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Crosspicking

How to Mix Country Crosspicking with Your Strumming

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country and bluegrass crosspicking patterns guitar lesson
Lesson ID: A0098

In this guitar lesson, we’ll show you some country and bluegrass crosspicking patterns that’ll help you improve your pick control. After we learn the patterns and discuss proper technique, we’ll go over how you can mix these patterns with your country strumming to spice up your rhythm guitar playing.

Video Start Time Lesson Topic
00:00 min Crosspicking Overview
01:25 min Crosspicking Pattern 1
03:31 min Pick Direction
04:21 min Crosspicking Pattern 2
05:17 min Proper Technique
06:47 min Changing Chords
08:07 min How to Mix Crosspicking with Country Strumming
15:38 min Shifting to Different Strings
16:48 min Intermediate Crosspicking/Strumming Rhythm

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Wildwood Flower

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wildwood flower guitar lesson with tablature
Lesson ID: A0073

“Wildwood Flower” was first published in 1860 and was later recorded by the Carter Family in 1928 on the Victor label. Maybelle Carter leads a rendition of the song on the 1972 album Will the Circle be Unbroken, and frequently performed the song in concert with Johnny Cash. In this guitar lesson, I’ll teach you a traditional version of Wildwood Flower and then an intermediate version with a ton of crosspicking.

Overview

Traditional Version

Intermediate Version

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