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In this tutorial we'll look at how to Travis Pick the blues. This is a super fun and satisfying style to play the blues with. The blues consists of a certain chord structure, I-IV-V in its basic form. It's a fairly simple structure and hundreds of songs are built on this. So we're going to learn a basic blues and also learn ways to spice it up, add some chords, a melody line and put it all together in a performance piece.

In this tutorial we're going to continue learning the fundamentals of Travis Picking, this time with a focus on adding different rhythmic concepts. Groove, rhythm and syncopation is an incredibly important part of Travis Picking, so be sure to really focus on your timing and feel throughout this tutorial.

In this tutorial we'll learn the basics of Travis Picking, proper hand position, technique and motor skills for thumbpicking. We'll learn exercises and then compile it all into a mini song at the end.

Anders will put together a practice tune with a strong Travis picking country vibe using the skills and ideas in this chapter: Travis picking, clawhammer, hybrid picking.

Anders will show you an introduction to the finger picking technique known as Travis Picking.

In this tutorial we're going to venture further into the wonderful, but challenging world of Travis-picking on acoustic guitar. Now we're going to add 1-5 motion in the bass as well as a movement between the I and the IV-chord on the treble strings. When you put all this together, you'll hear that it almost sounds like a ragtime piano and in fact this style of guitar playing was invented by imitating the left and right hand of a piano player.

In this tutorial we're going to ditch our pick and explore some more advanced finger picking. This will most likely be quite challenging for you, but we will take it all one step at a time and ultimately this will lay the foundation for the incredibly valuable country rhythm tool known as "Travis Picking". There is no limit to how far you can eventually take this concept, but even in its most basic form it's an incredibly useful rhythm guitar tool that any country guitar player should be able to use.

Caren will show you to take the basic Travis picking skills learned in an earlier tutorial and play a more advanced version of this this acoustic guitar style technique.

In this set of lessons, Caren Armstrong will teach basic Travis picking technique. We'll start with an overview of Travis picking, then get into basic terminology and orientation. Next up is the important hand position, the we'll detail the basic picking pattern and counting the rhythm. A simple exercise follows; then we'll review some reminders of what not to do. Then we'll play some examples in 3 keys, and end with increasing your speed.