Guitar nerd question.

I just learned Doc Watson's Deep River Blues. Took me 3 months to get the picking down.

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*Ace looks up tab sees B or F chord *

"Nah. frick that."

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Just transpose it man. If you're trying to avoid the F major, go 1 step higher. Go 1 step lower to avoid the B major.
Also, sometimes you can get away with replacing an F major with an A minor, or a B major with an E minor.
Learning to use your thumb over the top doesn't hurt either.

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I just learned Doc Watson's Deep River Blues. Took me 3 months to get the picking down.

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That was a tough one for me as well. Didn't help that every transcription I pulled up was a bit different, and he seemed to play it a little differently on every version I listened to. Then again, i don't have the best ears when it comes to that kind of stuff.

That's where I am, Ace. frick that F chord

The ending of “Cult of Personality” by In Living Color

Snippets of solos in “Jessica” by the Allman Brothers

This weird amalgamated rhythm/lead that I tried to fuse together to play “Ghost of You” by My Chemical Romance with just one guitar.

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Ace looks up tab sees B or F chord * "Nah. frick that."

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I guess some Yacht Rock is out then.

Christopher Cross “Ride Like the Wind”. Has so many damned barre chords that a regular open chord throws you off.

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Never Going Back Again by Fleetwood Mac is just impossible

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Like some of the other self-taught guys (e.g. Knopfler who also uses that claw style), I think you have to learn to do it "their" (mimic) way, cobble together some sort of workaround with traditional fingerstyle and, perhaps some transposition/key change or forget it altogether.

Buckingham's stuff sounds simultaneously interesting and accessible. Then you dig into it and find out it is bespoke, unique to him and figure out why he got paid the big bucks.

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Fennah Rob

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Who’s this?

I need a new YouTube channel. Like guitars. Can’t have too many good ones.

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Hell, I still have trouble with barre chords.

*Ace looks up tab sees B or F chord *

"Nah. frick that."

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For F major I always hated the bar version, make a C/G (C chord with your ring on low E and pinky on the A string 3rd fret and drop those down a fret each and wrap your thumb over the first fret on the low E and bend your wrist enough forward that your pointer finger bars the B and high E. Takes some time but much easier imo especially on acoustics. This opened a new world for me, especially because you can move up to a C, C/G, Am, G, etc. quickly this way. All just personal preference but wish I had known from the get go. You can end up playing almost any bar chord like that and even wrap your thumb down over the low E and A for A string rooted bar chords. (but this def takes some practice and depending on the guitar itself some I cant get my thumb far enough for)

B chords you can just make an A chord with your pointer finger and slightly rub the low E to mute it and roll the tip and a little bit of the middle of your ring finger into a an A shape on the 4th fret, eventually you'll get it without muting the high E and honestly you can get away with that until you get it down pat anyway.

B minor chords give me fits in bar shapes but you can get away with just making a C like shape without the skipped string and moving it down to the 2 on high E, 3 on B and 4 on G string and just play those strings (or even throw your thumb over the E and A to bar it or just mute them), or bar the G,B,E on the 7th fret and throw your ring or pinky finger on the 9th fret on the D string. Might be off on that, Id have to have a guitar in my hand but you can get away with playing chords all up and down the board in weird shapes. If something is giving you trouble dont get discouraged just google a different shape up the neck.

Sorry to go off topic just some info I wish id been told years back

As for OP, the Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line solo with the chicken picking and pick mutes took me forever, then I forgot it and now I need to relearn the last few parts I have forgotten. But that is a good way to learn those techniques if interested.

I got way into trying to mimic Waylon's playing but idk if it was his bass experience but his little speedfreak hybrid popping melodies he'd play between songs live and just in general I cannot figure out. Might be the banjo tuner and drop D but just can't get it, but he was one of those that never played anything the same way twice live.