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Here is my first attempt at House of the Rising Sun. Quite difficult for me, I’m hoping to improve upon it in the next few days. I have simplified the strum as per you suggestion and it helps a lot.

I can play it more consistently at a slower pace, and the harmonics are completely impossible 🙂 Right now I’m trying to get it smoother and accentuate the melody notes. I hope I’ll have time to record a second version around the last few days…

Cheers

Daniel

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Andrew,

Thanks for that response. Makes sense, I’ve tried first to substitute a down strum for the ghost strum. The simplification you suggested is definitely something that will help. I’ll shoot for the original arrangement (it’s only day 3, haha), but you’ve increased my understanding which is great 🙂

The switch from D back to the F+C is surprisingly difficult too…

BTW, fantastic job on putting together the theory part of the course – in the end the difference between the fingerpicking approaches and the great explanation was what sold it to me 🙂 keep up the good work!

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Hey,

OK, I see now that House of the Rising Sun is going to be a much bigger challenge for me than The Sound of Silence…

I am struggling a lot with the ghost strum melody part. I see we are trying to replicate the same rhythm pattern as with the picking, but I can’t get my head around it.

Do you have any tips how to approach this?

I am trying to very slowly speaking and strumming like this (at a constant tempo), working on Bar 5:

Down, Miss (up without hitting), Ghost, Up, Ghost, Up, Down, Miss, Down, Miss, Ghost Up, Ghost, Up, Down, Miss, Ghost, Up, Down.

Any helpful tips you guys? 🙂

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Yay, House of the Rising Sun!! I was gonna learn that anyway 🙂

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So… first video submission ever and first challenge participation. Also first post here, been a member for about a month now. Very exciting.

Obviously not quite as good as I’d like it to be. Learned a lot and love the arrangement… had many much better runs than this one but time is running out and the record button is a bitch 🙂

Excited for the November challenge 🙂

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