Getting back up to speed on editing interviews, including the long-overdue all-acoustic second meeting with Andy Wood. Here’s a quick outtake of the Bill Monroe classic Wheel Hoss. You’ll note the usual mixture of pickslanting and crosspicking moves here, including fine-grained thumb control for edge picking / attack. The Blue Chip picks are super slippery and I personally find it a little tricky to get volume out of them — maybe I just haven’t found the sweet spot yet. But Andy does just fine here.
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He is soo good it’s almost infuriating 
Being free from almost any mechanical limitation he can devote most of his energies to think about the music, and it shows!
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“Like, that’s no problem.” \m/ \m/
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I wonder… does he reduce the angle of his edge picking to get more volume? Is that what you meant by “thumb control for edge picking / attack”?
He does! And we talk about it in the interview - there was another great clip we pulled way back when we were offloading footage where Andy discusses this:
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