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The Carter Scratch
I play Carter style with a flat pick, but now that I have an acoustic archtop I have been thinking about learning to use the Carter Scratch for a few songs with thumb pick and reversed fingerpick on the index finger. I play clawhammer banjo with a reversed pick, so I'm hopeful that the learning curve will not be too steep. Does anyone here use Maybelle's right hand technique? I don't see it mentioned much and have not seen anyone bar her doing it?
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Looks like some autoharp technique applied to a 6-string. I know one of the Carters played the a-harp, but not sure it was her?
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Classic innovators... Great stuff...
I wonder if they had any idea these performances would become classic "videos" .... they might have smiled in them... |
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I don't know if I've ever seen her smile.
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I do it a lot on old fiddle songs and my own stuff. I switch to travis picking during songs, so I use a thumbpick and a bare finger.
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Here's an interesting take on the Carter scratch.
Lots of fun to play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PyE87IcGf4&t=9s |
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Technique is like banjo frailing. Having played banjo in past years where I picked that technique up
I do similar on the guitar in places on some tunes.
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Hardly ever see anyone from that Depression-era generation smile in photos. (Or videos). Very few people could afford iPhones back then!
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Great video. GOODness graciOUS, IT’s GOOD. Makes me want to bake something with Martha White’s Hot Rise. Also, lovin’ on Earl on guitar for a change.
Back to Mother Maybell: I have to say I didn’t know she used just thumb and index finger.
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Quote:
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Personally, I play lots of guitar and ukuleles, many styles, without any pick. I vary what my fingers do according to what sound I need. I've never thought about what I was doing having any sort of official label, I just do it. In fact I never knew these various right hand techniques even had names until the Internet came along.
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Daughter June. You can see Reese Witherspoon playing one in Walk The Line.
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I just got Flatpick Guitar Magazine’s Flatpicking Carter Style. I’m making an effort to learn how to flatpick chord melody.
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You will be glad you are doing this. I love melody 🎵 and am always impressed when someone does it well.
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