Guitar virtuoso, country music Artist and Hee Haw Co-host artist Roy Clark has passed

vienna · 11-17-18, 02:19 PM

In the second clip, Roy is playing Malagueña, a Spanish guitar classic usually fingerpicked in a hybrid Spanish Classical/Flamenco style of playing. I recall seeing Roy interviewed long ago on a daytime talk show and before he played the number, he explained he could not do the fingerpicked version be cause he lacked the skill (an astonishing admission) and he also explained he had not tried to play the number on TV because he was not really all that confident he could pull it off; he was sweating like crazy as he played and, when he finished, there was a great expression of joy and relief on his face. Roy could outplay a finger picker with his picking any day of the week and twice on Sundays. He may not have been able to do the rapid-fire sort of 'banjo-roll' arpeggios of the Spanish masters, but they couldn't pick as precisely and rapidly as Roy could with a flatpick...

The one thing about Roy was hs obvious joy and happiness in playing and the way he could transmit that to his audience...

Thanks, Roy, for the pickin' n' the grinnin', RIP...

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11-17-18, 02:19 PM	#7
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,715 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	In the second clip, Roy is playing Malagueña, a Spanish guitar classic usually fingerpicked in a hybrid Spanish Classical/Flamenco style of playing. I recall seeing Roy interviewed long ago on a daytime talk show and before he played the number, he explained he could not do the fingerpicked version be cause he lacked the skill (an astonishing admission) and he also explained he had not tried to play the number on TV because he was not really all that confident he could pull it off; he was sweating like crazy as he played and, when he finished, there was a great expression of joy and relief on his face. Roy could outplay a finger picker with his picking any day of the week and twice on Sundays. He may not have been able to do the rapid-fire sort of 'banjo-roll' arpeggios of the Spanish masters, but they couldn't pick as precisely and rapidly as Roy could with a flatpick... The one thing about Roy was hs obvious joy and happiness in playing and the way he could transmit that to his audience... Thanks, Roy, for the pickin' n' the grinnin', RIP... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __