I came across a short video some time ago of George Shuffler picking Will You Miss Me. I absolutely loved it and worked it out. I just about got it but I think my timing is off a little at the beginning. It still sounds good though and I put it on youtube so others can listen. Here's the link
http://youtu.be/eq1Q4HR2Ahc

Yep, I love that crosspickin'. Thanks Steve for teaching me how.

I picked a little wildwood flower. It's a little rough in a couple of spots but not bad overall.

http://youtu.be/mibEjbQEdwI

(right click if you don't want to leave Steve's sight).

Kamp's coming up. Wish I could be there. I hope everyone has a good time.

Hello, I practically bought the entire steve kaufman lessons at homespun. Here's what I have: the 3 dvds on learning how to flatpick,getting started on bluegrass and country guitar,basic bluegrass rhythm guitar, crowd pleasers and show stoppers, well not really all, I need to buy 2 more lessons to complete my lesson plan. I also have tony rice intimate lessons, happy traum easy bluegrass and the guitar method from string publications.

Hello Friends. I recently started playing around with a recording program on my computer. I decided to do What A Friend and it didn't come out to bad. The singing and the guitar playing is me, no karaoke or anything like that. I used Steve's arrangement found in his Flatpickin' the Gospels book. I messed it up in a couple of places and it's not real clear because I haven't learned how to use the mixers in the software yet. But it still came out good I thought for a beginner'ish player. Let me know your thoughts and I hope you enjoy it.... later.

Hello friends. Since we are allowed to write a blog on Steve's site, I thought that I would use it as an opportunity to kind of journal my progress as I learn to flatpick. Since it's my blog, I guess I can do what I want with it (certain restrictions may apply though in TENnessee, lol). I have played basic chords and sang songs since I was teenager. Other than knowing my 1st position notes and chords, I didn't know much else on the guitar until I started learning from Steve's instructional materials this past November. So I am a beginner, but I'm learning as fast as I can.

It's been a week and half after coming home and I'm finding that all the things that happened on week one seem to now be firing me up more than when I first came back.

Well what a blast Week One was. I thought that was pretty busy with jamming happening pretty much any time their weren't fixed classes and poeple all over campus practicing (or sleeping, one luchtime still strapped to the guitar on a table on the grass outside the canteen - own up - who was that?!) If Week One is busy then Week Two with almost twice the numbers must be frantic!

Hi, I would love to know if there is a way I might manage some sort of Flat-Pickin' style or an at least sound-a-like version even with my handicap? I'm a southpaw and can't play with a pick. I have a congenital bone disorder that has locked my left arm to a very small turning radius. I do everything else right-handed though. I just eat and play my stringed instruments lefty. I can't hold a pick in the correct flat position to reach the strings so I never learned. I was formally taught classical and flamenco finger style guitar.This was in the styles of Segovia and Montoya.

OMG - I've just copied off Steve's list of songs that most players will know and play. Oh oh - I know I looked at this a few months ago but maybe I should have considered it more. I'm also hoping his comments about not everyone knows all these or plays these is real. If we were talking blues or rock I'd be able to knock off hundreds of songs from memory or just busk them, but bluegrass flatpicking isn't the only thing I have to teach.

Heading for my first Kamp in less than a week. Worried about - well you don't want to see the whole list. But travelling with a guitar, knowing enough tunes, being up to grade, will become too English. Too English? Let me explain - most people from the UK either start picking up the accent fast and end up talking a sort of Mid-West / Bostonian sort of speak. Or if you're like me you end up playing up the difference and start to speak more and more like Hugh Grant or Roger Moore from James Bond (in my case).