  Union Station on bluegrass soloing  Check out this video
lesson with free tab  According to Dan Tyminski , Union
Station's front man, this example of bluegrass picking is "as
basic as you can get". However, check out the video and you'll
see that what Tyminski plays does sound like a simple melody,
embellished with a few drones, but when you look at our free tab
you'll find there's quite a lot of subtle techniques used to
achieve the sound he creates.  Most of the bars contain at least
seven of the possible eight quavers (8th notes), which
immediately gives the solo momentum. The picking uses strictly
alternating strokes, so during the slides, pull-offs and hammer-
ons, the picking hand needs to continue moving as if both
quavers were played.  In bar 1 (after the pick up bar) you
should play beat one with a downstroke and 'mime' the following
upstroke; ALL the beats start with a downstroke. This gets
trickier later when chord fragments are used as you need to skip
between non-adjacent strings without messing