David Surette

Country, Bluegrass, Americana

Learn to Pick Maybelle Carter’s Classic Bass-Note Technique

Since each note of a diatonic major scale belongs to more than one chord within a key, each note can serve as a bass note for several different chords in that key. Take a look at B, the third note…

March 12, 2017

Country, Bluegrass, Americana

Learn Open String Carter-Style Hammer-Ons

Carter-style guitar playing may be primarily based around first-position chord shapes, but within that simple framework there are plenty of ways to make the music come to life.

May 9, 2014

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Learn Maybelle Carter’s Bass Note Technique

Looking at bass notes this way gives you some flexibility to begin working melodic lines into the otherwise-basic chord progressions in the Carter Family repertoire

May 10, 2013