Sugar, Sugar. Since I’m still out on the injured list from playing basketball on Monday & Friday mornings, here we go with one of the biggest hits from my favorite cartoon bands.
After finishing Grade 1 of my Justin Guitar online guitar lessons, I was challenged us to learn 5 songs that I could play & sing from memory before moving on to Grade 2. I found this incredibly difficult because I usually play with a chord sheet in front of me. So . . . here is song 3 of 5. Enjoy! Hopefully!
uh 1, 2, 3, 4
This one was super hard for me since it has two riffs that are repeated throughout the song.
Hey Robert!
Cool cover version! I really like your enthusiasm!
Only critique I can offer is to work on the timing a bit more… when you play the riffs, it seems to slow down a little. At Grade 1, this is to be expected, though! All of our Grade 1 songs tend to be a work in progress!!!
Lots of energy & you keep “driving the song forward “… overall great job! Two thumbs up from me!!!
Hey Robert, this is really really nice you know?! It is quite impressive to me just grade 1! Tod is right, timing requires work…but hey you have a very natural groove for strumming! Very well done, a big thumbs up from my part! …ah no… two!
Nice clean chords, good rhythmic feel with the strumming, and a good voice to match.
You have an engaging presence too, in front of the camera.
Sure, the riff section is a work in progress. For Grade 1 though, you’ve made a great start, and its just time on the guitar that will free up that picking hand.
Looking forward to some more of your cool tunes.
Great, it’s very hard to learn a song and play through from memory, I am still trying to get there with it.
Great song choice it brought back memories of when I was a kid and it was in the charts. I thought you played and sang it well, a few rhythm and riff stumbles as others mentioned, but you’ll banish this in no time, thanks for sharing
Sounds good, Robert. Always fun to hear some of these old classic hits. I was really impressed. I never saw you look down at your fretboard even once! Great vocals and strumming. Like the others mentioned, the main thing to work on may be timing on the RIFFS. But you are doing GREAT!
great song Robert are you sure you have never played before? you have inspired me to learn some campfire songs as I don’t know that many so planning on learning 10 songs easy ones.
I’ve played rhythm acoustic guitar for quite a while. But, I was stuck. Pretty much all I could do was play chords with a chord sheet in front of me. I don’t think I ever memorized all the chords & lyrics to any song until now. After I finished the beginner Grade 1, Justin challenged us to memorize 5 go to songs that we could play on demand, no lyrics, no chords. I decided to try. It has been very hard, much harder than I thought. This was the 3rd of 5 that I have been working on for about 7 months. I’ve got 2 more coming. Here’s my 5.
Very good Robert. I must go back and revisit Grade 1 if that’s the standard! Changing chords and interspersed individual note picking and string skipping, all no look! Mighty impressive Grade 1.
…ah no… two! 