A bluegrass guitarist shows how to shift position mid-lick by swapping your middle finger for your index finger on the second fret, then using your middle finger for the third and fourth frets. This one finger move sets up your hand for the rest of the run.
Alright, here's a quick bluegrass position shifting run that I wanted to show you, and it goes like this. Alright, let's slow it down here and we'll do— okay. So the key to getting this position shift is— so at the beginning we'll play a real familiar sounding bluegrass lick, but when we come back up to that second fret right there, switch to your pointer finger instead of your middle, and then on that third and fourth fret, use your middle finger on both of those, and then that puts your left hand into position to play the rest of that lick. So again, the whole thing Ah, there you go.
