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@katazumiri – Sounds awesome! Great job 🙂You should have enough time to come back down to play those notes. Maybe your strum is too wide in its down/up motion? Or as you said, you need to work it up to speed. It’s hard to say without seeing you play it. Feel free to post a video if you want me to take a further look 🙂
@biancak – That part is strummed with the island strum. The melody notes occur on beat ‘4’ and the ‘& of 4’. Which means, your hand should be coming down on beat 4, but instead of strumming, you would be plucking.
Either way, you should be moving down towards the A string, not up towards the G string. Try counting the rhythm as you play and making sure your up/down motion follows:
1 D
& U
2 D
& U
3 D
& UMotion down to:
4 Pluck
& Pluck@shmu88 – Sounds great, Sam! I asked Chris to review your video and he had a couple tips:
“I’d have him move his hand up over the fingerboard, which will seem a bit weird at first, but stop him from attacking the strings too hard on the first stoke. He’s digging into that a bit too much and wants to bounce off the string a bit more.”
It depends on the music: where you are at or moving to in the progression of the piece.
If you’re strumming a 4 chord progression at the beginning of the neck, it would be out of place to move 1 chord all the way up the neck. But if you take those 4 chords and want movement where each gets higher in pitch, then the CAGED method comes in handy.
@bibilele – Beautiful played with a great, relaxed feel. Well done!
@johanna2509 – Aced it 🙂Sounds great, Ulli! If you look at measure 7, you’ll see you’re a half step flat on those 2 melody notes on the C string.
The hardest thing with this song is the timing/flow. It’s really hard because my version is based off the virtuosic Tommy Emmanuels. I’d study his performance as it’s a great reference point for those 2 areas.
I’d recommend taking a Skype lesson with Stephen for help on theory 🙂
Fantastic playing, Rhian! You nailed the vibe of the tune! My only critique is to not rush the first 2 bars of Melody B. It’s a really cool lick with tricky timing! Here’s a video I made last year to help another member with the rhythm/timing of those bars.
That should be fine, but I’d fret the A note on the G string with the middle finger.
And thank you for the kind words 🙂
Theory is awesome! It helps in a lot of areas, for ex: I just wrote 4 short compositions that are Halloween themed. And theory gave me some starting points and ideas on how I could make the music sound spooky 🙂
@santai – that’s awesome!
Overall we had 53 members participate in this month’s challenge! And guys, I know I sound like a broken record, but it’s so cool to see everyone come together and support each other as a community and to challenge ourselves to get better! Bravo to everyone who participated 🙂
Our September challenge is LIVE and the theme is: SONGS ABOUT FOOD! There’s also a very adorable prize for September! You can check out the new challenge here: https://rockclass101.com/september-2021-challenge
So without further ado, the winner of this month’s challenge is **drum-roll**
P.S. Stephen will post the last of the remaining feedback tonight 🙂
@gi_gi_ – Only for Kanile’a Giveaway Challenges 🙂