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Welcome, Chris! And that’s pretty cool about the podcast! Please make a stand along post in this fourm about it. That will help folks find out about it 🙂
And I fixed both of your posts in the challenge. Sorry, they got stuck in pending mode!
Welcome, Mara! Rickey’s suggestions are a great starting point. In addition to his suggestions, Greensleeves will be on our December challenge. Give that one a shot! And if you need any help, don’t hesitate to email me or post on our forums. 🙂
annefgodfrey – Wow, Anne! This is the best performance I’ve heard from you to date! I’m super impressed, keep up the great work! 🙂
oldan_ – I think you’re doing just fine with highlighting the melody note in the strum section. What I’d focus on is keeping the timing steady. So there’s quite a few pauses atm. Try and take a 4 bar section, slow it down and loop it until you get the timing and transitions perfect. Then increase tempo and do the same with the next 4 bars, before connecting 8 bars together.
The 4 string harmonic hit will be covered in our harmonics course, which is coming out first Friday in January.
@becky7777 – Yes!
@brenna – That’s a lot smoother now! Great take overall 🙂
@willymac – Please do! 🙂
willymac – Beautiful playing, Brian! I’m going to share this today and send it to the folks at Kanile’a. I’m sure they’ll love to see it! So question, no swung feel? Just wondering why you went back to straight. And as far as the ending, I thought you handled it extremely well. As long as you don’t stop, most folks never notice mess ups.
suesbarn – Here is my feedback for you 🙂
k_ra11 – Wonderful job! Great feel and excellent job on the arpeggiated attack. The only thing I’d suggest working on is the rhythm in bar 14, which I actually just talked about towards the end of the video feedback that I left for Sue (above you).
@holly1 – My pleasure! You did so well 🙂 And, actually we are working on a course for clawhammer. The plan is to release it mid January. We picked some fun, catchy bluegrass tunes for it!
brenna – I like the dominant lick at the end, nice touch! I also dig the ritardando going into the strum section. Your performance was really good, the only thing that stood out to me was the transition going back into the fingerpicked section, felt a bit laggy. I’d also suggest keeping the ending lick a little more consistent in timing/rhythm. To me, I’m hearing a fermata on the last chord hit followed by that lick, but played in a steady tempo. Let me know if that makes sense, if not I can record a video demoing how I hear it.
holly1 – Dang, Holly! Super clean playing! Excellent job with bringing the melody note out in the strumming section. Keep up the great work!
stinyuke – Well done, Christina! The only thing that stood out to me was that you rushed into the strumming section. So you just want to hold out that last hit longer, while the pick up note falls on the last beat.
As far as your question, hang tight because we’re releasing a course on harmonics the first week of January; and I actually answer what you asked in exceptionally nerdy detail LOL.
You can play over any chord in the progression, which is called playing the changes. But that means to highlight the notes that are in that chord. So in this example: D F# A.