Here is my second week progress. Definitely improvement, although not as fast as I'd wish for. :) I measured the action on this guitar and its wayyy high which I believe contributes to the difficulty of making the chords sound nice. Especially the bar chords. I will see if there is a guitar shop around that can help me with that.

This is a 1, 4, 6, 5 pattern in the key of G. I plucked the bass note on the down beat and hit the chord on the up. The final measure i added a little embellishment by susing the D chord.

It is the end of week 1 on this lesson. Still working on it though! Each day I see improvement. :) You were also right that eventually those ugly sounding chords will sound better. That is lovely to hear.

I mean.... not sure what needs to be said about this song. It's brilliant. Very interesting chords, but of course the star of the show is the vocals.

I followed the two annotated progressions in the keys of C and A using both the 2 and 4 chord shapes. Sometimes I feel I lack creativity when coming up with interesting rhythms but this is what I ended up with.

For this lesson I chose to play a 1, 6, 2, 5 in the key of E and a 1, 4, 5 in the key of G. When messing around with different rhythms I came up with a pattern that reminded me of "Good Loving" by the grateful dead in the second example. I guess it just goes to show how popular that progression is.

Attempted a basic rhythm with some accents and palm muting using chords in three different positions along the neck. Got a little off beat towards the end perhaps but I think it sounded ok otherwise.