Aaron JaxonTeaching Bluegrass and Country Guitar

One of my favorite Flatpicking exercises #acousticguitar #bluegrassguitar #flatpicking

17 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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Aaron Jaxon teaches a flatpicking drill for bluegrass guitar: ring finger on the 5th fret of the D string, pointer on the 3rd fret of the B string, then alternate picking down and up across strings in a six-note pattern repeated twice, ending with a four-note phrase. Builds timing and string crossing.

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Okay, so let's get the main idea down here. So, um, ring finger 5th fret of the 4th string, pointer finger 3rd fret of the 2nd string. And then with your pick, let's do down on the 4th, up on the 3rd, down on the 2nd, up on the 4th, down on the 3rd, up on the 2nd. Okay, and we're going we're going to do that twice. We're going to do— and then after we do that pattern twice, then we're going to end it with down on the 4th, up on the 3rd, down on the 2nd, up on the 3rd. Okay, so the whole pattern will be— okay, which