Good job Jeff!! You’re improving quickly. I do think that you would benefit alot by how you hold your guitar.
Maybe its working for you, but i could never have played in that «tilted position» i would have struggled with the chords, chord changes, and strumming and picking.
Might be worth too look at, just my two cents 
Keep up the good work 
Hi Jeff, that’s a decent effort. I like the tone of your voice quite a bit and I think having that helps carry your guitar playing along. All in all I think you will progress nicely with all this guitar playing malarkey!
Since your main goal was to keep a steady beat I would call this a win. Good Job!
I think what it is with the tilt thing, I picked up the bad habit of tilting the guitar towards me to see the fret board while I was first learning. I am working on improving that. Thanks.
Thanks for the compliment.
Thanks. I am keeping in mind working on the mechanics and playing with a metronome. Baby steps for me this week.
Thank you. I have been working on tapping my foot and bobbing my head to feel the music. I think it will help make it sound more natural.
That was a much better video I could hear you loud and clear. Not much to add as others have already said. Just keep at it and keep learning songs!!! Horse with no name would be a great beginner song to learn as it’s only two chords. Maybe give that one a shot? Cheers!
Thanks for listening. Taking things a day at a time and improving. Have a great weekend.
No prob looking forward to more!!!
Hi everyone,
After reviewing Justin’s lesson about having a handful of songs ready to play without a music sheet to be ready at a party, I soon realized I have none I can play from memory. So I left work early, went to the beach and used his knocking on heaven’s door example. The lesson here is you have to remember the lyrics, chord progressions, play in time, have a steady rhythm, and do all with distractions. You’ve got the sound of the ocean, kids yelling, people walking by watching, your wife smiling while filming, people sunbathing watching me that I’m not supposed to notice, etc. so the takeaway is you lose some quality if you don’t play among distractions. This is Mission Beach, about 15 minutes drive from the house. Let me know what you think. Thanks for listening.
That’s a great exercise, Jeff. The strumming came across as a little stiff, choppy to me, not as relaxed as the previous video, but fairly steady. Still some work to be done to memorise lyrics. As you say, ups the ante when you have to put it all together from memory. Well on your way, keep working the song.
Thanks David. IU appreciate the honest feedback. I knew this was not my best showing, but if I don’t work on it I will never be ready to perform. I just realized I can click a name and see where a person is from. South Africa, huh that is cool. My friend here is San Diego is from there and he and his son speak Afrikaans to each other, probably the only 2 in California. I understand some of it because I speak German and some Dutch and it sounds similar to me.
It was a good exercise and quite sure you would not have cleared the beach, Jeff As you say, keep stretching and playing. It takes me weeks and weeks to get a song memorised and up to what I consider to be an acceptable level of play and sing to perform it live.
I’m quite sure there are more South Africans in California … many many folk have left the country in the near 50 years that I’ve been aware of it (and that’s enough about that). Afrikaans is derivative of Dutch primarily, or maybe Flemish, I think but must have other European language influences given it was the language of settlers from back in the 1600s. I can pick up a little when reading Dutch and German eg Lieven’s advert for his guitar pedals (is he writing Dutch or Flemish, not sure?)
Well done Jeff. Sitting on the beach strumming guitar. Nirvana!
Your strumming wasn’t as relaxed as I’ve seen in some of your other AVoYPs. You’re essentially busking so we’ll excuse you. 
Well now, someone is just showing off 
Great backdrop Jeff.
Nicely played but like others have said, try a loosen up on that strumming.
Hi Jeff, I suspect you’re someone very comfortable in your own skin. As such you knocked that exercise out of the park! So cool.
Well done Jeff. Keep up the good work. Those kids yelling, the people walking by and the people sunbathing will soon be sitting around you listening contently to your playing and joining in the choruses with you.
Nice take Jeff! Though i could hardly hear you and your guitar because of the ocean lol. But from what i heard it was decent, just keep at it and you will get there! Rock on!
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I could have done better. That was part of the exercise as a learning experience. Overall I need to be louder and play amongst distractions. Thanks for listening.