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I understand you want as many people to see this as possible but I moved it to "songwriting" where I feel it belongs.

In the 80s there was a band from Glasgow called Love and Money. On the release of their 2nd album they toured with many artists including BB King. During this time, as far as I know, James Grant, the bands' singer and guitarist was given a guitar by BB King. Not a bad gift, eh?

Now if you want to be a CLASSY professional you need a stool to sit on. The pros are so fickle.

The midgies love my wife. She swears by skin so soft. Even standing in clouds of the blighters in Skye she never got bitten. And she usually gets eaten alive just hanging out the washing! I must have too much poison in my blood cos they've never bothered me.

I love the different perspectives in the last two posts. Lovely.

Something New Under The Son by Larry Norman has lived with me for a LONG time. It was the 1st album I ever heard that told a story, from start to finish, from the perspective of a lead character.

Green Day's Dookie also made an impact on me. They were the 1st band I'd heard for a long time that had something to say. Agree or disagree, they said it, when most bands of the time had clammed up.

Intro and solos?!?! Are you kidding me? Try doing all that sitting round a campfire or at a party with a good few beers in you. You're just starting out; make things easy for yourself. If I start to play intros all I get is "Ah get to the bit we can sing!"

One step at a time, eh?

It's a hard road isn't it? Sometime we get distracted very easily when things start to get a little more complex. Try and substitute complex for... interesting.

Sounds like you're doing ok just now. Keep practicing your chord changes, even if it's just the same two or three chords over and over. Try not to get ahead of yourself (I'm very guilty of this) and move on to new things before you really have the current things sorted out.

There are loads of tuition websites now that offer good video lessons for all abilities. I always advise having a look at www.justinguitar.com which is free and has loads of good videos on topics like strumming, chords, picking, reading tab, finger exercises, song lessons and ohhhh so much more.

Most of all, don't give up. Always leave a guitar out, in easy reach, so that you don't get out the habbit of picking it up. Pick a song and play it every time you pick up. Play it as often as possible.

I wish I could follow my own advice.

Welcome to chordie - the biggest group hug around.

Almost forgot.... here it's here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W1h4MZW … re=related

I'll second that.

Hey, Roz. I moved your topic in here so that someone with more know-how will have a better chance of seeing it. There used to be an edit option on all the songs on the index, which allowed you to chop and change as you wished, but this has had to be removed because of technical problems. It's a bummer but there's not much we can do but trust the site admin to do his best to keep the site alive. As it is I can only suggest copying and pasteing into word, or something similar, and then re-jigging it in that.

All the very best, and welcome to Chordie.

***Edited so as to get my facts correct. Sorry for any confusion****

This is my biggest problem. It's also why I started to record myself singing and playing. Not only does it point out where I go wrong but it forces me to learn the song well before I record myself doing it. It also means several takes before I can get it all right which also helps me learn the song better.

I guess I try to learn too many at the one time. I keep telling myself to take it one song at a time but I'm so very easily distracted.