GNS - May 2023 - Rainbow - Temple of the King (Acoustic) + Power Chords messing

Hey, guys, so, today, I was messing around with a bunch of songs in my notebook and decided to do them differently. Take, Nighwish ‘Bare, Grace, Misery’ (and that particular version of a song is more of a campfire song really), for simple acoustic strumming with open chords and some barre chord mixed in, and instead of open/barre chords, let’s say, do power chords. So, for example, instead Am - C - G - Am etc., go with A5 - C5 - G5 - A5 etc., and some sort of different strumming pattern. For example, if this was an acoustic campfire song, I’d play all of it with D-DUDU. Here, decided to play as DX-DX-DDD (because, why not, and I liked it). Anyway, long story short, any advices, observations or anything really would be appreciated.

What I, personally noticed, is that when going from A5 (DX-DX-DDD) to C5 (DX-DX), I either only target the 5th string or I target both 5th and 4th string, but my finger perhaps mutes the latter, because the sound coming out from the amp is kinda week at that particular transition. Also, my pick… um, doesn’t matter how hard or not hard I’d hold it, while playing, it always changes position in the middle somewhere (from vertical to horizontal). Any advice there what should be done?

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