Thanks @CT for your feedback! I have tried not to anchor my finger for a week now, and im about to give up on that, its just to difficult not to anchor my littlefinger. I think that is something i have to relearn at some point.
Much appreciated 
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I had the same experience Trond. About three years of simple finger-picking with the pinky anchoring. And now in the last year I’ve started to make progress at playing without it. I started that when feeling some pain in the pinky after an intense period working on a finger-style piece.
Like everything it just takes practice and the art is to determine when is the right moment to begin working on something new. I’ve found a couple of times that I struggle with something to such a degree that I just focus and later I come back to it and am able to make progress with it, with the benefit of ongoing general improvement.
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Firstly nothing to be nervous of you sound really good.
Your playing is very clean and sounds a lot better than I did after 1 year.
Keep playing you certainly have a knack for it!
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tRond, Wow! for only playing a year you are terrific. I love the fingerstyle and you have a good voice also. Get over those jitters because you are well on your way
to to being a excellent guitarist. Keep it up man. 
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Thanks a lot! Really apprecite it
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Thanks a lot! Really appreciate your feedback
Plenty of players use an anchor finger. This is rock & roll in an era (which used to be the free world) where people now seem content with being locked down and told when and where they can go and what they can do. So toss out the book of arbitrary rules and just make music. Music is the last bit of freedom we have left in a time when every little thing is an existential threat. Let 'er rip!
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good one!! Will keep that in mind 
Wow @tRONd, that is some amazing fingerstyle work for one year in. You should be very proud of yourself. Cheers, Mike
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Hi all. Couple of weeks since i posted my first vid. Lots of feedback and tips on how to improve. It was so much fun, so i think im just going to throw the second one out there. Not so scary now, but i have this feeling i have to do better than the last one and have to perform better. Decided to just force that feeling away. Its music and the performance is what it is.
Tried to do my biggest idol, Eddie Vedders Society. Love that song. And the lyrics is pretty strong.
Promise my third will be something strummed 
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Hi Trond,
No advice from my side about this performance…great to listen to, thanks for playing 
You better be 
… 
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Wow i really enjoyed that Tron! Very nice! Good fingerpicking and the vocals were not bad either! First time i have heard that song but i really liked it! Kudos!
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That was great, Trond. The picking and vocal worked for me, an engaging performance, full of the feeling you have for the song.
Play the songs you want to play. Glad you are forcing the feeling away that somehow each share should be somehow better than the last. If picking is your thing then keep sharing picked songs. I won’t complain!
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I really love your vocals, Trond, and they certainly suit this song. Lovely finger picking, this is a really beautiful cover.
You will likely receive some input about technique re thumb behind your fingers when you’re playing, and it’s generally the other way around. @adi_mrok gave a suggestion in your other cover. I can’t comment on that because I don’t finger pick the recommended way. I will suggest though, since you are fairly new in your guitar playing journey, check out that recommendation and see if it works for you. I’ve been playing this way too long so I’m too far gone lol. I do have it in my mind though to be aware of my technique if it ever hampers my ability to play what I want to play.
Hi @Mari63
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Yep. I know about the thumb. Im trying but i just cant get it to work. But it is on my priority list for sure 
thanks a lot! 
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Really nice cover, Trond!
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Very nice tRONd, Eddie Vedder is an enormous task to follow but I think you did really well with it; a most enjoyable performance.
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Well this one was a great piece to strum
But honestly as long as it sounds good it is good, and even though quite different to original it was a pleasant listen 
same comment about the thumb placement as last time but at least you are aware of it 
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I most likely have to small thumbs and to large guitar @adi_mrok 
No. Seriously. I have it in my mind all the time, but its a lot more difficult than i ever imagined. But yeah. I am aware of it
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