Key: G

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.

• Lesson Overview
• Strumming
• Progression
• Chord Embellishment
• Song Practice
• Listen

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This is the first lesson in a series of videos where I’ll be teaching y’all a ton of my favorite classic country and bluegrass strumming patterns. In this lesson, we’re going to start with the basics and learn one of the most important strumming patterns used in country and bluegrass music. We’ll break down the pattern in detail and then I’ll show you how to use it with several common open chords. After that, I’ll give you some info on the chord numbering system, and finally, we’ll practice the strumming pattern using a really common country and bluegrass chord progression in four different keys.

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Lesson Overview
01:19 min	The Basic Strumming Pattern
02:07 min	Alternating Bass Notes
04:29 min	Country and Bluegrass G Chord Hammer-On
06:42 min	Using the Pattern with Common Guitar Chords
09:32 min	How to Count the Strumming Pattern
11:48 min	Let’s Use the Pattern with a Country and Bluegrass Chord Progression
16:29 min	Practice Along with Me
17:51 min	Changing Keys Using the Chord Numbering System

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