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  "textContent": "Your guitar pick, the material it's made from and how you use it are \"the beginning of the whole thing,\" says the Texan virtuoso",
  "title": "“He said, ‘Yeah, you know, it’s kind of harder to play that way’, but he just loved the way it sounded”: Eric Johnson on why pick choice and picking style are fundamental to your playing – and how his favourite jazz player got his sound by using his thumb"
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