From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs
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“Wildwood Flower” (basic)
From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs
“Wildwood Flower” (basic)
- I've got a Carter family classic here, a standard for guitar players all over the world, The Wildwood Flower, for the basic curriculum here. I'll play it at 70 beats a minute, and then we'll talk through a couple things to look for. One, two, three. (acoustic guitar music with metronome) Repeat. All right, great old number here. What I'm doing here in this basic version, to sort of bring it around to a lot of the things we've talked about in the basic curriculum, with the boom chuck rhythm, the picking pattern, some walking bass, hammer-ons and pull-offs. We're going to use a lot of that here. Even though this is a, you know, a fairly simple tune, we can sort of bring it back into this idea of good bluegrass technique, and think about how we're playing it, and what we're playing. So I'll just sort of talk through the tab here. Sort of got an alternating way of playing melody and strumming at the same time, sort of, so this is kind of a solo piece. So that's kind of your first…
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“Wildwood Flower” (basic)8m 6s
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Using a capo4m 15s
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“Big Sciota” (basic): Melody9m 43s
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“Big Sciota” (basic): Rhythm4m 29s
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“Daley's Reel” (basic): Part 15m 48s
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“Daley's Reel” (basic): Part 26m 46s
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“Blackberry Blossom” (basic): Melody10m 6s
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“Blackberry Blossom” (basic): Rhythm4m 35s
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“Blackberry Blossom” (basic): Performance 75 BPM58s
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“Blackberry Blossom” (basic): Performance 85 BPM51s
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