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@cinichol – I found it helped to learn the C and G strings separately from the other bits for that section. It helped me make sense of the progression.
@cinichol – I memorise it, but a peculiarity of my brain is that I find it relatively easy to memorise music (not lyrics, though) and relatively difficult to sight read, so by the time I can play it smoothly while reading the tab, I have memorised it anyway. I know that this isn’t the case for everyone, though, and there are people who read the tabs while they are playing for these competitions. Andrew will tell you that it is infinitely better to memorise (actually, he would say “memorize” because he is American ;)), but I know don’t think you have to.
“I’m interested in adding another teacher that could teach more complex fingerpicking/strumming with vocal accompaniment – would that interest you? I’d love to see another female teacher join us 🙂”
Yeah, that’s what I’d suggest. Keep up the good work 🙂
Oh yeah. The Eagles block everything!
I can’t help with technique. I observed the same things as you, but I don’t have any insight about how to achieve it.
Well, don’t pay extra just for a built in tuner. You can easily get a decent clip on one for $20. As for the other concerns, I’m like you. I just play for myself and don’t really perform, so I don’t bother with pickups, etc. A cutaway might be good to have, though.
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There. I remembered to write it.
It’s not perfect and I was thinking about re-recording tomorrow, but it will do for now.
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Welcome back! I’d also like to see your collection. Also, what is the American Siberia? I’m only familiar with the Russian one…
Hi Sir_anzalot
I just had a bit of a fiddle with it, and while it is probably possible, I don’t think it would be easy to do it. When he plays the higher version, he plays a whole octave higher. Until the strumming bit at the end, the highest Matt’s melody goes is the 2nd fret on the A string, and the 4th fret on the C string, so if you had a long enough fretboard (like most tenor fretboards), you could just move everything up 12 frets, so that would mean playing the first Em chord as 14 15 16 12 (or 14 15 16 X or 14 15 16 0, etc.) Unfortunately, both my ukes with enough frets to try that are strung low G, which makes it difficult. Still, that’s where I’d start.
Robin