Hi Neil, I love the Lead Secrets - Triads Lessons, and was wondering about the teased "next volume"; I assume it fell through the cracks over the years but I'd love to see it. You were talking about extensions, and the same sort of concept being played on lower string-sets. Just wondering and hoping...

Are there any strategies you'd recommend for increasing speed of the right hand?

I hit a natural speed limit on banjo rolls and general fast picking and don't know the best way to break the speed limit.

More Nick Lowe magic, his iconic 'The Beast in Me' made famous as the outro on episode 1 of The Sopranos.

More cool bass runs with the thumb-wrap, and the right thumb working overtime brushing strums.

Nick Lowe (whom God preserve), with his signature thumb-wrap and thumb strum style; I'd like to know how to play this without being able to wrap my thumb over the three bass strings(!) and retain the walking bass sound. Quite a workout for swift single-beat chord changes, I also love the full strum ...

Alexi Murdoch channelling Nick Drake, a tune in dropped D with the 'melody' played mostly on the bass strings.

Here's a nice example of focused strumming and riff-picking combined in a song for male voices.

A couple of male singer-songwriter tunes people might like.

Hi Neil,
the tab should be in your inbox; hope it helps.
This should be a really popular lesson, looking forward to it.

All the best,
Dean

Here's a nice simple arrangement, (none the worse for that), it has almost a lullaby simplicity. It's in dropped D, I did a transcription for it in Guitar Pro if anyone's interested.

https://youtu.be/upH1QZU4Z0Y Nomination for Christmas tune. I'm not sure how far this reached in its day, but the animated short 'The Snowman' is a British Christmas tradition since the 80's; the vocal made Welsh choirboy Aled Jones a national treasure to this day. Merry Christmas to all the TG fami...