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Welcome to the Chordie forum Natsumi!  Can't offer much more advise than you've already gotten.  Practice just changing between two chords back and forth.  Practice a strumming pattern without changing chords.  Get good at each individually then put them together.  Hang in there!  Practice makes perfect and eventually you'll get to where your going

Thank you guys!  I never realized how cruddy my speakers on my computer were until I got this thing.  Listening to the recording by plugging the included earbuds in sounds WAY better than my computer speakers.  The earbuds that were included sound WAY better than the earbuds I have for my cell phone.  So, they are good quality!  Just a suggestion to anyone who hasn't tried that yet (all recordings sound better, not just mine   ha ha). 

Pete here's the link to their website with some photos and info:  http://www.samsontech.com/products/prod … rodid=1916
It's similar to a "regular recorder" in the aspect that "all" it does is record sound.  There's no video included with this device.  Wayne has the Zoom Q3 which has a similar recording quality but also takes video.  It uses an SD card, so it's a digital recording.  Then you can just take the SD card out and put it into your computer to transfer files or you can plug the device into the computer and record directly into recording software like audacity (FYI Audacity is a free software download); it's like it's own little microphone interface in that respect.  You can actually do the normalizing right on the device and even record the file as an MP3 rather than a wav file (and I believe you can convert a wav file to MP3 on the device before putting on your computer), so you don't "need" audacity.  You do need audacity to do multiple tracks however.  The H2 does not support multiple tracks, but I believe the H4 does.  All I did with this recording is normalize and add the echo at the last verse.  The echo is the only thing I actually needed audacity for.  So yes, the sound quality by itself is great!

StranSongs - Honestly, I'm not sure.  I believe it's origin is Scottish, however I've seen a ton of people doing this song and claiming it as an Irish folk song... so just to be safe and not offend anyone (as an American) I put Scottish/Irish in there.  I honestly never even knew it's origins until I decided to see if there was a way to play this on my guitar.  I learned the "Americanized Version" years ago while taking voice lessons and doing singing competitions; I sang along to piano (my voice was better then too ha ha).  The Americanized version changes the words from "Clyde" to "Troublesome" which I believe is a creek in Kentucky USA.  Here's a link to a discussion we had about this as I was trying to work out the chords I wanted to use:  http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=14571  YES Cara Dillon has a beautiful voice!

Thank you again everyone for your help!  I got this song recorded with my H2 and just uploaded on YouTube.

Nice collaboration guys!  I love the smooth sounds from Ark and the guitar and voice from Phil.  Your two styles meld really well in this song.

Welcome to the Chordie Forum Snazcatraz! 

I am working on a Scottish Folk Song at the moment "Black is the Color" (or Colour). 
If you go into "public songbooks" and do a search on "love songs" you'll come up with a bunch of songs that might suit your taste too!   

Also welcome BobaJimBob!  I always use Fmaj7 in place of F... I haven't quite figured out that F or Bm, YET!

Old Doll... that Mojo Sauce looks like something I'd best stay away from trying to make.  I'm positive that I'm clumsy enough in the kitchen to promise a grease fire pouring liquids into the hot oil!  I'll bet it's delish however! 

I've never used "Italian 00 flour" ... light hmmm?  I'm using "bread flour" (high gluten content) for my yeast doughs now and it's ability to make airy breads and especially delicious pizza dough is amazing.  I wonder if it's anything like "cake flour" which is very finely ground for the lightest fluffiest airy cakes?  I do think that sounds as though it would make for a very thin crunchy pizza crust.  Speaking of "pizza", we made calzones this week.  To say my eyes were bigger than my belly is an understatement.  It was fun; we all stuffed our own with ingredients of our choosing.  The family all together in the kitchen was a fun and very messy time!    Last night was a "Cheeseburger Casserole"... sort of a homemade mac n cheese but with egg noodles and burger added.  I ate too much again. 

I think I've gained 5 pounds since the start of this thread!  I might need to slow down a little with the baking!  Ha!  By the way, I did add more flour in the chicken wing soup recipe to thicken it more, I also added more hot sauce and a bit more parsley and basil.  Otherwise I think the recipe is pretty good as is.  Of course, all of those additions will be easy for any decent cook to figure out!  I hope everyone enjoys as much as we did (it disappeared too fast, I will have to double it up next time for sure)!

Hee hee... I absolutely didn't think I'd be moderating a GUITAR forum this time last year!

Welcome to the forum ivexu!  I'm sorry no one has responded yet to your request.  I did some searching online and couldn't find anything for this.  If you come back, let us know if you're still looking for this song or if you found it... it's possible one of the other more seasoned players could try to work this out for you.  Thanks for being patient!

Thank you very much guys!  It's an honor to be able to help out on Chordie... as SouthPaw says... "the finest, most awesomest site on the garsh-dang internet!!!"

Hi there!  I don't think I've welcomed you to the forum as of yet... so WELCOME!  If you go to YouTube and search on "picking techniques guitar" you will find MOUNTAINS of videos!  Just remember to try the pattern over and over and over slowly until you get it down then speed up slowly... once you can do the pattern well at the speed you like, then try adding the chord changes in.  You want your right hand to kind of be on "auto pilot".  That seems to work well for me anyhow!    Good Luck!

Good to hear you've found a way to continue that works for you Doc.  When one truly loves music, no ailment can stop them from enjoying it.  Even the deaf are capable of enjoying a beat.  Play on!