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Grimalkin

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  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Christi_Carol
  2. Clapton is peeved because he had to cancel a tour, so he's out a nice few quid. I suppose it just goes to prove that Clapton isn't god after all, otherwise he would have sorted it out.
  3. I tried working through it in about 1998 but I found it incredibly involved, just like the Fingerboard Harmony book he released later, which he has said himself, is a very difficult book. I prefer to anchor the thumb for the attack and playing on the pads/tips. Willis's strike angle is a little to the side, which gives him his brighter tone.
  4. Slow handclapton. Another who has rejected reality and substituted it with his very own. There's a lot of it about.
  5. 7 or 8 days for Willis's assigned right hand technique... I don't think so.
  6. If you look at what Willis and Lagrene are playing above, nearly all of it is visual and muscle memory, pitch correction at those tempos, not an ice-cubes chance in hell... Get lines.
  7. I use a movable anchor relocating the thumb on the pickup, E and A, I don't usually anchor on an adjacent string, I find that too close for most things. I leave the thumb on the E predominantly for playing over the E, A and D strings, then move the thumb up to the A string for the A, D and G strings, using the top surface of the thumb to mute the E while the bottom mutes the A. Muting adjacently is something I use on flamenco technique, but I find in too curled and close for standard stuff. If I locate on the E, I stay there for whatever I'm playing on the E, A, D until it's time to relocate, which in the middle of quick runs, has to be quick. I've always found the attack of floating thumb a little bit light for my tastes, I prefer a movable anchor.
  8. I look to the guys who have made a name for themselves on the instrument. They usually have lines and look at the neck 90% of the time:
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