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This lesson is part of the course 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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New River Train  
 
New River Train  
 
New River Train, Part 1
New River Train, Part 1
 
“New River Train” is a bluegrass classic, and is often played at a fast tempo. In this lesson, you’ll learn not only a couple of solos to “New River Train” but how to play interesting melody-based solos when the tempo heats up. Scott starts by showing you the basic melody and then a solo that elaborates on the melody somewhat, with a couple of fills and an eighth-note ending lick. Throughout the lesson, he talks about ways to stay in time at a fast tempo and find licks that you can play quickly.


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