Hey Dave . Bluegrass can be beastly. Those folks can play straight diatonic scales, but with the notes sequenced in such a way as to basically imply chord tone soloing feels like jazzers get with arpeggios.
I'm not a "real" bluegrass player, but I play AT it occasionally. An approach I like - to really get my ears tuned up for playing those diatonic runs over chords in a way which spells out the changes little more - is to kind of warm up my ears by playing pentatonic scales for the chord of the moment over the tune's changes. So, for three chords in G, it would be G pentatonic C pentatonic and D pentatonic over their corresponding chords.
If I do this for a few minutes, it really helps the ears/fingers get into a little more of that style of playing.
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