For banjo, mandolin,
fiddle, and guitar. Taught by Murphy Henry with Red Henry.
For many people, learning to hear chord changes is one of the
hardest parts of learning to play bluegrass, no matter what
instrument you are trying to play. And even if you hear
when a chord changes, what chord does it change to? And
how do you know?
This DVD will help you learn to hear those chord changes!
Even if you’ve never
heard a chord change before in your life!
Murphy begins with
simple, well-known, two-chord songs (like Skip to My Lou) and
walks you through the process step-by-step.
First she sings each song while playing the guitar.
Then, going through the
song slowly, she demonstrates what the song would sound like if
you didn’t change the chord.
So you can hear that it
sounds “wrong.”
When she moves to the
“right” chord (not a hard choice when you’ve only got two
chords!), you immediately hear that the song sounds “right.”
And that, she says, is
the process: “If it sounds wrong, it is wrong.”
She then demonstrates each song with banjo, mandolin, and
fiddle.
She does simple strums
on banjo and mandolin, and “chop” chords on the fiddle. (Which
she shows you.) Red Henry, Murphy’s husband, helps out on guitar
and mandolin.
Eventually she moves to three-chord songs, using the C chord.
And later, she
introduces the A chord and the F chord. She points out that each
of these chords has a distinctive sound, and she tries to help
you hear that.
Songs:
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Go Tell Aunt Rhody |
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Jingle Bells |
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Litttle Maggie |
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Lonesome Road Blues |
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My Gal's a Corker |
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Old Slewfoot |
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Polly Wolly Doodle |
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Skip to My Lou |
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This Land is Your Land |
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken |
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Worried Man |
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You Are My Sunshine |
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