Learn the essential techniques of bluegrass flatpicking guitar through classic and lesser-known songs and tunes, from bluegrass blues to old-time fiddle tunes to country swing sounds.
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Home Sweet Home
In Part 2 of the lesson on crosspicking, you'll learn the first part of Scott's arrangement of "Home Sweet Home," which mostly uses the traditional 3-3-2 roll. Since crosspicking is usually used to play song melodies, it's a good idea to learn the melody of a song before tackling a crosspicking arrangement, so Scott starts by making sure you know the melody to "Home Sweet Home" and then takes the arrangement apart phrase by phrase (or roll by roll).
The third part of “Cazadero” includes some Irish-style picked triplets that can be difficult to pull off at the tempo “Cazadero” is usually played. Scott shows you the melody with the triplets, giving you advice on playing picked triplets, and also gives you some alternatives to these triplet phrases that are more guitar friendly.
