Flatpicking Guitar with Tim May

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Flatpicking guitarist extraordinaire, Tim May, sits down for a fascinating time of great music, explaining technique and more.
Recorded 09/01/15 at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville, Tennessee.

[@karlthefox4605]

Always happy to catch Mr. MAY !

[@eddyhoughton6542]

I can't believe that after over 17500 views this excellent session has only 225 thumbs up! I learned a lot from this commentary about a field of guitar playing I know next to nothing about. Thanks for the effort of putting this together Steve and Tim, it's well appreciated.

[@GuitarGathering]

Yes, TIm is a true treasure of a player and teacher. Learn all you can. - Steve

[@playandsinger]

whoa that river tune is phenomenal. I like how you almost get where you're going but then sail on past it to the next thing! Love it. Fresh acoustic music. I feel like Billy Strings must have hung with a similar group of folks.

[@lucienne66]

I think the “inside-outside” picking might be referring to what my teacher calls “hill and valley picking.” When crossing two strings while alternate picking, you can either cross on the outsides of the strings (the “hill”) or on the insides (the “valley”). For example, if you want to alternate pick between the D and G strings, the hill would be a downstroke on the D string and an upstroke on the G string. The valley would be an upstroke on the D string and a downstroke on the G string. When alternate picking three strings in a crosspicking pattern, it alternates between hill and valley (or outside and inside) picking. Most people tend to find hill picking easier than valley picking and the George Shuffler pattern of crosspicking down-down-up avoids the valley picking. After I wrote this, I saw that Tim talks about this in the video around the 43:53 mark-he calls the valley or inside picking “against the grain picking.l

[@GuitarGathering]

Yes, Bluegrass players have their own names for things. This is probably the same thing or a similar concept. Learn all you can!

[@DelOfTheShire]

Great session, thanks guys. Interesting how Tim alludes to a struggle in playing both bluegrass and swing during the same time period - the bluegrass requiring a focus on strength and stamina and the swing needing a focus on harmony that gets a little blunted when playing lot of fiddle tunes.

[@harleycleanslate]

I have had the chance to sit next to Tim and watch him play, the fingers on his left hand remind me of hammers in a piano that are spot on and precise on every note.

[@artsymamanana]

I am jealous! I would love to have seen that

[@jeffreywinsor350]

I've watched this a couple of times now. Excellent clip. I'm working to incorporate some crosspicking into my playing. Please if anyone out there knows some good clips let me know.

[@D28sherid]

Great playing, Tim!....BTW, the tree goes from Doc to Clarence, then Tony and Dan and all the rest......

[@rickybrock6159]

I'am late to the show , but i'am still here.

[@robinr.2233]

Where is Tim May?

[@genebrenner855]

I tern "inside-outside" as a finger pattern that plays the "outside" stings as, say, the 4th string and then the 1st string, and then "inside" those strings as the third and then the second. There is the "outside-inside" and what I call "intersecting." That would be, say a 4th string, then a 2nd followed by the 3rd and then the 1st. I think that might be what the questioner was asking about. They can played fingerstyle or flatpicked. I though I made these terms up to teach patterns but maybe not.

[@grigoryzimanovsky6187]

Like

[@otakurocklee]

Just use a capo for other keys.

[@GuitarGathering]

That's one way to use them! - Steve

[@guitarman1477]

Guy on right, his rhythm when the other guy is soloing is shocking , out of time, most of the time