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@lhamilton – Great job, Linda! One tip for Melody B. Try to use more of a claw-shaped strum attack hitting the strings with the nails. This will help you go faster and be more accurate in the attack. Here’s a video showing how the technique mirrors strumming:
@smokealot – Good to see you back, Ulli! I especially loved the triplet picking. Great idea!
@k_ra11 – Beautifully played 👏
@misterbones – Excellent playing as always, Michael! 2 suggestions: Bar 2 seemed a bit fast to me. If you listen to how I play it, it’s very slow-rubato-y, which IMO adds more suspense before the melody kicks in in the next bar. It’s the same effect you achieved in 14 sec to 21 in your performance. I’d just do that again in bar 2.Watch out for rushing at 24 to 27 seconds.
@lisadmh – Beautiful playing Lisa with very tasteful adaptions!@starry – Playing sounds beautiful! As for your question, it looks like the motion when fingerpicking is coming from your wrist. Instead, the wrist should be more stationary while the fingers do the work. Try moving your hand back, down towards the soundhole (as shown here).
You’ll be able to make better contact when fingerpicking the strings there as the neck isn’t in the way. After that, try to minimize wrist motion when fingerpicking. Here’s a short video of me vamping on C. You can see the finger are doing most of the work:
@johanna2509 – Beautiful playing!
@deadbuggy – Thank you for the compliment, Sara! You played it so well! I loved it!
@jgillard – That rocked, Jeremy! I’m gonna share your performance in our newsletter tomorrow 🙂
@zongozongo – Excellent fingerpicking!
@rafaela – Another fantastic take! You’ve been acing them each month! Keep up the great work, Rafaela!
@annemarie – Timing sounds great! Excellent playing! I’d start boosting tempo by 5 to 10 bpm and gradually work it up to speed. Keep up the great work!Thumb placement depends on the context of the music you’re playing. Check out this lesson. It explains this in more detail and shows you a few forms that you can use.
Welcome, Alet! Glad to have you here!
I’d recommend starting here. It’ll help you plan a path for success 🙂
If you ever need help on the lessons, please don’t hesitate to ask.
@The_Bumble_Bard – In other words, you adapted it so well that it fooled me into thinking it was Chris’s arr. Great work!
@The_Bumble_Bard – If I said that, then that’s totally cool! It’s hard to remember every lesson. Honestly, I thought it was a song from Chris’s course. But on re-watch, I see that it is the etude in clawhammer-style. That works, I’ll accept it for this month 🙂
@The_Bumble_Bard – Sounds awesome, Rachael! But unfortunately that piece is not one of the choices for this month’s challenge. This is the piece for “etude no. 3“.
@jebergeron – That was awesome! Excellent playing 🙂 My only advice is to target your practice to smooth out the transitions that had a little pause. Keep up the great work!@katazumiri – Awesome duet! Loved it 🙂
Garry, it looks like you might have shared the link to your youtube channel. When you click on your video, copy and paste the url onto the forum. It should self-embed if you paste the link in its own line, like:
YouTube Link
I fixed the link for you and I did watch your performance! You played it beautifully. Well done 🙂
If you’ve registered with Ableton, you’ll be able to contact technical support when logged in. They should be able to help troubleshoot this issue.
Wish I could help, but I switched over to logic in 2017.
@jgillard – That was awesome! You rocked the bluegrass tune and etude #3 was beautifully played. Well done 👏
@samash07 – Beautifully played, Sam!
@garryrow – Thanks, Garry! I look forward to watching your performance 🙂
@pgoody – Excellent fingerpicking, Patty! My only suggestion is to continue working on the transitions from chord to chord. I want to hear a little less hesitation so we keep the timing steady.