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(14 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Thanks for asking the question.  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_redface.gif" border=0 alt="Embarassed">

I was having trouble even phrasing it.

The explanations are helpful, but I'm still a little confused about the order you play each note. In the example posted, they went down. So when you have a whole set of these you go down each row of numbers, back to the top and down the next row? I hope I'm making sense here.

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(13 replies, posted in Acoustic)

To respond to my own question, utube has a wealth of mini-lessons. I watched one on finger picking that gave me a better understanding of how it is done. Even if I'm not there yet, I like to have an idea of how things work or I get frustrated.

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(13 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Ah, patience! The bane of my existance! My lack of patience is why I could hardly put the guitar down until I could play a recognizable song. It's good to know I don't have to be there yet. I do think it would be nice if I could at least understand how they work, so I understand what I am looking at when I see, on paper, a song played in this way, then I would be able to pick up little pieces of information for when I am ready, kwim? Thanks for the quick feedback. I'll try to be patient!

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(13 replies, posted in Acoustic)

I just got my first guitar for Christmas. I love it and can play several songs, a bit choppy of course, but I'm really enjoying it. I really want to learn finger picking but it looks so foreign to me, I can't make sense of it. I'm not giving up hope because that's what chords looked like to me at first, but I think I need some direction. Is there a good resource or something that will help me learn to do this?