I've notice that a lot of professional bluegrass players conclude songs with unique sounding rhythm chop patterns. Can anyone explain what exactly the pattern/rhythm is they are doing. I can't seem to find any examples on YouTube at the moment.
Final Chop Rhythm
I've notice that a lot of professional bluegrass players conclude songs with unique sounding rhythm chop patterns. Can anyone explain what exactly the pattern/rhythm is they are doing. I can't seem to find any examples on YouTube at the moment.
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Is this it?
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Thanks for taking the time to record this! I'll have to try it at my next jam.Originally Posted by Jim Broyles
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It's typically some variation of "shave-and-a-haircut...six-bits"
Mitch Russell
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I've always heard it as "shave and a haircut... two bits". It comes from Barbershop quartet music from around 1900, when two bits was quite a lot. Now days it would be "shave and a haircut... ten bucks".
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What I think happens is a player fingers the final chord of the song and then, one long strum and then, very quickly, strokes two strokes down , one stroke up and one final stroke down. Took forever to get this right but it will come; work on it.
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Bill Monroe frequently ended his songs in this way...maybe check out the Monroe Videos thread?
Mike
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The banjo will play a version of shave and a haircut, but the mandolin is usually what I demonstrated in my video. Listen to Ricky Skaggs' version of "Bluegrass special". It's what I did. Bill played the final phrase three times on that tune.
"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is."~John Mellencamp
"Theory only seems like rocket science when you don't know it. Once you understand it, it's more like plumbing!"~John McGann
"IT'S T-R-E-M-O-L-O, dangit!!"~Me
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Thank you for the input everyone - it's very much appreciated. I'm going to work on this!
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