Very nice playing Sandro, to me you absolutely nailed it! Excellent, enough said!
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Another easy on the ear recording of a classic song, Sandro. A fluent performance and well on your way on this one. I think there are places where the notes are a little muffled and would like some of the bass notes to be louder and sustain a little longer. That said I think weâve spoken about the challenges of the bass notes before and the recording with a phone (I assume) perhaps doesnât help in terms of mic sensitivity and dynamic range.
An interesting question @sairfingers and I guess irrespective of what is recorded, the listener can listen to as many verses and choruses as they wish.
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Fantastic Sandro, love it 
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Nicely done Sandro. You have nailed this and your finger picking is impressive⌠an area that I myself struggle with.
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Really nice Sandro 
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Youâve nailed it Sandro. I had to laugh at the eye roll. If you let your audience know youâre not pleased, most wouldnât notice unless you point it out 
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Wow
Really nice job! Sounds really great
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Sounds awesome Sandro! Pretty complex song played well.
On the abridging songs in instrumental format - my wife likes to listen to instrumental arrangements of pop songs on Spotify when relaxing, and Iâve noticed this is super common. They often skip verses / choruses so it doesnât get too repetitive. So, do whatever you like I reckon 
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@sairfingers thanks for the kind words Gordon. Since I only have the sound of my guitar to work with at the moment, it just felt a bit repetetive for me when adding it in and I thought it might have gotten a bit boring for the listener.
p.s. Iâve learnt a new expression today âanswer on a postcardâ - I had to lookup what it meant 
@jkahn cheers JK. Good to know that itâs a common thing, and not just me doing a half-baked version. I just thought it was non essential for my specific playthrough and didnât want to bore you guys too much.
@davidP cheers David. The bass strings on my guitar tend to be less pronounced at the best of times. If I strike them with extra force to make them ring louder, it sometimes kind of throws off my subtle style of playing a bit. But Iâll experiment with that some more and see if I can find a more middle ground.
@laser_171825 thank you Malcolm. I was mainly using this blues song as part of practicing short solos, but didnât realise it would also be handy for finger picking too.
Iâve actually started learning a more fingerstyle focussed song yesterday, which I put on my âto-doâ list when I saw someone post it last week. I find that breaking up tricky parts into even smaller sections helps when Iâm struggling to get something⌠so Iâll probably be doing a lot of that in the next week or so with this new one.
@batwoman Thanks Maggie. haha yes, I was on my way to hitting the wrong string/note which put me off beat for a moment⌠but then I made a split decision to just keep going on with it as if it were only a figment of my imagination 
@DarrellW @liaty @notter @rumil Thanks for the positive comments guys, much appreciated.
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Yes, Iâm showing my age by using that expression. Youngsters are probably saying âwhatâs a postcard?â 
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That was really well done Sandro. Well done, youâre definitely not down and out. Youâre on the way up!
Interestingly, Tommy Emmanual uses a thumb pick but usually palm mutes to get the sound he wants. He also play a lot of songs without the thumb pick using the flesh of his thumb to get a softer, gentler sound. In one of his videos he made a statement that may be of interest âIn the Robert Johnson blues style or Eric Clapton - you can see that he doesnât use a thumbpick. What he does is gets his thumb under the string and pops it out and give it that funky kind of edge. So thatâs another way of using your thumb.â
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Answers on an instagram DMâŚ
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@socio thanks for the compliment James. I tend to mostly use the flesh of my thumb on the thicker strings, but I might test out my nail a bit more to try get a slightly different sound out of them. cheers
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Very well played. Nice finger style going on there. 
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A lovely bit of playing Sandro. I always enjoy what you put out there. Tasty treats.
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That was wonderful Sandro. I love this song. It appears to be quite complicated, yet beautifully played.
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Well after Gordonâs post I spent my time looking for a suitable postcard to frame my reply, whilst the track was playing but could not find one. Maybe just as well as it would not have done this justice. That was well played Sandro and indeed to my ears very close to the original.
Guess if I had found a postcard I would have needed a stamp and folks would need that explaining as well. My knowledge of Instagram was once referenced to in one of my Diary Chapter and am sure my explanation makes more sense.
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@RonG thanks Ron, appreciate it mate.
@SgtColon glad you liked it Stefan, cheers. One of your older videos was one of the first things that I watched when I first found this site, which was part of the motivation for me to upload stuff here. I hope to see some new avoyp from you down the track.
@TheCluelessLuthier thanks for the kind words Mark. If you like a song and know it very well, then just go for it and donât worry about stuff appearing complicated until youâre already half way into learning it hope you try this one out and get to play it at some point.
@TheMadman_tobyjenner cheers Toby.
making me sound like someone from Gen Z/Gen alpha. It was just the expression that Iâd never heard of⌠I promise that I know what a postcard and stamp are
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What a great version / fingerpicking. Love the E7 stunt - sounds so interesting!
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Cheers @andyPlays wow, this thread is a blast from the past. A bit surprised to see that a few of my avoyp posts had been merged into one.
Not sure which 1 of these 3 you referred to, but glad you enjoyed my version
Also this is a nice little reminder for me to go practice a couple of these songs, which I havenât touched in a while (hope theyâre still hidden somewhere in my memory haha)