Moving Up the Neck, Part 2: “Blackberry Blossom”

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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).

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Moving Up the Neck: Key of G

Moving Up the Neck, Part 1: Key of G Scale Exercises

Moving Up the Neck, Part 2: “Blackberry Blossom”

“Blackberry Blossom”Play-Along Track

Moving Up the Neck, Part 2: “Blackberry Blossom”

The fiddle tune “Blackberry Blossom” is a great tune for working on up-the-neck scale positions because of its regular stream of scalar lines. You can play most of it in the seventh-fret position but Scott shows you a version that moves between the seventh-fret and fifth-fret positions with a few different options for moving between positions, and also getting back down to open position.

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