Originally Posted by
bigskygirl
It may have been mentioned but Sharon Gilchrist has a lesson at Peghead on DS, she calls them “neighborhoods”, also while practicing scales and such is never bad, I’d just pick the keys you play in for right now and practice finding the 1 4 5 DS.
For instance if it’s bluegrass/OT/folk in G you could do:
G - 45xx
C - 52xx
D - 24xx or 74xx or x45x
Then find them somewhere else:
G - x52x
C - x23x
D - x45x
Finally
G - xx23
C - x53x or x23x
D - x45x or xx52
You’ll learn how to move around efficiently and how to mute strings/hit only the ones you want. Go slow and just strum them to a chord progression at first and watch your fingers, you’ll see the patterns develop, then try out on tune. As to your question about when to play them, just put them in a tune be it bluegrass to classical and see if you like it, if you don’t move on and try something else. It really only matters what you think sounds good, some people may frown and like I said in another thread of yours...politely ignore them and have fun.
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