This month’s Challenge focuses on playing in the style of someone you admire. The comments people made when they posted their videos are included (only from the original post).

The Active Melody member challenges are open to players of all skill levels. Thanks everyone for leaving friendly and encouraging feedback on each other’s submissions and thank you Brian for keeping us motivated!

Thanks for your patience. It would have been up last night but we had a city-wide blackout in Clarksdale. I don’t know what happened, but it was dark and quiet (even more than usual), so I went to sleep early.

Welcome to everyone on your first Challenge!

Garry E.

Hi All,

I chose Elmore James for the ‘Artist Series (In The Style Of) Challenge’. He was nicknamed ‘The King of Slide Guitar’ and was born in Mississippi US in 1918 and died in Chicago 1963.
Brian’s lesson EP122 uses Slide Techniques (rather than an actual slide) and it has all the trademark licks and shuffle rhythm that we all love about the blues.

I play through Brian’s cycle and then the second cycle starting at 1.05 is my own.
Can’t wait to hear everyone’s choices this month.

Barry G.

I not been playing much guitar lately so I am going to post a video I did a couple of months ago that fits this months challenge. I just made a backing track and improvised some T-Bone Walker style blues playing over a shuffle. I have been focused more on learning harmonica and piano lately since I kind of burned out on playing guitar for a little bit.

Liam Innes

Hi everyone,

Here’s my submission for this months challenge.

I think this EP will be quite popular among members for this one.

Looking forward to everyone’s subs.

Liam.

EP 105 [David Gilmour]

Craig S.

Ive been passionate about Pink Floyd and David Gilmour since Dark side came out in ’69.
Their process and ultimate unique sound grabs me by my very soul.
There are so many solos that I love and in particular is the one from Time from DSOTM.
So in the style of David Gilmour here is my interpretation of the solo from “Time”

Manfred M.

Hi AM folks,

first of all, thank you, Don for this wonderful challenge idea. It was great to work on this.

When I was looking through the list, that Brian suggested, it was clear immediately, that I will decide for EP 373 Laid Back J.J. Cale Style Lead. Brian also mentioned Tony Joe White in his intro to the lesson. So I had two of my favorite guitarists, whom I could emulate this month. No doubt, the right choice.

In the beginning I thought, this would be quite easy this month. But it wasn‘t. I struggled with some parts of the lead and I think it will take some more time, until I‘m really satisfied with it. I slowed the backingtrack down to 90% of the original speed, to get it some kind of right. But here it is, this is how far I got. And I succeeded to come up with some own lead playing in the second cycle beginning at 0:58

I‘m looking forward to all your comments and most of all all your contributions in the style of ??

Greetings to you all!
Manfred

Guido

Anyone who knows me knows that my #1 rock guitarist is David Gilmour.
But in addition to this he’s also one of my favourite songwriters, and in my opinion he’s a very good singer too, with a very distinctive style and voice even if not a “real” singer.
For this callenge I must admit I cheated, because it was requested to play something “in the syle of” and not a cover. I already practiced in the past the EP105, but recently I was working on a cover of “In Any Tongue”, a song from the Gilmour’s solo career. So I couldn’t resist to take the opportunity to complete the job.
I made a minimal cover, with an acoustic rhythm guitar part, a classical guitar part by which I tried to reproduce the original piano parts, an electric rhythm guitar part (clean/distorted) and at the end the solo part. I added only the strings part from a backing track, because it really adds some depth and atmosphere to the song
I lowered the key from Cm/Fm to Am/Dm, because I can’t sing the chorus in the original key.
The song is long, more than 6 minutes. I know we all want to watch and listen to all our AM friends’ renditions and very often we run out of time, so if you want to jump straight to the solo, it starts, with a short intro, at 04:16

Looking forward to hear everyone’s choices this month.

Laurel C.

Hi there to you all, Amers.
Well for this month’s challenge I wanted to make it fun, although there are so many players to choose from (maybe this challenge could be repeated again) but I chose ‘In the Style of Duanne Eddy meets Green Acres’. Something about these two melodies that has grabbed me in the past and so I decided to combine them together. One is from 1958 and the other 1965. Simple lines but so melodic and nostalgic. This was also good practice to get the alternated picking in motion and using the Gretsch. As the fretboard is so different I put away the other guitars to adjust and concentrate on getting more familiar with it. Look forward to the variety of submissions, should be a popular one.

Gary Wilshaw

Hi Folks,

This challenge inspired me to attempt to create something original in the style of guitarist Eddie Hazel, who played with the band Funkadelic.

The title track of their 1971 album ‘Maggot Brain’ has in my opinion one of the best and most moving guitar solos ever recorded. Band leader George Clinton was, according to legend (and Wikipedia!), under the influence of LSD when – during the session – he told Eddie to play ‘as if he’d just been told his mother was dead’.

I first heard the track on Spotify in my car while driving alone across Northern Spain & it made a huge impression on me.

My recording isn’t an attempt to copy the original – although I have used the same chord progression for the piano track I recorded as a backing for the Tele. I’ve also taken some inspiration from what I consider is one of the signature licks from the original. Overall though, my guitar version is just meant to be ‘in the style of’ Eddie Hazel, and this track in particular, as per the remit for this challenge.

The piece isn’t really an improvisation. I wrote it over a period of a couple of weeks, following the changes – drawing upon chord tones, major scale and a minor/major pentatonic blend.

Thank you for listening.

Mike W.

Good day to everyone – hope all is well.

The challenge is to play a piece in the style of a guitarist that we admire. That’s actually a pretty wide scope – in the end I decided on BB King – I don’t suppose I’ll be alone in choosing him. I chose one of Brian’s early lessons – EP 041. Although it’s quite a short lesson, I found myself playing over the whole backing track (a few times) – it’s very satisfying and gives a lot of leeway in terms of timing and harmony. For submission, I trimmed the piece down to include one verse as written and one improvisation. I hope you like it.
I’m really looking forward to everyone’s submissions.

Here’s the link –

Vincent K.

Hi All,

With my EC-signature Strat I just had no choice 😉

For this challenge I learned an old lesson I have not played before: EP0074. It sounded beautiful and I thought it was very easy to play. However…….. again I was confronted with the fact that there are no easy lessons from Brian. It took me a bit more time than I was expecting but a lot of fun playing this one.

Looking forward to all your submissions and thank you Don for coming up with this idea.

Mark T.

My submission for this month’s challenge is an original composition by myself – in the style of the late and great, John Martyn, called: Can We Do That Again?

I hope you enjoy it! 😎♥️

NOTE: Here’s a link to the post page with John Martyn’s music (opens in a new tab).

Don Patton Jr.

Hello A.M. members!
I want to thank Brian for using my suggestion for this months challenge!
I am posting “34 Blues” by Charley Patton. It is a simple rendition that has a nice hook to it. Std. Tuning key of “C”. I recorded it 5 months ago, on my YouTube channel.
Charley Patton was the ” Grand father of Delta Blues”. A true legend and part native American.
His influence is found in Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and many others.
Looking forward to hearing your posts..

Denise & Misty

Hi AMers

This is a last minute submission😬. I had another idea initially but changed my mind to go with EP318 J.J. Cale style last weekend. The good thing is, I really had to improvise my 2nd part..I’ve never done that in any submission before.
The last part is double tracked…just shifted the 2nd track a bit.

J.J. Cale is one of my favourite guitar players and he’s been such a great songwriter (RIP❤️).
I love his relaxing fingerstyle and “understatement” playing, his rhythm and the use of dorian mode in many of his songs.

Denise

JoeD1

I’ve been working on a cover of Melissa by The Allman Brothers Band for at least 4-5 months. Part of the reason it took so long was because I was recovering from foot surgery, developed carpal tunnel, and tennis elbow. But the main reason I think it took so long was because it was very challenging for me and I’m just not that good at guitar, but I think, in the end, I pulled it off pretty well if I do say so myself!

I think this meets the challenge for this month of playing something in the style of one of your favorite artists. Duane Allman, Dickey Betts and Warren Haynes are certainly three of my favorite guitar players from TABB. The world lost Duane way too soon. If you haven’t already, I suggest you check out Warren Haynes’ current band Gov’t Mule. I think Dickie Betts was playing with Great Southern but he may have retired a couple years ago due to health issues.

I was originally drawn to this song because of the chords, many played with an open E or A. It is in the key of E Major and uses some unique chord voicings – A6add9/E, EMaj7, Em/G, D6/A, AMaj7, D/A are some of them. Additionally it has a nice rhythm once you get the syncopation under your wrist and arm.

As for the lead it is played almost exclusively in position 5 of E Major Pentatonic with an occasional reach into position 1 and 2. And they occasionally add the A and D – over the chord changes and to do almost chromatic walk-ups. There were a lot of bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and vibrato with some fast runs that were very challenging (for me anyway) and even some volume swells (which I just couldn’t get right so I didn’t even try).

I thought about playing the bass track but alas, I’ve only recently begun learning bass and could not pull it off. So I ripped the bass and drums from the original song and use them as a backing track. I used my Indio Boardwalk for the rhythm and I split the lead between my Fender Stratocaster and Fender Special Edition Custom Telecaster FMT HH to hear the differences. While I continue my struggle to learn theory and how to improvise, I practice covers to help improve my technique.

Sorry for being so long winded…

I look forward to hearing all of the other submissions as usual!

Richard G.

This month’s challenge was to post a video in the style of an artist that you admire.
When I first started playing fingerstyle acoustic guitar I heard and quickly realised the brilliance of Doc Watson, his drive and syncopation was second to none. Over the years Tommy Emmanuel has also emerged as a world class fingerstyle player. They both play terrific versions of that iconic number ‘Deep River Blues’

Well, in the spirit of this challenge, here’s my humble version as a tribute to those two top players. As I don’t sing, I’ve added a middle eight to hopefully compliment the melody, I’ve also decided to play Tommy’s straight tempo in preference to Doc’s shuffle version.

Looking forward to everyone’s challenge this weekend.🎸

Richard

Bill

I went with Kenny Burrell and the track “Gee Baby, (Ain’t I Good To You?)”. I really love Kenny’s Midnight Blue album…he’s got such a great touch, and a fantastic tone. “Chitlins Con Carne” went on to be covered by SRV, so it must be good, right? 🙂

I noted Brian has a Burrell inspired lesson, but opted to go with this old jazz tune as it’s one I have been working on this year anyway.

Played on my new Grez Mendocino; neck Charlie Christian pickup.

Looking forward to another great challenge weekend! Enjoy!

Alan K.

Been a few months. Thought I would challenge myself and participate this month. Love the category challenges. Great suggestion. I had been working at EP103 for a while which was the only lesson keeping me in connection with fingerstyle playing. I decided to try something new and picked up EP318. Great lesson with chill laid back JJ Cale style blues. I added my own part on the 1st 12 bars of the second time through based on the concepts of this lesson. Looking forward to hearing all the great submissions.

Bobby Ut

James Marshall Hendrix – WOWZA!! What a guitar genius!! I did not know much about him and only knew one song (Little Wing) prior to Don’s excellent Challenge idea. So I dove in deep for four weeks. The first video consists of bits from seven of his songs. It got to be too long, so the second video is me chatting a bit about each song. Hope you enjoy and looking forward to all Yinz Subs! Peace & Love, Bob

Alan O.

Hi Everyone,
I used a backing track as well as some licks from one of Brian’s lessons to create this video. This one is in the style of…. Who?

”Slappy”

Just some Doggy blues featuring Tommy J for entertainment.
hope you all enjoy.

Reuben B.

I’ve missed the AM challenge the last few times due to other responsibilities. Glad to be able to come back to this. For this month’s response, I am attempting to play in the style Eric Clapton on acoustic.

Thank you for listening. Looking forward to see everyone’s submissions.

Serena C.

Hi everyone!
For the challenge “In the style of” I decided to be predictable… by me it couldn’t be but Brian May. So I composed some licks on the backing track of One vision, but getting inspiration also from other Queen songs.
However, this time I was mostly absorbed by the video editing, having some fun in quoting the intro of the original video (whose link is under my own video if you’re curious).
Enjoy the challenge week end!
Serena

Orginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OGd4gplxQM

Manuel M.

EP339 B.B. King

Mike D.

Clapton 074 very early lesson.

Alan L.

Another tough choice! I have a hard time playing “in the style of” as I always seem to make it my own! (A good thing, I know.) 😉

I cued up the list and the first two were Cream and BB. I couldn’t choose so I did them both! I’ve always identified with BB more, love the laid back phrasing; though I do love Clapton too, especially Cream era. I was surprised to find the Clapton licks were more similar to my own playing style, the note and bending choices.

Anyways, here’s the 2 samples, and the backing track I created for the Cream style lesson (EP450.) cheers! 🙂

Michael L.

I immediately thought of EP381 – Dave Rawlings style using dissonance. I worked with that lesson a while ago and enjoyed it a lot. Instead of the lesson, I’ve done my own lead here and incorporate some of the dissonant ideas into it. I think Dave Rawlings tends to have a bit more “edge” than what I’ve played, but I’m really pleased with my efforts and I enjoy listening to this style of music. Two acoustic guitars can make magic! Happy Challenge Weekend everyone!

Marc V.

Tried Hendrix lesson for this months challenge
To be honest, although he was brilliant musician, not a huge fan of a lot of his stuff as it get’s kind of noisy to me.
I am more of a Little Wing, Wind Cried Mary type of person.
But started playing this lesson, which is example of style that I had found ” noisy” and I decided that its a blast to play.

So Enjoy! Look forward to listening to all the other submissions.

Lights (Meelis)

What else I had to do, my friends, as my old favourite Robert Johnson style.

JoLa

I spent this whole month listening to nothing but George Harrison and I have finally figured out whom I wanna be when I grow up! Yes, I grew up with the Beatles – then George Harrison (who hasn’t heard “My Sweet Lord” back then?) and Traveling Wilburys music in the background and I totally took it all for granted.

This challenge allowed me to finally take a deep dive into George’s musical ingenuity, the beginnings with the Fab Four, his life and solo career – and I have been completely enchanted by his musical creativity, spiritual inquisitiveness and growth, his calm humble and witty personality, as well as generosity. George was a beautiful soul inside and out and now he’s my hero. I love his slide playing in standard tuning so here’s my feeble attempt at that style. This journey will continue….

Martin W.

Hi folks , so many fine choices this month, in the end I went with Ep381
Dave Rawlings style , and glad I did , such a cool sound .
After learning the lesson and getting to grips with the tricky bits , the additional challenge was to come up with a 2nd part to compliment Brian’s excellent original, I was quite pleased with what I achieved although I did use the original ending again to bring things back home .
Look forward to listening to everyone’s efforts on what has been an excellent challenge idea , so thank you Don .

sunjamr (Steve)

I spent much of October listening to as much Grateful Dead as I could and focusing on Jerry Garcia’s style. I also watched many Youtube tutorials on Jerry Garcia style, including the lessons Brian has done. I learned that his style is not that difficult, and involves the use of several techniques which you hear in almost any of his solos. In the end, Jerry was the ultimate noodler, so if you want to become better at noodling, it’s worth the effort to delve into his style a bit. BTW, Jerry said that he was almost never stoned on stage, because he felt that people had paid good money to hear them, and he didn’t want to deliver a dud performance.

Livio M.

Hi AMers for this challenge I chose a Cale piece both because I like it a lot and because it seemed to me to be one of the most affordable. In the second part of the backtrack I used a melody made by me. Thanks for listening, I’ll listen to all your work.

cloughie (Brian)

Kia Ora

Been a bit unwell recently so I had to grab a vid I did a couple months ago. In the style of … you decide 🙂

I watched it again today & I’m so bloody grateful I can do this.

Arohanui

Richard W.

Hey All,

For this month’s “In the Style Of …” challenge, I chose Jerry Garcia.

I’ve been a Deadhead since I was 14 and lately I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to live recordings and studying Jerry’s guitar style.

For the challenge, rather than basing it on one of Brian’s lessons (he has a couple nice Dead-related lessons), I am basing it on the first jam section to their classic tune “Eyes of the World”. The jam structure is 2 measures of Emaj7 followed by 2 measures of Bm. This pattern just repeats until you’ve had enough.

The cool thing about these chords is that you can’t play over them using a single key. The Emaj7 contains a D# note, while the Bm contains a D natural. So you really have to change that note when the chords change. And, in fact, accentuating that note change really helps to highlight the chord change. You could look at this as playing E major over the E chord and B Dorian over the Bm.

I’m submitting this in two parts. In the first video, I am improvising over the changes. I took a few cracks at it and spliced together the best bits. The second video (strictly optional viewing!) is a transcription I recently did of a great Garcia solo over this same jam from a 1974 live recording. His continuous flow of melodic ideas never fails to blow me away. Jerry was truly at the height of his abilities in the mid-70’s.

Thanks for listening! Look forward to checking out all your submissions!

Richard

Juxi

Hello my friends!
At the moment I am facing problems with my internet connection at home – which drives me nuts. So, to keep things short, there is only one word to describe my feelings during this challenge response:
FUN. 😊
If my friend Harald did not show up in time for our „band practice session“, I wouldn’t have stopped playing.😎
Thus, lucky for you, the video did not get too long. 😃

John H.

I always marveled at how players could fingerpick so articulately, as to pull out a melody and separate it from the thumb-picking of bass notes in a continuous manner. I never got around to it-either it was too hard (yes it is) or I didn’t have the patience to learn. One of my goals in my guitar life was arrange my own fingerpicking version of a recognizable melody like Blowin’ in the Wind. I am not going to get into the theory of it all or how the light bulb moment emerged, but I am slowly learning how to do this. Here is my unadorned fingerpicking arrangement of Blowin’ in the Wind.

David H.

It was 5 years ago I heard this Roy Orbison like song – EP280. How can anyone not like this? I dusted it off and relearned it. Here is what it sounds like. Didn’t change a thing, can’t mess with perfection.

Bruce D.

A great challenge – play one of the Artist Series – “in the Style Of . . .”
I found one I’d forgotten about – EP041, a slow gospel style BB King blues from the old days. Glad I rediscovered it.
Thanks to Don Patton, Jr. for the suggestion . . .

Andy N.

This is a bit of a cheat 😳

I’d have loved to have a crack at this challenge but I’ve been travelling through India all month.
Before I left, I was messing about with a Boss SL-2 Slicer pedal and built a tone I liked which needed a sparse lead to try out, so I quickly recorded a version of EP282 (an old forum favourite)

When I played it back to my wife she said “I like that, is it Mark Knopfler?”. Brian deserves the credit 🎸😊 for that, I wasn’t deliberately trying to sound like Mark.

But Mark’s style would definitely have been my choice for the challenge. His melodic leads and the control he has over tone and dynamics have been a big influence for me. As it was on SoundCloud I thought I’d post it anyway, long distance! It’s just the lesson material and apologies for no video for obvious reasons 😂.

Guy C.

I am new to the group having only signed up a month ago, where has this website been all my life and how could I have missed it ..!

I based my challenge on Jazzing up the blues EP536 which I have been working on this month, I played the piece as written then took a chorus trying to style Carl Hogan from Louie Jordans band, BB King then Brian Setzer, it started off well then like a tightrope walker moving into the middle of the rope, as each pass went by, the wobbles started before eventually I threw myself onto the precipice and finished 🙂

Patrick F. (Patfleu)

My contribution to the challenge! After à lot of take, it’s Realy not perfect, but it’s comming slowly. The Chet Adkins way with the famous touch of Master Brian! Proud to be a part of this comunity!

WBlues (Wilfried)

Hi AM community,

As a Queen fan and therefore Brian May fan, I of course had to choose a track for this.
The sound settings for “Queen Tracks” were relatively complex for me, therfor I created them over a long period of time but adjusted them again and again.
Background:
I partly worked with noise gate 2:1 and 4:1, a booster, EQ, delay (DT 1 + DT2) and different feedback as well as the reverb.
It was new to me to use (among other things) the delay settings to give the impression that there wasn’t just a single guitar being heard; That’s probably what makes its partly special sound?
In the chosen track “These Are The Days Of Our Lives”, from 1991, I needed four different sounds. Two were easy to find, the others were relatively difficult; well, I’m perhaps close.
I used my Kemper amp’s “Profiler Remote” and operated it accordingly.
Even though the title had a very sad occasion at the time and was later shown with pictures on a huge screen, I added my own story to my little video.

This is my last submission on this platform. But even if I can no longer make myself noticeable, I will still look at the forum from time to time; you are a great group. Of course I would be happy if you also visited my YouTube channel; Of course I will continue to pursue music.

@Brian, thank you very much for your reply.

Adam H.

Hi folks,

I am a big Mark Knopfler fan and other than Money for Nothing this is the first time I have actually tried to learn his style. I use that tone which throws in some pinches, but I like the sound. I have two takes, one is my just pick up and play and the second I really try to accent the 2-4 with a more aggressive slap/nail strike. This is a very intoxicating rhythm and I stumble into one of the lead licks in both pieces – because I was daydreaming…

Thanks to Martin for suggesting EP110 after my last post. This was a super helpful piece for working on the percussive fingerstyle playing. Also thank you to Richard G for the excellent suggestions from my last post. Accenting the second beat of the first measure is really key to setting up everything that follows. I also found that the thumb on the “and” beats was helpful (although more complex), but if you watch closely I drop it sometimes…. but hey it’s only rock n’ roll.

Great playing everyone!

Tom D.

My “in the style of” selection is Brian Sherrill. He’s awesome. And, no, I’m not a brown noser🤣. I play a combo of blues in A pieces (ep535 and ep536) as they build on the Chicago Blues combo I played last month (ep535). It helped to stay on theme, and key. Brian’s compositions are great. I added a short improv ending😎

THANKS for watching and for your comments. I look forward to seeing your posts but please note I may be up to a week late in getting to them. Take care, Tom

David G.

Well I’d like to say that I just came up with some Stevie Ray Vaughan style playing – maybe one day. For now I love most of the licks in EP415 so I dug in and quite enjoyed learning this one. I always seem to play with fewer mistakes when the camera is not on me but here it is me playing Brian playing in the style of SRV:

snakechisler (Greg)

So been really busy these last few months renovating the old part of my house after doing an extension and kitchen build bathroom and Studio last year which involved ripping up the floors insulating and installing underfloor heating which hasn’t left much time for challenges so this is well rusty.

This one is a bit rushed but decided to push myself as I’ve acquired a new Guitar, its a PRS Piezo hollowbody Andertons in the UK had reduced them from 1400 to 799 and I didn’t have a PRS electric. Superb piece of kit you wouldn’t know it was a CE fit & Finish are superb.

CE’s are on sale in the US as well I believe well worth checking out impressed is an understatement

Guitar PRS PIEZO Hollowbody CE
Compressor
J Rocket the Dude
Plate Reverb setting
Matamp

André M.

Hello Amers, I haven’t played a lot lately, and I was practicing Gilmour EP306 and I inflicted myself with a blister on the tip of my bending finger, so I can’t post EP306.
I still wanted to participate so I am posting EP105 in the style of Gilmour made Feb. 2020.

On this post I am playing my Strat with my Twin reverb.
Hope you like it.

AndréM

sciencefiction (Larry)

I wanted to do this better, but there is just not enough time and I am not good enough. Ha!
Thanks,
Larry

James B.

Greetings to all the A/M pickers.
“In the style of” our favorite teacher, Brian Sherrill. I went with EP534. Brian writes some great tunes and his ragtime originals are some of my favorites.

Jonathan Amos

Many thanks to Alan L for his bass and drums backing track – Brian solo can make anything sound great but for something like this I definitely need a backing track. Certainly was a challenge for me. My first challenge response for 13 months after moving house yet again.

Tremelow

Yeehaw! I am back in the game of participating in the monthly challenges. Late as usual, but finally I made it. I think I had prepared for at least 5 previous challenges, but never came around to making a video. Bad, very bad time management from my side. Let alone my playing abilities. But enough talking now, here is my take on EP044 Peter Green.

Rich F.

Hi all,

Hope you are all well!

I decided to focus on one of my favourite lessons from the past- Brian’s brilliant Dave Gilmour style lesson EP105. I alternated between playing his lead over the backing track, and a lead that I worked out based on the excellent Pink Floyd track Dogs…. It is a long track, but this melody is in there somewhere!

Hope you like it!

Best wishes,

Rich F…

Pap

Hello fellow AM’rs. I have been on an extended RV trip with my wife since September 6th. Internet has been hit and miss and I have been really busy visiting friends and seeing new places. I also attended my first guitar workshop (my wife gave it to me for my birthday….complete surprise). It was in Nashville and it was fantastic! I made an extra effort to complete this month’s challenge and post it.

I learned Shady Grove in Dm and then I modulated to Am and played it like Brian taught it in EP 448. It was a great learning experience and I played it standing up….in a shady grove:). It took a bit to get some of the techniques under my fingers but its not perfected…and I wanted to post it before I play it perfect to keep my imperfect streak going:) Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well and I am hoping to get to watch everyone’s submission …but we’ll see. I still have a couple thousand miles to drive and there is a beach or two in between:) Cheers!

Pappy

Dermot M.

Greetings, fellow lovers of Am!

Hope you are all doing well. Wishing a Happy Thanksgiving for later this month to all of you across the pond.

I decided to have a go at this Dickie Betts style lead as it was something a bit different for me and I love the county sound it brings.

As always could have done with another week’s practice ;-), but I’m finding I’m loving these challenges as they really stretch me to practice every week. Celebrating my 1st Anniversary with Active Melody!! Whoop! Whoop! :-))

Looking forward to watching all your submissions.

All the best for now.

Dermot.

Andy Wright

Hi Everyone, and blessings to you. I hope you have enjoyed this months challenge. I have chosen Brians take on the the style of Mark Knopfler from EP110. It has the flavour of Marks infectious rhythm on Money for Nothing. I really enjoy getting into a good groove. I also really enjoy fingerstyle which really opens up possibilities as well as it’s own challenges. I feel it gives you a totally different connection to the guitar than when playing with a pick. This was challenging, in terms of getting and maintaing that groove, fitting in the licks with the groove and the high tempo and I also found it took a lot of concentration. But a wonderful challenge and another great piece from Brian.