In my post at the beginning of this thread, I said that I didn't understand what was meant by the phrase:

…… The "Prissy" fingerpicking - nice polite persons' clawhammer etc……..

Having viewed the YouTube link, "Rough Guide to Fingerpicking", provided by Will Fly, I find that clawhammer is pretty much the style that I play, although I have never heard it referred to by that term.

Prompted Will's comment on Ian Fyvie's original reference to this style in the "Why folk clubs are dying" thread, I went there and read:

……True, I'm really unimpressed with the clawhammer stuff -……

Let me hazard a guess -   Ian, you can't do it, can you?


DC