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Red River Valley Build-a-Break

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This build-a-break style lesson starts with the basic melody in the key of C, then we add strums Carter-style, ornaments, and finally some crosspicking to really beef it up!

Carter Chords Crosspicking Key of C

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  1. Owen Brady ·

    Just want to say the multiple camera angles make all the difference. I could actually see what the right hand was doing.

  2. Sharon Kile ·

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  3. Katie Clark Support ·

    Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.

  4. Roy Ellender ·

    Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.

  5. Owen Brady ·

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

  6. Ann Marie Boyd ·

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

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