Most fun songs so far - the Good
- R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts - Fingerstyle! Section with F# and Bm is rough, otherwise it’s very pleasant. Little modifications of the fingering pattern, from the song lesson, when changing between certain chords are fantastic.
- Bob Dylan - Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door - Without embellishments so far.
- U2 - One
It’s still hard - the Bad
- Rhythm. I’m practicing with metronome and playing along songs. This doesn’t stop me from speeding up, or slowing down. Even with fingerstyle it’s all over the place. I suspect it might be impacted by my preference to target being rather faster than slower - having more time gives me peace of mind that mistake will be recoverable.
- Foot tapping when strumming 16th notes. My foot is often trying to tap on every downstrum
. - Thumb + index finger strumming 16th notes. When fast strumming (90bmp) index finger sometimes is getting caught by thickest string, when upstream is immediately followed by downstream.
Other observations - and the Ugly(?)
- Relaxed strumming with pick is slowly getting better. I’m able to more control loudness. At the same time I finally understand how it might be possible to drop pick, and dropped it few times (woohooo!). There was one time when I could feel the softness of pick grip, like I was almost not holding it, but it still couldn’t be dropped.
- Wonderwall - still impossible to play Wonderwall strumming patterns in the right tempo, and with chord changes as in the track.
Module 11
- Third week, module is mostly completed. I’m still polishing ending of Happy Birthday.
- Somewhere I saw suggestion to use Fleetwood Mac - Dreams from Module 10, for practicing F ↔ G changes. This is working great.
- After finally remembering Happy Birthday, playing it got much more comfortable, comparing to following tab.
- I’m using Summer of '69 riff as a sus chords song practice.
