Three-string Galax lick
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The "Galax lick" is a useful little trick, common in bluegrass and oldtime banjo, but also found many other places, even in classical music sometimes.
In it's simplest form it looks like this:
Click on the music to hear the midi file. (Midi file opens in a new window.)
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It's occasionally used as an ending, but more often as an opening of a phrase such as this:
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The pharse example is based on three-finger picking, but the Galax lick itself can also be played two-fingered (pipp) or frailed (iipp - all downstrokes).
| Site last updated . This particular page was created 18/07/2004 and last updated 19/05/2005 Site updates |