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Sounds great, Sheila! I would suggest to slow the tempo by 10 to 15 BPM as it sounds like you are at your limit.
Great question! I created Learning Paths to answer 2 big questions:
1) where do I start?
2) what do I work on?
The guide was divvied up to address the beginner, intermediate, and advanced player. Its focus is to help you craft a custom practice schedule, where you could devote X amount of time to various areas. For example, if you are a beginner and you want to work on technique, let’s say adding a backbeat (a.k.a. “chucking”); You can input “backbeat” into the search field, which would display these results: https://rockclass101.com/?s=backbeat.
There are a lot of songs which use this technique, so you would want to double check them to their level. But a good one to start with would be, 12 Bar Blues Strumming, as it is a “beginner series” song.
I’d suggest level 1 songs for the seasoned beginner, level 2 for the intermediate, 3 and 4 for advanced.
I do need to go back and update LP as we’ve added over 40 lessons and the Reading Course since it was written. But, one thing I’d like to do – which harkens more on your original question – is to write structured, step by step lesson plans that you can follow. These would be detailed plans that focus on developing one area. I haven’t started working on this yet, but the idea is there, and I’d imagine that the structure would be something similar to what you see in our courses.
Fingerpicking Etude no. 11 talks about using the palm of the right hand to mute the strings that we do not want to hear (and are not playing).
Lisa, the movement needs to come from the finger, not the arm. So if you watch the video, you can see how much play your arm has. This should be focused in the finger instead.
Thanks, Lisa! This tune is the capstone piece in the new Reading Course. You’ll be able to download just the sheet music in that lesson 🙂
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@imminside – Sounds great! But I’d recommend adding the hits on beats 2 and 4 only. Give that a shot 🙂