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from: Maybelle Carter–Style Guitar with Cathy Fink

This lesson is part of the course Maybelle Carter–Style Guitar with Cathy Fink.

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Learn to play guitar like the legendary Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family, whose recordings are one of the backbones of the old-time country music and bluegrass repertoire and helped create the country music genre. Includes transcriptions of Maybelle’s thumb-lead style on classic songs.

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The Carter Scratch

Cathy gets you started playing melodies in the bass in this video. She starts by showing you how to play a C major scale with your thumb while your left hand stays in a C chord shape as much as possible. Then she shows you how to alternate melody notes with the thumb and your index finger stirring the chords.

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The Maybelle Carter–Style Guitar Subscription Includes:

Detailed instruction on Maybelle Carter’s thumb-lead style of guitar playing
Transcriptions of Maybelle's leads on classic songs like “Keep on the Sunny Side,” “The Worried Man Blues,” “Wildwood Flower,” “My Dixie Darling,” and more
Examples of Maybelle's fingerpicking style on "Victory Rag,'" "Cannonball Rag," and "Hello Stranger"
20 complete songs to play
High-quality video with multiple camera angles so you can see close-ups of both hands in action
Detailed notation and tablature for each lesson
Play-Along Track videos and audio downloads so you can play along with Cathy

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Welcome to Maybelle Carter–Style Guitar