Learn Rocky Top for Bluegrass guitar. This version is a "hammer-on" Étude. It's a great opportunity to practice your hammer-ons in the context of Rocky Top. You will mostly be using the G major Pentatonic scale on the bass strings. The hammer-ons are also based around key melody notes. Be sure to learn and ideally memorize the melody for this song or any song you learn.
Use the focus feature on key measures that repeat. Exercise your hands at slow manageable speeds.
There's one spot in the middle and end of the song that uses chromatic lead-in notes. These notes lead into the second half of the song, and back into the beginning. They create anticipation and lead listeners and other players ears to the next part in the melody.
If you start to get comfortable with the étude you can try out some of the licks to add in variations, and other types of slurs such as pull-offs or slides.
Explore more Rocky Top Guitar Tabs:
Slurs Étude, Arpeggio Étude: Bass Strings, Arpeggio Étude: Treble Strings, Arpeggio Étude: Rhythmic Phrasing, Arpeggio Étude: Rhythmic Phrasing #2
