Bluegrass Tunes with 6 2 5 1 progression

Hey everyone :)

So I'm looking around to find bluegrass standards or "new standards" that have a 6 2 5 1 change in them. I know Salty Dog Blues is basically a 1 6 2 5 1 song (G E A D G) and I know a bunch of tunes that use 2 5 1 (like the B part of Old Home Place) but I can't think of any others that use 6 2 5 1.

Note, I'm not looking for non-bluegrass songs that use 6 2 5 1 and would sound good as bluegrass (frankly I think you can play anything with a bluegrass feel and make it sound better haha) - I'm looking specifically for songs that you might hear in a jam (even if they aren't super common)

Any thoughts?

A lot of people in these parts play Sweet Georgia Brown at jams and pretend it is a bluegrass song.

Same with Lady Be Good and Limehouse Blues. I'll allow it :)

Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down…

https://youtu.be/vCfFNfcPckg

Alabama Jubilee?

I know what it means to be lonesome is one of my favorites for this progression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS2lFbBq1rc

Well, seeing as how all the ones that popped into my head right off have been mentioned already - "Salty Dog," "Deal" - plus a few others that incorporate the progression though feature other chord patterns - "Alabama Jubilee," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Limehouse Blues" (I don't think "Lady Be Good" does, though) - I'll just give my blessings to those and go off on a slight tangent.

Dan Scullin's avatar - I remember that, and have posted it once or twice but ages ago. The scale of this work of art is hard to appreciate in that small image. I thought I added it to the Mandolins in Visual Art thread - which was a fun one, and should be restored - though I can't find it except in someone else's reference. Here it is for better viewing, with a reference for scale. Thanks for settling on that for your avatar, Dan - a fine choice, indeed. :mandosmiley:

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Scruggs tune Dear Old Dixie incorporates it. The end of Kentucky Waltz and Beaumont Rag use it. So does Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia though that one is not exactly bluegrass.

Cincinnati Rag, with a variant on the B part.

Most of the tunes mentioned have not been "6-2-5-1"

Most have been V/V/V - V/V - V -I in terms of actual chord changes; D7 -G7 - C7 - F.

vi-ii-V-I would be Dm - Gm - C - F

Just a technical point.

Well, technically ... ;) But these tunes are not enharmonic, to be sure; they follow the VI7 - II7 - V7 - I pattern so common in swing music from the 1920s-1930s. I'm pretty sure that's what the OP meant. :cool:

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Originally Posted by DavidKOS

Most of the tunes mentioned have not been "6-2-5-1"

Most have been V/V/V - V/V - V -I in terms of actual chord changes; D7 -G7 - C7 - F.

vi-ii-V-I would be Dm - Gm - C - F

Just a technical point.

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Diatonically, sure but technically speaking, saying "5 of 5 of 5, to the 5 of 5, to the 5 to the 1" is just a complicated way of say "major 6 2 5 1".