10 Lester Flatt Style Rhythm Guitar Taught By Chris Sharp 3/4 Time G-Run and more

This lesson covers the 3/4 time G Run, a transition lick to the D chord and a common run used in the G chord position. Please feel free to email me at chrissharp80@hotmail.com if there are any questions about this. Thank you all for your support, it makes these videos a lot funner for me to make. By the way, comments are by all means welcome.

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[Studio607Productions]

Thanks everyone! It makes me happy that these videos are being helpful for you to learn from. I appreciate all the feedback and hope to get back to making some new videos soon.

[DickBowdenFromMaine]

Nice job Chris. You might show just a little bit more how to play simple rhtyhm pattern in 3/4 time and then put the 3/4 G run on the end of it.

The final G pattern run you showed is the one I always think of that Lester used to "vamp" during a pause in the action between two breaks, you hear it in the back of The Beverly Hillbillies theme a lot too. Used a lot on the Foggy Mt. Banjo album. I call that lick Lester's "timekeeper". Give us more!

[Studio607Productions]

Thanks for the compliment Dick. I considered going through the 3/4 pattern last night but it was 4am when I shot the video and I still haven't slept yet (dinner party). Lester's pattern is completely different than any others I've heard for 3/4 and he didn't always play the same pattern for 3/4 so I decided it would take 2 videos to cover those patterns alone.

Incidentally, Lester didn't play guitar on the Beverly Hillbillies' theme (TV version). That was Josh Graves playing guitar.

[martinavizcomm]

Are you using "pro-pick" finger picks?

[340duhcota]

in the last run..you can also "hammer it" back to the "e" string..a little different sound

[cyrus621]

Thanks for posting, very informative. That G lick you show at the end just gets me thinking "Bringing in the Georgia Mail" or some of the Monroe Brothers stuff. Nice to see how simple it is.

[coldfusion1111]

I like your videos Chris. Posting this one on the Music Lesson's channel.. :-)

[flatpikinguitar]

David Grier is the only person i know that dosent anchor when hes playing lead. he actualy anchors more when hes playing rythm. also, what year Martin is that, is the soundhole larger and why, and why are there only 15 frets

[lafreeway]

I like your thumb picking style. Is that a D-18 you are playing?

[bigcheeseOK]

Flatt style picking is the best

[jzatkin]

As a fingerstyle picker who also loves bluegrass I've been trying for years to figure out how the forefathers - Carter Stanley and Lester - played rhythm with a thumbpick - nobody on bgrass-l (where I've been for 14 years!) could tell me! So I REALLY appreciate these lessons: clear, perfectly paced and well-taught. Now I'd LOVE you to teach that definitive run from "Uncle Pen"!!

[ymsbphan420]

fantastic lesson.