Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 4 Feel & Crosspicking

Learn how to play bluegrass guitar with Grammy-winning flatpicker Bryan Sutton. Course 4 shows how to develop feel, pocket, and groove, and use different crosspicking styles.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Adding Feel and Developing Groove

• Developing groove and pocket: Part 1
• Developing groove and pocket: Part 2
• Feel: Exercise 1
• Feel: Exercise 2

2. Crosspicking

• Crosspicking: Part 1
• Crosspicking: Part 2
• Crosspicking (key of G): Exercise 1
• Crosspicking (key of C): Exercise 1
• Crosspicking with hammer-ons (key of C): Exercise 1
• Crosspicking: Etude 1

3. Intermediate Bluegrass Tunes 2

• “Big Sciota” (intermediate): Part 1
• “Big Sciota” (intermediate): Part 2
• “Blackberry Blossom” (intermediate): Analysis
• “Blackberry Blossom” (intermediate): Performance 85 BPM
• “Blackberry Blossom” (intermediate): Performance 95 BPM
• “Daley's Reel” (intermediate): Part 1
• “Daley's Reel” (intermediate): Part 2

4. Intermediate Bluegrass Tunes 3

• “High Heel Shoe” (intermediate)
• “Whiskey Before Breakfast” (intermediate): Analysis, part 1
• “Whiskey Before Breakfast” (intermediate): Analysis, part 2
• “Whiskey Before Breakfast” (intermediate): Performance 80 BPM
• “Whiskey Before Breakfast” (intermediate): Performance 90 BPM
• “Shady Grove” (intermediate)

5. Intermediate Bluegrass Tunes 4

• “Jimmy Brown” (intermediate)
• “Kitchen Girl” (intermediate): Part 1
• “Kitchen Girl” (intermediate): Part 2
• “Wildwood Flower” (intermediate): Part 1
• “Wildwood Flower” (intermediate): Part 2
• “Red Haired Boy” (intermediate): Part 1
• “Red Haired Boy” (intermediate): Part 2

Conclusion

• ArtistWorks and Next Steps