Dust in the Wind

The fingers on my left hand hurt like hell . . . I've been practicing you see.

The goal is to have a forty-five minute lesson once a week and to practice an hour each day. So I have been working on "Dust in the Wind," the intro to which I learned on Friday. The intro is based on the chords C, Cmaj7, Cadd9, Am, Asus2, and Asus4, as well as a basic picking technique. The trick is to get the chords and the picking in sync. 

The picking is fine and the chords are fine, but when I try to put them together—along with the appropriate rhythm—I feel terribly uncoordinated and wonder why my fingers look as if they don't really belong to me. Hopefully, this feeling—along with the pain—will pass eventually.

In any case, once I learn the entire song, it will be some variation of this:




I also have to learn "Wild Thing" but more about that later.