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Chris Templeton
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Re: Buddy's Rake Technique

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I'm guessing Speedy used a heavy thumbpick like a National and supported it with a finger.
When raking down, muting the string with the third finger (if you don't use three picks) after the string just played gives the separation of the notes,
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