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In the liner notes ross says, it has taken me all these years more than 30 of trying to get inside the instrument to realize just how many different capabilities it has. National fingerstyle guitar championship 1988 and 1996. The most authentic and useful solo guitar arrangements on the web. When ross was eight years old, he began his selftaught study of music on the acoustic guitar.
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