Ugo
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Posted: Aug. 28 2008, 18:51 |
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If I recall correctly (I remember having read it somewhere, maybe on the Elements booklet?), the technique that Mike has always used (and still uses) on electric guitar is a result of all his youth years spent playing folk music on acoustic guitar. All of the features of his technique (fingerpicking with nails, violin-like vibrato, muting strings etc.) which look weird or uncommon on electric guitar are actually very common in folk music played on acoustic guitar. I've recently played with an Irish folk guitarist, and most of the fingerpicking he did (at an amazingly fast speed, I have to say - almost flamenco-like) was pretty similar to Mike's. So, I guess that, as soon as he moved from the acoustic guitar to the electric one, he just changed the instrument, not the technique. Indeed, today he does still play fingerpicking-style with his nails, and that's what he sounds unique - no other guitarist plays electric guitar like that. (OK, there's Mark Knopfler - but he plays with his fingertips, not with his nails... )
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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