Thanks for the comments guys.
Bill, I know that lick you’re talking about. And unfortunately, it doesn’t sound that good played slow, right? You just have to play it fast to get that sound right. In fact I think a lot of Guthrie’s sound comes from paying chromatic-type licks super fast and clean as a …. help me out here … baby’s bum? lol
Bill, since you have heard me playing, do you recommend I try out Fives first? I consider it important in choosing the right songs to cover (purely as a learning exercise), so your thoughts would be great. Waves is indeed a very difficult song for me to cover right now.
Regards to my performance, practicing it really really slow and repeating it many many times before increasing the tempo is really working out for me. May not work for others, but I find its doing wonders for me. So I practice at tempo 60 bpm, repeat it many many times. And I find I can play it at a much higher tempo, for example, 100 bpm pretty comfortably. I guess its the muscle memory thing.
