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This lesson is part of the course Intermediate Flatpicking Guitar with Scott Nygaard.
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Learn to play fiddle tunes and other bluegrass and roots melodies, with an emphasis on alternate picking, simple scales, and developing good picking- and fretting-hand technique. Designed for guitarists just starting to play melodies as well as intermediate players who want to work on their flatpicking technique.
 
 
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The B part of “Sally Gooden” starts with a simple scale fragment, starting on the open G, that may be familiar from the Alternating Picking video. Scott walks you through the melody of the B part phrase by phrase, and gives you advice on keeping your fretting-hand fingers in position above the notes, as well as “planting” them: keeping them down on the fret until after you play the next note in the phrase.These are very important things to work on, as they give your playing a lot of fluidity and make your fingering more efficient.
 
 
 
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Ookpik Waltz  
 
Ookpik Waltz  
 
Ookpik Waltz, Part 1
Ookpik Waltz, Part 1
 
The “Ookpik Waltz” is an old-time waltz composed some 50 years ago by Canadian fiddler Frankie Rodgers. It’s become quite popular recently among bluegrass and old-time musicians and has a very distinctive, haunting melody. The melody has a lot of phrases in which a dotted quarter note is followed by three eighth notes and other phrases where the rhythm is quarter, dotted quarter, eighth. Scott shows you how to keep the pulse in your hand during the dotted quarter by keeping your hand moving as if you’re playing a note on the second beat, and then he starts walking you through the melody of the A part of “Ookpik Waltz.”

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