My lesson this week started with the
Radiohead song “No Surprises”. I had been trying to practise the intro through
the week which I stated to my teacher when he asked me how the week has been
with my guitar.
However playing the intro for the first half a dozen times
wrong probably looked like I had done nothing.
I practised this part for a while the part where I play an
open string then on fret 3 on string three with finger two I had to practise a
bit because I had a habit of rushing it.
After some time the tune sounded OK.
This was the intro played by the Electric lead guitar. The
next part was to do the acoustic rhythm part.
For this the teacher adjusted my electric guitar to sound
more acoustic. He had only the forward pick-up on and on single rather than
double and with the tone on about half way which I think was a five. He also
adjusted the Amp in some way which I am not sure. There appears to be so many
knobs and switches to adjust at the moment it will take me awhile to get my
head around it all.
The rhythm is four downs then one up. The first chord is D for four bars
Then and E minor for two bars.
Then goes to A for two bars bars then back to D. I then had to do a bar
chord which is the same shape as the bar chord in Half the world away.
As usual when learning a new rhythm I had trouble. The main
problem was coming in too early with the up stroke and it sounding too bouncy.
I had several attempts to put this right but the more I focused on it the worse
it got. The teacher advised me to try and strum with a stiffer arm so that the
bouncy feeling goes. I tried this and it sort of worked. The bar chord a couple
of times I got very close to getting it, so more practise required on that.
I had practised this a lot and had to build it up over chunks.
I tried now and it was all wrong again and it too was bouncy. I nearly got the rhythm and I will be practising this a bit through the week to try and sort this out.
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