Guitar again

So, I totally am the class dunce in guitar. Some of the guys, I can tell, are “all over it”. The daggy-looking chap who sits on the far right is really good. He might not get the rock-star deal without some wardrobe work, but he can play the guitar.

Last night we learnt the A-shaped bar chord, and the teacher wants us to give it a good go first with one finger pushing down all three strings before we give up and invent some other means. Guitar requires you to do some very unusual things with your fingers! Then we went straight on to playing the song below with the bouncing muted strumming (which is not so clear in the video). I got all lost and left behind. (I don’t know hardly any of the songs people go on about and they’re not my “style” - if I was going to listen to Ben Harper, I like this kind of thing.) So, I have lots of practice to do before next week. But I am learning and it is all teaching me how to work out what people are doing when I hear certain things in guitar playing.