This song is actually a Ralph Stanley tune, but Ralph's lead guitar player,
James Shelton, is a famous crosspicker. "what's that?" you ask? Well,
crosspicking is a very unique pickin' pattern where you use a flat pick and
strum with two strokes down, then one stroke up (the notes written closely
together below are crosspickin' notes). You can use this with any three
strings of a chord that are close together. George Shuffler (another bluegrass
guitar picker) made this style famous when he played with Ralph Stanley. So, I
challenge all of you country guitar pickers out there to try this..it's
acutally pretty difficult, when you first start...(by the way, this song isn't
very fast)
e------------------0--0----0--0--0----------------------0-
B-----------------1--1----1--1--1-1---------------------1-
G---------0-0h2--0--0--0h2--2--0----0h2-0---------------0-
D-----0h2---------------------------------0h2-0---2-0---2-
A-3-3--------------------------------------------3-2-3----
E---------------------------------------------------------
e------1-1----------------------
B------1-1-------1--1----1--1---
G-0--0h2-2-0----0--0----0--0----
D--3-------3-0h2--2--0h2--2-----
A----------------------------3--
E-------------------------------
comments and critizisms(I don't know how to spell it) are welcome. Expect more
crosspickin' in the future, ya'll :)
Cody Hamilton