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In the previous lessons of this course, I showed you several techniques that will make your rhythm guitar sound more country and bluegrass. You learned how to play the most important strumming pattern in country and bluegrass music, and we practiced our strumming over some nice country bluegrass chord progressions and songs.
In this lesson, we’re going to make our strumming a bit more complex by adding country sounding accent picks and strums. I’ll break down the entire strumming pattern and show you how to play it over a few common open chords. Then we’ll apply the strumming pattern to a country bluegrass chord progression and practice strumming with a modern bluegrass song.
| Video Start Time | Lesson Topic |
|---|---|
| 00:00 min | Strumming Overview |
| 01:01 min | Strumming Pattern with Accent Picks and Strums |
| 02:35 min | Down Beats and Up Beats – Pick and Strum Direction |
| 03:34 min | G Chord – Bass Line Picks |
| 05:26 min | The Best Way to Play an F Chord |
| 07:24 min | F Chord – Bass Line Picks |
| 09:46 min | C Chord – Bass Line Picks |
| Video Start Time | Lesson Topic |
|---|---|
| 00:00 min | Progression Overview |
| 00:56 min | Strumming Dynamics |
| 01:41 min | Strumming over a Two Measure Chord Group |
| 03:29 min | Bass Line Picks over a Two Measure Chord Group |
| 05:02 min | Listen to the Entire Progression |
| 05:40 min | G Chord Bass Line Hammer-on |
| Video Start Time | Lesson Topic |
|---|---|
| 00:00 min | Listen to the Chord Embellishment |
| 00:52 min | Chord Embellishment Breakdown with Tablature |
| 03:02 min | Pick Direction |
| 04:44 min | Play the Chord Embellishment with the Progression |
| 05:46 min | Practice Tips |
| Video Start Time | Lesson Topic |
|---|---|
| 00:00 min | A Good Song to Use for Practice |
| 02:00 min | Lesson Recap |
Practice playing the strumming pattern and chord progression we learned in this guitar lesson over the song “Thorn Tree Shade” by Volume Five. Although the strumming pattern we learned in this guitar lesson isn’t the same exact strumming pattern you hear in “Thorn Tree Shade”, it blends very nicely with this song and I think it will be a fun way to practice this style of strumming over an actual piece of music.
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