Picking the Guitar, Part 1 |
Picking the Guitar, Part 1
Nick Lucas’s instrumental tour de force “Picking the Guitar,” recorded in 1922, is one of the most important songs in the early jazz guitar canon. “Picking the Guitar,” along with another tune recorded by Lucas at the same time, “Teasing the Frets,” set a template for guitar playing that carried on through the music of Eddie Lang and even the Hot Club of France. Lang and Django Reinhardt shared a similar stylistic quality with Lucas in their use of picking-hand downstrokes, and “Picking the Guitar,” in addition to being a great tune to play, is a kind of study in using downstrokes. Matt walks you through the first part of “Picking the Guitar” phrase by phrase in this video, showing you the picking and fingering he uses in each section.
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