Rank Stranger(Tabs)

	        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) 
 
 
 
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