Don’t Be Afraid

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Thanks for the longer demonstration. I see to hold my right hnd close to the strings and minimize movement, and pulsing the fretting hand was good also.

This is so good a lesson, Tomas, I am so grateful you let us learn it!!! I am trembling of joy because this song and music touches the deepest parts of a sensitive soul.
What a enormous artist is Ben King! Thanks to his talent we enjoy more than 60 years later the beauty of soul. Some music remains just forever. Stand by me is a great example of that reality.
And the strum you use on the gitar is great, full of life and rythm. It replaces very well the fantastic “contrabas” in the song that Ben King sings.

As I went through it I was thinking that the second upstrum made it easier as a place keeper. At first there was an urge to also do an upstrum on beat 4 tho.

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