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  • Hi. My name is Courtney Marie Andrews, and I'm here to demonstrate the Carter-style picking

  • which is also commonly known as the Carter scratch.

  • The Carter scratch was developed by Maybelle Carter.

  • Many people consider her the matriarch of country music, but more importantly,

  • she was one of the first lead guitar players.

  • [guitar]

  • Before the 1920s and Maybelle Carter, the guitar was primarily used as a rhythm instrument.

  • And a rhythm instrument doesn't pick out any melodies or any bass lines

  • or anything like that. It just sort of

  • [guitar]

  • is one continuous strum.

  • [guitar]

  • And the reason why Maybelle was so revolutionary is because she was one of

  • the first musicians and guitar players to use the guitar as multiple instruments in one.

  • And she was very popular for using the fingerpicks.

  • She used a thumb pick and generally two steel picks.

  • I'm nowhere near as amazing as Maybelle is at, at her own style,

  • and so I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna demonstrate with two fingerpicks today.

  • Maybelle was an incredible guitar player because she thought of adding

  • multiple roles into her playing. She was playing the bass,

  • she was playing the rhythm and she was playing the melody all at once.

  • And at that time, it was just not common to see guitar playing like that.

  • And that is why so many people have emulated Maybelle's guitar playing

  • and she's perhaps the most emulated guitar player of all time.

  • The way that she played was that she would play the bass notes on the D, A and E strings

  • and then she'd sort of frail with her pointer finger and her middle finger,

  • so she'd create a lot of volume when she played.

  • The thumb pick and the thumb are sort of alternating between these strings,

  • [guitar]

  • while the pointer finger is frailing. And "frailing" is a term that basically

  • implies you're justit kind of sounds like how it isyou're frailing along the strings.

  • Frail. [Laughs.]

  • And so she'd alternate between the bass strings.

  • So I'm just gonna play the bass part for youwhat she would do.

  • And that is

  • [guitar]

  • and then I'll add the frailing in for you so you can sort of see

  • how the two play with each other. So that's —

  • [guitar]

  • bass, frail, bass, frail, bass, frail, bass, frail.

  • And then she'd often sort of. To keep the tempo, have a pep in the step tempo,

  • you can addthe frailing can go up and down or down and up.

  • And that sort of goes like this.

  • [guitar]

  • And then, the probably, arguably the most important part of the Carter scratch

  • is that she'd play the melody on the bass strings while frailing, and this enabled

  • her to, to play everything very loudly for theaters and churches and all these

  • places that weren't, you know, wasn't capable of amplifying yet.

  • And so they'd have to be playedshe'd have to play very loud.

  • And I think that sort of played a huge hand in developing her style and playing.

  • And so I'll add the melody in, with the bass and the frailing. So

  • [guitar]

  • Maybelle's style was developed by watching

  • a African American blues guitarist named Lesley Riddle.

  • And that may have played a big factor in her playing.

  • And also the Carter Family had a show on the Mexican-Texas border,

  • and Maybelle was said to have loved Mexican music, and that might have had, in her later years,

  • a bigger, big effect on her playing as well.

  • She also, in her early years, played the autoharp and the banjo,

  • which are both fingerpick instruments. And that also

  • probably had a big effect on, on her style and

  • the classic Carter scratch is definitely played with fingerpicks,

  • but over the years people have sort of had their own versions, including myself.

  • And I — my own version includes a flat pick.

  • Now Maybelle did occasionally use a flat pick in her style but only on a

  • couple songs. "Wildwood Flower" is actually a song that she, she'd used a flat pick on.

  • But I certainly feel more comfortable using a flat pick, and I've sort of loved

  • to play the Carter scratch with a flat pick, and I'm going to show you how that's done.

  • I'm going to demonstrate with a song called "Will the Circle Be Unbroken,"

  • and it's an old hymn. And the Carter Family actually did their own version of this song

  • called "Can the Circle Be Unbroken," but I'm gonna play the original hymn.

  • So this is called "Will the Circle Be Unbroken."

  • [guitar]

  • Will the circle be unbroken

  • by and by, Lord, by and by?

  • There's a better home awaiting

  • in the sky, Lord, in the sky.

  • [guitar]

  • So that's the Carter scratch. I hope you learned something.

  • My name is Courtney Marie Andrews, and I'm turning the tables.

Hi. My name is Courtney Marie Andrews, and I'm here to demonstrate the Carter-style picking

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カーターのスクラッチを再生する方法 (コートニー・マリー・アンドリュースをフィーチャー) (How To Play The Carter Scratch (Featuring Courtney Marie Andrews))

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