This has been one of my “dreamer” songs for many months now and I still have a long way to go. I just decided today that I would record and post it.
It’s funny, when I push the record button on my phone, it gets harder to play.
Hey Greg, great progress on a great song. In certainly sounds like you’ve learnt it and now it’s time for polishing.
I couldn’t help but notice your hand seems to move around a lot, with some pretty big finger movements. It seems to coincide with some jarring sounds with those picks. Take a look at guitar lesson videos of the song (Justin’s, or Carl Brown / guitarlessons365 are good examples) and look at their hands, they move their fingers but not the hands. Perhaps sorting out that technique part could make the whole song easier to play.
Great job, that is a typical song that gets better, polished and decorated over a course of years (I speak from experience :D)
One thing I’d liek to note though, while plucking the strings, you tend to move your picking hand upward. You’ll make it hard on yourself in the future learning other fingerpicking songs
Check this video from Justin on Travis Picking around 01:15
His hand remains hovering over the strings
I’ve been playing this for about ten months now and have reached the conclusion that it’s about as good as I’m going to get at it. It still has a couple of bugs, but oh well!
Sounds great, Greg the work you’ve put in on this has really shone through here, really well played would love to hear you have a go at putting some vocals to it