Learning how to play bluegrass guitar songs is a fun experience because many of these tunes are variations of old country songs or gospel numbers.
I say that meaning if you can play a country song as far as rhythm goes, a transition over to a bluegrass song is quite easy as far as rhythm is concerned.
Learning how to play flat-picking, well that's another story. But you always start with solid rhythm first.
The best way to learn in my opinion, is to jump right in and learn a bluegrass song. The picking stuff comes later. My lessons here cover many of the basic bluegrass runs you'll hear in many songs. In other words, the basic runs keep showing up in multiple songs. But learn rhythm first, then go back and review any picking found in these songs listed below
AJ Lee
Three Men On A Mountain Cadillac Sky Born Lonesome Del McCoury Vincent Black Lightning 1952 Emmylou Harris Beneath Still Waters Blue Kentucky Girl I Still Miss Someone The Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia Wayfaring Stranger Gillian Welch Wichita Hylo Brown I've Waited As Long As I Can Jim & Jesse Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me Kathy Mattea Lonesome Standard Time Mac Wiseman Jimmy Brown The Newsboy Munford & Sons I Will Wait For You New Riders Of The Purple Sage The Glendale Train Old Crow Medicine Show Wagon Wheel Praire Oyster Did You Fall In Love With Me Ricky Skaggs Bury Me Beneath the Willow Little Mountain Church House She's More To Be Pitied Than Scolded When The Roses Bloom Again Soggy Bottom Boys Man Of Constant Sorrow The Chapmans Don't Let Me Cross Over The Grascals Dooley Pretty Melody The Osbourne Brothers Rocky Top Zac Brown Fox On The Run |
Avett Brothers
Laundry Room Charlie Siezmore I Don't Remember Lovin You Doc Watson Big Spike Hammer The Tennessee Stud Fastlane Tina At The Teardrop Inn Girly Man Kittery Tide Jerry Reed East Bound And Down John Fogerty Blue Moon Nights Keith Whitley Tennessee Blues Will You Miss Me Marty Stuart High On A Mountain Top Newgrass Revival Ain't That Peculiar How About You Love Someone Like Me Revival Norman Blake Church Street Blues Peter Rowan Meadow Green Thirsty In The Rain Pure Prairie League Amie Sam Bush Howlin At The Moon Last Letter Home Sturgill Simpson Poor Rambler The Dillards There Is A Time The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band I Find Jesus Will The Circle Be Unbroken The Seldom Scene Baby Blue |
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