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I remember when Roland got prepared into the Army, the only lead person they [the Kentucky Colonels] had was [banjoist] Billy Ray and sometimes Leroy Mack on dobro. So, Clarence started taking an interest in playing some lead things on the guitarsome ideas that he got from his brother [Roland]

You played together, right? Yeah, sure, but I couldn't play like him, I still can't play like him. No one else can either [chuckles] It's been an interesting flight, I tell ya, to enjoy this entire plan of things, from a time when there was no bluegrass guitar to what it has actually evolved to now.

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Unlike somebody like Doc and most flatpickers nowadays, you do not use a strictly rotating design of down-up picking. Right. It appears to me that what you've done is found the most effective method of choosing any provided group of notes. Yeah, integrated with pull-offs.  This Piece Covers It Well  utilize a lot of pull-offs, and try to make them sound like they're actually plucked notes.

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Then I began to get arthritis in my right-hand man, and now I have tendinitis real bad in my left handover 10 years or so, that's truly altered it even further. I've decreased; I do not play that many fiddle tunes or real fast breaks anymore. But you've expanded your playing in other methods.

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In some cases in the middle of a solo, I'll weave in a number of chord patternsuse a series of chords as an integrated part of a solo [Examples 2 and 3] I find myself doing more and more of that. Your playing appears very totally free these dayslike you're permitting all your ideas to come out and you're not afraid to take chances.

It's simply one big circus of trying to find something to avoid dull myself [chuckles] The solo on "Walls of Time" [from Quartet], where you enter into double time, advises me of Coltrane. Did that simply occur in the studio? Or did you prepare to do that? I don't know when I began doing that.