>> Newest Target members only lesson - Fly On The Wall - Stairway To Heaven with Kevin

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tgjameela
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Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:35 pm

Hi Everyone,

Today's Target members only lesson is a new Fly On The Wall.

Kevin has only been working on fingerpicking for a short time but we decided to tackle one of the greatest songs of all time anyway, Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven. As you probably know, the beginning is a set of arpeggios over some partial barre chords, followed by some standard open chords. After a week or two we had really just talked about the open chord section and it was coming along nicely, until I decided it was time to take it to a much higher level and work on individual finger placement, rather than slamming down all fingers at once. This seemed like a setback at first but as we moved along Kevin realized that we were in this to take his level of playing up a few notches, not just learn to hack through the song, as many people do.

Enjoy!

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sbutler
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Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:26 pm

Neil, pay no attention to those Goober's on youtube. The proof is in the puddin'. Your teaching style is just fine.

And its good to see Kevin again.

Scott


thereshopeyet
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Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:46 pm

Neil and Kevin

Thanks for sharing this looks to be informative.
Looking forward to viewing.

Dermot

:)


dtaylor
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Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:50 am

Neil,
I'm surprised you didn't try adjusting his hand position when Kevin was killing every other note over and over. I know he's new to finger-picking, would you expect that to improve naturally as he gets more comfortable with it?

Also, in the FMaj7 to Am move in measure 10 Kevin was having trouble with, I just leave my middle finger where it is and don't put the full Am chord down because you only need the A picked separately. It helps as an anchor for the hammered on C as well. Do you recommend this or not?


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