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Country
Defining Skills:
1. Strum Patterns:
-Boom-Chick
-Boom-Chick-a
-Boom-Chick---Chick-a-Chick
2. FingerPicking Skills:
-Chicken Pickin’
-Carter Pickin’
-Other techniques
3. Song Studies:
-Ring of Fire -Johnny Cash
-I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
-Mexico - Cake
Strum Patterns:
• Boom-Chick
– 1 root note
– 2 root notes
Boom-Chick-a
• Root - Down - Up - Root - Down - Up
(alt.root)
Try these with C …..F….G…..C……D…..
Boom -Chick - - - Chick - a - Chick
R
D
D
U D
Boom – Chick - - - a – Chick - a
Root - Down - - - Up - Down - Up
R
D UD U
D
U
( silent )
Chicken Pickin’
• Chicken picking (or chicken pickin') is a lead guitar
style or technique used in country, rock,and metal
music where the plucked strings are pulled outward
(i.e., away from the fretboard instead of parallel to the
fretboard) by the fingers of the right hand and the
note played immediately dampened by increasing the
pressure of the left hand's finger on the fret.
• Chicken Pickin Intro Lesson
Chicken Pickin is simply a style of soloing that uses string
plucking to create its unique sound. This style often uses the
Double Stop technique which is simply plucking two strings at a
time.
Carter Pickin’
-One of the most famous styles of traditional country
guitar
-Named after Maybelle Carter
-Base line shows melody, chords or harmony notes in
between provide harmony…
Eg. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash