Hello,
I would like to share one piece that Richard Coles recommend to me in Vintage club session. 
Its fingerstyle blues named “Boom Bass With Licks 1” by Justin and I really love this tune.
Even its for 4th grade… it motivated me even more to learn it and I really enjoyed the process. It was not that hard as I expected… its like with every new tune I am having better process of learning.
I would like to mention I did not palm mute, because it is not much comfortable for me on smaller guitar - my Pioneer. I am sure its doable, but I like to do it on bigger body.
I am asking for hard critics if you notice anything… I did not learn this with metronome. All the songs I am learning with internal feel and “vibe” and in my opinion I am getting pretty close to time, but you are here to judge, please.
I would like to ask here one more thing… I noticed I tend to “fly out” with my hand often when I play some lick. Is it OK? I dont know why, but somehow I started to do it automatically because I feel like it should be here. Is it bad habit? Its like giving space to breathe.
Thanks a lot and enjoy tune.
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Hi Michal,
Here comes some tough love 
It can be heard that you have not played along with a metronome (or with Justin), your timing goes off a few times, also some mistakes here and there and the following is a personal thing, as far as the Boom Bass is concerned, that is precisely about the palm muting, now you can also say that you want to make it completely your own, but then it is no longer a Boombass this way 
I don’t know how long it took you to complete this piece so far, but if it was after the last club session (I don’t know when it was, but even it was like 8 weeks ago) then you have an impressively fast learning ability (I studied this very very intensively for many, many hours 
and still has now improved further after months ), but there is still some big improvement that needs to be done…but that is all fine because you are pretty far ,now make the hours 
I hope I give you what you needed
Greetings
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@roger_holland Thank you Rogier. I appreciate it.
I was pretty surprised I learned it pretty fast… I think it was not longer than 2 weeks because paralel to that I was polishing my Unchained Melody and I dont have that strict routine about time blocks. I am just doing some things naturally and somehow it works. I got only few points I go through.
Good thing about this for me is, that I can play it and now I can take it from pocket anytime and now I will focus more on that palm, because I can play the tune and I wont mix more things together.
I am looking forward for upcoming Clubs about Guitar PRO and I think I will learn to work with that and with that I am gonna work better on my rhythm.
I can already notice that playing some notes with legato or stacato make huge difference. Even some faster and longer intervals… I dont explain it right, I dont know terminology now. I just finished Grade 1 theory.
You know… I took really long sessions just working on technique without learning songs and now I can see it is paying off, because songs are more about following chords, melody and some tricky part and it click pretty soon, because I dont think about technique that much. I put much more attention to fretting hand, because picking hand works solo without thinking. 
So now I am collecting songs and I am really enjoy it.
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O may… 
If it is only about 2 weeks, make this a progress topic and continue to improve, there is still a lot of gain to be made and this,
is a problem because that is the hand that is most important for the rhythm/timing, and there is really nothing more important than timing, and that will be a lot better if the entire piece of music is perfectly in your head and fretting hand (for me it is) but again and again at our level we will always have to be aware of that right hand … otherwise you often get what is happening now with you…
what is a ‘time block ?’ 
Oooo I have to take that into account more, especially in the afternoon when I get tired but want to learn something new 
Tsss two weeks ,well I also looking foreward to a close to perfect version after you give this the months and the hours that this need/deserves
Greetings and see you around
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@roger_holland I am pretty sure I will make some re-records after longer time when I grow up even more, so I can compare it.
By time block I mean I should do something 5-10 minutes, but that is “chaining me” and I dont like that. I am doing it how long I want and it could be 4 or 60 minutes. If its something I really enjoy I stay by that much longer than there are recommended times.
Also I think big plus for me is that I am really using guitar as a fingerstyle player. When I try to use pick… it just does not work that good, too loud, sounds repetitive… when I am using fingers only it feels “like home” and I feel free. Its strange feel.
Thank you very much for deeper talk about this things.
Addon: I am pretty sure my performances now look more like hunting songs with wobbly quality promising I will fix it later… and I know that.
I am just now in part where I can really play some songs from my guitar and it brings me much joy and it keeps me playing even more. I am enjoying it.
I hope and should work on them more in rhythm way of course! I wont lie to myself.
But in the end its pretty hard again… because someone is saying you should practice right and have it perfect. Others are saying you should not be too tough on yourself. So where is that sweet spot, huh.
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Sorry for the confusion, I knew what you meant, but I never stick to that either , while I now know that it would be better for the learning process… so play what you already know and know well then you just keep playing on and on, that’s no problem, but as far as speed/effective studying is concerned, there seems to be a lot to learn/gain if you start doing time boxing, Justin has a lesson about that and our friend from Italy (sssst) has already pointed this out to me … I’m going to do it…soon I think know 
O yes ,more than ones a problem here also with me 
That completely depends on what your goal is. Is the guitar just for yourself or do you ever want to be on a small/large/pub stage?
In the first case it doesn’t matter at all as long as you have fun (pleasure/fun must also be on top in the 2nd example of cours ), in the second case you will have to work on perfect rhythm, small mistakes certainly don’t matter that much in an average pub, it’s about how and how much you are paid often or the kind of situatian you play for etc etc … but major rhythm/timing errors are punished harshly where I sometimes go to look and listening …
But now it’s just a matter of making the hours and practicing as neatly as possible, you and You have only just started, look how quickly it all goes.
Remember one thing, you play and sound the way you practice, so always practice properly and no exceptions if you want to become close to or good
Greetings
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@roger_holland I was digging so much about concept of time blocks and it all really makes sense… I think I am doing it but in my own natural way even before I knew it.
When I am learning some song for example… I am not learning whole piece at once. I am learning few bars, depends on difficulty. First picks are really really slow so fingers learn what to do… really small part. Few minutes… or 10s of seconds. Then I go for drink. Come back and do it again… again… then go wash plates and so on. In my experience its crucial to try everything you are learning from memory first and then from TABs and because I am “comfortable in this not comfortable way” to dig from my brain, it works.
I also learn a day some warmup pattern… then songs I know and then something I dont know. Sometimes I do ear training and sometimes not. And of course sometimes I play something I really enjoy over and over. Like yesterday we were watching Squid Game session 3 and between each episode I just picked up my guitar and played this Boom Bass Licks because I just want and I love it. And this is what I like about guitar. I pick it because I want… I moon over that. It is really different against something you HAVE TO.
I dont wanna play in some pub or local places, but I would like to hit really solid level of playing which includes of course the rhythm. My role model is Paul Davids, dream high.
I am playing just 2 years, that is not much… and I spent some time by finding myself and I found fingerstyle is the way for me. I did not want to end by some campfire strumm songs. Nothing against them.
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