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 […]
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 […]
This is the second part of a series of posts that will be transcriptions of each of David Grier’s* solos from this video posted on Fretboard Journal. If you didn’t see the first one, you can find it here. In the video he starts with a moderate tempo, and continues to increase the tempo with each variation. There are a […]
So far we’ve covered the forward roll, and the backward roll. If you haven’t learned them yet you can see the forward roll here, and the backward roll here. The next step is to start putting these patterns to use creating cross-picked arrangements of any tune that suits your fancy. It’s best to start with something simple, and then […]
In case you missed it, recently Fretboard Journal posted a video of David Grier performing Soldier’s Joy, and you can check that out here. He has some very tasty bits of cross-picking throughout the performance. I transcribed the very first solo of the tune, and posted it for anyone wanting to try it out. You can […]
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