Rhythm

I'm back from my trip, a week away from the guitar and no noticeable backsliding.

I've been working through the Shipton book (described in an earlier post). I'm up to the third part and had been having trouble with some of the fancy syncopated strums. I had a little epiphany today though. I noticed that if I just hold one chord shape it's easier to figure out the strumming pattern, than if I'm trying to do the chord changes at the same time.

This is probably the most obvious thing in the world, but it's fairly typical of my epiphanies!