Talk:Cliff Williams

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I'm taking out the link to "Home," as it is not the same band Cliff Williams was in. JBDay 01:04, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

AC/DC
You would think this article might have a little more information on the past 30 years he's been with AC/DC. - cgilbert(talk 21:56, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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"plucking"
The last sentence in the section "Style" states that Williams sometimes uses "plucking" in his playing.

Clicking the link takes you to the page on pizzicato technique, and that page specifies that "pizzicato" or "plucking" on the guitar refers to the technique commonly known in the rock and roll world as "palm muting", and has nothing on bass technique. It is obvious from Williams' quote that palm muting is what is being referred to here.

So why is it referred to here as "plucking" instead of the more idiomatic and easily understandable "palm muting"? Williams uses a pick. In rock bass lingo, "plucking" and "pizzicato" usually refer to playing fingerstyle, not to palm muting. The way the term is used here can very easily lead to confusion. Since the context is rock and roll bass playing, we should change the link to read "palm muting" and direct it here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_mute 188.238.4.81 (talk) 21:44, 3 March 2022 (UTC)