From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs

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“Jimmy Brown” (basic)

“Jimmy Brown” (basic)

- One of the pioneers of a flatpicking guitar and the concept of lead acoustic guitar in country and bluegrass was Maybelle Carter. And she had a particular style of combining rhythm and lead lines, and a lot of it works great for what we're trying to build here as far as good flatpicking technique. We talk about smooth transitions and a rhythmic sort of right hand or right picking hand. And so a song I've chosen here is Jimmy Brown, Jimmy Brown the Newsboy, is sometimes the way you see it on Cds. Flatt and Scruggs had a real popular cut on this song and the melody, this sort of sets up as a good, it's a solo piece because you know, Maybelle Carter was able to employ a lot of rhythm and lead lines in her playing. You can, it's important to us these days because it sorta can give us solo pieces, a lot of these flatpicking fiddle tune type things, you know, really good with rhythm players, but this is some stuff that we can work on by ourself. And it's great for where we are right now…

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