Popular bluegrass lyrics

Bluegrass doesn't have to be intimidating. When you listen to legends like Doc Watson and Tony Rice, it's easy to be intimidated by the lightening fast, single note lead lines or the intricate fingerpicking.

But much of the acoustic guitar's role in bluegrass is strumming accompaniment, and often in guitar-friendly keys. Here are ten easy bluegrass songs for beginners that will get a guitarist up and strumming quickly.

How To Learn

When you're learning these songs at first, just learn the basic chords and a simple strumming pattern.

Old bluegrass song lyrics

If you listen to recordings (suggestions are included below), you can usually hear the acoustic guitar player doing a simple strumming pattern in the background - that's what you want.

Disregard the melody line, the fiddle riffs, and the banjo arpeggiated rolls.

Those things are amazing, and make the song sound full and complex. But in order to get started, focus on learning the chords and basic rhythm