Alex,

Don't pay attention to Jeri. Clawhammer is easy. It only took me twelve years and 12 minutes to untangle my thumb. The big thing is the practice and practice the right moves and you learn it well. Practice the wrong moves and no matter how long you practice you won't do it right. To this day I can't decipher the Pete Seegar Basic strum, that up-picking screws me up everytime.

Have someone who plays show you how to get started. Form me, I need a 3-dimensional breathing instructor. I find that is best.

I also agree with Jeri about getting comfortable wit a couple tunings. "Open G" and "Pete Seegar C" are probably the easiest to move between as it requires retuning only the heaviest string. There will be enough chord similarity to both ease your education and confuse you a little as well.

Continued good luck

Don