Rocky Road Blues, Part 3: Simple Swing-Style Solo

from: Advanced Flatpicking Guitar with Scott Nygaard

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Learn the essential techniques of bluegrass flatpicking guitar through classic and lesser-known songs and tunes, from bluegrass blues to old-time fiddle tunes to country swing sounds.

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In Part 2 of the lesson on crosspicking, you'll learn the first part of Scott's arrangement of "Home Sweet Home," which mostly uses the traditional 3-3-2 roll. Since crosspicking is usually used to play song melodies, it's a good idea to learn the melody of a song before tackling a crosspicking arrangement, so Scott starts by making sure you know the melody to "Home Sweet Home" and then takes the arrangement apart phrase by phrase (or roll by roll).

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Rocky Road Blues

Rocky Road Blues, Part 1: Bluegrass-Style Solo

Rocky Road Blues, Part 2: Bluegrass Blues Tonality

Rocky Road Blues, Part 3: Simple Swing-Style Solo

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Rocky Road Blues, Part 3: Simple Swing-Style Solo

The tonality you explored in Part 2 is also used in a lot of swing and jump blues. In this video, you’ll learn a 12-bar swing blues solo that incorporates that tonality in closed-positions around the third to seventh frets. Scott plays the solo and then takes it apart phrase by phrase. He also shows you how you can modify some of the phrases and positions in the solo to come up with some cool swingin’ lines of your own.

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