Reply To: Lesson a week 13: I Crush Everything
Bump. Dave, I’m finally getting around to learning this song!
Here is playthrough from a couple of days ago… sausage being made, rough, lots of mistakes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTb72JN5dec
A couple of practice sessions later, I’m getting it much smoother… it’s falling into place. I’ll make a more polished video of the part the next time I get some quiet time.
CoolJammer, I worked through just the first part of a book on Travis picking (Hanson’s _Art of Contemporary Travis Picking_) and suddenly much that was mysterious about fingerpicking has become clear. The main thing about Travis picking is it gives you a pattern you use with the right hand that alternates the bass strings with the thumb. Most of the most basic patterns seem to only use the thumb, index, and middle fingers, so they really are pretty simple. Practice these patterns and your right hand will do them on autopilot without having to think much about it, and you can then concentrate on the left hand chord changes. Suddenly the song sounds really complicated but it’s really kind of a stunt — you don’t have to consciously think about most of those notes! (If Coulton did, he’d be unable to sing along… he’d probably start drooling).
The one I’d like to work on next is “Summer’s Over” — that has a lot of movement. I think JoCo may have overlaid a second guitar part on some of it. The tab on this one is somewhat confusing to me too.