@Joseph Pugleasa Btw, this is a chord melody that I used "retrieval practice" on. One trick was to play it once as the last thing before I went to bed - and let my brain work on it while I slept! I often would see improvements when I played it the next morning!

@Nancy R Thanks for listening!

@Mentor Kyle Bradley I guess you are clicking through a few months of posts in a day!!

@Sundeep Amin Thanks so much!

@Nick Ketter Nick, this is one of my first videos where I attempted your process on recording. I'm on Windows so none of the actual software matches up, but I was able to use your concepts - thanks for writing it up! I'm not in love with the sound of my guitar through the line-out of my amp input to my DAC but it's a work in progress!

@Casey Childers @Miquel Bassols If you look at the attached pdf of this comping study, you will see that this is 90% Charleston's - just like in Shiny - Charleston's on the 1, Charleston's on the 3 with chord anticipations on the 4&, some combination Charleston's using the 1 & to land on the 3 for another Charleston , plus some chord anticipations on their own. I do use Charleston's on the 3 & to set up landing on the 1 when I want to accentuate the downbeat - which isn't in Shiny but is in later studies.

@Joseph Pugleasa I agree, it sound like music to me! Your hard work at this is showing through! I hope it wasn't too painful. There is a lot going on in this piece - it's all over the neck - complex chords and single note runs - so you should feel good that you've got it to this point. It's beyond the 80% mark. One minor correction - at the 30 second mark - first 3 notes of the verse (The falling leaves..) you are playing on the A string - it should be on the D string (the notes are E (2nd fret), F# (4th) G (5th) - other than that everything looked correct. After 2 months of grinding away at this, I would think the best way to improve this is by playing other stuff. If you haven't started already, play through the various 4.x etudes on targeting the third. I would even spend some time on the other Autumn Leaves etudes in 5.x - particularly 5.2 which has the chord changes to Autumn Leaves - since the 4.x etudes are all single line studies. It wouldn't hurt to play some of the 2.3 or 2.4 comping etudes as part of your practice - maybe as a warmup. Get some variety in your practice. Post some stuff. The rough edges of the Autumn Leaves chord melody will naturally get better. The only other comment I would make is to play this CM once each practice - or between practicing other things. I wrote on an earlier one of your posts about "retrieval practice" that by training your long term memory recall by playing something only once (not repeating or trying to fix anything) and spread out over time (say every 15 minutes in a one hour practice or spaced over several different times during the day) will solidify your recall and actually improve your performance if done over a week or so. I do this with a lot of chord melody stuff - once I worked out all the details, spent time on specific problems and played it enough to have it close to memorized - I'll start work on "retrieval practice". I will usually see results within a week - sometimes sooner. Give it a try, I'd be curious if it works for you.

@Andy Openshaw This sounds good, definitely beyond the 80% rule. I think you have the right approach on working on the transitions. I sometimes analyze the change by finger - so which finger is traveling the farthest, what finger stays in place, is there an easy way to pivot - just go slow enough to understand it at a deeper level - instead of throwing my fingers in the air and trying to come down in the right place. I think the counting thing just takes practice and time - and most struggle with it in the beginning. I agree with you that when I play with the metronome or drums and bass that I can depend on them to hold the downbeat and keep me centered - but there are issues with that. In the band situation, it's everyone's job to keep time - which allows the bass and drums to play with more freedom - and sometimes you are playing alone. If you've watched my comping video's, you can see that I try to break things into blocks - like a Charleston starting on the 1 or the 3 like you have in 2.1 and 2.2 - and work on counting that specific thing (out loud or in my head) - so when it comes to play the part the counting comes naturally. Second, you initially need to practice counting slowly. When I have a difficult section to count - I'll work on it as slow as it takes so I can get hear the timing. You have a good feel for the rhythms so far, it will come with your continued effort!

@Andy Openshaw I'm happy to help. Coach Gabriel just posted learning rhythms advice to @Ashwini Nepal that applies to breaking down how to approach this - https://www.loom.com/share/baae3757c007491ca1377c41e7f75151 He discusses an approach to learning rhythm (actually anything) that you should find helpful.