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Originally Posted by BFD
Actually in a bluegrass setting voice leading generally is "not preferred" and the 'Tony Rice' G (most often w/no 3rd) is by far the standard voicing, for several reasons:
- In blue-er bluegrass, the rhythm 'canvas' is more open for vocals & soloists to use major, minor or in-between 3rds and various other blue scale degrees
- It has a harder edge, which particularly suits harder driving tunes & songs of which the genre has many
- It easily accommodates the kinds of G ornaments which are common in bluegrass
- I'm pretty sure the voicing most commonly used by almost every accomplished guitarist in the genre is the default definition of 'preferred'
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Great information,very good to know. And it's always a good question to ask about cord voicings, where is the third, and do you need to hear it? As a professor of mine used to say, thirds are overrated...