Practice sheets / Bluegrass

Bluegrass Training Sheets

Bluegrass solos follow the chord shapes. Each sheet shows multiple voicings of every chord in one card, the right-hand picking pattern with an animated playhead, and the melody trace overlaid on the chord shape so you can see how the licks live inside the chord.

Tony Rice

Nine Pound Hammer

Key of G · Cut-time bluegrass (felt in 2). Strict down-up eighth notes, ~110-120 BPM. Two 16-bar passes — head + restatement.

Tony Rice "Nine Pound Hammer" as written in the Tony Rice Guitar Method (Homespun, pages 9-12). Key of G, cut time. 32-bar form — two 16-bar breaks back-to-back. Break 1 (page 9, bars 1-16) is the hea…