Aaron Jaxon teaches a G run pattern for bluegrass flatpicking: start on the 5th string open, hit the 1st and 2nd frets, then pull off on the next string and end on the 3rd string open. He shows how to move the same shape to C and D chords.
If you are new to learning bluegrass flatpicking guitar, I've got something that I want to show you to get you started in this style, okay? So we're gonna start out of a G, and we're gonna play what's called a G run. This is very common in this style, and it's gonna go— we're gonna pick the 5th string open to the 1st fret, and then the 2nd fret, we'll pick all 3 of those. We'll do an open string and a pull-off on the next string, and then we'll play the 3rd open. So we've got— And then from there, we're gonna come over and kinda do the equivalent on C. We'll do— we'll end on the 1st fret of the 2nd string. And then we'll come over to D, and for D we'll do— okay, so that's the 6th string to the 5th to the 4th. So all of that together will do—
