It's starting to sink in

[12Gauge]

Have you ever noticed that if you sit down and struggle with learning something new for an hour or so and finally leave it alone, suddenly next day it comes easier and flows better?

 

I have the "Happy Traum ,Easy Steps to Guitar Finger Picking" DVD. I am trying to learn the tab for the simple songs along with picking on the off-beat rather than the down beat while keeping the bass line going with my thumb. Kind of like rubbing your belly and patting your head at the same time but I am making progress:)

[DonK]

All the time. It's an interesting phenomenon; I wonder why it seems to work that way? I've observed the same thing in lots of learning environments, not just guitar playing.

[larry50]

Maybe there's something to this muscle memory thing or something. Same thing happens to me. I go to sleep going "grrrr" and when I try again the next day, it just seems a lot easier.

[garthman]

Yes, this does seem to be the way it happens. I think that perhaps some subconcious brain process goes on when you are not concentrating.

 

BTW, I usually try to learn a few things at the same time - perhaps 2 or 3 new songs and some new riffs, etc. I find it is better to learn this way rather than trying to master one thing at a time.

[Cripes]

 

Have you ever noticed that if you sit down and struggle with learning something new for an hour or so and finally leave it alone, suddenly next day it comes easier and flows better? I have the "Happy Traum ,Easy Steps to Guitar Finger Picking" DVD. I am trying to learn the tab for the simple songs along with picking on the off-beat rather than the down beat while keeping the bass line going with my thumb. Kind of like rubbing your belly and patting your head at the same time but I am making progress:)

 

 

Another way of saying it...practice, practice, practice. Fingerstyle was, for me, the only way I wanted to play the guitar when I first picked it up. That was then and now I'm still working things out.

 

The rythyms and patterns will develop and your fingers will play them quite naturally soon enough. When that happens you'll start to make up your own patterns and syncopations that add dynamics to what was originally a straight pattern rythym throughout a particular piece you learned. The variances are a few as you limit yourself to so keep at it. It's just fun.

[missedmyexit]

It's funny I tried to Learn life by the drop off and on for 5 years. I'ld look up the tab every four months or so and I never was able to get the Rhythm down for some reason. Then one day I printed out the tab was playing it within 15 minutes. Don't get it.

 

Now if I can just get " More then Words" Down. Strangely enough I can play the song no problems but when people start singing I totally lose the Rhythm. It's the only song I can't handle people singing to. Of course that means the jackasses I call "Friends" make me play it all the time and bet on how far I can get in the song before totally screwing the rhythm.