The Greatest Bluegrass Flatpickers (Part 4 of 5) by Toon de Corte

[@DlmlZ]

Seriously, I get jealous! All of them are so incredible extraordinary talented. Wish I had enough time to practise more and more. :( Anyways, always a great joy to watch these artist. May god bless them all! Love and Peace! Thanks a lot for sharing!

[@glenbaker5311]

If you are like me it doesn't matter how much you time you get to spend on it, I think most of these folk started when they were 2 weeks old, but it's steal fun to try,, Thxs,gb

[@lauriebeaman6315]

Glad to see JP finally make one of these lists. They should have went further into that video. Just spectacular!!!!!

[@augustineriley5582]

Great to see George Shuffler who invented "crosspicking" as know it, out of necessity! And also his star pupil, the great late great James Alan Shelton, - only player I know who could play tune he tune, solo and cross picked right through, RIP to them both! Thanks for another great video, Peace.

[@ToondeCorte]

Thanks...

[@flatpickerd28]

Thanks, Toon. It’s surprising to see myself in amongst these amazing guitarists, but I very much appreciate the compliment.

[@ToondeCorte]

You're welcome Dave

[@travis8947]

You sounded great on that song, Dave. Nice work

[@LibbysBluegrassVideos]

These videos are lots of fun! Thanks for including 2 of my suggestions this time.

[@kentowens2179]

Nice video of some great picking!!!!!!!!!!

[@cathymallen2690]

I love your videos. I. love discovering great pickers that I've never heard of.

[@fenderjag114]

One of the guilty pleasures of this series is checking out so many gorgeous guitars, old and new -- and a surprising number of them weren't made in Nazareth. (No knock on Martins of course; I just enjoying seeing such a wide variety of other makers.)

[@richardperkins5046]

Mostly dreadnoughts though.

[@jasonodell79er]

Still watching 2 years later. All kinds of scrumptious.

[@69dlx84]

Dave Warner is one of the best flatpickers of all time. In the top three.

[@screensavers7942]

I'd suggest adding Libby Lindblom from Headin' Home Bluegrass to the next video!

[@screensavers7942]

Check out this video at 2:28 or 32:15 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmmpdYKGiruYb6s

[@JPMD55]

Thanks. What a treat!

[@ToondeCorte]

Thanks to all the flatpickers...

[@klmorris1269]

thank you, these are great

[@jeffwold8740]

Mike Marshall & Grant Gordy...a little close to the outer edge of the bluegrass box...

[@paulorton2608]

fantastic rigjht hand . thnk u.

[@TerryPoirier32]

J.P. Cormier here is playing some great celtic stuff but he can shred that Bluegrass stuff like nobody's business.....

[@jasonodell79er]

Yay! 4th installment! Thank you!

[@augustineriley5582]

AGREED !!!!!!! :)

[@klmorris1269]

me three

[@roberthale2268]

Looking for Bill Napier. Maybe on #5

[@danf4616]

Banjo Ben Clark! 👌

[@ttrreennttoonn]

TYLER GRANT! Hell yah!!

[@redlinemando]

Jerry Reed, Randy Greer, David Pendley, Maury Muehleisen

[@picker61]

Brent Mason...HELL YEAH

[@FlatpickingNM]

Another great video with great flatpickers but you forgot GARY COOK 2 time national flatpick champ. check out winfield jam El Cumbanchero. Thanks

[@ToondeCorte]

Have a list...perhaps next video.

[@FlatpickingNM]

@@ToondeCorte I'm sure it's a huge task to compile these vids but Gary is one of the best and deserves to be included thank you.

[@FlatpickingNM]

@@ToondeCorte Appreciate the hard work.

[@Epsilon1247]

Toon de Corte I second this nomination. The guy can play the crap out of the guitar.

[@ToondeCorte]

Yes, i go for it if there is good material.

[@alfrede.neuman8898]

Add Zane Fairchild to the video, has amazing clarity as well as playing many different genres.

[@ToondeCorte]

Thanks...

[@GunnarSalyer]

Ooh, cool, some of my favorite guitarists on this. Don't remember did you already cover Zeb Snyder and Daniel Thrailkill?

[@ToondeCorte]

Thanks...

[@willythewave]

LOL Me and Junior Blankenship have gotten so sloppy drunk together on many different occasions.

[@Beverlys-Hillbilly]

Ever hear of Smiley Bates or Eddy Poirer?

[@ToondeCorte]

No, will look for them...

[@Beverlys-Hillbilly]

@@ToondeCorte They are both Canadian. I think Eddie Poirer is from Quebec.

[@danbourque1]

@@Beverlys-Hillbilly New Brunswick, actually. He's a multi-instrument legend in those parts.

[@Alex16993]

Marty Stuart for Part 5 please! ;)

[@ToondeCorte]

Hoop i can find some flatpicking, Martin plays most of the time mandolin and today electric on the stringbender from Clarence.

[@Alex16993]

@@ToondeCorte Search for him playing Soldiers Joy & Black Mountain Rag in a Medley. There are a few recordings of on KZbin :)

[@ToondeCorte]

Thanks...

[@belascialoja4812]

Okay y'all: 3:12 What's this tune Abby Hartley is playing? I thought "Billy in the Lowground," but in key of G? Then I started thinking, there are a lot of fiddle tunes with this chordal structure, but I never did figure out the name of the tune. Is she playing "Billy" in an alternate key? Or whut? It isn't "Rights of Man," is it?

[@calebthompson8915]

Béla Scialoja Temperance Reel

[@belascialoja4812]

@@calebthompson8915 Thank you, sir.

[@redlinemando]

Zane Fairchild, Scott Miller

[@rickyjustice3748]

When are you going to do another flat picking video?

[@ToondeCorte]

Work on it...

[@bigdaddy3919]

Glen tolbert was an amazing flat picker.

[@ToondeCorte]

Thanks...

[@franklyterrence4860]

Brett Mason got that thang.....

[@rickeymoore233]

Robbie Fulks should also be considered

[@fullshark09]

Don Reno needs to be in these lists. And very high up.

[@gotahvcls]

Happy traum & Mark O'Conner c. 1976 // love this // MY FAVES = David Rawlins followded by Dave Warner in his mom's basement - give him a road gig to git out! REASON: Understand the tunes & & && they play to the tempo of the song as if someone will jump in to sing it.

[@joywarner6662]

That’s so nice but that’s not Dave’s mom’s basement; it’s his own. 😉 Signed, Dave’s wife 😁

[@keeganbluegrass]

Don reno deserves a spot

[@ToondeCorte]

Work on it...

[@fenderjag114]

It's actually J.P. Cormier (with an "r").

[@ToondeCorte]

Thanks, i did change the name in the list, into the video i will check if its possible.

[@icejasper]

Nina Gerber !

[@richardperkins5046]

Not bluegrass. She did some great work with Kate Wolf.

[@rickeymoore233]

You forgot James Stiltner again......also, Ray Cline & Pudge Warfield

[@ToondeCorte]

Must look for good shots, the list of great players is big. Thanks and perhaps the next video...

[@rickeymoore233]

Toon de Corte kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpOsdGWMqb9liqM

[@ToondeCorte]

Thanks, this helps me a lot...see the next video (1/5)

[@paulmartin2586]

Roy Clark, Glen Campbell, Vince Gill ... Esteban !

[@MrZiggy-pm9rz]

Esteban?? You may be watching too many infomercials Paul.

[@paulmartin2586]

@@MrZiggy-pm9rz lol ... That one was just for laughs .... Cheers !

[@Life-of-Bluegrass_Music]

A lot of pickers in this, That aren't bluegrass. While leaving out Marty Stuart and Vince Gill and others like them.

[@ConsensusReality]

... and Robbie Fulks and Kenny Vaughan

[@charlieharris9527]

Not having Reggie Harris on this list is like leaving Michael Jordan off the best basketball player list.

[@ToondeCorte]

Thanks, next video...

[@danbourque1]

It's J.P. Cormier, not Comier and he's a pickin' legend!

[@ToondeCorte]

Thanks, will try to change this.

[@georgemercer3013]

GREAT PICKING...TONY RICE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE....BUT YOU'VE GOT ALOT OF GREAT PICKERS OUT THERE ..

[@ToondeCorte]

Look all videos, the first one for Tony

[@rtgray7]

"4/4" = FOURTH OF FOUR VIDEOS.....

[@ToondeCorte]

See them all 1/4...2/4..3/4...4/4

[@rtgray7]

Toon I was replying to George Mercer who obviously didn't read the title. I realize you understand what you have done. I won't reply for you going forward.

[@ToondeCorte]

I change the titles...thanks

[@polyoud]

may i say that you forgot TONY RICE..?

[@ToondeCorte]

See video part 1 of 4

[@Pete-z6e]

jean-luc V , I didn’t!

[@richmillerofficial]

Molly Tuttle? Trey Hensley? Bryan Sutton? Tony Rice?

[@dodgermartin4895]

The guy broke 'em out in 4 videos... check out the other 3

[@richmillerofficial]

Oh, ok. Thanks! @@dodgermartin4895

[@rtgray7]

"4/4" = 4of 4 or FOURTH OF FOUR VIDEOS..... Nobody would leave Rice off.

[@jameshanaway191]

Wayne is an amazing picker, but he uses a thumb pic and a finger when playing....not a flat pick. I wouldn't call him a "flat picker".

[@ToondeCorte]

Agree but you can see it is a mix of fingerpicking and flatpicking. It is not forbidden to flatpick with a thumbpick. With hybride picking like Clarence did its also a way of fingerpicking. And Clarence was one of the best flatpickers...

[@MrZiggy-pm9rz]

Brent Mason, maybe the best tele player in Nashville, does not belong in this video. He is NOT a flatpicker. Brent uses a thumbpick and his index finger - same as his tele style. No knock on Brent - just that he's not flatpicking.

[@ToondeCorte]

Yes, its the same issue that i have with Tommy Emmanuel...i give him the credits because some of the flatpickers want him into the video. Don't forget that you can fine flatpicking with the tumbpick and 2 fingers (hybride picking)

[@D28sherid]

Nice compilation.....but neither Brent Mason nor Dave Rawlings belong on this collection....neither are picking bluegrass style. Both are monster players in their own right.....Brent a tele master and Rawlings, a unique hybrid picker and perfect compliment to Gillian....but, as I said, neither are picking bluegrass here.

[@ToondeCorte]

Agree Dennis, they play another style. But also Tommy Emmanuel plays another style but can also play very good Bluegrass. They play it all...

[@dodgermartin4895]

I'll give you a pass calling Wayne Henderson a "flatpicker"

[@ToondeCorte]

Wayne plays flatpicking whit his tumbpick, not always fingerpicking. The same as Tommy Emmanuel.

[@dodgermartin4895]

@@ToondeCorte I meant no disrespect to Wayne. He can pick with the best of 'em, but I'm a little strict in my assertion... a flatpicker to flat pick needs to have a loose pick between index finger and thumb and the ability to contol it, but I acknowledge difference of opinion... BUT you mentioned Tommy Emmanuel.... there ain't NO WAY or NO HOW **EVER** would I include him as a "Bluegrass" flatpicker...in any way shape or form. He just don't belong.

[@ToondeCorte]

Mark i agree with you, but i did give him some credits. Your right Tommy is not a Bluegrass player and i know that. Sorry for that mistake...

[@JimPankey]

@@ToondeCorte and brent mason here is finger picking...