Having punk and rock aspirations finger style hasn’t been a big part of my practice routines.
But….I’m into the later beginner modules and there are plenty of skills to learn and I figured I should get a ground level of competence in a few. Since it was my daughters 3rd birthday today I’ve spent the last month or so working on finger style happy birthday.
I played it today as my wife and eldest sang before blowing out the candles. We didn’t record the actual event so I filmed another run.
I coulda hit a couple of the notes a bit cleaner and the some of the base coulda held for longer but I was pretty happy with where I got to in a month.
I applaud your approach to invest time in foundational skills as they are presented, even if not obviously things that may serve your long terms aspirations.
So, just a thought … if you have an electric (I expect you do) then how about playing it through once on a full clean tone, letting the last note ring, and then kicking off an over-driven, superfast, power chord rendition that the Pistol;s would be proud of
I noticed you uploaded the video as a short. I’d suggest uploading a normal video which you can then embed in your post. I think lots of members like the ability to just watch the video in the Topic, and also in future we can go to your channel and look back on your videos (not sure how that would be done with shorts). Not important, just a thought.
YouTube poster Newb, didn’t even realise I made a short. I’ll repost the vid and edit the OP. Edit: have tried to re-upload to YouTube as a vid and it auto changes it to a short every time. Clearly I need to add the extra verse to make it a longer video.
Thanks for the feedback and yes, it’s on the cards to go exactly as you said. My wife and I have been laughing about the Ramones version to mr Burns.
I’m not a YT expert, so not sure how to upload a short. But I have seen people upload fairly short videos in the past here, so would not have thought that it was done automatically based on video length. perhaps something for me to investigate when I have some time.
That was very well played Rhys. I suspect the red light of fear contributed to those buzzing notes but I bet your daughter was well pleased with your “on the night” performance.
Sounded great and what a motivation, playing on Isla’s birthday. I did similar when I was learning a few months ago for my daughters 9th.
Now you’ve spent a bit of time doing some fingerstyle how do you like it? It wasn’t part of my aspirations initially and only after playing some did I grow to love doing it.
@jkahn potentially different experience for me. While I enjoyed the dexterity / skill building component of learning this, there are so few song I want to learn that use it. I don’t see myself spending much time on it really.
I think there are other things like percussive strumming and picking strings while strumming and base notes connecting chords that I can see being far more useful to the genres I want to play.
and good job Dad 
,…and your father did a great job… .
