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" The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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" After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. "

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