Still wishing you were here

For the last two weeks we haven’t been given a new guitar song. We are still working on the one below. I have the part played by Roger Waters, on the left (is that him? - somebody told me it was, but he doesn't look quite right to me), all sorted (had it sorted the week before last) but the lead part played by David Gilmour is a bit trickier (we've only got the intro part, not the whole song) – those slides and string bends are so quick. I’m a little over "running over the same old ground" and want to move on, but I have to say, I think one thing I have going in my favour here is a sense of rhythm, or perhaps it is an ability to read timing notation (I think I can tell ...). Some of the guys, for all they have the gear and the jargon, they can’t seem to get the timing right on this one, which I think is why it is being laboured.

But anyway, I was the first to class last week, so I was moaning to the teacher about how I felt like my left hand is still slow and imprecise, because I am so dominantly right-handed in other things. I moved my computer mouse to the left a few weeks ago, because the back of my right shoulder was packing it in, mainly from overuse of that scroll button in the middle of the mouse when going through pdfs. But I am all over the place and slow with the mouse in my left hand. So, he then gave the whole class some finger exercises, which will hopefully train up my left hand to go where it’s supposed to go at greater speeds.