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Your Ol’ buddy David Grier Plays Soldier’s Joy Part Three

March 18, 2017 By charles In backward-roll, Basic Melody, cross-picking, David Grier, forward-roll, hammer-on, pull-off, slides No Comments

This is the third part of a series of posts that are 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. This solo starts at about the 2:07 mark in...

Rolling Forward with the Wildwood Flower

October 19, 2016 By charles In Basic Melody, Carter Style, cross-picking, forward-roll No Comments

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 arran...

One More Time with a Song – Wildwood Flower

October 18, 2016 By charles In Basic Melody, Carter Style, cross-picking No Comments

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 ofte...

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Profuse Picking Possibilities

``Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.``

Yo-Yo Ma

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