Bluegrass Guitar Secrets | Guitar Control https://guitarcontrol.com Tue, 21 Sep 2021 02:29:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://guitarcontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GC_Image_rev-100x100.png Bluegrass Guitar Secrets | Guitar Control https://guitarcontrol.com 32 32 Bluegrass Guitar Secrets Available Now https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/bluegrass-guitar-secrets-available-now/ https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/bluegrass-guitar-secrets-available-now/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:28:10 +0000 http://www.bluegrassguitarsecrets.com/blog/?p=18 https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/bluegrass-guitar-secrets-available-now/feed/ 2 Bluegrass guitar Secrets – Available Wednesday! https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/bluegrass-guitar-secrets-available-wednesday/ https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/bluegrass-guitar-secrets-available-wednesday/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:32:54 +0000 http://www.bluegrassguitarsecrets.com/blog/?p=15 Just so no one is confused… stick around, refresh this page at Wednesday at 3 PM EST…
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Easy Bluegrass Guitar Lessons | Was a Time https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/was-a-time/ https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/was-a-time/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:05:42 +0000 http://www.bluegrassguitarsecrets.com/blog/?p=13 Here’s another sample from the DVDs where Miz is showing one of his songs called “Was a Time”.

In this lesson we’re going to first dissect one
of my more popular songs, called “Was a Time”.

People have been asking me for years, how do
you play it? Is there another guitar player
backing you on that track?

When I play it live other guitar players will
come up to me and just kind of like in this
baffled way look at me and ask me how I’m playing it.

What I really want to do in this lesson is kind of
break it down really slow for you guys and really
show you how. It’s not that hard, and how by using
the basic techniques that we used in the first two
discs, we could apply them and create a really fast,
peppy-sounding, fun-sounding bluegrass song.

Then we’re going to move on after “Was a Time” and
we’re going to look at taking things out a little bit.
We’re going to look at harmonic minor scales and we’re
going to get into some augmented runs and we’re going
to also look into some different picking techniques.

Now, to come out of that, this is going to go right
along with what we talked about before, the 6ths,
these 6th movements, which I really love. It’s going
to start on the A. So coming out, it’s going to go…
right up the 6th movement that we talked about in
the previous lesson.

You’re going to let that G string there open, let
it ring open and kind of let that whole thing have
that nice, jangle-y open sound.

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Bluegrass Riff https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/bluegrass-riff/ https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/bluegrass-riff/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:54:13 +0000 http://www.bluegrassguitarsecrets.com/blog/?p=10

Here’s another lesson from Mike Miz… Please stay tuned because next week I’ll announce the release date of the course.

Don’t forget , everything will be tabbed out for even easier learning, when you buy the DVD.

So it just goes — just trying to make an example of how many other things that you could kind of delve into that are a little bit outside the box that are really going to spice-up your soloing. So let’s take a look at that riff really slow.

What I like to do is kind of slide into it. You’ll see a lot of slides in bluegrass, a lot of slides, a lot of hammer-on and a lot of pull-offs. And I kind of want to play this really nice and slow so you guys can get a good grasp on what’s going on here.

I’m going to take my ring finger here and slide up to this E. That’s kind of the start of it. That’s going to be the beginning of the run. So slide up to the E note, there’s the dominant 7th, then we’re going to pull off and then we’re going to run chromatically.

Whenever you hear me use the word chromatic, I’m just going to mean in half steps. So we’re going to descend chromatically, which means we’re going to go down in half steps. So that’s the beginning of the riff.

Now, this, what I’m going to do next, is another really common bluegrass trick. Once you get a grasp on it, it’s a blast to do in all different settings, different keys, doesn’t matter.

It’s something I’ve actually just kind of individualized and practiced, what I’m doing is I have my ring finger on the C note there and my first finger on the D and I’m going to use this note, my middle finger, to pull off.

That’s all I’m doing. Just to take it real nice and slow, then you can kind of practice. It’s just kind of like a Tony Rice sort of thing. Starting again, from the beginning of the riff. That’s that little… So there we go. Let’s keep heading on here with this.

So we’ve got the slide into the E and then once we touch on that C note, I’m going to hit those two notes again. So not moving. You could say that’s the whole first half of the riff. Then, we have… That’s the second half of the riff, we could say is…

There are many different ways to play this. If you kind of take a note here and take a note there and expand on it or simplify it to whatever the case may be, it’s really good to get your own grasp on this stuff and to start developing your own sound.

We have our ring finger here and we’re going to pull from the C off to the A.
We’re going to C, pull off to A, touch on this G and then we’re going to let
that G ring out to an E. And then, to finish it off, here’s, like I said, the minor 3rd. What we’re going to do it pull off in that minor 3rd. So in the key of A, this minor 3rd is actually going to be a C note. The last time. I’ll play it real slow.

Once again, that’s just kind of an example riff to kind of play with, to kind of make your own, to change things. I encourage you just to try all kinds of different things and start finding your own sound.

Lastly, in this particular capo position, another thing that I like to talk about is using chromatic. This has kind of been a little trick of mine that a friend of mine actually showed me. That is, it’s funny sometimes how the simplest things will wow the crowd.

I play music for a living. I play out a lot. And sometimes I’ll be doing a really intense, technical thing and it won’t really get a response, but I’ll do something as easy as a chromatic run,\ right up the neck, and the whole place will cheer. It’s just funny how these things work. So I’ll kind of show you this little trick.

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Easy Guitar Lesson on Strumming Pattern for Bluegrass https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/bluegrass-strumming-pattern/ https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/bluegrass-strumming-pattern/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:11:11 +0000 http://www.bluegrassguitarsecrets.com/blog/?p=8

Hey, how’s it going this is Claude here with Guitar Control, today I’m going to show you a sample of Mike Miz teaching from the upcoming “Bluegrass Guitar Secrets” Course.

If you’re reading a chord chart of a Bluegrass Song or just reading along with the lyrics you’ll see a lot of those 7th chords in it. And a lot of times even if there’s not an actual 7th. If you’re in a jam session or something or at a gig, they’re just going to end on that 7th chord and it’s
going to be an unspoken thing.

Important thing to know about those dominant 7th and get into some soloing and stuff over them later on. Another thing I want to talk about, too is about this pick in the pen style Bluegrass Song, is the actual strumming pattern. But I know for a lot of beginning players you kind of have to get used to that exact type of strumming. I think it gives that Standard Classic Bluegrass Sound.

As you can see, the basis of this song and strumming pattern is the actual strumming, we could count it like this one, two, three and four and; one, two, three and four and; one, two, three and four and; one, two, three and four, and; one, two, three, and four, and one, two, three, and four, and;
one, two, three, and four.

That’s just a real standard, basic approach to the kind of strumming that you’re going to use over these songs. And a lot of times that’s going to be sped up, especially when you get into some faster tempos, which is
going to sound more like.

Once again; one, two, three, and four, and; one, two, three and four and; one, two, three, and four. If you get that in your head, that will help you to grasp more on the actual strumming pattern, which once again, just ingrained in me.

The nice thing about getting to know those things is after a while, is you won’t have to think about them or give them any thought; it will just come naturally to you. You’ll hear it in your head before the song starts
and you can pick right up on it.

Fingerpicking Minor Chord Guitar Lessons

Strumming Guitar Tips and Lessons

14 Bluegrass Guitar Lessons

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Know the Bluegrass Guitar Secrets! https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/hello-world-2/ https://guitarcontrol.com/bluegrass-guitar-secrets/hello-world-2/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:28:20 +0000 http://www.bluegrassguitarsecrets.com/blog/?p=1

Hi guitar friends… Glad to be announcing the newest guitar course: Bluegrass Guitar Secrets.

Meet your new teacher – Mike Miz. Here’s his rendition of “Pig in a Pen”, one
of the songs you’ll learn in the course. (Which comes with 3 DVDs and tabs).

Please post your comment! – Claude

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