June 2016 – Cross-Picking.com

Pizzazz My Sunshine Part 3

June 17, 2016 By charles In cross-picking, forward-roll, slides No Comments

This is the last part of the series on slurs. So far we’ve talked about hammer-ons, and pull-offs, and now we’ll be exploring slides. One of the things that I haven’t mentioned about the slurs is their lyrical quality. The voice has a very smooth transition from note to note, unless the vocalist chooses otherwise, but plucked […]

Pizzazz My Sunshine Part 2

June 12, 2016 By charles In cross-picking, forward-roll, pull-off No Comments

Next up are pull-offs. Pull-offs are the opposite of hammer-ons, and another great way to create variations for our arrangements. If you've never done a pull-off here's how: when performing a pull-off you're going from a high note to a low note. You have to have both of the notes fretted at the same time, because [...]

Pizzazz My Sunshine

June 12, 2016 By charles In cross-picking, forward-roll, hammer-on No Comments

Now that we have some ways to arrange a tune, the next step is one that can help you get into a more improvisational style. It’s a way to start adding small variations to what we’ve already worked on, and with this we’ll be able to add a little pizzazz to our arrangements. One of […]

My, Sunshine, You Are Cross

June 10, 2016 By charles In backward-roll, Basic Melody, Carter Style, cross-picking, forward-roll No Comments

"You Are My Sunshine" is a song that is near and dear to my heart. My wife and I sang this to our middle daughter when she was born; she is our sunshine. This song was also popularized in the film O' Brother, Where Art Thou? , which is one of my all time favorites, and put [...]