Thank you for taking the time to write it out to show us and so we can write it down for us to learn and also for showing us up close to how you are plucking and in what order to pluck them in. This is going to be a really big help in teaching us how to practice Travis picking I was looking for exactly this type of lesson on Travis picking I am happy that I came across your site. And I have heard of John Prime and I wanted to learn one of his songs that I heard on KZread but I can't remember which one it was but I do have it saved in my library on my iPad I hope you have that one I really wanted to learn his songs though he is an amazing but not well known but should be artist. So thank you for being here and teaching us how to Travis Pick.

I am defiantly going to copy out your charts they are going to be a big help to me as I watch you teach Travis Picking I have saved all your lessons do I can watch them over and over thank you.

Found your D chord video, and came over to this one. Great job!

@scottlarsen1855

8 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Prine was a poet, his music was simple.

Thank you. Am getting into John Prine's wonderful music and this is very helpful. I LOVE your repetition!!!! I helps me get muscle memory.

Fantastic! Your lil chart at the beginning was all I needed. Thank you. It also helped to play along for that ridiculous amount of time so now I can practice it for another ridiculous amount of time....and if I'm lucky, my fingers will remember while I'm focussing on the song! Seriously, thank you.

@scottlarsen1855

4 жыл бұрын

Bruce Hanover you are very welcome.

Thank You Sir! You just clarified 20 years of frustration for me! Every thing you did here is perfect for my need . ...dw

The sheet of paper behind the strings is a brilliant idea!

hi scott, thanks for taking the time to lay this out so clearly!

Scott ..thank you for this chart..A KIND AND THOUGHTFUL EFFORT FOR YOUR WATCHERS.....this visual is incredibly helpful.. I had begun making my own charts..recently stumbled across Don Ross from Jam Play who uses the numbers of the strings picked in his video..he repeats them like a phone number...very helpful......but an actual chart from the person creating the video is especially useful...I can see your chart in my mind's eye....am old girl trying to learn Travis picking and I adored John Prine...his humanity is unrivaled in playing and lyrics ..THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

@scottlarsen1855

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you like it. Please watch some of my john prine songs👍😀

Finally ! Great chart for a visual learner like me! Thank you

"In Spite of Ourselves" Is one where Prine uses Travis picking. Altho he uses one "unorthodox" finger sequence. Traditional Travis still works. I think.

Thanks ! Been thumb strumming Prines tunes for years ...now I'm Travis picking them, still clumsy but it's only been 2 weeks..... Thanks

Thanks so much for this. It helped me a lot, this is the way I learn, in patterns. To the others saying "well John didn't do it this way"... whatever. You're not John (ffs). Again, thank you for posting this, much appreciated.

@scottlarsen1855

4 жыл бұрын

Rhonda Kearney you are welcome ..enjoy

Good stuff and thanks for the effort to bring it to us.... on the counting you might consider describing it as .....one, two and, three and, four and...... that is what you are playing and that gives it the rhythm it deserves. Many thanks.

Thanks for these videos!

Thanks, I think the chart is a good idea

That was good,love the white paper.

Wonderful. Really. Thanks

Is that a yamaha FG345?

Thank you Scott. Best chart On that G cord I’ve ever seen. Can you do the same for the A cord at the intro to Yankee Lady by Jesse Winchester?

@scottlarsen1855

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Dee thanks for the comment. If you watch my other lessons I think they may help you with that👍

@stevemerritt4217

3 жыл бұрын

For the A chord pick 5 4 2 5 3 4 2.

Thank you Scott.

@scottlarsen1855

4 жыл бұрын

Jo Cotti my pleasure👍

John Prine only uses his thumb and index finger to pick. He calls it a mistake that turned into a style. I would like to see someone teach it the way he does it. He doesn't use the traditional Travis picking method.

@elephantsmemory3142

3 жыл бұрын

Merle did the same So called traditional Travis picking is nothing like the original style

Thanks Scott. What Prine song would this work with?

Isn't it weird that when you trying to teach Travis picking it is harder to teach it than to just play it normally, I have seen a lot of people that give lessons on line on how to Travis pick and they have no problems playing it at normal speed but when they try to teach it they slow it down so we can learn it but they struggle with it themselves I think because they have to stop and think of which string and in what order to play it, I find it curious.

Serious initiativ.

Thanks, Scott, I finally got it. Can you or someone please say if this pattern will work for the "Clay Pigeons" tune, or maybe "Summer's End"?

@scottlarsen1855

3 жыл бұрын

It should be fine for that .. keep up the good work

@markfeinberg684

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottlarsen1855 Thanks for your reply, and thanks again for teaching!

Where is lesson one please?

mmm good but no need for all that at the end!

Great lesson, although the chart is more confusing than helpful. Watching your fingers is much more effective.

Painful..

Where is lesson one please?

John Prine only uses his thumb and index finger to pick. He calls it a mistake that turned into a style. I would like to see someone teach it the way he does it. He doesn't use the traditional Travis picking method.

@brucehanover890

4 жыл бұрын

His style would be the same as everyone else's travis picking, only he picked all the other notes with the one finger like you said. Only way someone could learn that is by doing it...alternating bass with the thumb, everything else with the index. Pretty tough, easier to do it the traditional way for us mortals. If you want to see another Travis picker who used only his index, search Doc Watson, maybe "Deep River Blues" where, unfortunately they don't show his right hand fingering til half way through the vid, but when you see it you'll go "holy shit" or something...then a step faster in "Black Mountain Rag" where it's so old they only show a picture of Doc Watson but close your eyes and imagine someone doing that with the index only. Oh, and if his eyes look funny in the vid, it's because he's blind. Yup, does it all by feel, can't see a thing! ✌🏼

@randyshaves7956

4 жыл бұрын

@@brucehanover890 According to John is was much easier. I heard him talk about it in an interview. He said that he tried and tried to learn Travis picking the conventional way and just never could get it. He said it was too hard. He said he started using just one finger and it was much easier. That's when he made the statement about a mistake becoming a style.

Where is lesson one please?

@scottlarsen1855

2 жыл бұрын

It’s in my videos just look

@scottlarsen1855

2 жыл бұрын

It’s in my videos just look