Wildwood Flower - Guitar Lesson Tutorial - Country Bluegrass Flatpicking
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2016
- This is a guitar lesson from countryguitaronline.com
“Wildwood Flower” was first published in 1860 and was later recorded by the Carter Family in 1928 on the Victor label. Maybelle Carter leads a rendition of the song on the 1972 album Will the Circle be Unbroken, and frequently performed the song in concert with Johnny Cash. In this guitar lesson, I’ll teach you a traditional version of Wildwood Flower and then an intermediate version with a ton of cross picking.
The Gear I Use:
Acoustic Guitar Strings - Woodtone Country Series woodtonestrings.com/
Acoustic Guitar - Martin D18 Ambertone Finish, Collings D2H, Atkin D28, Martin D-16GT, Martin D-15
Guitar Pick - BlueChip TP40
Thumb Pick - Dunlop 9003P White Plastic Thumbpicks, Large
Capo - Shub S1 Deluxe
Visit countryguitaronline.com to learn a ton of common bluegrass flatpicking guitar licks that you can play at your next bluegrass jam. We’ll break down all guitar lick with tablature and I’ll show you how you can use these licks with the majority of bluegrass songs. Several of these flatpicking licks are in the key of G and they’re designed to help you improvise your guitar solo in bluegrass fiddle tunes like Red Haired Boy, Salt Creek, Gold Rush, Cripple Creek, Cherokee Shuffle, etc. - เพลง
I thought the first version was nicer. They say less is more. I know bluegrass can be virtuosic, but sometimes that simplicity of melody is endearing. That's no criticism of your playing BTW, you are right to show an easy & intermediate version. Great teacher, much better that Bryan Sutton IMO.
You are absolutely right! The hot playing often loses the melody of the song and often makes a song unrecognizable to me. The hot flat pickers are cool and all but I wouldn’t know what they are playing if someone didn’t tell me. The melody is lost is a rapid fire sea of notes. I like to play a guitar as if the guitar is singing the words to a song. Everybody knows what’s being played. I call it front porch style 👍🏻😎
Thank you so much for this video! My grandpa played this song pretty much every time he picked up his guitar. I’ve never been able to learn it, but I’ve learned it from this video. Thanks again!
This dude is a very good teacher. The songs sound great!
Hell yeah!
Yeah! French fan of bluegrass music.
Thx a lot!
Yep
I love it, Traditional for singing vocals, and Crosspick for breaks... thank you!!!
Thanks Billder!
Their are obviously many good ones, but
THIS gentleman is the best guitarist and teacher on UTUBE.
Thank you Tom! That means a lot, I really appreciate it 🤠
This is such a masterpiece!! So well written!! Amazing
You are more than awesome, I could listen to it a hundred years
This Lesson & your Site is just what I was looking for. Pure lessons without fancy bells & whistles. Most of my playing is Classical but a hankering for Country/Flatpicking for sure. I appreciate the song histories you give. Glad you're out there!
+Joe Marlow Awesome, thanks Joe! Glad you're enjoying the site and all these old tunes!
Fantastic! Your playing and teaching are equally incredible. Not to mention your taste in guitars. Thanks for the lesson on this beautiful classic song.
You are the best guitar teacher I've seen on TH-cam. Your presentation is top notch and that slow run through the song with the tablature is soooooooo helpful!!!!
Thanks Jeff!!
Nowhere near a country player here but I always appreciated the technical aspects of bluegrass playing. Learning this can only improve one's technique and teach new things. I think this is a beautiful song and I appreciate this video, Merry Christmas!
Thanks Ian, Merry Christmas to you also! Yep for sure...great song to build up the pick control. I still use this one all the time to polish the skills. Have a great holiday break. - Devin
Thank you for this. Brilliant guitar class. So clear. Salute you.
Wow. Best presentation for learning a song I’ve seen yet. Heluva guitar player too. Can’t wait to work this song out.
Thanks man!
Learnt this song for my grandma. She’s an angel.
I really like what you've done with a relatively simple, straightforward song. Sounds great bro.
Thank you for your video's, you explain like no other and your tabulations are fantastic. All the ones I've watched are so well done. No other instructional videos even come close.
Thanks! Really appreciate it :)
Great instructor. You make me believe i can learn it.
great, thanks! the tab, in addition to the view of the fingers makes it very easy to know exactly what to do
Thanks John!
Love that guitar, man. Just picked up an SWDGT, can't put it down. Thanks for the cool bluegrass lessons 👍
Thank you for this lesson with the Tabulation 👍🏾👍🏽🎶. Beautiful song!
I love like your styles not to fast an at a pace that I can Lear an sounds awesome keep teaching thank you sir !
Thanks for this lesson Sir.
*VERY GOOD!*
Best demo I have seen
the traditional wildwood flower is so beautiful, it makes me cry. i love the lyrics too. thank you for your wonderful performance of this immortal classic. regards and best wishes from austria !
Yep I can just listen to it all day.
Very nice lesson. Thank you.
SUPERB LESSON!! Oh, I'm sorry-was I shouting? That's because this is a SUPERB lesson!!
You get pick some good classics! I do think the traditional sounds better as a one person picking playing singing. But boths great. Excellent teaching !!!
I love to play this on my washburn nylon string. They have a great sound plugged or unplugged.
Great pickin! Love this tune.
Thanks Jon!
Very nice lesson Devin and thank you.
Regards,
David D.
Thanks for a good lesson
Fabulous.
Thank you for slowing it way down! My brother plays it like white lightning and I just can’t keep up...
Great tune!
I just LOVE that graphic presentation of the tabulature!
Thanks Horace!
You are an excellent guitar player!
Beautiful tune and good playing.. encouraging to try myself
Sounds awesome man!
Very good lesson, this is gonna sound sweet on my es339
I just bought one of the new Epiphone masterbilt Guitars a couple of months ago and I'm working my way up to a Martin. I think a few more of your lessons and practice will have me Martin ready. keep up the good work
Thanks! Nice, nothing wrong with the Epiphone masterbilt guitars, they're really nice too. Keep on pickin and adding to the guitar collection! Sounds about like my plan also
So sad... We have nothing like that in France... Lot a text song.
US' are a great country of Music
Have a nice day... From 🇫🇷
What?!? You have Stéphane Grappelli
and Django Reinhardt!!! Music is universal and bounces between nations knowing no boundaries!
I have traveled in France and enjoyed some great music. Truthfully, I spent most of the time listening to my usual music on TH-cam but I did hear some great local music when I stopped and listened.
I understand completely what Pierre Delbecques said in his comment . I am French too and let me tell you that there is not such a thing as country music in France , by that I mean a music that identify you Americans from your Irish, English , Scottish , german and Scandinavian Roots and many many more ... and that you kept from the last centuries . I truly And deeply admire Americans for this , you built a new world and succeed in keeping your traditions alive , That’ s what I call « history ». I am French And I love country music , bluegrass , fiddle tunes . That’s why I am still struggling learning to play guitar at 48 , Just for the love of US old time tunes . Thank you Americans for all the great myths you’ve created And God bless America .
And thank you Country Guitar Online for all the great tutorial , helping me a lot practicing !
@@philippelastours7860 I have traveled to France several times recently and I felt (as a US citizen and from Nashville, Tennessee, USA) that American style country music was well represented in France. At minimum, music I heard could be referred to as "folk" music in the USA. I liked it. I even heard one song referencing "Tennessee" called "Something from Tennessee".
you've just earned a new subscriber.
thank you very much, and greeting from Madrid Spain
Great explanation- Thanks
wow...I actually learned this song! I'm a bagpiper....not a string man! Great job Cowboy! You are a great teacher....wow my first song!😌
Nice! Bet this is a bit different than the bagpipe. Thanks for the comment! - Devin
Congrats-I've been after this one for a long time and I'm nailing it!!!
Great lesson, thanks. I am a way off yet but will persevere. (I too prefer the first version, btw.)
Awesome
Thank you ,I’m getting it slowly;)
Really well structured. Very helpful.
Thanks!
@@countryguitaronline could you do a video of a slow Intermediate version of wildwood flower. Thanks !!!
Great Job !
good lesson and it sounds great on my Martin D35
Don't flex on us
Thanks bro !
Very helpful--thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for doing this...YOU are a large help...Chuck in N.C.
chuck stephens Thanks Chuck! Appreciate the comments!
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I Subbed ya !
looking to re-learn this song from my youth.
I write/play long progressive originals, but this is great man !!!
First song i learned on the guitar many years ago. The Carter version is far and away the better one to capture the melody and beauty of the piece. Jamming in dozens of additional notes that are not contributive to the tune is totally non value added. In this case at least. To each his own. Thanks for posting this. I will revisit and refresh it in my playing memory.
Lord! have mercy!!!
I like this
Thank You
I like your style dude
Billy Willy thanks!
Great teaching sir!
Thanks Mario!
It's a pleasure to get Wildwood Flower like this.
Welcome to Québec city!
Crazy on summer!
Very enjoyable
Thanks Larry!
ilove this
yes!
god damn you can play
Nice
This is great! How about the tabs for the Intermediate Version?
Thanks a lot.
Most welcome!
muito legal. aqui do brasil
I appreciate both but prefer the sound of the traditional version. Maybe it's sentimental.
Because it's way better
Yea the second version is a bit flashy
@@saywhat4314 - Yes 🤔 4 no real reason…🤷🏻♂️ 😆~🙀 🦆
Superbe.... bravo et merci.....+1+1
Very good arrangement for the intermidiate version. Could you kindly make a video for the intermidiate version. Thank you.
Thanks! There is a video for the intermediate version over at countryguitaronline.com along with tablature
Hey reckon you could do a lesson on harry nilsons everybodys talkin??
You know he’s real country when he says y’all.
Fantastic punchy tone and volume what pick are you using?
Thanks! Hmm… at the time of this video, it was probably a Blue Chip TP 60. Now I prefer Woodtone Picks.. usually their large triangle .88mm, medium triangle 1.2mm or medium .71mm depending on what song I’m playing
Any chance you could do a lesson for Beaumont by Hayes Carll? Can’t find one anywhere
Ganhou um inscrito brasileiro no seu canal! Haha :D Parabéns pelo canal.
Obrigado por subscrever !
Nice! What model is your dreadnaught? Sounds fantastic!
Thanks! This one is a Martin D-15 solid mahogany backs and sides.
Can anyone Tell me exactly what model of martin that is? I love the sound of it! Is it an old d-15m?
Yep exactly...it’s a 1999 D-15 back when they made them with mahogany instead of sapele. Now you’d have to get the D-15m for solid mahogany all around.
@@countryguitaronline ah yes i knew it! Thanks a lot.. these are fantastic guitars
Sounds great! Is there any way you could do this in a G progression as I sing it in G?
Thanks! I've got a few other lessons in the works right now, but I can try to throw something together in G at some point here...I'll let you know
Wow, surely would love that! Thank you!
YEAH, YOU CAN PICK IT IN Z FLAT AND SING IN THE CRACKS ,...IF YOU WANT TO...!!!
Hi Devin! Is this a Martin D-15M?
Ur the best of country guitar teacher... Wy not wild flowers tutorial/ lesson by Dolly Parton..please
Trying to learn the traditional version and having the hardest time strumming between picking that little bit. I use a .8 nylon pick for strumming usually, but that wasn't working too well for picking out melody. Any advice on pick or anything
Lately, I've really been liking the Woodtone vintage tone picks woodtonestrings.com/shop/?_sft_product_cat=guitar-picks and my favorite thicknesses are .71 and .96. Can't go wrong with either one! Great guitar picks for playing country and bluegrass.
@@countryguitaronline I may try these at some point. Since posting this I got a bunch of different pics at a local store that sales them individually. I liked fender medium picks the best, which are celluloid as well. I got a triangle pick, but I think these woodtone picks are slightly smaller and easier to maneuver. Thanks for the suggestion
I can't put my finger on it but it feels weird how the bars are split up. When breaking it up to learn it, I keep wanting to start with the note from the previous bar....does that make sense to anyone?
The traditional version is still the best on this song some times somethings are fine as they are lol .wish i was as good as this guy lol just learning at 35 and my dad use to pick this for me as a child before he died . thanks to this vidieo i can play the traditional version of this its the only thing i know . now im needing ideas for my 2nd song lol any ideas not to hard as i am a beginner
Thanks Bobby! Glad you could put the lesson video to good use. Still one of my favorite songs right here also. We've got a lot more songs to choose from over here countryguitaronline.com/lessons/ You can filter by Songs with the button just above the lesson grid. You might like the arrangements for Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Red River Valley, Wabash Cannonball, You Are My Sunshine...probably several more you'd like, but there's a few off the top of my head. Thanks for the comment! - Devin
Great plus plus
what kind of guitar is that your playing? it sounds great
Thanks! It's a 1999 Martin D-15...solid mahogany backs and sides. A lot of the newer D-15s you see in Guitar Center these days are made with sapele wood instead of mahogany...I think Martin started cutting costs..still sound good with the sapele but I think the older mahogany models are the best.
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@@countryguitaronline According to them since the mahogany was so scarce and expensive they had to improvise. You are right they arent as good, but then again, better to improvise than lose the style of guitar all together.
Great tuition...what's the guitar please?
Thanks! It’s a D-15m
Thanks so much
hey do you think you could do a video on the honey you don't know my mind like bluegrass fan does it. I just seen where you commented on his guitar. I'm working on your lessons everyday so I know you can break it down for me
Yeah I could throw something together for that one. I like the way bluegrass fan played it there a lot...might be a couple weeks before I can get to it but I'll put some tabs together and a vid
Thank you brother. I am counting the days until I can play it for my father... you are a good man
Just posted a lesson on "Honey, You Don't Know My Mind" to CGO. Here's the link countryguitaronline.com/honey-you-dont-know-my-mind/ Had a lot of fun learning this one. Really great song.
Thanks Devin... I can't wait to start on it tonight
Also I ordered the picks you were saying we're so good . The ones you use. Looking forward to receiving them too. Thanks again friend
What’s the technique you use to improve right hand pick accuracy called?
I don’t know if I have an exact name for a technique but practicing songs like this that require you to pick individual notes combined with strumming on specific strings helps a lot with pick accuracy. Practice and more practice :)
Can you post a lesson where you play it in the G chord
nice... did you buy it new?
Yep bought it brand new..second acoustic I ever owned and still one of my favorites. It's finally starting to show a good deal of wear and get that character
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What gutair are you playing
I can’t find the video for the crosspicking version, anyone got it?
It’s in the member area at countryguitaronline.com... one of the tabs on the lesson. Let us know if you can’t find it..
Can't find the intermediate version... (tabs)
Any way to print this music off?
Clinton Knell you can print it as a member at CGO. We also have a free month trial available if you’re interested.
Is the tab available someplace besides on the video?
Yep, it's available in the member area at CGO. Here's a link countryguitaronline.com/wildwood-flower/ You can try a month free to get the tab free if you like. Thanks for watching the lesson!
Are you wrapping your thumb over the top to play G7? I never thought of doing that.
I guess I am wrapping the thumb around just out of habit...not fretting anything on the 1st fret but I guess that would technically work. Never thought of doing that either...usually like that G bass note ringing out on the low E
Thank you for responding to me. I guess I'm confused because the way I play a G7 is the middle finger on the A string second fret, ring finger on the low E third fret, and index finger on the high E first fret. Is that correct? You seem to play it different. I was assuming you were wrapping your thumb over to hit the A second fret and just not hitting the low E. I really enjoy this music and this style of picking so any help you could offer would be appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to teach us in the first place.
You're playing it correctly...middle on A string 2nd fret, ring on low E 3rd, and index on high E 1st fret. For this Wildwood Flower arrangement, I'm only using my index on the high E and then open 2nd, 3rd and 4th strings...pretty much leaving out the 5th and 6th strings so no need to fret them if you can use good pick control to not hit those strings and focus on strings 1 - 4.
Thanks, that's what I thought to begin with. Guess the thumb was confusing me.
Honestly traditional sounds better. Great tutorial