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Ok everyone, I realize that I have slowed down a lot on posting to this site but no one has commented on the grand old lady of finger picking? The women is a legend and no one seems interested in her?

I hoped that introducing you all to new genres of playing stirs up some thought provoking discussion. This almost forgotten way of playing is huge! She was the Van Halen of her day. Imagine all the trials and tribulation that she has gone through. She stopped playing guitar for many years and came back out of obscurity to the top of her game here kidz!

If you innocently missed this post I highly recommend that you go back and check it out with a fine tooth comb.

I’m not mad but a little bit confused … I feel like a mis-understood parent. Please help me out here kidz, love ya all live!

Keep on Jammin’





Elizabeth Cotton

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Now this is very some picking technique to look at more then once! I was looking up one of Mississippi John Hurt’s tune on youtube and I just stumbled upon this beautiful guitar player named Elizabeth Cotton.

Her approach to the drone picking, looks like something that I would find easier, if in fact, I played guitar like her.

She makes it look so easy and effortless.

Her index finger bounces around the E and A string like my puppy when we tell her it’s time for supper! God it’s just beautiful to look at and hear.

Here she is a 92 years of age playing this song that she made up when she was 12 years old!

Come on everyone sign along!!!!!

Keep on playin’ Elizabeth Cotton wherever you are.
(Jan. 5, 1893 – Jun. 29, 1987)

Guitar world

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I was at our pharmacy the other day picking up some meds for my wife and I had to wait for the quit a while for the prescription to be filled. As everyone knows, there is only so many things you can do to pass the time waiting in any pharmacy, so I picked up a guitar magazine. While browsing their selection I came across Guitar World, the one with Eddie & Wolf Van Halen on the cover.

I took the book out of it’s plastic cover and started to leaf through it. The articles were interesting enough and the behind the scene photo’s of Zeppelin’s reunion concert was worth the price!

The one thing that caught my eye was this CD/DVD that came with it. It had Lenny Kravitz Exclusive Lesson on the cover of it, (ahhhh) and other video’s about “Special Riffs” and “String Bending” … When I got home I put the CD into the old computer and checked it out!

They had all sorts of stuff on it but the best was from this guitarist called Phil X. His little thing on this was called ” Betcha can’t play this, with Phil X“(I realize that his video on the DVD is not up there right now, but wait a month to try this out, you’ll see what I mean!).

It was about this speed freak on guitar playing this riff on his axe, at around MACH 5 no less!!! He did it a couple of times and then slowed it down one time to let us mere mortals to watch in real time. He reminded me of Wayne and Garth so much that I just had to share this with all of you!

Keep on Jammin’

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