Superb stuff!!! Made my day. :) Now if Newcastle can keep it going later. ;)

Nice and you can hit the high note on "dream". I call for a full version with only the foot tap for backing!

You've certainly jumped your practice up a level by the sounds and, like all your benchmarks, that never goes backwards!

Superb stuff! D to D at 140 is a major breakthrough! Might sound crazy but it's not unusual when I meet a long-time casual player, I find that they have been carrying baggage forever that means, when put to the lab-condition test, their D to D is actually "XXX"! Hopefully the biggest breakthrough of all is the realisation that you got all that improvement by yourself! Nice one "Johnny Guitar"!

Not been in here for a while myself! You snuck this one in under the radar I see just before this morning's session! It's all running nicely (chord changes in fine order) and should make a interesting one for a redo too when the extras we saw today are bedded in.

NIce one John - eminently listenable! Strayed a little from the beat at about the 3 minute mark but pulled back in by the end. Keep 'em coming!

Welcome to the forum Alastair! We made some pretty good progress and hopefully you're continuing to beat the benchmarks we laid down to prove that everything's getting easier. Would love to have you on board in this section of the forum: https://www.taplature.com/forum/the-woodshed-diaries where I'll happily field any query you can raise while of course, hammering deeper the benefit of the Taplature approach. Merry Christmas Sir!

At least you have the opportunity to tune it properly with this one ... I'm inferrng all is in good order this time round?

Very nice ... I'll look forward to it gracing my lair!

Superb stuff! Maybe a liberty (or two) taken with the rhythm of the words of the second line but that's allowed as artistic licence and it's a very unusual rhythm on the original! 150bpm by Monday a piece of cake! 😎

Good to see you hard at work in the guitar gym! I reckon the magnifying glass (listening to the sound each string makes individually while keeping the whole chord moving) would highlight a couple of issues in each of those clips. See if you can spot them and we'll dig a little tomorrow!

Back in the collection!

It's all there and your strumming is looking and sounding comfortable and automatic ... just needs the chord changes tidying up! I'd bet if we can get them polished then remembering the chords takes care of itself. A dusting-off of your benchmarks may be in order (anything involving D which looks the toughest in there). I'll challenge you to bring me some bpm on Tuesday and I'll aim to get the chords I deleted typed back into Band in a Box!

A world of difference! Strays a little after a few reps but starts off right on the money! It's worth thinking about aiming finger 1 back to the first note of the pattern while the bend is still held, to eliminate the need to jump hand position. Keep 'em coming! 😊

Coming soon? 😁

Came across this today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK7T7FTaWr8 A bit of foot tapping inspiration in a style you may appreciate!

That will do nicely for a first marker! Tightening the timing looks to be top of the list but won't take long and the catalyst will of course be the foot tap in tandem with an out-loud count! Listening back at 50% or even 25% speed while tapping along ought to highlight the problem. We can take a look tomorrow and it should be ready for a rock-solid retake very soon!

Nice one Seb! For the reader's benefit that's up from 100bpm on Wednesday evening. My prescription for the fastest run to 200bpm would be to limit all movement in the body to the foot or maybe even just the toes! That should allow you to keep everything more robotic which will etch the pattern clearer and deeper. Will look forward to the next update!

Notes are all there for sure! What can you spot if you listen back and tap your foot throughout in rock-solid time with the metronome click?

Yo Seb! One way is to use the default setting on the excellent free web metronome Drummer's Pulse ... This gives 4 clicks and the first one has a higher pitch than the other 3. Using one click for each part of the beat means we're using four beats to represent one. In this case, although the metronome reads 60bpm we'd only actually be running the pattern at 15bpm (60/4 = 15). To set up Drummer's Pulse to count the 16th notes for us we can pull up the sliders at the bottom for 8th and 16th notes ... I've also clicked on the "Sounds" option until the setting changes to "Voice". Now the metronome will count for us; "One click AND click ... TWO click AND click etc.". The clicks are the "uh" and the "a" of our 16th note count. If it's tough to get going at the lowest setting (30bpm) then you can use the first method above to access slower speeds. Once you've reached 120bpm with the first method, that's the same as playing at 30bpm using the second method. How much sense does all that make?