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Carol, thank you for the feedback. This is the problem, the quick 16th strums and the accents don’t fall on any of the words/syllables so there is a distinct disconnect. I’ll try writing it all out per your advice, and see if there is some overlap that I’m just not seeing, but on the surface, I don’t see it, which I think is why my brain is sort of short circuiting on this, it doesn’t have something to relate to the two things and it wants them to be together and when they are it just gives up on one or the other.
The strumming pattern on the D, written in 16ths would be D-DUD-U—U—U- With the last two UPS being a DSus4 and a DSus2
So there isn’t a vocal/melody change happening in time with these changes.
I can play the song fine, if I don’t try to play this strumming pattern and Sus’s on the D as I am singing, and just keep the strumming pattern something more mundane. I know I’ll get it, I am seeing improvement.