From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 1 Picking, Fretting, & Chords
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Changing chords in rhythm: Exercise 1
From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 1 Picking, Fretting, & Chords
Changing chords in rhythm: Exercise 1
- It's been said a lot that country music is three chords and the truth. And there's a lot of truth to that, so. In bluegrass, similar thing. A lot of songs just have three chords. And so in our studies of learning these chord shapes and learning how to strum, the strum of these chords, we're gonna start sort of isolating how these songs, how these bluegrass songs are built from a rhythm guitar standpoint. It's very important that as bluegrass players we build a sense of where these chords, how they fall, what they look like, what they feel like, how they sound. As bluegrass rhythm guitar players, you want to support a band essentially. The bluegrass guitar in a rhythm aspect, rhythmically speaking is is one of the key elements. It's at least important as any, you know the banjo role or the melody or the lead singer. Rhythm guitar is you know, you can't stress its importance too much, so. What I've got here as far as learning about this stuff and beginning with these sort of ideas or…
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