I started off this lesson again going through the Rod Stuart
song “Maggie May”.
I started off with the intro.
This has started to get better but it does seem to me that
it takes me a few times round to get the rhythm correct. What I mean is I am
strumming correctly but it’s like the timing is just slightly off. Once I hear
the teacher go through it once or maybe twice I sort of get it. Some parts of
this are not very crisp with me being too late on the D from the G. However
after a fair bit of practice I did get very close.
The main part is made up of four verses with no choruses.
It took me a few times to forget the intro rhythm and play
the main songs rhythm. The main had parts have been the change from G to D
again and also from G to A and of course the Em to F#m thing. We spent a lot of
time just getting the structure of this part and getting use to the changeover.
Doing this part slow and getting the changeover correct was a good idea but
there was something inside of me wanting to strum along at the right speed even
though I probably would go too fast and make a pig’s ear out of it all.
After practicing this till my fingers where bleeding the
teacher wanted to see how I was fairing with the Animals song “House Of The
Rising Sun”.
Well the easy answer to that would be not very well. I have to
confess that I have been practicing but most of the time on Maggie May so this
song is still in it’s very raw (by that I mean sounds very bad) state.
I
went through the first part and we looked at the position of my strumming hand
the directions I was plucking. After a few times it did sound better but still
very raw.
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