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    AMERICANA PART 3

    Jun 04, 2024 2 minutes

    ABILITY RATING

    ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ Intermediate

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    Key: Various Travis picking

    Tempo: Various Carter picking https://bit.ly/3vVtyrs

    Will improve your

    Playing in open tunings

    Carter picking

    Playing in open tunings

    This month we’ll look at the folk-blues fingerpicking style of Elizabeth Cotten, and revisit Maybelle Carter’s famous ‘pick and flick’ approach. You’ll discover how folk legend Pete Seeger translated banjo techniques to the guitar, and then

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