for the life of me, I never knew this until now. I started studying Clapton’s early work, and my teacher is a master at this approach. I always was taught to use the pinky, and that it was a disadvantage not to. But now that I’m studying the bluesbreakers, I’ve been playing very high up on the neck and at times my fingers are crammed, and I can’t get the speed that I need for some of those licks to play fluently. Maybe that’s why some of the licks are hard to disassemble visually, and might make more sense mechanically. As far as clapton, I know people do what’s more comfortable, but maybe at somepoint he dicided it was a valuable approach for specific reasons? It’s going to be difficult to try and re-train myself, but I’m going to give it a go. Any thoughts on this?