1. Country Defining Skills: 1. Strum Patterns: -Boom-Chick -Boom-Chick-a -Boom-Chick---Chick-a-Chick 2. FingerPicking Skills: -Chicken Pickin’ -Carter Pickin’ -Other techniques 3. Song Studies: -Ring of Fire -Johnny Cash -I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash -Mexico - Cake

2. Strum Patterns: Boom-Chick –1 root note – 2 root notes

5. Boom-Chick-a Root - Down - Up - Root - Down - Up (alt.root) Try these with C …..F….G…..C……D….. Boom -Chick - - - Chick - a - Chick R D D U D Boom – Chick - - - a – Chick - a Root - Down - - - Up - Down - Up R D UD U D U ( silent )

6. Chicken Pickin’ Chicken picking (or chicken pickin') is a lead guitar style or technique used in country, rock,and metal music where the plucked strings are pulled outward (i.e., away from the fretboard instead of parallel to the fretboard) by the fingers of the right hand and the note played immediately dampened by increasing the pressure of the left hand's finger on the fret. Chicken Pickin Intro Lesson

7. Chicken Pickin is simply a style of soloing that uses string plucking to create its unique sound. This style often uses the Double Stop technique which is simply plucking two strings at a time.

10. Carter Pickin’ -One of the most famous styles of traditional country guitar -Named after Maybelle Carter -Base line shows melody, chords or harmony notes in between provide harmony… Eg. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash