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 B part of “Rebecca” basically repeats the last 5½ bars of the A part, playing that 5½ bars twice but ending on the V chord to transition back to a final A part. So you’ve already learned 90% or so of the B part. But Scott shows you a variation for the second half of the B part that Herschel Sizemore played and then shows you the ending and transition back to the A part. You’ll also learn a couple of variations on the first half of the A part in this video, and Scott finishes by giving you advice on improvising or creating your own solos to “Rebecca.”
The songwriter and roots music icon talks about buying the second guitar Preston Thompson built, and plays a few songs on that 000-42 style instrument.