11Dec2025 - I’ve been so busy practicing and recording songs that I haven’t taken the time to record my progress.
I think that I have learned how to use a pick to arpeggiate chords following the intro in Justin’s new song lesson video for Wonderful Tonight, I just recorded playing the chords for one verse of the song. I wanted to sing along, but i will have to get a lot more confident with this style of playing to also sing:
I have practiced Fortunate Son a lot but I still have problems with playing along with the song. I had problems with 50% of speed and changed my approach to the intro. Notice in the video that I am playing with hybrid picking which let me at least play at 70% speed. The intro sounds good, but the power chords don’t have a good tone, that I think is due to recording the mini amp with the phnne a;nd my electric guitar too close to the microphone and picking up the twangy sound of the strummed strings. I really need to record through my DAW, but I am sitill a little unsure about synching the recording with the video. I also don’t want to be caught in the rabbit hole of chasing tone 
I can finally play the chord melody version of Greensleeves from Grade 3, but I had to revise the fingering to avoid an Fm barre, by playing two different partial F barre chords and playing individual notes for the place where the finger is raised to form the Fm barre. I only left out the first low F note, but it sounds good to me, This is a song that I am currently working on improving by playing along with a metronome (Justin’s app). I had to start with an excruciatingly slow 50 bpm and 3:1 meter. After a couple of days of practice (after recording this) I am already up to 60 bpm.
The only AVOYP posted so far this month (I updated an earlier unfinished post):