21Dec2025 - I am still documenting the status of my grade 3 consolidation songs. I didn’t leave enough time to fully develop any of the songs, except perhaps Greensleeves sometime before the end of December. Fortunately, I am continuing grade 3 consolidation next year, along with finishing the grade 4 blues studies.
I still am practicing and working on mastering Greensleeves, which also doubles as a Christmas carol “What Child Is This?”. Here is another video take of Greensleeves done with my eyes closed. I still have problems going from the Am to the C with the high G played with the pinky, but I think that I have determined how to fix that. I still always play the wrong fret when I try to play the Am triad at the 5th fret with my eyes closed, so perhaps I should open my eyes at that point and not try to be a guitar hero 
I hurt my index finger on my right (picking) hand about 6 days ago and switched to playing songs with a pick. Notice that I am using the Orange Dunlop Tortex 0.60 mm pick for all my recordings, instead of the Grey Dunlop Nylon 0.60mm pick that I used last year for all my grade 2 consolidation acoustic song covers. So I consider that some progress.
I started by recording the intro to Wonderwall:
I decided to record American Pie yesterday after a couple of days of practice. I intended to play from the Justin guitar songbook and just play the first page, but my eyes aren’t as good lately, so I printed off my larger print song sheet and played and sang the same part of the song spread over two sheets of paper. I just did one take. I will use this song to test some of what I learn from Justin’s strumming dynamics course. I had to capo to the 2nd fret and sang in a lower register since I don’t have as high of a voice register as Don McLean:
Later in the day yesterday, I realized that I didn’t have a great song to use for the finger strum course (although I thought of using California Dreamin). I had learned Blackbird finger style from TAB many years ago and practiced a little over the years, so decided that this is a good time to record what I know. Later I will play the whole song:
I guess that finger-style and strumming to support singing are my strong points, because that is where I have the most experience.