Bryan Sutton Bluegrass Guitar Lesson: Picking Pattern Exercises 

bluegrass is punk of country. been to a billy strings show?

Il est vraiment le top. Bon chances avec r'es "etudes".

Your guitar does have a truss rod, it's just not adjustable. I'd suggest either trading in for a vintage Martin or a newer Martin which is made with the older specs. The early 80's was not the best period for Martin guitars from a build standpoint. Good folk guitars but not tone machines.

Jake Workman would prolly disagree

@@krogge10 As would Tony Rice ~

@@krogge10 Justin Moses and Carl miner both better

@@krogge10 and Michael daves

That guitar looks like leonardo davinci's. Lol

Amen

I don't even know who he is but looked at the thumb nail and thought "this guy looks legit"

Right?!

With that sound hole, I would have to say that is Clarence's...

took me 2 minutes to get past the laughing at this lol

@@clapton79 Enough to play "Chicken in the corn"

Yeah, it's important not to bite off more than you can chew. Maybe next year you can try a second string?

@@bradleyhohner8775 I will just stick to one string for now.

That is just the intro song before the lessons. There's probably a lesson in the course on it somewhere, but that's just the general intro theme. This lesson wasn't intended to teach it.

It's got a little bit of wildwood flower in it. I'd learn that, essential for this kind of picking

He is playing in 4/4 at 80 BPM. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and. Put a metronome on 80 BPM and try 16 notes per measure, it’ll be way different

You are right :-) He is playing 16th notes

I noticed that too - the metronome click is on the half note (1 & 3)

What more were you hoping for?

Pretty sure this sets the stage for progression. As an advanced player, you will probably be jumping forward

Yes it was just clickbait

I disagree, he is really emphasizing the need for good technique as it relates to having good fundamental tone and dynamics. It's critical on acoustics, archtops, or even clean electric playing, compared to overdrive/distortion which add sustain and compression and are a bit more forgiving to the player. I learned to play on electric guitar and use a large pedalboard, but my journey into flatpicking forced me to correct my fundamental tone. My electric guitar tone benefitted from this as well

@@AlexG-ok1zc Agreed - basics are fundamental to good technique. While I lean towards metal and hard rock, I don't like overdrive, and compression is totally against my religion! I'm more of a clean channel EQ and metal pedal type player - it gives you finer control, good dynamics, good harmonics and overtones, etc. As for sustain, a touch of control-able feedback enhancing sustain is part of my preferred tone. In this case I was hoping for a little riff or picking style that would let me do some blue-grassy kind of thing easily. Guess I clicked on the bluegrass 101 video, when I should have clicked on the bluegrass 201 video! (G)

Of course

Volume and playing relaxed are big emphasis

Old

@@EGPhil Didn't ask about you, I asked about the Martin:)

Lol

According to the book I'm reading at this moment, that is a 1940 Herringbone

See the saddle, how that slot is routed to pass clean through the bridge? That'll be a good indicator of a pre war martin or thereabouts. They still use that saddle in modern guitars, certain models, but this one is old.

You're not ready for anything this advanced. Just be patient...you'll get there...maybe.

Relax, it’s going to be ok.