Scott shows you a few different ways to play triplets and demonstrates them on a solo to Bill Monroe’s “True Life Blues.” Playing triplets is always an issue for a picking style based on two notes, and the question is how to pick three notes when you usually pick two. The most common way is to slur one of the notes, so you can maintain a strict alternating picking pattern, but Scott shows you some other methods, including using “sweep picking” and down-down-up picking. He walks you through the first half of his “True Life Blues” solo in this video.
