How to crosspick and play Wildwood Flower - with Molly Tuttle

she is Gorgeous .and a dam good guitar player.

Great video

Thank you so much😊
What guitar are you playing in this video lesson please?

Can anyone tell me which guitar that is. Thanks

..."a hunting we will go".

Phew, that was killing me!!

she has such tiny fingers that dance around !

Looks like raking the garden !

If I were a few decades younger (I'm 61) I would try to learn how to do this. I think I tried it in my teens or twenties and gave up and went to fingerpicking instead. But Molly is one of my musical heroes!

Very nice.

I'm a musician but I don't really need to know all this, as fascinating as it is. Molly is one of my favourite musicians but, in my opinion, the most important thing you can do with music is what you can do with with your imagination.And I think Molly would agree?

Thank you, Molly. Very helpful.

Did you have a friend on the good Ruben James?

here is a fun drinking game. take a shot everytime Molly says "string"

We love you Molly!

😲😲😲

"String them together"

Thanks Mary Elizabeth Winstead!

The perfect woman

If I'd have known about this 30 years ago I may never have picked up a Jo.

This turtle plays very good.

Thank you.

RIP Tony Rice

Gee,,,after learning 2 pieces of Mozart I'm naturally doing this, I just didn't know it has a name,,,thank you young lady, your video was very useful and engaging,,,

What a wonderful beautiful guitar player !!! One of the most talented guitarists on the planet !!!~. You go girl !!! Keep up the wonderful work !!

This is a so dog-gone good. I could watch it all day. But, I've been ingesting the wildwood flower, and a whole sack 'a seeds. I'll have to review this again. I hope I remember to remember to remember to. What was I saying?

As a kid we went to so many bluegrass and traditional music festivals...it is great that you and others re bringing it into the mainstream. Such wonderful ambassadors

Im on it!

What a great lesson! Made much better coming from the great Molly Tuttle!! Thank you!

is there a difference between crosspicking and flatpicking?

Molly, fancy a go at over the hills and far away by Jimmy Page?

Super

I was always a good cross picker from attacking triad arpeggios in as many octave as I could fit on the 1974 Yamaha FG401 I bought new ( and still have. I sold guilds and a Martin but kept the mid range Yamaha antique whats that tell y’all lol)
I came to this video to hear the axe rave and because Molly’s wonderful and this is the closest a tottering old man can get to speed dating without having to say anything
But have recently been improving my hybrid technique including my pinky finger.
The book by Gustavo Assis- Brazil is a cracker and am playing Merl Travis arrangements as musical fodder as well as the exercises and Guilliani’s 120 for the right hand Opus 1 which are also incredibly good for flat picking cross string TOO. Almost as good as my magic wand.( I thought this might be useful knowledge for people; with a little context, and not just practicing my autobiography)
I did Classical technique right through licentiate equivalency and most of the BA repertoire in the 70’s basically to improve right hand facility for jazz arrangements; I loved arranging standards contrapuntally in a Martin Taylor kind of style but when my daughter died in 2009 I didn’t play a note or do much else for nearly a decade but started up again about 18 months after that Pandemic the Gates of Hell so kindly warned us of for twenty years while buying medical patents like they’re POPCORN. He’s so caring so had plenty of time to start up again pretty seriously again 20 months ago and 4 to even 8 hours a day has certainly brought my chops back up to speed. My hand remembers things my head doesn’t ( tell ‘em Moll) so some of my old repertoire ( and I read quite well) is intact but I lost a far bit there. Lose a child and you’re never the same man. 😔
BUT I feel in love with Bluegrass! YAY and got me a Banjo about a fortnight ago and can already bluff a laymen I can play the sucker but real players would know and say “ that’s tripe SLAPOOIE! and the Plexi is not a bassman ripoff KASMECKKK! 😂 and I’d have to turn the other cheek, but 55 years of a good righthand ain’t hurt none.
Oh, yes, nearly forgot, Your wonderful Molly Rose. That first tune you did in that little room with the bearded man asking you questions was the best new Bluegrass tune I’ve heard period since I first heard and fell in love with Groundspeed and Redskin Rag live by Don Reno in 1975 during the Bill period.
Once I tame this Banjo I might even come over as there is not a huge gaggle of players here in Australia. In fact I think there is more in Norway LOL ( I’m only half joking. There’s some great Norwegian bluegrass outfits!)

you learnt it from mother Maybelle Carter??

Awesome. Not only are you an amazing guitar player, but you are an amazing teacher as well. Thank you.

PART 1
Very cute. I mean ah, ah, yeah, a very cute look at cross-picking. Well, depending on the school of guitar you come from that is, and coming from the "Steve Morse pretty much reinvented guitar technique in the 80s and how to practice 8 hours a day while trying to keep your grades decent" school of guitar, I guess I will have to be the one to present some facts here (I owe this to 37 years of teaching music and to 1.3 million views at the time of this writing)
First, this video is really not showing anyone what "modern" cross-picking technique is. At least since the late 70s. In fact, if you look "crosspick" up on Wikipedia they still reference the old school Stanley Brothers doctrine or bluegrass "cross-picking" which really isn't cross-picking at all (it's really just abridged/morphed sweeping technique - they were Yngwie way before the 80s!) There is a blurb at the end of Wikipedia's 1st section of the defintion:
<<<The other way (of cross-picking) is using strict alternate picking: D - U - D / U - D - U / D - U. . . .This may be more comfortable for players who are using alternate picking for most of their playing.>>>
I think it's funny it's just kind of thrown in there. So archaic of a definition to essential guitar technique. I don't believe Tony Rice played like this. Mark O'Connor? Nah!
I think of the bluegrass com-bobulated way of cross-picking as more of a style and to what drummers would be taught in the way of sticking. Some is better suited for some types of styles etc etc.... To this day I have to still correct this technique in the Mel Bay Guitar method books (yeah Mel was all over this too!) as it just isn't a great technique to teach students. It's not the most efficient style at faster tempos. No questioning that one. Try to play GOT A MATCH using it! LOL!!!
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Great. But the noise gate in recording is not so great.

Incredible info from such an amazing, wonderful and beautiful musician!

Now that's a great guitar lesson by a great musician.

I can't stop staring at that Martin...what was it I was supposed to be learning again...

i was so lucky to see molly play with billy in winston on docs 100th birthday. she’s awesome!!

Is it just me or is there a very heavy and distracting gate on the audio.
Also, this lesson is incredible. So much clear instruction packed into 13 minutes.

Thanks much. Good tips and comments. !

Is that a natural compression from the guitar, or are u using FX? It's amazing how crisp and clear the individual notes ring and when you hit a chord it's warm and "blendy" and not boomy.

Ehhhh....nope. The traditional wildwood should never be changed. Maybells version should only be played in fear of the loss and recognition she deserved. Cross pick other songs. Keep tradition secure.

Better know as Momma Maybelle Carter Chicken Scratch

I get it, it's basically just like how you would do banjo rolls on a guitar with your fingers but using a flat pick.