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When you start playing guitar, you play to learn and learn to play. If you know even only 3-4 chords, learning chords is in my opinion more learning HOW??? than from the heart. First the techniques followed by your guitar play. BUT once I am playing, even a cover: right from the heart. Sometimes you can hear a "very sterile song", just compare a song like "without you.
Harry Nilsson's performance, better tormented performance is a good example, and what almost nobody knows this song is written and performed by BADFINGER, but the Nilsson cover was on the market a couple of months later and you can hear very clear that this song is deep from the heart. The last famous version was performed by Withney Houston (I am not sure for 100%) and to my ears it is NOT AT ALL a good performance, if you compare it with Nilsson. It is not from the heart, more a little or big excersise for the vocal chords. If you love to play guitar, you will automatic play straight from the heart. I am just asking myself: rolling stones, are they still playing from the heart? or the REUNION tours, like the police, heart or wallet? anyway there is something I don't like

Well, I am glad to have so many reactions, and I think still, putting the ages on a graphic paper that we have the age I tought, I PREFER TO BE YOUNGER, BUT WITH THE SAME EXPERIENCE AS I HAVE NOW. "wishful thinking".
I hope we can help everybody, in our way, by giving advise. This is an important fact for everybody. I am sure that even guitar players, playing maybe for 40 years will learn, even very young guitar players did add information, I read and I use.
I HAVE ONLY 1 QUESTION: IS LEARNING MUSIC, PLAYING, READING NOTES IN THE USA INCLUDED IN THE EDUCATION, LIKE SCHOOL, COLLEGE, OR IS IT FREE. They should teach every student to read notes and play an instrument. I do regret I didn't, and now, having time...

I would rather say, blues is easy to feel, but difficult to play.
Listening music: 'till December 2004, I listened at least 10 CD's in a week, driving. This is finished now, but I like a lot of different kinds, depending on my mood. I can switch from Metallica to the Bee Gees

I have paid for a very good 'music download" site, having the cd already. And it is certainly not bad.

Hey "boot", sincere congratulations, keep up the good work, you deseve it to be moderator since I saw you for the first time on the "forum".
Honest, correct, and you know what you talk about. You are and will be one of the best: knowledge and practise

I am glad for all the answers, people (singers) I don't know, well I make it easy for myself, I look on the internet.
The question was like written pop-rock-metal. Why metal, I like the style and it can calm me down, or a ballad: same thing and my preference is, not the "sweet voiced ballad groups, but if you hear a song like "more than words" by EXTREME, and you discover the other songs, same thing with Guns&Roses: November Rain, Knocking on heavens door, listen to the voice, like axl or not, but you can't tell that his voice is bad. He can sing a lot of things. I just ask myself how they take care of their voice, especially with the lifestyle of some of them.
Greetz

you are right, I didn't think on "the mood".
Sometimes when I feel down, I like to listen to mellow songs, like bee gees,(their harmony)cools me off, or metallica and stuff: no line. I have a lot of songs, none on paper, I should like to have a 10gig device as big as the biggest coin, you can stick on every guitar, the guitar takes the vibrations, you know that your riff 5' ago was the best, but.... difficult to play "that" riff again. If you have it you can save it on PC using a USB, and you need a program to change your notes into mp3 or wav

DON't GET ON THAT PLANE! An artist like PHIL COLLINS perrformed twice on the same day for LIVE AID, but the plane is also responsable for some of the greatest losses of popular music.
Glen Miller  Buddy Holly   The Big Bopper  Richie Valens  Patsy Cline   Jim Reeves  Otis Redding   Jim Croce  Ronnie van Zandt& Steve Gaines (Lynyrd Skynyrd)  Rickie Nelson  John "I'm leaving on a jetplane" denver    Aaliyah   in a helicoptercrash: Stevie Ray Vogan

WISER or BUDWEISER.
If you look at the age of the members, I expected more younger "kids" but on the other hand the age 40-50 was the age I was thinking of.
You can easy "spot" experienced people, and for everybody, 14y - 77y (if you don't have arthrosis in your fingers) we can teach eachother.
The topic itself looks a bit funny, who doesn't like fun, I didn't expect so many answers, but the topic is important, for almost everyone, concerning gitar, acoustic & electric.
Is it possible to add next to guitars, a piano or syntheziser, also about effect processing, homerecording, because here the older chordian can learn from the youngsters

I realise already a longtime that, concerning songwriting, you have a lot of "things" you can use. I rememberd me one day, I think in a themapark, like DISNEY, I adored the noise of a little train, and just the rythm was so inspiring, that I went back on the same attraction (I have priority, because of being disabled after a car crash) and I recorded it with a cellphone, the rythm and because I had a good recording, I used it to "create" a song ON GUITAR.
But what I wanted to say, that I like to know more or less the % of using the electric or acoustic guitar to write a song. As I told, I have a big opportunity that I live and own a "STAND ALONE" house, and I am able to play VERY, VERY loud electric guitar. Being alone, not in a group, I use at what I call my electric period, a small device: a KORG PANDORA TONE WORKS PX4D for electric guitar, because getting a correct rytm, because you have a bass and drum loops, even more funny with all the possible guitareffects.
On the other hand: I love to sit in front of my PC, and like to play along with existing numbers, and just my acoustic guitar and me and chordie.