Originally Posted by: moosehockey18

Just wondering: The friends you played with ; had they played this song together before ? If so, they may have gotten used to playing with each other and gotten their timing down before you joined them. Maybe their tempo was different than what you had been practicing and that threw you off. The other suggestions that were given are all good. What I like to do sometimes is to play along with the original recording to work out the timing and chord change issues. If you`re new at this then nerves could be a factor but that will get better with time.

Good luck.

Yeah, that might have been part of the problem. Because this was the first time I had heard of the song, and their tempo I think was kind of slow.