This is part two to my "Great opening..." video where I go over a couple more lines of the Ponziani, as well as black's main refutation.

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The Ponziani is the main aggressive/surprise opening I used as White when I climbed from 1600 USCF to eventually 2130 over about three years. My coach GM Alex Wojtkiewicz (RIP) suggested it as an easy way to trip up class players who likely don't have time to study this somewhat obscure opening and figure they'll just play it over the board if they encounter it. Unfortunately for them, the "natural" moves are the wrong ones and they can easily fall into some traps. This opening is also good for online blitz and bullet games for the same reason.

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Me doing one of Paul McCartney's greatest melodic bass lines ever. (It's a Hoefner Icon bass, with Pyramid flatwound strings, Yorkville combo amp miked with a Shure Beta 52A, and an old 3630 compressor to get that 'pop' sound with the pick strike).

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The Bass Master himself teaches a little of his playing technique in this "fair use" excerpt from a promo vid for his latest album (you can buy the full video at nowplayit.com). I think it's interesting because of the closeups showing his fingering style. Also interesting I think is even though it's "very simple" root notes, he still slips in little flourishes to give it some shape, like at 00:51 where he goes C-"F"-D (instead of straight CD), and how he slides down from FE at 01:07 keeping the string open instead of muffled like the rest. The most interesting part though I think is his discussion at 02:27 of how he was "tempted" to put in "fiddly bits" at the one part -- jumping up an octave -- and why you might do that if you're feeling "adventurous." I guess that's what musicianship is all about, when to do things like that and when to show restraint (he didn't do it in the final mix).

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This was all we had for fun back then -- plastic airplanes connected to pieces of string.

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