The "G Run" - 6 Examples | BLUEGRASS Guitar Lesson with TAB
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- The most famous lick in all of bluegrass - the 'G Run'. Maybe you know of it, maybe you use it all the time. In this lesson, we break down this famous guitar run from the beginning. We also look at different examples from great pickers over the years - Del Mccoury, Tony Rice, Doc Watson and Norman Blake.
A great way to 'Bluegrassify' your playing. It can be used in a rhythm and a lead context and can be played many different ways. I include the tab for each version and also dive into how to build solos out of these runs. Learn the different versions of this run and improve your soloing.
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I’m a metal head but I found Billy Strings and can’t stop listening to bluegrass now.
Try split lip rayfield... they're metal heads playing bluegrass
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Love Billy Strings ✌🏼
Back in like 05-06ish, my band played a few shows with this band To Once Darkened Skies. Their guitar player was this 13 year old kid, lil taller than his guitar, always had a pack of marboro reds rolled up in his short sleeve on his shirt and could fuckin shred! HE was always a pleasure to watch. Real hard core but super tight riffs. we called him Boomer.
Boomer is BIlly Strings.
Me too! Love the roots. Blues got me into punk as a kid, and I realized all American music came from blues< bluegrass,and then rock and roll. (Not in that order). All I know is that I love music and try to play it the best I can.
Your lessons are fabulous! I’m 73-year-old female and just learned to play the guitar about five years ago. I’ve mostly done classic country until last year when I really started getting into bluegrass and trying to learn to play and sing it.
These lessons are invaluable to me! I’ve looked at many many videos, and yours are the best and easiest to understand. Thanks!
A really well delivered lesson. Been mucking around with this for years but never came close to it feeling very useful- until today. You got me all over this.
Thank you! :)
Unfortunately, he is describibg one thing and doin another. Evertime he did the simple Lester Flatt G-run he ended it on the low G. So he said it wasn't advisable to do a descending run because it ended on D. No it wouldn't. Watch how he plays. He ends his runs on the low G. So he is calling out a 3-note ASCENDING D-A-G but he plays a 4-note run that ends on low G which makes ascending or descending work. Every other part of the lesson is awesome. Thank you so much for the bluegrass intro.
Man, this remains one of the best vids on RUclips. So awesome you showed it within strumming as that is what I'm struggling with. Sweet Yairi! Thing sounds incredible
I found this so great that I purchased the full lesson on your website without a second thought. Those 8 bucks will be a worthwhile investment to my playing. Thank you, Brandon!
Great teacher. Love your lessons. Thank you Brandon.
Love that you start the video with the G run examples. Great stuff, great playing.
Thanks, Nicholas!
yeah but then doesn't show how lol
I've been playing guitar for years and always wanted to learn these! Thank you!!👍🤠
Nice to see so many options! Thanks!
By far by far the best lesson I have seen on RUclips!
Very nice history of the g lick. Thanks so much!
This is a great lesson! As quite a few have said below, been playing for ages but this stuff is a real boost!
Subscribed.
Brandon, I've been playing guitar for a long time, but never tried to excel. I want to add more technnique to my playing and your videos are perfect for it!
You make good content love when someone actually gives some history behind the lesson and really dive in you are doing great bro
Thanks! :D
Why is it youtube seems to be able to tap into the endless questions within my mind. Scary. Loved this video, Thank you
You nailed this one, thanks.
great lesson!! cant wait to watch your other ones!
Thanks, Margaret... I hope you enjoy! :)
とても丁寧な説明でたすかります。
Such a great lesson. I really enjoyed it.
Just subscribed - love the detail in these tutorials. I come from a blues type of perspective and went through funk and metal on my way as a musician, but now I want to learn to understand some country and bluegrass. Your videos are incredibly helpful to switch from a typical bluesy feel to this. Thank you & ATB :-)
Ralf
Love the way u teach and the pauses. Thanks for your help. God bless.
Thanks Brandon another great tutorial, you make lessons fun and easy to learn.
Appreciate that Graeme!
Nice vid. Definitely going to add some flavour to my playing
Simply superb.
Liked and subbed. Immediately. Did not pass "Go" and did not wait to "Collect $200".
This is a really good historical review and lesson. Two comments: on the standard G run, if used as the ending of a section or a song, I prefer to finish with consecutive down-strokes...just more powerful. Of course if it’s the kickoff for a longer run or solo, the upstroke has you on your way... Also, a cool thing that Bryan Sutton suggests-not sure where from derived-the simple Flatt run can be made “bluesier” by changing the first note from E to F, one fret above. Surprisingly effective.
Thank you for this!
I recently found a vinyl of Flatt, Scruggs, and Watson. Its an instrumental. There's a song on it called "Nothing to it" its awesome. Listen to it if you haven't heard it!
Great lesson! I really appreciate the camera angles and inclusion of tabs! Thank you!!
Fantastic, thank you for the lesson. Trying to build my acoustic chops!
Great lesson , it really helped , watched it thru several times . Thanks
Brilliant. Very useful lesson. Your guitar sounds amazing too.
Yeah Brilliant
Thanks for making this. Finally made a bit of since to me about what the deal with these runs are.
Wow! Informative, helpful lesson! Well done sir!
Thanks! :)
Thanks Brandon, Another great lesson.
Thanks David!
I’m 5mins in and I’m getting excited ya wouldn’t believe man!!! I’m going back now, cheers man,
This tutorial is giving me hope!! Thank you for your time, wisdom and upload. Arranging the video screen with both what the right and left hand are doing and the tab is EXTREMELY useful - I go damn near cross-eyed watching some tutorials! (I am just around 5 months in learning and am gravitating towards a bluegrass/country playing style)
Thanks @cara9467!
Such a great tutorial starting from the beginning!
Great stuff!
That was fun. Appreciate the historical tidbits too.
Great lesson subscribed and notifications on. I like how you teach the guitar it’s a good idea to teach like this take a chord and put something with it. Easy
Thanks, Joseph!
Hey man I just wanted to take a second and say thank you your lessons are very helpful and making me take different chances on different styles of music keep on swinging dude sounds awesome
Thank you! I really appreciate the feedback. I started these lessons about a year ago as an experiment so it means a lot to me to hear that!
Slow, with lots of repetitions. Love your teaching style! Really helping me learn the guitar and being an old guys it isn’t easy for me! Thank you!
Thank you for real useful lesson
Супер!!!! Спасибо! Очень полезный урок!!!!
First time subscriber, great presentation of the G run licks
Hey Earl - I appreciate that and thanks for subscribing!
Great videos! 🙏🏼
That’s one powerful guitar!
#5 Norman Blake! That'ts the best one👍
Love this
Nice to see an Alvarez Yairi :) Not that common, and underrated imo.
Thanks. very clear tutorial.
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Just discovered your channel---great playing, great work!!
Hey thanks!
Thanks mate that was a big help..and subbed
Awesome thank you!
Very cool , gonna give it a try.. 🤟👍
Great. Thanks bro
good video, makes me wanna play again
Bueno ,buenisimo Brandon ... Genial.. gracias desde España my friend
Thanks Alejandro!
That’s a beautiful guitar
That a cool guitar you have there . I like the way the bridge is separated in two pieces, and each strings have his own saddle, like in an electric guitar. I've seen it's a Yairi. Pretty good guitar!
You noticed what I noticed. A Yairi guitar . I've actually been looking at these guitars and have done a lot of research these last few weeks .
I'm coming to this vid, but still very helpful, thx for posting it
most excellent
Thanks, Sir.
Thanks for that 👍
you had me at Del!!
You got me brother..I just subbed..good stuff u sharing with us...I am an old metal head...but just got a blueridge br-163 and love this stuff...👍
Awesome thank you! :D
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this video honestly whips ass I am trying to learn bluegrass as a lifelong folk and rock player and I enjoy this video a lot
Nice sounding Yieria
Worthy!
Awesome, I think Bob seger night moves got me involved in the g run ,well kinda sorta g run
I've been playing for about 10 years I've always played classic rock and stuff in that genre. Jimmy page had a huge influence in me and I would always love to hear him improvise In his solos especially during bring it on home. Your can hear alot of bluegrass in that and I've never realised that's what I'm in too. Now that's all I've been playing since ive discovered your videos
A well laid out video. Thanks for crediting the runs
thanks ..now i get it
I learned to play the g-chord using my 3rd finger (ring) on the E string. Hadn't played for 20 years but recently got back into it. I'm finding it hard to play the g-chord using my 2nd (middle) finger on the E string, 3rd finger (ring) on the B string, along with the 4th finger (pinky) on the high E string. I do like playing the g-chord this new way for I feel it gives it that "bluegrass" sound. I can do the runs quite well using my old g-chord fingering but doing the way you show is new for me and will take some practice. Old habits are hard to break. Thanks for the videos.
I use that fingering as well for most music i find it is best to switch between a C chord using that formation. Its great for fingerpicking but i think bluegrass guys do it this way because of the G run
Just found this loved the way the lesson was presented...But, could I get a break down for the strumming pattern? im hearing the bass note followed by D D U...
I’m so happy man,
This guitar sounds so gdamn nice
Clear sounding guitar
That box sounds amazing
Great video just found you... Hidden jem, Subscribed
Ohh my man Brandon, i call myself a semi advanced guitar player.
Been playing for 40 years.
The bit of fun is im always learning.
I love to listen to Bluegrass.
This lesson just jumpstarted me.
Thank you Brandon!
Immensely helpful. Thank you.
Sub’d well put together lesson. TY Sir.
ay thanks man..
Nice, thanks for the lesson! Which Alvarez guitar did you use in this video please?
Could you do some Ron Block Solos please
Hi is there a tab file available? thanks!
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By telling us the history of your lessons is so helpful I think? So we get to try and feel the blues by really tuning our ears to said style? Brilliant lesson, shady grove was first on my hit list, but this , ended up first,feel the blues readers we’ll get it a bit better with feeling,
Is something wrong with your web site. I couldn’t get around on it to sign up
I see you cover the first two but do you have a video on the other 3 you played in the beginning?
Full lesson is available on my website here: brandonjohnsonguitar.com/product/the-g-run-beginner-bluegrass-guitar-lesson/
Can you do a tutorial on the strumming before the run I’m having some trouble with that part? Btw love the vids
For me, strumming patterns are not very useful it over complicates things. The best way to get strumming patterns down is to really try to think of how it should sound. Try to recreate that sound, ingrain it in your head and really try to play it how it SOUNDS. That sounds kind of useless but if you think about it it will help. How does the song SOUND?
Its boom chick dude, basic bluegrass strumming
Alternate between strumming the lowest e string and then strum the whole chord
What Yairi model is that?
Either i missed something or I think you got the tab off a bit on the 3rd /modern version ….the tab shows down stroke on low E then up stroke on the A string ,but when I slowed video down to try and get it better it looks like you go down (low E ) then down again on open A instead of the upstroke that’s in tab ….I’m not nit picking or anything , I just struggle learning any and everything on guitar …I wonder if Im missing something , or if it doesn’t matter that much or whatever … I’m actually screen shotting every tab to use for practice .
that guitar, is that an Alvarez Yari? Never saw one with a cutaway. Sounds good. loads of volume. Great video/instruction. book marked for learning.
It is! Alvarez Yairi WY-1 Bob Weir model.
@@BrandonJohnsonGuitar that is cool. Are you a jerry garcia fan? Big fan of all his music, his bluegrass stuff is interesting
What guitar is that model?
If i could only get mine to sound as smooth as yours.
Awesome! I play for church and I'm gonna learn these for Hymns!
Edit: still watching the video, but can you play these runs on any chord (in the key of G)? For instance, if I'm playing a C chord can I play these licks?
Yes. There's a C run, D run, E run, same basic progression. Combining them in a 3 chord song makes for easy, adaptable improvising at a jam.
use a capo on C
This could also be explained as the Eminor run as well. Same notes because they are relative keys.
Reminds me of dukes of hazzard
Hmmm... I kind of feel like Del when I play that run 👍
Why is the grass blue? 🤔🤔