First, use alternate picking-alternating down- and upstrokes-as shown in Ex. Start by playing across strings 4, 3, and 2, low to high. To get the hang of it with your picking hand, Tuttle suggests, forget about fretting for now and just focus on picking open strings. For a sample, check out her gorgeous YouTube rendition of John Hartford’s “Gentle on My Mind.” Tuttle is also a clear and patient teacher, and she shared the following exercises to get started with crosspicking, and then a couple of simple arrangements for practicing the technique: “Wildwood Flower” and “Worried Man Blues.” Forget About FrettingĬlassic bluegrass crosspicking involves playing across a group of three adjacent strings, usually in a pattern of eighth notes. One young player with a fine, fluid crosspicking style is Molly Tuttle.
The technique works well for accompaniment, as an elegant alternative to strumming, as well as chord-melody-style solos. Pioneered by Stanley Brothers guitarist George Shuffler in the 1950s, and carried forward by such players as Doc Watson, Clarence White, and Tony Rice, crosspicking is essentially a guitar version of the fingerpicked banjo roll-you flatpick individual notes across the strings, creating rolling patterns that outline both the melody and the chords. Hey, fellow guitarist! is here to support you with fantastic articles (like this one.) If you like what we do, please give $1 (or whatever you can afford) in support of our work.įrom the April 2017 issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine | BY JEFFREY PEPPER RODGERSĬrosspicking is an essential technique in the bluegrass guitar toolkit.
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