Big Mon - Bluegrass Fiddle Lesson by Megan Lynch Chowning

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Big Mon is a well known bluegrass standard composed by the father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. This tune moves between the one and flat seven chord repetitively, so get used to moving between the scales of A and G major. Also, keep an ear out for the lessor-known C part, so you can break it out when needed! Megan Lynch Chowning walks us through her version of the tune in this lesson.

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The way I've heard it told, Bobby Hicks and Gordon Terry (or was it Charlie Cline?) were the fiddlers in the Blue Grass Boys when Bill was playing at a square dance in South Dakota sometime in the late fifties. The pair of them essentially improvised the tune on stage and gradually the band worked it up into an instrumental which they recorded in around 1958/9 (with Bill playing an F4 mandolin). The title came from Bobby Hicks' nickname for Monroe at the time.

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Done started talking too much, like every "lesson."