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Sorry, i missed out D, i can play that.

B i cant get at all, not the barred version anyway lol i can play the B thats almost like A but a string up, if you get my drift lol

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Well then you're all set.  You already have what it takes to play about 10,000 songs.

And learn the barre.  It will open up the entire fretboard for you.

And did I mention, "practice every day?"

Scale modes.  Start playing myxolidan or some other off major/minor mode.

That's my next practice goal.

Practice, man.  That's the only answer.

Play the barre, and only the barre for a while until your hands hurt.  Take a 10 minute break.  Repeat until bored.

Fret a chord, then strike each string in the chord to ensure you've got them all nailed down.   Do this until your hands hurt.  Take a 10 minute break.  Repeat until bored.

Play I  IV  V progressions in every key, starting at F.  Work your way down the neck until your hands hurt.  Take a 10 munute break.  Repeat until bored.

The key is that you have to develop strenghth in your hands.

Like the song says...  "Practicing is just the same thing over and over and over and over...."

I own both Hofner and Epiphone guitars, and their quality is great for the value.  I don't know about their violas and violins specifically, but they make good products, otherwise.

Orange Blossom Special

Folsum Prison Blues

Cannonball Express

Bald Knob Arkansas

Crazy Train

Peace Train

Without Love (Where would you be now?)

Casey Jones (Driving that train, high on cocaine...)

And of course, anything by Boxcar Willie.

I've done similar lists "Songs about Cadillacs" and "Cars, Liquor, and Women."

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>guitar_gabe wrote on Fri, 10 November 2006 22&#58;25</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
I mean, like, figure out how to put it together, if you know anything about it i could use some help.  And you like punk? im the only person in my town that likes it... what types of bands do you like?  Later.
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I totally dig punk.  But what is "it" that you are trying to put together?

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>Selene wrote on Thu, 09 November 2006 13&#58;59</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Oh, this is really driving me crazy, I swear... I love ballads and slow songs, but I can't get the hang of arpeggios! (Yes, I'm quite the newbie, I know) Hm. I'd appreciate any piece of advice you feel like sharing... <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">
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Practice slowly until you can hit each note in the arpegio cleanly.  Only then should you add speed.  Never play at a tempo beyond which you can not play the arpegio perfectly.

Do this every day.

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>James McCormick wrote on Sun, 29 October 2006 23&#58;39</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Start by getting the basic notes down - forget about the rhythm until you have the proper intervals sketched out.  Then go back and start assigning time values to the tones.

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This is good advice, and also what I do.  When I do start to work on the timing and rhythm, I use a metronome or at least slow things down to the point where I can take a lot of the elaborative bits out of the tune and break it into it's basic rhythms.  Don't try to write the grace notes,  ghosted notes, or anything like that into it at first.

Practice an hour a day, every day.  In six months you'll be amazed at what you're doing.

In the United States, copyright is implicit upon authorship.  That is, once you put it in a tangible form (record it, write it down, etc) it is copyrigted, and you don't have to do anything else.

You can register that copyright with the government, but that isn't necessary.  What that does is aid you in your civil litigation should someone else try to use your work without gaining your permission first.

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>Baba30 wrote on Mon, 23 October 2006 03&#58;02</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
is it really that simple that those of us with little formal music education and knowledge can do it?

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Well yeah!   You aren't putting together an opera just yet, and modern music is pretty basic.   

Start with a 12 bar blues.  Write some clever lyrics about how your baby don't love you no more, or your dog running off, or something.   Because you're playing a blues, you don't have to write the music, as it's already been written for you.

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Are there any further tricks other than "what sounds good?"
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Start with well recognised musical forms.  12 and 16 bar blues.   Three chord wonders are wonderful!

And practice a lot.

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another way :

middle finger 6th string 3rd fret

index finger 5th string 2nd fret

ring finger 2nd string 3rd fret

pinky 1st string 3rd fret

with this method you can move your middle and index fingers both down one string and you have a C.  good luck.
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Using that fingering,  just moving your middle and index fingers down one string won't result in a C, it will result in a C9 (I think) as it adds a D to the chord.