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Carter Family picking, also known as thumb brush' technique or the 'Carter lick,' and also the 'church lick' and the 'Carter scratch,〔Sid Griffin and Eric Thompson (2006). ''Bluegrass Guitar: Know the Players, Play the Music'', p.22. ISBN 0-87930-870-2.〕 is a style of fingerstyle guitar named for Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family's distinctive style of rhythm guitar in which the melody is played on the bass strings, usually low E, A, and D while rhythm strumming continues above, on the treble strings, G, B, and high E. This often occurs during the break.〔Traum, Happy (1974). ''Bluegrass Guitar'', p.23. ISBN 0-8256-0153-3.〕 The style bears similarity to the frailing style of banjo playing and is the rhythm Bill Monroe adapted for bluegrass music two decades later.〔 With the technique Carter, who "was among the first" to use it as such,〔Susan Ware, Stacy Braukman (2005). ''Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 5, Completing the Twentieth Century'', p.105. ISBN 0-674-01488-X.〕 "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument".〔Holly George-Warren, Laura Levine (2006). ''Honky-Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels: The Pioneers of Country and Western Music'', p.4.〕 Maybelle, in turn, had first learned the technique from Lesley Riddle, a Black guitarist who used to frequent the Carter family household. : ==See also== *"Wildwood Flower", a traditional song adapted by the Carter Family and first recorded in the 1920s. Maybelle Carter's use of the "Carter Scratch" on this recording and later performances is one of the best-known and widely emulated examples of this form of playing. *Flatpicking *Bass run *Walking bass *Lick (music) *Oom-pah 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carter Family picking」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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