Foggy Mountain Special, Part 1: Melody

from: Intermediate Flatpicking Guitar with Scott Nygaard

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Learn to play fiddle tunes and other bluegrass and roots melodies, with an emphasis on alternate picking, simple scales, and developing good picking- and fretting-hand technique. Designed for guitarists just starting to play melodies as well as intermediate players who want to work on their flatpicking technique.

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Sally Gooden

The B part of “Sally Gooden” starts with a simple scale fragment, starting on the open G, that may be familiar from the Alternating Picking video. Scott walks you through the melody of the B part phrase by phrase, and gives you advice on keeping your fretting-hand fingers in position above the notes, as well as “planting” them: keeping them down on the fret until after you play the next note in the phrase.These are very important things to work on, as they give your playing a lot of fluidity and make your fingering more efficient.

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Foggy Mountain Special

Foggy Mountain Special, Part 1: Melody

Foggy Mountain Special, Part 2: Lester Flatt’s Guitar Solo

Foggy Mountain Special, Part 3: Melody Play-Along Track

Foggy Mountain Special, Part 4: Rhythm Play-Along Track

Foggy Mountain Special, Part 1: Melody

Earl Scruggs’ boogie-woogie banjo tune “Foggy Mountain Special” is popular at jam sessions and is fun to play, whether you’re playing the banjo melody, Lester Flatt’s G-run heavy guitar solo, or improvising on the tune’s blues form. You’ll learn the banjo melody and Lester’s solo in this lesson, starting with the banjo melody, which consists of a bunch of useful bluegrass licks. Scott walks you through it phrase by phrase, giving you advice on fingering and pick direction on some of the syncopated phrases.

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