Originally Posted by
Robert
Marnold - am I doing something different? Yes, I bought a new guitar!
Jimi, good suggestions. I figured the lesson as a whole could be useful since there's a lot of repetition in there.
Great lessons and good comments. Jimi, you have steered me as to how I will approach the lesson. I had learned a "chuck" muting already, so I think I will play with the right hand stuff using the "chuck" and get comfortable before adding the notes. I think I will get less frustrated that way. I have been wanting to learn more about right hand and strum patterns and rhythms, and have been up to now pretty locked into a down, down, up, up, down 4/4 pattern, unless I do a 3/4 bluegrass/waltz type of thing. (that one is very basic. I remember 3/4 from my piano days, but am very basic at it). The next one I was going to try and master was a basic reggae, which I think would lead to this. Thanks guys!
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
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