[TBman]

I was encouraged by all of the Mark Hanson books talk lately here this past week so I sat down with his "The Art of Solo Fingerpicking" book a couple of times. Today I worked on Red White and Blue Rag from the book for the third time this week.

Talk about putting grooves in your finger tips! It is hard to get every note to ring out and is so important with this kind of song. With a blues song you can fudge a bit and no one really notices, but this has to be spot on, and well, it ain't yet, lol. Also it isn't near performance speed either. So after about a 10 year layoff and 3 half hour workouts here's what I have so far. Not even the whole song, just pages one and two and back to one for a short while. Ouch!

I have to get more air between my hand and the neck while thumb wrapping on the F chord to get the leverage to have the notes ring out clean.