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It's been said earlier but it's worth repeating, keep your guitar playing as simple as possible whilst you are singing. If you have to move your attention from your voice to your guitar, your singing will suffer. Save the clever guitar playing for the solo and maybe the intro.
A non guitar related point is don't ignore your consonants when singing. They define the words. Sloppy consonants can result in unintelligible lyrics and a lost audience. Have you ever noticed how an angry person can speak slowly and separate each word. If you are telling a story, getting that separation into your lyrics can really help clarity.
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Thanks Janine, Jdogblues, Sev112, SillyMoustache, and Coler (sorry if I'm missing anyone),
All good points - much appreciated! I will try some of the chord groupings mentioned to work on easy/fluid shifting between chords. I'm hoping to get my other right hand fingers - middle, ring and pinky more involved. Right now I rely heavily on index and thumb... I'm going to work on some very simple singing/playing combos as suggested too, so please feel free to send any suggestions for simple, starter songs. Many thanks! |
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You can learn Travis picking or simple picking style like hitting the bass note of the chord and then the 3rd string, then the 1 & 2 strings together and then the 3rd string again for 4 beats. For 3/4 time you can do a simple arpeggio with the bass string and then in order pick the 3rd, 2nd, 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Try this with the House of the Rising Sun or Hallelujah.
However in my opinion, get the most progress is you should work on the singing separate from the guitar. Once you learn both, then put it all together. I have spent many practices just playing the chords of the song with no singing.
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