Bluegrass Chord Progression

[Florida_eb]

I am thinking of playing around with some bluegrass songs. Does anyone know the chord progression for most of the bluegrass songs. Ex: 1-4-1-5-4-1 (that's a lot of blues songs).

Thanks for the help.

[mikeo2]

heh, its always gonna be either C, G, or D... its bluegrass, it can't be hard

[815C]

Although a lot of bluegrass tunes are 3 chord songs, there are a lot of them that aren't. There's not really a standard chord change like you have with blues. Pick up a bluegrass song book and learn a few tunes.

Here are some examples of some bluegrass chord changes:

SALT CREEK:


||G C |F |G C |F D G ||
||G |F |G |F D ||

BLACKBERRY BLOSSOM:

||G D C G |C G A D |G D C G |C G D G||
||Em |Em B7 |Em |C G D G ||

[Florida_eb]

Thanks

[Doc]

Like the vast majority of american pop music, bluegrass is mostly 1 - 4 - 5, and 1 - 2 - 4 - 5. The chord changes don't take much in the way of gray matter. It's all in how it's played.

Peace.

Doc

[Jim Burns]

I love playing bluegrass songs and what songs I couldnt sound right playing or singing, I just transposed to the basic chords so I could both play and sing em. I have a great transposing program that has added 50 songs to my list of fun.
http://hem.passagen.se/caroladavid/cst/index.html
Its freeware and ez to use. I type out all my songs in word with the chrods and whatever and save em to a folder in My Docs and if there is a song thats not in the right key, I just transpose it using that program until I find the right key. It has actually helped with writing songs too.

[Jim Burns]

Also- if you want- I can send you over 50 fun songs to play and sing with the chords in the songs by email or on a cd if you want.
They are all in word .doc format. Just save them to a folder or create a folder for them, then you click on the song and then print it out. I have done it for many people who wanted fun easy bluegrass song to have fun with. Jim