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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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# **Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or TheBuddha. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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[–] • 2 pts

Hey guys, I hope you all had a great week. Happy Friday!

A few weeks ago (on the site that shall not be named) I posted a recording of a refrain of Alice's Restaurant that Arlo did in the slowed-down portion of the 50th anniversary of the song. But that's not the way the original is played.

So now that I had a fresh understanding of his picking style, I set out to learn to play the original---or at least a basic version of the first refrain. And this is what I figured out. Not perfect, but close enough for me.

How to play Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant Massacree (bitchute.com)

[–] • 3 pts

That's some damn good picking. Gonna mess with this one, thanks for the lesson.

Check out Dave Van Ronk's Green Rocky Road. It's similar to this.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Great honkytonk! Love this, it's right up my alley!

[–] • 2 pts

Thats some fine picking you got going there!

[–] • 2 pts

Thanks boss. It's one of the earliest songs I remember hearing that I thought, "I'm gonna learn to play that some day."

Now that I'm well over 400 years old in life experience, I figured it was about time to take it off the list.

[–] • 2 pts

I am not good at that fingerpicking stuff like that with the alternating strings. I don't ever really play like that.

[–] • 2 pts

Woah, dude, nice braid job on your beard.

That's some pretty sweet picking, more involved than one would think. How he can play that live and ramble on with his storytelling and joking with the audience is amazing. Nice job.

[–] • 2 pts

I know, and if you listen carefully to the original, there's something slightly different in each refrain. It seems somehow superhuman to be able to finger-pick something so complicated, twisting it as he goes, and be able to tell an 18-minute story without a hiccup.

And then add he wrote it too. Smh, I dunno. He must've been receiving signals from outer space.