Pick It Like Maybelle

As part of the Carter Family, “Mother” Maybelle Carter developed one of the most influential picking styles in American music. Maybelle’s “Carter scratch” uses distinctive chord strums with an alternating bass line that has long been considered an essential picking pattern for guitarists and now Aaron Keim teaches the basics of Maybelle’s essential picking patterns for ukulele. This lesson combines several Carter picking exercises with a full-song arrangement of the classic murder ballad “Banks of the Ohio” in the style of the Carter Family.