Crosspicking Guitar

Subject: RE: Help: Crosspicking Guitar
From: kendall
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 10:13 AM

You should hear Dave Mallett cross pick I WISH I WERE A HORSE on a 12 string.

Subject: RE: Help: Crosspicking Guitar
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 09:15 AM

None of the posts so far define ceosspicking as I know it, but I am going to leave it to Rick to give the definitive explantation ....

Murray

Subject: RE: Help: Crosspicking Guitar
From: DonMeixner
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 08:40 AM

My understanding of crosspicking is its a style of playing where each note gets a change of direction with the pick.

Four notes in a row = down-up-down-up.

Three note with a rest between 2&4 = down-up-rest-up.

All the rests are treated as notes and tho' not played the rhythym is unvaried. Marc Chevalier of Elmira NY explained that this style allowed for incredible power and speed as well as rhythmic ornamentation.

Marc also stressed that it should be played with a straight wrist with all the work dobe at the elbow.

He sited Dan Crary and Doc Watson as the best around at the time he showed me.

Is this fairly accurrate, I'm working on a 25 year old memory.

Don

Subject: RE: Help: Crosspicking Guitar
From: tar_heel
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 07:14 AM

there is a friend of mine...named REX HODGES...lives right outside of Mt.Airy,n.c.,and he does one of the best crosspickin stlye of guitar playing that i've ever seen or heard in this neck of the woods...its a perfect match of the RALPH STANLEY traditional sound...dang,i love it!! we use him in our performances from time to time...dang,people love it too....dang,dang,dang...(thats southern georgia slang for...OUT OF SIGHT,MAN!!!)

Subject: RE: Help: Crosspicking Guitar
From: Anahootz
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 03:30 AM

I'm with Mark on this one...Crosspicking on guitar as I know it is not changing pick direction in the "normal" fashion. To wit, "normal" would be down-up-down-up etc., and crosspicking would be playing ascending or descending courses as down-down-down or up-etc. A great example of this is Steve Kaufmann's version of "Wheel Hoss", in the second run through the tune. When done correctly, crosspicking produces some amazing tones.

Subject: RE: Help: Crosspicking Guitar
From: Mark Clark
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 01:55 AM

I'll be anxious to see what gets posted here in response to GUEST,Andrew's question. I'm only familiar with the term crosspicking as applied to the flatpicking technique of the same name.

When I crosspick, using a flatpick, I am basically using a flatpick to mimic the three-finger roll that bluegrass banjo players use. If the term is being applied consistantly, I'm guessing that crosspicking fingerstyle might be a little like playing banjo rolls on a guitar.

Tommy Flint is the author of a great many books on fingerstyle guitar, many of them in the Chet Atkins style. Chet—like all the great thumbpickers—played a lot of fingerstyle licks that sound like crosspicking. Still, I'm guessing that most of the references you'll find to “crosspicking” will be flatpicking techniques.

      - Mark

Subject: Crosspicking Guitar
From: GUEST,Andrew
Date: 02 Feb 02 - 12:57 AM

I recently picked up Mel Bay's Fingerstyle Crosspicking Solos (for guitar) by Tommy Flint. Intriguing and delightful sounding style. Also requires starting over since it's so different from 'regular' finger picking. Anybody know of other sources on crosspicking? Any comments? Picked up this book at Folk of the Wood. Never saw so many dobros and mandolins in one place, and a 12-string banjo.

Best to all, Andrew