“Will the Circle Be Unbroken” comes from the Carter Family and is one of the most well-known bluegrass and old-time country songs. As with the last couple of lessons, you’ll learn to create a melody-based solo to “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” in the key of D using the L shapes, arpeggios, and double stops. Sharon shows you how to harmonize the melody with double stops in this video.
| “John Henry” in Open Position |
| “John Henry” in Open Position, Part 2 |
In this video, Sharon shows you how to bridge the lower-octave version you just learned with the closed-position setting you learned in a previous lesson using a scale-based riff to create a two-octave solo.