Since repetition is the mother of mastery let’s go over the ideas I use for working up a cross-picking arrangement of a song, or tune. Learn the chords and the melody (for extra credit, learn the melody in more than one octave). Work out a Carter style arrangement. From the Carter style arrangement, work out […]
This next song is one that everyone seems to learn at some point when they are working on Carter style or Cross-Picking. I figured I would run through all the steps on this beautifully simple and very popular tune. The song itself is rarely sung, but more often played as an instrumental. So, what’s the […]
We’re continuing the cycle, by taking the Not So Carter, Carter Style arrangement and converting it to a cross-picking arrangement. The melody of this version is in the higher register, so we’ll be using the backward roll to cross-pick it. Let’s first look at the first four measures of the Carter style version: Now we’re going to apply the backward roll. […]
In the last post I showed how to arrange a tune in Carter Style, and now we’re going to extend that into a slight variation using the same concept. Octave displacement is when you take a note, chord, or melody, and play it an octave higher, or an octave lower. In the last post we played the […]
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