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Thanks for your reply, Jeff. I too wish we lived closer, would love to have some one on one with another guitar player; I seem to live in the musical boonies!
I think I am also an ear player; when I play my recorder or tin whistle I can pick out a tune on either as long as I know what it sounds like. I can even change keys to accommodate the range limitation. I can pick out a tune on the guitar too, but there are more strings so more complexity. I can hear the root note of a song, as long as I have some other notes for context, but knowing “what” note it is by matching it to a note on the low E string is almost beyond me. Especially as the songs Tony picked are old folk songs with twangy voices and fast picking banjos…but I get it, they are probably all in the public domain.
If I look at the tab of a song, I can generally know what the key is by what notes are being played, but it involves counting up from the nut on whatever string, I don’t just know what the note is aside from a few we encounter all the time. And the chord charts we made; are 1, 3, and 5 the basic notes of any chord based on the root being 1? This is not made clear, to me. I don’t know what notes make up a C chord, for example.
I will continue to review FW as long as I am a member. Perhaps one day it will “click”.