Hi everyone, I'm Greg. I'm based in South London and am four Zoom lessons in with Paul. Very much a beginner who wasn't getting anywhere convincing with self/Youtube directed learning.
Most of my (long gone) teens and early twenties were spent listening to grunge (Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Soundgarden), Britpop (Ash, Blur, Radiohead, Oasis), American indie rock (Weezer, Pavement, Arcade Fire, Pixies). I gravitated a bit more towards classic and conventional rock sounds as I got older (Neil Young, Dylan, Bowie, Springsteen, Talking Heads, Black Crowes).
Anyway, lesson 4 with Paul started introducing singing while playing. Here's my midweek update on the Heart of Gold exercise I was struggling with on Saturday:
Been working on this through the week just so it's semi-recognisable. Not benchmarked yet but there's a lot going on (for me) technically in this including bends and going in and out of triplets. The bend-release-pull-pick bit in the second half is by far the hardest bit.