“Wildwood Flower” (intermediate): Part 1

- Here's Wildwood Flower for the intermediate curriculum.…I'm going to add a little challenge…with some hammer-ons and pull-offs,…and a little deeper sense of how to use…some legato effects for a solo piece like this.…Here's Wildwood Flower at 75 beats a minute.…One, two, three.…(guitar music, "Wildwood Flower")…All right.…

If you haven't checked out the basic version…of this tune, you should.…And a lot of us know this song…from it's basic melody,…so it's a good vehicle for…utilizing some of the techniques…and embellishments that are unique to flatpicking,…with crosspicking and some hammer-ons…and pull-offs, and like we mentioned before,…some real legato type techniques…to make a tune like this real smooth…and rhythmic at the same time.…So, I'll talk though the tab.…It sort of jumps immediately into slight crosspicking…with some hammer-ons and things like that…that we've covered here in the intermediate section.…

(guitar music)…It's a way to use crosspicking, a lot of students here…have posed questions about how to use…