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GarrettRatliff |
Playing Since: 2006
Experience Level: Expert/Professional
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Helping]
Gender: Male
Age: 29
My Instruments:
I play Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Harmonica, Some Piano (Though I am not very good), and I am Learning the Fiddle.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
My guitar influences are Tony Rice, Chris Eldridge, Josh Williams, Roy Curry, Cody Kilby, Michael Daves, and Doc Watson. Other influences outside of Bluegrass flatpicking guitar would be Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Slash of Guns 'n Roses, and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin.
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Created 2/3/2014
Last Visit 7/31/2014
I have always been around the guitar since I was a baby as my Dad plays guitar. I never got serious about playing guitar until I was 10. My Dad fixed an old telecaster and that is when I wanted to learn the guitar. He taught me how to play "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton, and I sat down and sorta mastered it in a couple of hours. Then he told me what the chords were. He continued to teach me the chords then I started learning by ear and listening to some songs trying to figure out the lead without reading any tab. I was then introduced to scales, and that made everything much clearer. He later gave the telecaster to me after he upgraded to a better guitar. I was introduced to bluegrass by some good friends of ours about 4 or 5 years ago, and I sold the telecaster along with an Epiphone Les Paul I had got for Christmas and saved up for a Martin D18. I then started researching flatpickers and learning their styles. I have been flatpicking ever since.
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