| Building Solos: “Long Journey Home,” Part 1 |
Building Solos: “Long Journey Home,” Part 1
In this lesson, you’ll learn to build a Scruggs-style solo on any song, using the bluegrass classic “Long Journey Home.” You’ll learn three different solos, starting with one that just adds roll patterns to the melody. Bill gets started by showing you the chords to “Long Journey Home,” the first step in building a solo. Then he shows you how to start finding roll patterns that fit the melody of the song. The first solo to “Long Journey Home” uses the forward-reverse roll. Bill plays it through slowly, showing you how the melody fits with the chords and roll patterns. The second solo adds some classic Scruggs-style licks that stand in for parts of the melody. Bill shows you the individual licks and how they correspond to bits of the melody of “Long Journey Home” and finishes by playing the whole solo at a slow tempo.
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"Long Journey Home" (Available to subscribers)
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