# 7 Elizabeth Cotten | Freight Train | Travis Picking & Arpeggio Excercise
Great song i recently published as an excercise for sight-reading. Now I've learned the basic melody in travis picking style and created some Arpeggios. I really like the constant bass. Makes lot of fun but was also quite challenging for my brain. Link to the excercise I've created to practice the Arpeggios: https://bit.ly/3N7PDtc Orignal Song by Elizabeth Cotten: https://youtu.be/R2DCWfBkMSI Great Cover from the great Tommy Emanuel: https://youtu.be/rxF_gkKVJ1s Lovely medley by Chet Atkins: https://youtu.be/GZ6VkftMO7k
About Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth Cotten was a self-taught blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter. born January 5, 1893 in Carrboro, North Carolina died June 29, 1987 in Syracuse, New York (Aged 94) She developed her own style of playing left-handed by holding a normally tuned guitar upside down so she played the melodies with her thumb and the bass lines with her fingers. Her style of playing became known as "Cotten picking". Cotten wrote most of her music in her early teens and earlier (she wrote "Freight...
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