OVER THE PAST YEAR OR SO, MY PLUCKing-
hand technique has gradually evolved. I
rarely play with a pick and slap only occasionally,
so I’ve mostly been the typical twofinger
guy (Fig. 1), with my plucking fingers
perpendicular ...
THE FREEWHEELING INTERNATIONAL
journey of Phil Chen began in 1964 when
he took a banana boat from his Kingston,
Jamaica, birthplace to London to promote
the earliest forms of what we now call “ska”
music. He landed smack dab in ...