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Red River Valley Build-a-Break

guitar intermediate

In this lesson

  • Lesson Preview preview
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Basic Melody
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Add Strums
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Add Strums- Slow
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Add Ornaments
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Add Ornaments- Slow
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Crosspicking
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Crosspicking- Slow
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Rhythm & Chords

This build-a-break style lesson starts with the basic melody in the key of C, then we add strums Carter-style, ornaments, and finally some crosspicking to really beef it up!

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  1. Owen Brady

    โ™ฅ 7

    Just want to say the multiple camera angles make all the difference. I could actually see what the right hand was doing.

  2. Sharon Kile

    โ™ฅ 6

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  3. Katie Clark Support

    โ™ฅ 10

    Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.

  4. Roy Ellender

    โ™ฅ 4

    Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.

  5. Owen Brady

    โ™ฅ 4

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

  6. Ann Marie Boyd

    โ™ฅ 3

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

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