Lesson Fourteen Tuesday 9th April

My fourteenth lesson started off looking at the the song "Songbird" by Oasis.

The rhythm as been giving me trouble in my practising and there has been some cords like G/F# and F# that I was not aware of so I found I could only strum away in a G or E minor.
My teacher gave me a new cord that I was to use instead of G/F# or /F# which is called F#/Dsw4.

This I tried to use and I found the change from G to this cord another new challenge. My fingers one and two seem to not move quick enough or if they do they miss the string that is needed. Adding this into the song I kept missing the change as I could not remember what the timing was to change. The teacher informed me that I must use the words to see where the change is and he wrote down some for me to see.

This did help but every time I got near this part the rhythm would slow down as I was thinking about the change.

We then looked at the other three songs that I am learning. These had mixed results with trouble with rhythms being the main thing. The big problem was I spent so much of my hour lesson on one song with that rhythm that I would drift into them on the other songs.

Food for thought though and plenty to practise.