In this guitar lesson, we’ll take a look at another strumming pattern used all the time in classic country and bluegrass music. This strumming pattern is in 3/4 time (waltz time) and we’ll count it out by saying “one-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three”. Beat one will be the down beat and that’s where we’ll pick the bass note string. Then, we’ll down strum on beats two and three. After you learn the strumming pattern, we’ll practice over a couple of chord progressions borrowed from the old classic “Kentucky Waltz” by Bill Monroe. I’ll also show you a few fills you can use to transition between chords.
Practice picking your country strumming over the song “Kentucky Waltz” by Bill Monroe. Play “Kentucky Waltz” below using the embedded player from Spotify. We’d highly recommend using Spotify for online radio. If you don’t have a Spotify account, click here to sign up free with your Facebook or e-mail.
New lesson! Picking back up with the country & bluegrass strumming course this week. Hope y’all enjoy this country waltz style progression. Also took a crack at playing the banjo in the sample track video…only been picking on the banjo for about five days now so don’t judge me too much on it but having a blast learning a new instrument. Have a great rest of your week! – Devin
Another nice progression. I like this a lot. Thanks Devin!
thanx Mr.Devin , its a nice lesson , i ve alwayz loved waltz rhythms , but i should memorize the progression i think 🙂 have a good weekend to yu
second measure tab should read open 5 ?
Just checked and the tablature looks correct…2nd measure is Open 5th String and two down strums over the D chord like you see there in the screenshot
Hi Devin! Do you have the tab sheet of the banjo line played in the jam track? Thanx!
Hey! I wish I had it tabbed out…listening to the jam track again, I like that banjo progression a lot. I kind of just came up with that on banjo as I was laying down the tracks in recording. It’s been a while but I can see if I remember what I played there and try to tab it out at some point. Might take a bit before I can get to it but I’ll let you know!
Thanx a lot! I’ll try to sort it out by myself, but I’m a lousy banjo player!
The backing track is awesome! Thanks Devin, have a nice weekend!