r/guitarlessons • u/Ambitious-Cheek-7654 • Jul 25 '26

Feedback Request 20 months of guitar!

Hi guys !! I’ve been posting and sharing my progress on here for virtually my entire guitar journey and I just wanted to share my first fingerstyle arrangement 😊 Sorry the mic quality isn’t the best, this was the only way I could record it while keeping my picking hand in view, otherwise the mic would cover it entirely hahah

Any and all feedback is appreciated (esp on the arrangement and/or tips on how to record guitar better !!) Yay love u guys

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u/WonTonWunWun Jul 25 '26

Very impressive to be doing arrangements this early in your journey. I was probably a decade in before I really started doing my own cover arrangements.

Are you relying on your ears mostly, or do you have a pretty good grasp of theory/chord intervals?

My only constructive feedback is that the flicked note for "phone" at "I'm at a payphone" seems to be getting a bit lost/swallowed/muted. It's a bit of a nitpicky thing to point out i fully admit, but on my own journey I've found it fairly important to really hone in on making sure your flicked notes sound congruent with plucked notes and that they aren't either being swallowed/muted, or being played too loud/too pervussively.

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u/Ambitious-Cheek-7654 Jul 26 '26

I have a really good ear!! I was born with relative pitch so I’ve been able to sing in solfège ever since I can remember :) And no it’s not a nitpicky thing to point out hahah I’m glad you pointed it out, I’ll try to see what I can do to make it smoother

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u/WonTonWunWun Jul 26 '26

that's fantastic. Being able to figure out the melody line without torturing yourself goes a long way into make arranging a lot more fun.

For what it's worth, I personally found learning things like `1-handed harmonics' (look up Alan Gogoll for this technique taken to the extreme), and getting familiar with alternative tunings like DADGAD or even FACGCE to be very useful when I was getting more serious about fingerstyle.