Who needs a backing track? Soldier's Joy Experiment

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[@ermancroney3805]

Oh Andy! I'd rather listen to you & watch what you do to learn better how to execute more accurately the tunes we play, than pay an enormous fee to see professionals on stage. I learn far more watching you. Thank you so much!!!

[@monsterzero1965]

Brilliant clean articulate tasty playing!

[@migueldemaria3830]

elegant, as always

[@bernhardnizynski4403]

Lovely!

[@NTKHZN]

Thanks Andy! I know what I’ll be doing this morning.

[@paddycanavan8301]

Brilliant

[@gumdocga]

Nice work Andy!

[@zen234]

Like your rh pinky it's in a world of its own, fantastic playing!

[@thecanadianflatpicker]

Beautiful tone my brother

[@mandohat]

Thanks, man!!

[@DavidHaile_profile]

I like you style. I’ll go to your website and check out lessons. My playing style is stuck.

[@mandohat]

Thanks! Come on by and say hi

[@michaeladams2644]

That guitar of yours is a beast! Did you win it in a competition?

[@mandohat]

2017 Winfield national flat picking championship

[@michaeladams2644]

@@mandohat I am not surprised!👍👍

[@jimmccarley9609]

Nice work Andy. I guess you'ld alter your playing to suit the room. At a jam of 7, or 8 players, would you stay on the louder strings to be heard better?

[@mandohat]

Hmmm.... No, i'd just play what I want for fun

[@philbrown102]

The limitations of flat picking are really apparent here. Playing that tune fingerstyle would allow you to play bass notes under the lead simultaneously instead of just tapping that low D every so often. Don't get me wrong, still a great performance, but I think that a fingerstyle arrangement would be much more interesting to listen to.

[@mandohat]

Thanks

[@jro142]

I loved the flatpicked version. Limitations? That isn’t close to relevant in appreciating great music, tone and technique.

[@philbrown102]

@jro142 I absolutely disagree. First all, whether one appreciates something is a different topic altogether. So you're confusing logical categories. Regarding appreciation, at best, you can say that it's a matter of preference because appreciation is subjective in that respect. So you can say which version you might prefer. However I was speaking about the technical limitations of using a flat pick over a pure fingerstyle approach. They are quite obvious. One can play many more separate notes simultaneously with five independent fingers than with a flat pick. This is not a questionable claim. That is not to say whether one way of playing the tune is "better" in the sense you ought to prefer, say, a fingerstyle over a flat picked performance. I don't mean to say that at all. I am simply making an observation rooted in observation, thus making my conclusion empirical. And while the player's technique may be excellent, it is also simply different and the tone is different than would be if he had used a finger picking technique. And that is simply an outcome of playing the way that he did. But again, not quite what I am referring to.