Lesson Fifteen Tuesday 16th April 2013

My lesson started off looking at the Oasis song "Songbird" that I am learning.

I had been practising this song but the changes in cords are proving very difficult and I would keep missing when I needed to change.
I would either be too quick to change or too late. I suppose it's because I get so zoned into doing the rhythm of the cord the change seems to be a bit of an unwelcome event. As well as changing not on time I could get my fingers caught in the strings which was a bit embarrassing.
Again it was a case of relaxing and the teacher would play the song many times and clap out the rhythm to help me with a louder clap to signal the change. This I did for a long while with some success. The Changing cord also needed to be slicker and the change of rhythm for the change is proving a big challenge.








The next song I practised was the Green Day song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" I seem to be getting a bit better on this one but the change from G to D is my real problem.

I also need to slow the rhythm down a bit and stop trying to chase through the song.

The last song was the other Oasis song "Half The World Away". I have been practising this one for a while so I was hoping to show great improvement. Unfortunately it took me a bit of time to get the rhythm correct as I had the rhythm of Songbird still on my finger tips. I managed to get some respect back on the song but rhythm is the main thing I need to practise.