Well, I have to start somewhere. I’ve been doing the spider walk for a while, but this is me trying the ‘fingers close to the fretboard’ G major scale exercise. Just putting it here with a view to reposting in a month and seeing if there’s a difference.
Or not. It won’t allow me to upload an .mp4 file from my phone. 
You can’t directly upload from your phone to the community plattform. You’ll have to upload your videos on a platform like YouTube or SoundCloud and share a link.
Or share a link to a Dropbox, etc. file.
That makes sense - thanks.
OK, still haven’t investigated using YouTube to host video shorts of my progress, but it’s on my weekend to-do list. I have re-connected with my old guitar teacher - not that he’s old, you know what I mean - for live lessons every fortnight. We’ve hit on “Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones as my first ‘learn by heart’ piece. Not my favourite as bands go, but apparently it’s got lots of techniques to then transfer to other songs. And I get to play with my Fuzz pedal, I guess.
Finally worked it out 
G major ‘fingers close to the fretboard’ exercise. Really just for comparison so I can check again in a month and see some progress.
Hi Scott ,
Because you don’t specifically ask for feedback 
:, I’m not going to say 
that the most important thing is to sound the note clean and even during the scales exercises …so slow it down 
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Have fun practicing and it’s great that you post(and able to post ) a first video 
, you will often look back on it with great pleasure,
Greetings
Yes, when I watched it back I thought I should re-do it slower and more cleanly, then I figured that was cheating 
The fact that you realized this after seeing it is great … I hope more will read this …that is exact the point of recording yourself …
12 points for still posting the video 
Greetings
Well done for posting this. It has two benefits. The first is , as you say, you can compare this later. I found that VERY useful to me in the past. The second benefit is other beginners see that not everyone is an expert. We all started at the bottom and worked up.
Re the notes, I concur, start slowly.
Again in the spirit of (hopefully) seeing progress in a month or two from now, here’s Misirlou, after maybe four weeks of trying to get it right without notes. OK, I cheated towards the end… I’m sure I’m doing lots wrong, and the mid section with repeated notes X10 etc, I certainly have the timing off…
An update of sorts. I started working on ‘Satisfaction’ which has easy chords but a sod of a strumming pattern on the opening two bars - a two-bar pattern changing chords on the 4+ beat and missing some down beats. The original is at around 140bpm, I believe. I finally ‘got’ the pattern and timing @ 70bpm. Enter the metronome and increments of 2bpm over 7 days. Now at 125bpm and can see that I’ll get there.
Well done. You are making good progress. The timing didn’t sound too far off and will come. You can practice along with the real song to work on the timing bit.
Keep posting the updates. You’ll be glad you did when you look back and see how far you’ve come.
Sounding good. Good that you keep that strumming hand moving nice and steady.
A few gaffs and trying to play without watching my chord changes at the end.
Slower, but the whole thing with chorus and two different strumming patterns. It’s coming together. Have not tried singing it yet… Also, played on a guitar I just finished making. It wasn’t plugged in, since this is really just for my reference… https://youtu.be/vngPEbkM_RQ
Can’t recall how to embed rather than link the youtube video - mmm…
That looks like nice progress. Your chord changes look pretty effortless and your strumming seems pretty relaxed.
You are occasionally in sync with the metronome. To improve this, try to focus on hitting perfectly on beat 1 and then the rest will start to fall in line. Simplify the strumming pattern if you need to.
I think that it is a good idea to resist the urge to play an electric guitar unplugged. This tends to hide a lot of mistakes and encourages you to play a lot harder than you should. Amplifying your guitar will help you to improve your touch, on both your fretting and strumming hands. I say this as someone who spent a ton of time playing my electric unplugged and then had to almost relearn how to play when I started using my amp.
You’re making great progress. Keep recording yourself and analyzing yourself and you will continue to improve.