Grimalkin

It's Turkey Lurkey time...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Christi_Carol

6 minutes ago, Paul S said:

 

OOh I like that expression.  I will look for ways to include that in my festive engagements.

There's a clot of it about.

He has become a curdled curmudgeon. 

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 minutes ago, toneknob said:

When I adopted it I had to say to my band "I'm going to sound terrible for a few weeks"

 

(to replies of "no change there tone" etc etc)

 

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.

Dark filled lines.

Slow handclapton. Another who has rejected reality and substituted it with his very own. There's a lot of it about.

7 or 8 days for Willis's assigned right hand technique...  I don't think so.

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.

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.

From 0.30 on:

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: