Progress (Updated)

  1. Polish my Bonnie.

  2. Practice without the paper, the whole time! You know the song now, at most you will need to look at the chords for the beginning section we didn’t spend as much time on once to reaffirm which ones you need and in what order. Working through remembering and feeling things out from there without the paper is necessary and will pay off.

  3. Work on the transition point in the middle of the second line from the old melody to the new fixed melody.

  4. Spend some time taking turns singing only and playing chords only.

  5. Fix your chord fingering issues. Focus on the feel on round finger shapes, fingertips on strings, and forming the chord shapes in the air and dropping all fingers at once. If you need to resettle fingers after a failed first attempt while strumming, lift all fingers briefly and then reset all fingers simultaneously.

  6. Identify and isolate problem areas and work them out as small chunks, whether that be chords or singing.

  7. Sing the same octave for the first line and a half, then split, Debbie high, Kett low.

  8. Practice with intent to maintain the proper threshold of intensity. That mains effort, focus, air flow and pressure, and sheer volume.

  9. Work on chord exercises.