Oooof! I hope you're all having a better week than I am. I have exactly 10 minutes to do this update so it'll be painfully short. (but hopefully sweet!)
Guitar 4 on Thursday night spent our meeting going through Rainbow Connection (see video a few posts back). You can add the walk down the E string to connect the G and Eminor chords at the ends of the lines if you so choose, but it's not required. We're going to smart The Smiths this week, so if you don't already know this tune, take a few listens: http://youtu.be/yRYpd3_roHg I'll have copies for those of you that got packets that were missing this one.
And Guitar 4 on Saturday continues to valiantly forge ahead through some heavy scale work in Man Who Sold The World. I'm not going to do a lot of 'splaining here because it's all tabbed out for you on the goodies sheet. But I do have some bits of advice. Bit #1: Look for patterns. Your fingers make certain shapes multiple times when you play scales. Look for those and learn to love them. Repetitive motions make life a lot simpler and there are really only like 3 maneuvers you have to make in that tune. Once you've isolated those motions, you repeat them on different string combos, and there you have it. Bit #2: PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE. The only way to take this from confounding to competency is to do it. A lot. Muscle memory is a real thing and your fingers will start to act on their own in the correct way but you've got to train them first and that takes time and repetition. You can't play it once, skip the next 3 days, and expect it to have gotten better. Be consistent and watch yourself improve like magic! Take breaks to practice fingerstyle playing on the Iron & Wine tune, and any other 4/4 tune in the book.
Finally, Guitar 3 did a great job on Kodachrome. The riff at the top slots in INSTEAD of the measures of G it's listed next to, so don't play both things! You'll replace those Gs with the riff each time. I think the riff is pretty self-explanatory from the tab, and it has a lot of repetition inside it so try to memorize it! It'll be the Golden Strum on all full measures, and straight quarter notes on the beats inside of split measures--unless there's an exclamation point telling you to hit the chord just once and let it ring for 2 beats (instead of strumming it twice). Dmaj7 is played by barring the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st strings all at the 2nd fret, and strumming from the open 4th string down. We'll work more on how the timing changes at the end when we meet this weekend.
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