{"id":147,"date":"2010-12-01T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2022-06-24T00:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T00:24:44","slug":"flat-pickin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/friends\/mike-mullins-interviews\/flat-pickin\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Picking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neil Hogan &amp; Mike Mullins Part 6 - Flatpicking\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8RZvNGnqdkM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Neil: So Mike I wanna ask you a couple of things just about a Flapicking Guitar in general. Well<br \/>\neverybody as a lot of my totally guitars you know folks, I really specializes in finger style and things like<br \/>\nthat and that was something that sort of I went in that direction, you kind of went off in the bluegrass<br \/>\nflapicking direction and stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Which is why this is such a perfect guitar for you too because it\u2019s got that sound and it is you know,<br \/>\nnot necessarily the best guitar for me for what kind of stuff I played you know. So flatpicking guitar a lot<br \/>\nof techniques are similar to like rock guitar or what we called, tell me about flatpicking guitar, bluegrass<br \/>\nguitar whatever flatpicking its a term kind of technically speaking it means, it\u2019s using a pick rather than<br \/>\nfinger to play you hold it kind of loosely. Flatpicking it\u2019s kind of there was not a lot of tension involve<br \/>\nor huge amount of force but alternating pick strokes to articulate the melody, as supposed to doing<br \/>\nalternating pick finger style where your using all the fingers kind of pattern to be at the melody and<br \/>\nflatpicking the pick is generally (Strumming the guitar), alternating between downstrokes and upstrokes.<br \/>\nNow walking into the change strings you&#8217;ll find yourself having a two upstrokes in a row or two<br \/>\ndownstroke its not strict it\u2019s like having being able to transition from one string to another (Strumming<br \/>\nthe guitar), and maintain the pattern smoothly is important&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: So a lot of my lessons, I talked about two really different technique alternating and then<br \/>\ncrosspicking.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Right!<\/p>\n<p>Neil: And then alternating picking is more like strumming where you never break the rhythm<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Yeah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Down on the bits and then up on the end and then crosspicking you go whatever directions most<br \/>\nefficient to get you to the next strings you might be 3 downs in a row&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Yeah<\/p>\n<p>Neil: (Strumming the guitar), which is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: And that\u2019s a more difficult technique actually to learn and I don&#8217;t want people to learn that as a<br \/>\nfirst alternating, if you want the alternating to be your baseline first.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Then you work on crosspicking<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Sure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Because what the alternating does is to keep you in time you got the metronome going here. As<br \/>\nsoon as you go on crosspicking you have to control it better.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Yeah,<\/p>\n<p>Neil: So, a lot of bluegrass stuff and folk stuff just has simple melody you pick out while you strum<br \/>\n(Strumming the guitar), yeah like you hear some (Strumming the guitar),&#8230;whatever you know&#8230;quickies<br \/>\nhand<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Well a place something kind of simple relatable here it\u2019s a (Strumming the guitar), I was gonna do<br \/>\na little teaching in this video too but as briefly going to wildwood flower and this one actually what I&#8217;m<br \/>\ngonna do incorporates. The melody will be distinct I&#8217;m doing this all with a flat pick,,, about the finger<br \/>\nsometimes I used my middle finger in a sort of kind of boost out sort of fingerpicking style.<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: (Strumming the guitar), see I&#8217;m using the flatpicking I&#8217;m using this finger and I can sort of<br \/>\nemulate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Finger pick<\/p>\n<p>Mike: I can&#8217;t do the kinds of things that you know like I ran out of fingers but I can&#8217;t do stuff that\u2019s really<br \/>\nsuper intriquite but you know, I do that in my playing but I&#8217;m digressing here, but wildwood flower is<br \/>\n(Strumming the guitar), its Carter family so its recorded in the late 20s and the melody goes like this<br \/>\n(Strumming the guitar). Now I&#8217;m sort of exaggerating perfective theiirs a mostly downstrokes but if I was<br \/>\nto put down enough (Strumming the guitar), so I&#8217;m kind of flatpicking their simple melody. So when its<br \/>\nslower you can actually, do one downstroke or more than one downstroke in a row but what I&#8217;m gonna<br \/>\ndo here, is do the rhythm part here (Strumming the guitar), so that\u2019s (Strumming the guitar), So that\u2019s<br \/>\nthe rhythm part of the first part of Wildwood flower. And, when I put them all together with the melody<br \/>\nand strumming.<\/p>\n<p>Neil: So let\u2019s play it all together I&#8217;ll strum the chords and you play the melody.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Ok<\/p>\n<p>Neil: So we can hear what the song sounds like with just a rhythm guitar and a lead guitar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Ok<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Take it<\/p>\n<p>Mike: 1, 2, 3<\/p>\n<p>(Strumming the guitar)<\/p>\n<p>Mike: So what was happening there is Neil is doing the rhythm part that I was just playing and I was<br \/>\nplaying the melody. Now this is I&#8217;m trying to, now I&#8217;m gonna do is I&#8217;m gonna play I was gonna do this by<br \/>\nmyself; I would play it like this with kind of a strumming going on. I&#8217;m keeping the strumming going, like<br \/>\nwhat Neil was doing there (Strumming the guitar), but I&#8217;m also kind of intersperse the melody in their<br \/>\nwhere you will be able to hear it. So here we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Let\u2019s do it.<\/p>\n<p>(Strumming the guitar)<\/p>\n<p>Mike: So that basically&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Yeah<\/p>\n<p>Mike: That basically I don&#8217;t consider flatpicking to be consider you know lightning fast middle tune<br \/>\nor something really pyrotechnical you know, it\u2019s used of a pick to kind of flash out the melody. And<br \/>\nalso playing rhythm you know (Strumming the guitar), it\u2019s like and mostly alternating strokes like if I<br \/>\nwas gonna do a tune like, I&#8217;ll just play a real thing what I mean by alternating would be something like<br \/>\nbalckberry blossom this is kind of goes (Strumming the guitar). So that was primarily alternating strokes<br \/>\nyou know (Strumming the guitar).<\/p>\n<p>Neil: So that\u2019s a good example of a fiddle tune?<\/p>\n<p>Mike: That\u2019s a fiddle tune I wasn&#8217;t really meant into get in today but I know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: No, that\u2019s a good&#8230;actually let\u2019s talk about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Might have talking about you know the alternating strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: And wildwood flower there is some alternation but actually probably a simpler tune for beginner<br \/>\nto play.<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Yeah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Because you basically can just play the rhythm (Strumming the guitar), but its not a big stretch to<br \/>\ngo (Strumming the guitar),<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: You notice what I was doing their because I&#8217;m doing the alternating back and forth strum but I&#8217;m<br \/>\nalso act setting certain notes, so you can hear the melody (Strumming the guitar), my moves is kind of<br \/>\nexaggerated there, but it kind of gives you idea that using a pick you can actually get you know. It&#8217;s not<br \/>\njust rhythm or playing lead you can kind of combined both and get a full sound.<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Norman Blake does it very successfully his one of my favorite flatpickers. He plays a style were he<br \/>\ncan do the fast stuff and he also does the thing where his playing all across the strings and your hearing<br \/>\nthat melody.<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Just moving slightly or something in the middle of the mess.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Right. And wildwood flower is primarily out of C position and then goes to G very briefly<br \/>\n(Strumming the guitar), and that\u2019s very briefly. So everything is in the first position there\u2019s no bar chord,<br \/>\nprobably a good one to you know I can break it down.<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: During the actual lesson part<\/p>\n<p>Neil: We&#8217;ll get to the lesson I presume<\/p>\n<p>Mike: But go ahead I&#8217;m sorry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Oh that\u2019s ok, but blackberry blossom now in order to play something like that you have to spend a<br \/>\nlot of time playing scale, because there\u2019s a technical level of speed their&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Your absolutely right!<\/p>\n<p>Neil: That is important, or that is important to the song and we can play blackberry blossom the same<br \/>\nway we just did with wildwood flower I can be strum the chord and you can be doing it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Exactly yeah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Because what you have there is just pretty much the lead just the melody&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Yeah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: That what you do in the fiddle tunes same thing their generally more duets you want the rhythm<br \/>\nwhere you play this with the band a mandolin player or maybe a bass player and stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Yeah<\/p>\n<p>Neil: For you to be really full in order to take turns playing the lead and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>(Strumming the guitar)<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Exactly, yeah and that one was the more of the back and forth alternating flatpicking and you<br \/>\ndo have a scale that\u2019s very important to at least get your fingers going you know, and also to get an<br \/>\nevenness as far as changing from one string together (Strumming the guitar) you know as you practice,<br \/>\nwhen you start of you kind of go (Strumming the guitar)<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Just finding the notes kind of yeah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Strumming the guitar)<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Yeah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>(Strumming the guitar)<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Yeah have an alternating<\/p>\n<p>(Strumming the guitar)<\/p>\n<p>(laughing)<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Ok so, it takes years to get to that.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: No I&#8217;m sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Neil: No no\u2026 that\u2019s ok coz sometimes people are so intent on learning songs that they don&#8217;t necessarily<br \/>\ngo back to really policy to do and things like that. And this style of playing really requires a lot of<br \/>\ntechnical skill more than, especially with wildwood flower just because of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Well yeah<\/p>\n<p>Neil: So you don&#8217;t have to have the quick motion.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Yeah. But I was trying to explain that flatpicking shouldn&#8217;t be you can&#8217;t some people think that<br \/>\nflatpicking that\u2019s I&#8217;ll never be able to do that it\u2019s just too scary something like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Yeah<\/p>\n<p>Mike: You&#8217;ll hear something like the Doc Watson<\/p>\n<p>Neil: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Mike: Or somebody\u2019s playing Salt Creek really fast but flatpicking maybe simple you know its like<br \/>\nwildwood flower or any song you play. I mean you could take any song, you take a song by Neil Young<br \/>\nand you know and play it using a pick..Basically its flatpicking using a pick and defining a melody or<br \/>\nflatpicking you know. 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