“The High Road” comes from Tim O’Brien who recorded it on his 1983 solo album Hard Year Blues as a song with a fiddle tune as the instrumental. Bryan Sutton recorded it as an instrumental on his album Bluegrass Guitar and it’s usually played that way in jam sessions. Scott used to play “The High Road” with Tim when he was a member of Tim’s band, the O’Boys, in the 1990s and this version is a combination of how Scott used to play it with Tim and how Bryan recorded it. In addition to the main melody, which is in the key of E minor and features an unusual chord progression with an F# chord in the B part, you’ll learn a variation of each part. In this video, Scott shows you the chord progression and plays the whole tune at a medium tempo and then he walks you through the melody of the A part, phrase by phrase.
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"The High Road" (Available to subscribers)
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