In this lesson, we’ll be looking at an unaccompanied acoustic piece. The tempo marked is approximate as this was played ‘freehand’ without a metronome. Flatpicking is a bit of a catch-all term since the piece contains crosspicking, alternate picking, Carter picking and strumming.
Crosspicking, as the name implies, uses the guitar pick to cross the strings, giving a similar effect to fingerpicking but with a bolder and more consistent tone. This is a different discipline to the two- or three-note-per-string alternate-picked scale patterns more commonly used when soloing.
