Crosspicking “Shady Grove” | Intermediate/Advanced Bluegrass Guitar Lesson with TAB

[@Robertlavigne1]

First attempt at bluegrass or really anything beyond just playing chords and singing in probably 15 years. Taken me about 2 weeks to get it to 70bpm. Goal is to get it to 100. Very fun lesson! 3 weeks and I hit 80bpm! Can finally play to the backing track!

[@anonymeanonyme4047]

And now bro ?

[@Kivencito]

I think that the way Brandon explained this one is easier to understand than the beginner lesson. Thanks Brandon for the effort! its much appreciated!

[@jakeess7012]

Just discovered your channel. Everything is what ive been looking for!

[@drewcunningham2]

Great lesson Brandon - I am new to flat picking as I have long been a finger picker. I've struggled getting used to holding a pick and also playing a steel string guitar but I do enjoy it very much. I have long been a big fan of Bluegrass and the Grateful Dead, thus I finally decided to try and learn how to play this style properly - your channel has been a big help! - Cheers mate.

[@stonedcrow5821]

Excellent job. I'm an Englishman, which perhaps accounts for why Bluegrass playing is one of my weakest areas. Just found the channel and it's just what I'm looking for to boost my technique in that area. Having played for nigh-on twenty years, I'm picking this up extremely quickly. It is clear, well explained and easy to follow. Top job, Sir.

[@RhodokTribesman]

You'd be surprised how much the Appalachian/American folk sound is influenced from old English and Gaelic folk songs

[@Drudgen]

​@@RhodokTribesman This is true - but we just don't hear it these days in Britain, truly a shameful loss of culture/history

[@sarjang]

I'm going to learn this and it's going to be the first thing I play when I pick up a guitar

[@Cosmozaure]

thanks for all your precious lessons Brandon.

[@ianbyers1440]

Thanks man, you rock 🤘🏼 I worked hard on this one with your guidance tonight. Slowly but surely getting it. Your teaching method is definitely effective for me. Time to sleep on it and try it fresh tomorrow.

[@joemarinelli6]

Your the best teacher there is Brandon.

[@user-mn3vt2sl1m]

Let's go Brandon. From England

[@ArtAntiDe]

Thanks for putting the sheet music / notes into the pdf. You should write it into the description! Because I was close to complaining that you only show the guitar tabs in the video ;) I have a different instrument, but there is still a lot of interesting stuff in your tutorial and the pdf saves me some headache translating the tabs :)

[@ericisenhart4762]

I'd love to see a cross picking lesson like this for Cripple Creek!

[@billycockrell2470]

Good lesson! I was already putting in a lot of stuff, but this is way better and more crosspicking than what I had down. I was just kinda strumming other notes in with the main melody that gave it that cross picked feel. But this sounds better if I can stay disciplined with it until I get it in my hand. Thanks man!

[@andrewmcp7563]

I think I may be about to win an Olympic medal for playing one bar over and over and over again the most times. It won't be gold, silver or bronze though... it'll be tin! :-) It wasn't until I starting trying to use a pick properly instead of purely fingerpicking that I started to wonder whether -- as a left hander -- I shouldn't have learned on a left handed guitar. Told myself that the fiddly fretboard was the most complicated part of the playing equation, so it shouldn't matter. But precision plectrum picking is a whole new level of fiddly for my right hand! I may never make this simple melody 'sing' at speed the way you do, Brandon, but I really appreciate the effort you put into helping us master what seems -- at first, second & third glance -- to be unattainable. Thanks!

[@gregnagy7488]

Very nice straight forward lesson. I really like how you presented that. Thanks Brandon!

[@rolandjgutierrez5839]

Mr Johnson your an excellent teacher I'm loving this stuff thanks for your videos soon I'll become a member ..

[@BrandonJohnsonGuitar]

Thanks Roland!

[@georgepresecan4187]

Loved this video for learning this song. I think you’re playing an open G about half-way through the fourth measure though that you don’t have in the tabs

[@Jallatt]

This is a really incredible lesson, dude.

[@samirjahdadic5308]

Great tutorial. All your tutorials at the beginning seems impossible to learn and play, but they are so well done and explained. Thank you.

[@321dropthebass]

we need more like this! awesome content

[@tiger8938]

so there is this version, great

[@stress4284]

Tabs are missing an open 3rd string, in between the 2 and 0 on the 4th string in the 4th measure. It threw me off when I was trying to learn it. Great tutorial though, I really like this song

[@xeon8244]

Thanks

[@michaeledmonson4169]

That was fantastic!!!

[@alducks1]

I know this has been up for awhile; but can you provide an opinion on how long( days, weeks months) that it should take for an intermediate beginner to play it proficiently at 80 bpm? Thanks...great lesson!

[@glassbackdiy3949]

Lovely, pretty little tune, thanks for breaking it down man!

[@denino4058]

Mélodique bien interprété bien expliqué Un grand merci de France 😘 où nos guitaristes sont on ne sait où...? Une pensée pour Doc Watson ❤ que je conseille aux débutants Bravo ...😊

[@skatetodeath666]

Oh man glad I found this thanks much

[@antoinecaby3125]

This is so great. Thank you Brandon!

[@3cardmonty602]

Brandon - love your lessons. I’m a premium member too. Great stuff.

[@BrandonJohnsonGuitar]

Thanks! :D

[@meckleemu]

Great lesson, much appreciated, thank you!

[@George-rk1cm]

thank you

[@jimiyoshi_]

Thanks man, was really helpful

[@nickranger8706]

one of those guitars justin sandercoe has i think, nice lesson ty

[@johnnybx3254]

Sounds wonderful!👍👏👏

[@BrandonJohnsonGuitar]

Thanks, John!

[@jakemf1]

Love this

[@bluto212]

This sounds great

[@jmm09015]

In the tabs you show what you would recommend for picking pattern on each cross picking lick. I noticed you don't strictly follow this pattern when you play through. Is there a purpose to the pattern (technique or theory wise) and should be practiced as such or is it more of just a feel thing and if you can get the notes out clearly it doesn't matter the pattern you choose (im talking about upstrokes vs downstrokes on notes, economy picking vs straight alternate picking everything). Thanks great lesson btw. Im almost there speed wise.

[@miguelnavarromusica]

+1!

[@brydenization]

Hey Brandon, I have been looking for something like this! I have one request though that would be super helpful. If there were videos of you playing both the melody and rhythm in their entirety but seperately. That would make it much easier to use software like transcribe to work the song out by ear.

[@blahblahblahclub435]

Man, this is great.

[@jasonhall947]

Good stuff!

[@danbailhache5552]

Hi Brandon, I'm really loving learning this piece! Can you recommend a resource for learning fiddle accompaniment in the same key?

[@miguelnavarromusica]

Bravo!

[@billdedrick1914]

Great job here.. Great sounding HD28V.. What are you using for strings and flat pick and thickness/model?

[@nicholasryan7766]

something about the sound of this being picked full speed makes me wanna say with a very ominous backwoods accent "the boy got the devil in them fingers"

[@davidevans3175]

Martin HD-28V - just like mine!

[@jtwarner13]

I think this is a great video! I've got almost all the notes down, but can't seem to get the timing and or speed right to make it sound like bluegrass.. any suggestions?

[@notmyname3681]

Well, if I wasn't in awe enough of players like Doc, Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings etc before.. after learning this my mind is blown. Can just about get it together at 60bpm.. let alone 80 or 100.. or the speeds those guys play at!

[@PatricksBreastplate]

I wonder if you kept at it, and if so whether you developed more speed?

[@notmyname3681]

@@PatricksBreastplate I still play Shady Grove regularly, one of my favourite songs both to play and listen to. Starting to work my own runs and patterns in. It is definitely a 'lifetime' developer! On a good day I can play it around 110bpm, but just over 100 is a comfortable speed for me and where it sounds good for how I play it. Also like to play a slower verwsion now as well. Gives it a different feel :)

[@notmyname3681]

@@PatricksBreastplate Thanks for asking, actually... it is a good reminder that I have made progress in the last year!

[@Maw_tcha]

Looked for a comment such as this for motivation to keep at it..I too am struggling even at 60bpm, but yeah hoping to get to that speed. This crosspicking technique is a doozy.

[@GibsonF4F5]

Great lesson. Is there more to it or is that it?

[@sullycliftona]

Lovely tuition.. n showing off 2 much 2

[@timberwolvesxx7250]

im back to have another go at this, but i noticed your intro demonstration piece sounds better than the lesson notes, almost like you are strumming between notes? maybe i am missing something. secondly, I realize I can get away with anchoring my index finger through the whole piece. any issue with this approach? thanks mate for your lesson.

[@Robertlavigne1]

Pretty sure he’s playing to a rhythm backing track in the intro. I might be wrong though.

[@soncis]

too difficult for me right now but ill star the vid and come back ^^:

[@eeromaatta2758]

Brilliancy Channel, a request from Sweden, would you give Us a crosspickin version of an Ol` Carter Family tune " Foggy Mountain Top"

[@wperkins225]

So at the beginning, you played it twice?

[@samboissonneault2443]

I got the notes and the speed down, for some reasons I cant seem to get the rythm right

[@ThePineTarBats]

The audio tracks on your website are broken. They display ‘error’.

[@lewissearson8058]

I couldn’t be arsed to sit through all the adverts

[@timberwolvesxx7250]

dude what type of pick thickness for this style of playing ?

[@BrandonJohnsonGuitar]

Heavy... I use 55's. Go wolves!

[@georgemason9075]

Is this realy free ?

[@mrtwitch2236]

Does everybody on KZbin who teaches this song have something against showing the strumming pattern during the verses? Or is it just “look I can play a different variation of the intro”

[@FallNorth]

What I find so funny about this is ...I can fingerpick this without even thinking about it :) But the crosspicking of the EXACT same notes makes my head explode and I can't do it cleanly. It's a connundrum!

[@lovelyday392]

I’m the exact same way. I’ve been fingerpicking for years so it’s like second nature to me now, but I am just starting to learn how to cross pick and it is frustrating...lol. We’ll get it though! :)

[@byrdsdoityourselfgarage7330]

Thank you for this great tutorial. … and not wearing a stupid fkin cute hipster hat and suspenders.

[@妮妮谈吉他]

Hello, I like your video very much, and I want to reprint your video, with the title of the book and the address of youtube account. Is that ok？

[@BrandonJohnsonGuitar]

Hi Jenny - Please message me to discuss more. Thanks!