James A. Shelton - Rank Stranger guitar tab

Title: Rank Stranger

This song is actually a Ralph Stanley tune, but Ralph's lead guitar player,

James Shelton, is a famous crosspicker. "what's that?" you ask? Well,

crosspicking is a very unique pickin' pattern where you use a flat pick and

strum with two strokes down, then one stroke up (the notes written closely

together below are crosspickin' notes). You can use this with any three

strings of a chord that are close together. George Shuffler (another bluegrass

guitar picker) made this style famous when he played with Ralph Stanley. So, I

challenge all of you country guitar pickers out there to try this..it's

acutally pretty difficult, when you first start...(by the way, this song isn't

very fast)

CAPO 4

e------------------0--0----0--0--0----------------------0-

B-----------------1--1----1--1--1-1---------------------1-

G---------0-0h2--0--0--0h2--2--0----0h2-0---------------0-

D-----0h2---------------------------------0h2-0---2-0---2-

A-3-3--------------------------------------------3-2-3----

E---------------------------------------------------------

e------1-1----------------------

B------1-1-------1--1----1--1---

G-0--0h2-2-0----0--0----0--0----

D--3-------3-0h2--2--0h2--2-----

A----------------------------3--

E-------------------------------

comments and critizisms(I don't know how to spell it) are welcome. Expect more

crosspickin' in the future, ya'll :)

Cody Hamilton