#travis picking

[virtie333]

Needing some Oscar singing comfort this morning as I struggle with yet another migraine. I love this version because he changes the lyrics and adds Elvira's name at one point; this was before they were married!

[whalespiel]

We Are Going To Be Friends - (White Stripes cover)

Anyone else ever get that thing when you're about to get ready for bed and your brain goes "ah yes, NOW is the time to film some *content*"; and the next thing you know you're recording a modest if mildly dishevelled folk cover? 

No? Me neither, really😅😳😶 

Anyway, if anyone's wondering, I lifted that picking pattern from Boots Of Spanish Leather (Bob Dylan). 🌈The More You Know😯

[favemusiclessons]

Top 4 Fingerpicking Guitar Patterns (Travis Picking Style)

Here's what's in this lesson: • I describe and show the tabs for all 4 fingerpicking guitar patterns • I play each pattern through a common chord progression (slow, then fast) • I demonstrate each pattern in the context of a song • And I even sneak in a guitar solo (couldn't help it!)

[curseofmeatthawsmoth]

This post is for guitar nerds and people with guitar nerd tendencies. Everyone else, keep scrollin'.

The term "Travis picking" is often used for any fingerpicking - that is, the style of playing where the thumb keeps time on the bass strings and one or more fingers play melody on the treble. (The expression "fingerpicking" either tickled or confused me when I was learning to play guitar - "Fingerpicking? do some people use their toes?") But people like Mississippi John Hurt and Elizabeth Cotten were playing that style long before Merle Travis, and they didn't sound like Travis and Travis didn't sound much like them. So what distinguishes "Travis picking" from other types of fingerpicking? There clearly is a "Travis picking" tradition, from Merle himself to Eddie Pennington, Marcil Dadi, and Chet Atkins, people who actually were influenced by and played something like Travis, but what are its defining features? The ones that spring to mind are strong rhythm from the thumb (usually with a thumb pick) with controlled muting on the bass strings, and the use of a lot of jazz-inflected chords and phrasing. Anyone else feel like jumping in on this?

[qupritsuvwix]

"I’ve taught Travis picking at least 500 times but whenever I’ve asked a student, 'Do you know who Merle Travis is?' I’ve never heard, 'Yes!

As well as writing popular standards like “Sixteen Tons”, Merle Travis was idolised by peers like Scotty Moore and the Everly Brothers. Walk

[favemusiclessons]

Greg Koch explains Chicken Picking and Travis Picking

Greg Koch gives an in-depth tutorial on how to master Chicken Picken and Travis Picking! 0:00 Intro 0:45 Chicken Picking 10:45 Travis Picking More Videos with Greg Koch: Greg Koch Talks Gristle, Guitar Gear and Inspiration:    • Greg Koch Talks Gristle, Guitar Gear ...   Outside Playing and using Open Strings with Greg Koch (Tutorial):    • Outside Playing and using Open String...  

[telekineticmarsupial]

Tryna learn Travis picking and I love the bop that naturally comes out of it. I can’t do it justice yet, but I’m tryna pay homage to fingerstyle

[travsd]

Merle Travis: Picking Pioneer

Merle Travis: Picking Pioneer

Given the later arrival of Merle Haggard and all manner of country music Travises, younger people could almost be forgiven for assuming the name Merle Travis (1917-1983) was a sort of made-up joke, but it’s the other way ’round. I first heard about him from a cousin of my mother’s, a country musician and enthusiast, who told me about “Travis picking”, the style of playing still called by that…

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