[speckpgh]

Loraine,

Thank you for the feedback. I understand the need for the pattern to be in the muscle memory to be able to keep the strum and sing….. Learned that lesson way back when I first attempted to sing and play together. Back then I had the song down (or so I thought) could play it backwards and forward and with my eyes closed, I was feeling great! I felt I was finally ready to add vocals, I got this no problem.. and the minute I tried to sing along, my brain locked up and you would have thought I’d never touched a guitar before in my life. Instantly humbled.

I will keep practicing, as I am seeing improvement, however, I do think this particular situation isn’t simply not having the pattern committed, but that the changes in the pattern don’t really sync up with the melody… Yes the chord change itself syncs, but those quick 16ths strums don’t go along with anything going on in the melody, and my brain just want consistency.

I also find I have the same sort of problem when I am playing Kodachrome, when the song goes to the little run along the G, I can play the run, but singing and playing it even after thousands of times, I still find that my vocals drop or I flub the run more often than not.

I will keep practicing the pattern, perhaps I am overthinking it, and that is all it is.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by  speckpgh.