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Travis Pickin' is an all-instrumental acoustic solo album by American country guitarist Merle Travis released by the CMH Records label in 1981 as an LP recording. [1] It was not released on compact disc, but was made available for download in 2018. [2] Travis was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for the ...
Arnold Shultz (1886 – 1931) was an American fiddler and guitarist who is noted as a major influence in the development of the "thumb-style," or "Travis picking" method of playing guitar. [ 1 ] Biography
Flatpicking (or simply picking) is the technique of striking the strings of a guitar with a pick (also called a plectrum) held between the thumb and one or two fingers. It can be contrasted to fingerstyle guitar , which is playing with individual fingers, with or without wearing fingerpicks .
Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Born in Rosewood, Kentucky, [1] his songs' lyrics were often about the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners.
Travis picking derives its name from Merle Travis. The foundation of Travis picking revolves around the combination of alternate-bass fingerpicking and syncopated melodies. [14] This style is commonly played on steel string acoustic guitars. Pattern picking is the use of "preset right-hand pattern[s]" while fingerpicking, with the left hand ...
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Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast, or Southeastern blues) refers primarily to a guitar style, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern [1] supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others. [2]
The Merle Travis Guitar is the second album by Merle Travis and his first instrumental album. It was recorded in 1955 and released on January 1, 1956 by Capitol Records . Together with another Capitol release of the previous year, Back Home , it introduced the style of guitar playing that came to be known as Travis picking to a wide public of ...