Thanks Mike!
I use my thumb often when I’m playing guitar to fret notes on the low E, maybe I loosened something up along the way. I’ll have to go back and watch the video again from home tonight.
I was aware of the stop, restart habit. But I’m good about not doing that with both my band, and if I’m playing along to a backing track. It only seems to happen when I’m solo, and no one else is around to listen. That video was never intended to see the light of day, so it was like I was alone. I have an old zoom h4 recorder, I should probably record a couple of backing tracks to play this song along too. I have no hope of playing along at Ben’s third speed on that, but I can probably go faster than his second speed.
I was wondering about the way I was resting against the top. That’s going to take me a long time to unlearn that. I was kind of hoping you’d have something for me that didn’t involve patience and self discipline! Kidding, thanks so much for the tips!
-Jim G.