I'm going through Lisa's fingerpicking tutorials, and it's fun when she throws a song with words in there. While I'm not having any trouble playing the music, I can't do it while singing at the same time. I had that same problem whenever I tried to sing and play the piano together too. When I was in 6th grade, my class did a Charlie Brown Christmas play and I played Schroder, the piano playing kid. The only hard part of the role was when I was supposed to play a few bars of Fur Elise and say "It's Beethoven Christmas music" at the same time. I'd learned Fur Elise many year before, so I could play it without thinking. I practiced for hours trying to say the line along with the music, but I never could do it. I think I ended up just stopping playing and then said the line.

I know that part of my problem is that I'm still new at the guitar and concentrating pretty hard on forming the chords and doing the picking pattern at the same time, so I'm hoping maybe later I'll be able to sing along. But I'm wondering if it's common for some people to have trouble singing and playing at the same time?