In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play the traditional bluegrass tune called “Cold Frosty Morning”. This song dates back to the 1700s and it has become a favorite tune played at bluegrass jams. It’s a great song to use for working on your bluegrass flatpicking — practice picking the melody at a slow pace in the beginning and increase your speed in increments. Also, don’t worry about volume at first. Try to pick each note with a nice, clean, and soft pick stroke. This will help you build the right technique and the speed and volume will develop over time. “Cold Frosty Morning” guitar tablature is available for download below the lesson video.
Video 1 – Playthrough with TAB – Low-Pitched Arrangement
Video 2 – Full Breakdown – Low-Pitched Arrangement
Video 1 – Playthrough with TAB – High-Pitched Arrangement
Video 2 – Full Breakdown – High-Pitched Arrangement
A Part:
| Am – – – | Am – – – | G – – – | G – – – | Am – – – | Am – – – | Am – G – | Am – – – | (X2)
B Part:
| A – – – | A – – – | G – – – | G – E7 – | Am – C – | D – E – | Am – G – | Am – – – | (X2)
Video 1 – Slower Backing Track 160BPM
Video 2 – Faster Backing Track 200BPM
New lesson! You’ll learn two arrangements for Cold Frosty Morning and I’ll be putting together another video next week talking about the rhythm guitar for this song and also some tips for soloing over this song using the Dorian and Mixolydian modes. There are some pretty interesting chords in this song. Hope y’all like the lesson!
This one is appropriate for the season. It looks like fun.
Loving this new tune. It’s like getting 2 songs in one! Also just started on Home Sweet Home too
A compliment to wheel hoss to practise the flat picking technique, thanks. It’s magical how speed comes almost imperceptibly
cheers Devin