“Worried Man Blues” Key of D, Part 3: Pickups

from: Folk and Bluegrass Songs for Fiddle with Lauren Rioux

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“Worried Man Blues” Key of D

“Worried Man Blues,” Key of D, Part 1: Welcome and D Major Scale

“Worried Man Blues” Key of D, Part 2: Melody

“Worried Man Blues” Key of D, Part 3: Pickups

“Worried Man Blues” Key of D, Part 4: Endings, Fills, and Blues Notes

“Worried Man Blues” Key of D, Part 5: Chords

“Worried Man Blues” Key of D, Part 6: Adding Double Stops

“Worried Man Blues” Key of D, Part 7: Lower Octave

“Worried Man Blues” Key of D, Part 8: Run Through

“Worried Man Blues” Key of D, Part 9: Play-Along Track

“Worried Man Blues” Key of D, Part 3: Pickups

One of the ways you can start embellishing melodies is by varying the pickups to lines of the melody. In “Worried Man Blues” the vocal pickup is just one word/note: “it.” In this video, Lauren shows you how you can start varying the pickup rhythmically and melodically.

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