Guitar Techniques

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How Things Began - if I may plagiarise the radio fossil fest that was popular when first I plonked plectrum to plucked Picato. Contrary to assertions that the world was once an endlessly wondrous playground, learning to play the guitar with the instruments available to a 10-year-old foot-tapper was both tortuous and terrifying. And on one occasion, tantamount to terminal.

Having heard the life changing strains of Duane Eddy’s Peter Gunn Theme, The Ventures’ Walk, Don’t Run and The Shadows’ FBI seemingly beamed to Planet Earth via a hotel juke box, it came as

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