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Bluegrass Chord Progression
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.
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heh, its always gonna be either C, G, or D... its bluegrass, it can't be hard
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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 || |
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Thanks
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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 |
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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.
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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
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