April 2025 Challenge Response-Stacey

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- May 11, 2025 at 8:08 am #392648
  Stacey
  Participant
  Still getting the hang of the Forum thing.
  
  My limiting factor is playing guitar in open G tuning with my 👀 closed for fun. First YouTube video uploaded to AM
  
  Stacey
  
  Stacey
- May 11, 2025 at 9:37 am #392675
  Alan L
  Participant
  Very groovy! 😎 nice first submission hope to see more
- May 11, 2025 at 10:08 am #392681
  Tremelow
  Participant
  Hi Stacey, welcome to the challenges! Very nice sounding song in open G-tuning. I never tried that tuning myself, but now I am curious what I would or could do with it.
- May 11, 2025 at 10:26 am #392687
  Andy N
  Participant
  Welcome to the challenges Stacey. First of many I hope as I really enjoyed listening to you Blind G blues. I once heard Mary Spender talking about playing in a dark room to break the “must look” habit but just shutting your eyes seems much more convenient. You seem to have mastered it too.
- May 11, 2025 at 11:04 am #392693
  Jennifer D
  Participant
  OK just tried playing with eyes shut – not too bad then it all went to pieces! Well done and welcome to the challenges!
- May 11, 2025 at 12:36 pm #392700
  AndréM
  Participant
  Very nice Stacey, not easy without looking the neck.
  Excellent composition.
  You might want to change your camera angle, we can’t barely see the neck or half of it I should say.
  Well done and welcome aboard AM challenge.
  
  AndréM
  
  AndréM
- May 11, 2025 at 12:54 pm #392701
  Juxi
  Participant
  Well done, Stacey. Great rhythm playing, doing this with eyes shut is impressive! 👍🏽
  
  Bluesige Grüße
  Juxi
- May 11, 2025 at 2:45 pm #392709
  Mike W
  Participant
  Good debut Stacey – totally original idea, but I bet a lot of us try it. Look forward to hearing more.
- May 11, 2025 at 3:37 pm #392737
  JoLa
  Participant
  What a great debut, Stacey! Loved the resonator sound in open tuning and your fretboard mastery is evident since you could play it flawlessly with your eyes shut. That alone was a brilliant idea! Do you play slide as well? I’d love to hear it.
  
  Welcome to the challenges, looking forward to see more of your playing 🙂
  
  🎸JoLa
- May 11, 2025 at 4:06 pm #392748
  sunjamr
  Participant
  Nice one, Stacy. You’ve reminded us of a great skill we all need to practice: Playing without looking at your fretboard. There are some Youtube videos out on how to improve this skill. I find that I can do it if I work on it a while, but if I’m just sitting and playing a lot while looking at my fretboard, I lose the skill.
  
  Sunjamr Steve
- May 11, 2025 at 5:39 pm #392777
  Mike D
  Participant
  Very creative and well played ….!
  
  Live on planet Earth ? You got the blues.
- May 11, 2025 at 7:31 pm #392784
  Bill
  Participant
  Eyes open or shut, you know your way around open G! Nice picking and welcome to the challenges.
- May 12, 2025 at 5:14 am #392806
  Laurel C
  Moderator
  Welcome to the challenges Stacey. That is impressive to play with your eyes shut, whatever key. Nice resonator and great debut. I hope Brian doesn’t use this idea for a future challenge.
  My limit would be hammer on/pull off using just the E chord.
- May 12, 2025 at 6:21 am #392808
  John H
  Participant
  Stacey
  Lovely composition-fluid and purposeful. What a beautiful sound you are pulling out of your resonator guitar. Congrats on your first submission. Hoping to hear many more!’
  
  John
- May 12, 2025 at 9:47 am #392815
  James B
  Participant
  Great debut, Stacey. Enjoyed your sightless performance. The recording sounds great too.
  
  James
- May 12, 2025 at 10:57 am #392834
  JoeD1
  Participant
  Well I listened with my eyes closed and it was just fine! Nice submission Stacey! And welcome to the forums.
  
  Joe
  
  The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
  Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
  --Graeme Edge
- May 12, 2025 at 2:38 pm #392907
  Michael L
  Participant
  Hi Stacey, welcome to AM and the challenges. Glad you’re here! Nice picking on this one. I’ve worked at playing with my eyes closed… sometimes it goes well, sometimes not, but I think it’s an important skill to practice and can really hone your left hand. I enjoyed listening!
- May 12, 2025 at 3:21 pm #392918
  Manfred M
  Participant
  Welcome to the challenges, Stacey. And here’s another first, the first challenge entry I’ve seen with eyes closed. Your great, soulful playing goes well with this. I look forward to hearing more from you.
  
  Take the chance to meet your AM friends on Zoom.
  The next Meetup will take place on May 31
  
  There will be a detailed announcement here in the forum in the next days..
  
  I look forward to meet you.
  Manfred
- May 12, 2025 at 5:15 pm #392959
  KT
  Participant
  Well done enjoyed your presentation.
  The same for me I am new to you tube and AM. I think we did great !
- May 12, 2025 at 10:04 pm #392972
  Dieter
  Participant
  Really great picking.
  
  Dieter
- May 13, 2025 at 3:45 am #392984
  Martin W
  Participant
  Hi Stacey and welcome to the challenges,
  Nice picking in open G on the resonator and playing with your eyes shut is a hard limitation to set , but you pulled it off with impressive fretboard navigation .
  
  Martin
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