Flat Pickin' Examples

A mouse roll over below this text will get the video below to start to play after it has finished downloading.. Right click on a video to stop or pause it. I just found out that you may have right click a few times until the "Stop" in the popup menu falls outside the video, otherwise as soon as you move your curser away from the popup menu, you wind up restarting the video over. This stopping or pausing videos technique holds true for any embedded videos, at least on my site it does.

I've been having a discussion on the GoodleDays forum concerning some guitar and mandolin playing techniques and as a result, I have decided to develop some web pages here on this site to discuss and demonstrate various playing techniques.

This video of Clarence White shows another style that I'm not sure if there is a name for.  Watch this remarkable guitar playing. A little pop quiz here - Who can tell me what key Clarence is playing in?

I've got to hand it to the folks at GoodleDays - I think they nailed it with their explanations of what cross-pickin' is. I believe this next short clip shows a perfect example of what they told me it was.

Here is one final sample of some breaks that Clarence takes on the Crawdad Song.