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The Clever Way to Learn & Practice Bluegrass Music
Playing out of the bluegrass chop shape is crucial to getting closer to the true bluegrass sound Bill Monroe created. It's a cornerstone of his mandolin style, and it is also super useful. The chop shape approach uses no open strings. This means it is a "closed" and movable shape. You could take everything you learn here, move up a fret, and then you'd have a solo in Bb. You could also move back two frets and be playing in G. If you move up 2 frets from the solo in the mandolin tablature here, you would have a lead break for the key of B. Matching scales, licks and melodies to chord shapes is powerful.
The mandolin tablature has pick direction markings and fret hand fingering suggestions. Closely follow these. There's a lot of nice licks to check out. The same lick can be used in many places if it matches with the chord. That doesn't mean you should play a lead break full of just licks. You still should try to retain some of the original melody so people still know what song you are playing. That's part of what makes "tasteful" playing.
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