal bluegrass supergroup Flatt & Scruggs, teaches bluegrass guitar in a private lesson. Sharp uses a thumbpick to power the bass runs and one fingerpick to add bounce and swing to the upstrokes.
Your lesson begins with a Merle Travis–inspired intro lick, in which Chris recommends using his thumb-index style to play some bluesy single notes. In bar 4 strum down with your thumb on the sliding chords and then back to the swinging thumb-index strum to establish the groove. Dive into this bluegrass guitar lesson right now, when you download your free PDF. Claim your FREE copy of Bluegrass Guitar Lesson Guide. |
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Jim Hurst explains how he plays the melody
using the thumbpick as if it was a flatpick. |
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