3,201

(7 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

welcome daisysam, best of luck building your guitar, sorry i cant help, but please keep us informed as to how your getting on.

phill

3,202

(36 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

i may be rong but isnt that what the chordie editors are for? if you spot a mistake you can correct it? obviously having to work through a piece methodically to find the correct word or chord to help others not just yourself is beyond your scope which in turn disqualifies you from chordie membership.

i'd like to say it's been fun. i'd like to.........

3,203

(133 replies, posted in Acoustic)

i feel stupid saying this to guitarists but some chords are like a brother from another mother, they look similar and quite often sound similar too. for example, if guitarist 1 plays G , and guitarist 2 plays Bm you get the effect of Gmajor 7. it may not be technically Gmj7 but it's close enough for the layman not to notice the difference. another one is G and Em = G6. you can go up and down the fingerboard like this, spend some time working them out.

3,204

(9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

let me just say; the kids probably just thought "wish i had a guitar like that and be able to play like him" this is a fact, i remember thinking the same thing my-self when i was 14 and a kid came to school with his guitar, he just looked good, and i thought played good. he said he was selling the thing and i bought it. it was trash. it fell apart within a few weeks. the action was so high that it was hard to play open chords. i later bought a better guitar and taught myself to play it. then i noticed how mediocre he really was, not that i'm saying you are, but this is how kids think. so take heart, you'll be better next time

wide for both, as you say wide weight distribution

3,206

(13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

and you say we're odd this side of the pond

3,207

(11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

apart from the rather undeserved crack about British beer, i thought it was pretty good. i wonder what mr simon would say about it?

3,208

(2 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

i was watching a programme featuring Albert Hammond. i was shocked to find that he neither wrote or read music. now i know that composing music doesn't depend on being able to write dots on paper, most pop writers don't; Lennon/Mccartney and many others.
Hammond performed a few of his songs, on guitar and piano, and he freely confessed he played totally by ear, he neither knew the notes on the keyboard or frett board, and he had no idea of chord names. i know i'm lazy, but learning the notes and chord names was one of the first things i did when i began teaching my-self to play. i'm still not much good but i know where to find any note you ask for!

i'm not knocking this guy, i am completely in awe of his talent and some of his songs must be modern musical classics, including "the air that i breathe" brilliant

3,209

(8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

they speak a lot about Tesla on wharehouse 13, one of my favourites

3,210

(7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

in actual fact what we said was; "if we let him have a name he will do some favours. if we give him block capitols too we can ask for money!!!!"

what d'ya think?

3,211

(10 replies, posted in Songwriting)

come on tony, i love a good pun, please pun away. just thought you might like to know, i've already made 6-7 recordings, and this one is the best of the bunch, the rest are crap, but it's all a learning curve and i'll get there in the end....i hope!

3,212

(8 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

i like the slippery neck on my telecaster, it's maple and slightly convex. similar shape to the strat,but that was(is) rosewood, so it's soft and i dont find it as slippery. i also dont like gibson necks as they are very flat and wide, they look great, but not for me.

3,213

(13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

have a great day dino

phill

3,214

(10 replies, posted in Acoustic)

hi spike,

i've played left hand since i was 15. main problem is that it can cost an extra 15% when buying new as building a hundred guitars to a single pattern is cheaper than building one to a different one, i hope that makes sense?

3,215

(2 replies, posted in Songwriting)

sorry to hear you've not been well tony, hope you feeling better.

nice to hear something new from you. i could picture myself lying under a thin canopy, river babbling to my side, especially in this weather. lovely soothing piece of music. well done.  phill

3,216

(10 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks pete.

was that a pun ark? mastering? in all honesty it's quite an easy machine to "master" apart from a few tweeks here and there it's very straight forward. as for editing, you can put all sorts of ins and outs etc fx the works. then stick it straight onto CD.

3,217

(9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

may the happiness in your heart be matched only by the wealth of your generosity.

happy birthday

3,218

(25 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

hey rog, is this a mid-life crisis? new guitar, new bike? plus a caravan and a trannie and a polo?

and wall to wall sunshine. talk about the life of riley?

are you riding around with the guitar mounted on the bike?

stick me down for a like button too

3,219

(9 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

mccartney can still cook a good one, though he does seem to be rasping a bit after a tour.

back in the day i used to like Focus, saw them a couple of years back and all that falsetto had gone, in fact he was having trouble hitting low notes. that's overkill i suppose?

3,220

(10 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks for the listen guys, the reason the backing vocals are low is because that's how i want them (they're not very good)

i dont have a lot of patience for editing, photo's or sound which is why the video is rather ropey, the pics fitted at first then they went doolalley so i left them like that!

i lost my voice last week so i'm still recovering.....

3,221

(5 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

each time i look in the fridge the wife says "innit time you filled that up now?" so i don't look in the fridge.

3,222

(6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

that's one hell of a good idea beamer, getting all the words on 1 page could cause some head scratching.

3,223

(10 replies, posted in Songwriting)

This is a new song recorded on my new recorder and I've put it to some photos I've taken on holiday and of my family at Christmas. I hope you'll take a look and offer some comments. Follow the link...


http://youtu.be/3UgdFhUcuhQ

3,224

(8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

that sounds like we'll hear it this side of the pond! glad i wont be any closer...LOL

3,225

(12 replies, posted in Songwriting)

a lot of rock comes from folk/country just listen to the eagles. so i'm waiting with baited breath for a recording...should be good if the words and chording are anything to go by