CountryTele In The Style of Johnny Hiland

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This is a cover of In Your Face made by Johhny Hiland. • You can find it on his CD called Johnny Hiland . An amazing CD for pickers...highly recommendable. • Get backingtracks at https://app.box.com/shared/h9upvbn8gn • • Being able to make this video was a long hard goal for me to reach. Climbing the Hiland speed-picker wall took me 4 months and many crises during that period. Each day with at least 1-2 hours of practice. • • This edition is only 95 % of the original speed (115BPM). • And even then I had to remove some of his ultrafast no open strings licks and change those into something I could handle. Some may advise me to play it at slower speed..but I felt it would spoil the characteristics - but for sure tones and precision may be better at a lower BPM. But I opted that out. • • I also had to switch to using thumbpick - and found out I needed to re-invent a thumbpick that suited me, - and THEN LEARN to use it. • • Also I had to get 2 acrylic nails set on my picking fingers, - AND THEN LEARN to USE them. • • I had to totally re-invent my gear-setup - make many recordings and decide on how to get the best sound. One thing for sure is that a Tele cannot entirely sound like his PRS guitar. The PRS guitar has a somewhat more midrange heavy output. • • When I saw this video myself first time I instantly thought That looks like it is very easy to play . But I am telling you - I may look relaxed - but in my head there's a buzzing of (what's left) brain cells trying to keep up with the song. • • I felt I had to make a video-take more showing my picking hand as a picture-in-picture, to give you a chance to see what goes on under that hand. • • I would like to thank Dave Shapiro who has made the tabs / transcription to In Your Face . You can find other good tabs made by Dave on http://ohdave.com/guitar/ • • Also a big thanks to Kevin (Kevland1 here Ormond on TDPRI) for being my Tele-mentor Tele-shrink during these months. Whenever I felt like I hit the Hiland wall - he gave me a kick and made me go for it again. • • Keep Picking and upload your stuff :-) / Cheers

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