Also posted in my learning log. It’s taken me a while to start to get the hang of power chords and this may not have been the best song to go after but…
The intro’s a little sloppy but her, work in progress 
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Great job Notter. Great song to play. Powerchords sounding good to me
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Thank you Ross, appreciated 
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That was very nicely done Mark. The changes were excellent.
I’ve just hit the power chords section myself and you think it’s going to be easy but it’s soooooooo hard.
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Thanks Stefan, all the best with them, I definitely found them much harder than expected! Have to admit, keeping third and fourth finger together through the changes was my battle personally with them.
Nicely done, Mark.
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Also posted in my learning log.
This is the second of my mini-update / catch-up as a progression log of my barre chords, a run through of Californication with the app backing track (still not loud enough on the backing though I’m afraid 
). I remember the first time I ever played through this when practicing mini-F and almost despaired, then I got to the bridge section and thought I’m never going to do this!! But yet again practice seems to work, funny that!!
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Great going, Mark. Practice is paying off for sure.
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Thanks John 
Mark, I don’t have time at work to give this a watch, which I will do later.
As a rule we like to post things once in one category. My suggestion would be to just provide the embedded recording here in AVOYP. You can also paste a link to the Topic in AVOYP in your Learning Log if you have additional notes you’d like to record in your Learning Log. Some people have chosen to maintain a list of links to all their recordings on either SoundCloud or YouTube in their Learning Logs, a process of copy, paste, and add in each update.
Hi David - Understood and appreciate the guidance, I’ll be sure to follow that approach in future. Thanks.
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Great progress Mark. This song is a good grower, start playing the chords, then arpeggios and later the solo. Accessible and plenty to grow with.
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Thanks JK, yes the solo is my next development item for this song now I’ve got a solid foundation. Not done much work on solo-ing outside of the specific module on it but that feels like a long time ago now!!
Sounded good Mark. Clean chords , steady strumming and you’ve got a good tone going too. Well done.
My only comment is watch your posture. You’re hunched over the guitar watching your fingers. You’ll end up with a sore neck/back.
Thanks Gordon. My sitting posture is far and away the biggest thing I need to sort out, many others have pointed it out as well. I’m trying to work on it but not enough yet! I’ve been going through songs that I know I know (if that makes sense) and therefore purely foucssing on sitting straighter and by consequence also not looking at my fretting hand. I slip back into hunching more when I’m looking at what I’m doing.
Appreciate your feedback, thank you.
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Listen to the wise man Mark.
Ahem … a note from the Posture Police … we’ll be back to check on you fella 
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Sounds good, Mark, smooth, clean, and liked the tone. Well done, keep up the good work.
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wel the last thing I need is the posture police after me, yes ma’am….
Hope you’re doing well Maggie 
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That is coming along nicely Mark.
It’s odd how we think when we first start to learn a new song, even though we’ve done it before we still doubt ourselves.
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Thank you Stefan, couldn’t agree more with you. Still much more to learn with this song but it’s a really fun one to get to grips with. I’ve started to have a little play with the solo which is (dare I say it) not too bad to pick up I think with a bit of focus.
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