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@marianne & @marlongas – Both of you did an amazing job on this song! Bravo 👏
@darktoto – Excellent playing! Only thing I’d point out is that the G string should be open in bar 3 and 4 and for the 3 walk down bars that follow it. Try that, you might like that melody note more than what’s produced when you barre across the 4th string 🙂
@puppylovesuke – My pleasure!
@laurakarr12 – Tuning sounded fine to me. It was beautifully played! Keep up the great work 🙂puppylovesuke – Excellent job and thank you so much for the kind words! You played it brilliantly with great feel and timing.
Only one thing to point out. Double check the notation in Theme 2. Sounds like a few of the bass notes in the walk-up bars are incorrect.
As for your question, Andrea’s advice is spot on. You’ll want to get a non-steel (a.k.a non-wound) string to avoid that sound.
zongozongo – Absolutely beautiful take, Nicolas. You nailed the relaxed feel which makes the melody shine. Well done! It was an honor to share it in our email newsletter last week 🙂
june2020 – Great job this month, June! So question, did you play along with the tab player in synthetic mode? Or with Matt? Because Matt’s performance uses rubato here and there. Which really lets the piece breathe as opposed to keeping a steady tempo and staying on the beat.
My suggestion for you is to slow the tempo down, but add a bit of rubato for a tasteful effect. For ex, try holding some of the dotted quarter or half note hits longer to build tension.
shmu88 – Excellent performance! I’m going to share this in our newsletter this week 🙂
brettboy – Excellent playing as always, Brett! And thank you so much for the kind words. I really appreciate it 🙂
LOL @ the duet at the end haha
ajk101 – Beautifully played, Allen! You nailed the pace, feel and vibe. Keep up the excellent work 🙂
katazumiri – Well played and super cool to hear it as a duet 🙂
clempek – I thought it sounded great! As for your comment about giving the thumb section a more melodious sound. Try experimenting with softer, lighter attacks. Check out this video where I talk about this in more detail. While the video uses fingerpicking as its example, the same concept can be applied for thumb strums.
Hi Marie, yes there is. I forgot to make it viewable. Please try the page now. You should be able to watch it and thank you for letting me know 🙂
@deadbuggy – I agree with @evapaju, beautifully played! My only critique is that the dynamic effect of soft playing is cool but it was a bit hard to hear some of the passages in the tail end of the B melody.
@asarkarx – I moved your post to our request list. This is the best place to add requests as we go through this list and choose songs from it for our vote offs (such as this recent one) 🙂
We had 43 members participate this month! Stephen and I were blown away by everyone’s performances! Great job everyone! 🙂
This month’s prize is 2 hour long Skype lessons, one taught by Stephen and the other by me. So without further ado, the winners are:
Our March Challenge is LIVE: https://rockclass101.com/march-2022-challenge. We’ve got a FUN Theme for this month and YOU get to pick the PRIZE! Hope to see everyone in the challenge!
@joe150 – Sounds great, Joe! I would suggest to keep practicing with the tab player. 50% speed is okay to do. Work on 4 bars at a time and boost tempo gradually. You’re making great progress, keep up the good work!
Here’s the rest of the feedback we haven’t gone to yet 🙂
seoulkim – Here’s my feedback for you and the video I referenced.
mac1984 – Great job on the timing, feel and rhythms! Well done 🙂
mademoiselleannette – Here’s my feedback for you 🙂
lhamilton – Lovely playing, Linda!
puppylovesuke – That was a beautiful performance, David! I’d even say it’s the best performance I’ve heard from you to date. Well done!!
@joe150 – Says your video is private. Can you change it to public?mkstewart67 – Beautifully played, I enjoyed watching your performance 🙂
Well this is the first time that we had a tie between 3 songs (Crazy, Pure Imagination, and City of Stars)! BUT @misterbones just broke the tie! Crazy is our winner.
Thanks everyone for voting!!