Independence Day

“The trap that people fall into,” Richard tells us, “is since we’re born, our fingers and our thumb are used to grab things, so they pinch together, they grab objects – they work in tandem. With fingerpicking you’re playing on and off the beat, so the thumb stays on the beat, one, two, three, four. Sometimes the fingers have to play the ‘and’ in-between… ‘one and two and three and four and’.