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Hi @DHeaton , there is a course called “Capo Comprehension in the Skills Course area of the site. Perhaps that may help.

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Great performance of an old time song. With harmonica to boot! Very cool! Thanks for sharing @Philb !

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Great win @james H!

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Hi @KayMesser , @albert_d is correct on this one. Slow your metronome down to allow you to deliberately have your fingers positioned correctly for the fingerpicking. Also breaking the transition / picking down in increments is helpful. Slow down, build the muscle memory and then slowly increase the BPM’s on your metronome.

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Great advice in the above posts. It is important to do a few things in this part of your journey:

1. Define tangibly what relaxed means to you (eg, a smile on your face, not tension in the shoulders, picking and fretting hand are applying “least effort” to still play good solid tone, your posture is promoting a good guitar playing position)

2. Without picking up the guitar close your eyes and breath and visualize yourself doing this things while holding and playing a guitar

3. As you are playing @check in with your body and see how you are doing as per the items you outlined above. I put a post it not in a prominent place to see it. If you fell you have tension somewhere, close your eyes and visualize this area in a relaxed mode.

Rinse and repeat! 😎

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Lol 🤣 Sorry about that Phil! Thanks for watching the post and for your input. I really appreciate it!

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Thanks for watching and for your encouragement and feedback! I truly appreciate it. You are right with regards to audio set ups and effects – it can be a very deep rabbit hole and the terminology is new to me. I would be happy to help if I can!

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Hi @Marisa , this is actually my reply to you. Phil and I were doing some trouble shooting yesterday and I apparently remained logged into his account 😜

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Hi @Marisa , this comment is actually from be. Phil and I were doing some trouble shooting yesterday and somehow stayed logged into his account! 😜

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Thanks for watching the posts and for your feedback and encouragement, @Philb ! I truly appreciate it!

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Thank you for watching the posts @Marty72 and for your feedback and encouragement. Very much appreciated.

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Thank you for your feedback and encouragement, @Bill_Brown . The mix was definitely off. I think the guitar reverb and gain over powered the vocals. I am going to continue to tweak it. Thanks for watching the post and your feedback!

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Cool! 😎

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You nailed it @jumpinjeff !