Thanks SO much everyone. Reading all of these comments this morning has meant I'm starting my day feeling on top of the world. Oh!!! While I'm here I can visit some people in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Craig - you're always so sweet to me. Thank you. Having a dicky pinky would make this a challenge to play. You could play it without your pinky, but it's much better with it.
TGVanessa - I love using your new handle (forum name).
Well sweet woman I'm playing it as well as I am because of your fabulous teaching. As you know I started off using the wrong fingering because my memory is crappy at the moment. But once I re watched your video and was doing what you suggested the fingerpicking became much smoother. It just made a lot more sense. I'm THRILLED that you like it.
Cori's right, I did post it as a thank you to you, so your reaction really tickled me (and I'm hard to tickle
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Daryl - hey mate, thanks for commenting so enthusiastically.
actually I really enjoyed playing the percussive strum this way. It does require me to concentrate more and I need to remember to lift my wrist and let go of the tension, but it adds another string to my bow. And the more techniques the better. Neil also teaches percussive strumming with the picky and with the lying down option. I think he says it in Black's song. That may be a free lesson by now. Of course Nessa is teaching it the way Tracy plays it, which is great in my books since it makes the sound more authentic once mastered. However, i will try the muting as you suggest. its great to be able to use different approaches. The phrasing of the lyrics...yep it does make it harder to sing, but it makes it more expressive too. It's a beautiful song. Thanks for your constant support.
Willem - Thank you! Give it a go. It's a good one to have in your songbook. It's very cool and Nessi gives us everything we need to get it down properly.
Cori - WOW! Thanks SO much sweet man. I was hoping you'd like it since this thread was started for you and you're such a diehard TC fan. You've GOT TO learn this one if you haven't already, it's SUCH a beautiful song and being taught by SweetNess-incarnate is SO COOL!!! You really made my morning with this comments, you're SUCH a beautiful man. Enmore Theatre,
B) good one!!! I used to live across the road from it actually, which made parking hell and made it hard to sleep at times, but I've seen some cool acts there like Emmy Lou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, the Indigo Girls and Joss Stone. So just the suggestion that I'd get up on stage after that line up is awesome.
thanks for being so enthusiastic as always. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You're a sweetie.
Chris - I'm glad you think I look more relaxed. Actually I am feeling better than I was even if it is still messing with my playing. I sing it much better in the shower, B) including remembering to hum at the end. It's a beautiful song and the phrasing is brilliant. When I'm on my lounge playing, I don't use the same classical position, similar but without the neck being so high. At my computer desk, the foot stool that I now have trouble ignoring places me in the high neck position, but it works pretty well for this song. Thanks!
Nessa - Well Cori might have beat you to the finish line with the first over the top enthusiasm (though your first response was already pretty GREAT!) but I just LOVED reading your second one.
I'm SO glad I got this down well enough to post it before anyone else posted a video for a lesson you've taught. Woo hoo!!! As for releasing the pressure while muting, in truth I don't know if I'm doing it in the video, but I do release when playing it off camera. On camera there's just too many things happening in my head and I get distracted. I love the sound of the percussive strumming. It's very cool. Thanks for helping me to get it down. I LOVE having you as a TG teacher now. I loved that I can go back and watch your video and suck every little gem of information out of it. You've made videos for me before which have always been awesome, but I LOVE seeing you in your new role. It's SO cool. THANKS for the wonderful teaching. Your endless support and encouragement is priceless.
Smiling big time here.
Shel