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My gal is nine.  I have heard people complain that Taylor Swift's songs are all juvenile.  I would hope so!  She had songs on the radio and was getting acclaim from her peers on Country radio and in the academies when she was 16 and 17 years old.  She took new female artist of the year her senior year of high school!  Given that she is living the life of a adolescent moving into woman-hood, I would anticipate that her songs would reflect that.  She has written, and written well, about the things she knows.  My hope is that as she matures that her songwriting topics do as well. 

- Zurf

Use a metronome.  Anytime you hear boom, it's a down strum. Any time you hear da-da it's down-up.  Any time you hear da-da-da its down-up-up.  He uses down, down-up, and down-up-up in different combinations through out.  Get a metronome and practice playing one down stroke, one down stroke and one upstroke, and one down stroke and two upstrokes all in the same time.  Once you can get the timing of doing the different strokes each within a single beat, you'll be well on your way.  As far as how to combine down, down-up, and down-up-up, I think that's going to be more of a feel thing.  But if you try to play it that fast immediately, you will fail and you will continue to fail. 

Also, you need to be able to make the chord changes smoothly and cleanly in time with the music.  If you cannot do that, then you need to pull that metronome out again and set it slow and make the chord changes IN TIME.  As you learn to make the chord changes in time, slowly increase the speed on the metronome and continue to practice.  It may take thousands of times doing each chord change to get it ingrained into your fingers so that you make it in time with the song rather than in your own time. 

Rhythm is FAR more important than accuracy of the notes.  If you mess up the rhythm, you've messed up the song. 

If you want to play fast like that guy, then you need to start slow and work your way up to it.  You need the muscle memory.  If you are trying to play fast like that right from the get-go, you will never, ever succeed at cleanly playing that song because you will be practicing errors in timing and chord fingerings.  Do it only as quickly as you can do it cleanly and accurately.  Accuracy first.  Speed will come. 

- Zurf

Nachos and ice cream were good.  I am one fat hillbilly tonight.

There is real beer here.  And there is beer that would like to be real beer.  The only way to tell the difference is by trial and error.  Of course, if you were to ask any two people which is which, I expect they'd have entirely different lists.  I've not been a big fan of the extreme hoppiness of American craft beers lately.  I'm not all that much into drinking flowers, and when I do care to drink flowers I'll generally go for some herbal tea.  I prefer beer to be malty rather than hoppy.  But there are always exceptions...

- Zurf

We will have to disagree on that point.

Absolutely I have.  It's surprising that Miller Lite got skunked.  As I understand it, and I'm certainly no expert on it, is the skunking is a result of the beer spoiling.  It is after all somewhat like a bread or cake in that it relies on grains and yeast, so it doesn't last forever.  Light and heat are generally what work on a beer.  My guess is that your case was left in a hot truck.  Light is unlikely, unless that happened at your house because it would have been inside the cardboard box from the bottler keeping it dark until getting to your house.  So it probably got hot.  Miller Lite has enough "stuff" in it to keep it preserved to prevent that is why I'm surprised.  The "craft" beers that use only water, grain, hops, and yeast are the ones that skunk easiest.  I used to buy a fair number of Canadian beers, but gave up on them when the "skunk" quotient got too high.  Grolsch is another brand that seems to be skunked more often than not by the time it gets to me. 

So, anyway, it's a normal thing.  It's an unusual thing for Miller Lite or other fairly highly processed beers like that.  And you handled it exactly right.  No sense in drinking something that you don't like the taste.  It wouldn't have hurt you any.  But why bother, eh?

- Zurf

There's an Em?