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Hi Getfiddle,

You certainly have not offended me, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and people will always disagree about various things and ways of doing things.

Having used Word for years for my songs I am trying to get them all converted to chopro as I find it better. You of course disagree but that is fine. I am certainly not going to call you out at dawn, guitars drawn, ten paces apart.....

Seriously though, there is something wrong with your PC or the way you are printing out songs as they should show the chord grids in blue above the black lyrics. The print button halfway down the right hand side of the page should do this. Using the print button on your browser will stop it from working and a copy and paste will show the chords in place but in square brackets.

Roger

There is space in your Profile to enter your Jabber, ICQ, MSN, AOL or Yahoo messaging link. However entering my details seemed to have no effect so maybe this service is not active. I guess this is one for Per.

Roger

Hi Mark,

One of the easiest ways of making the transition is to find a local artist and do a guest spot with him. OK you will not get paid for it but there are several advantages of taking this approach. You only need to to do about 6 songs so you do not need a large repertoire, some artists will play (and sing) along with you so you have a confidence boost there as it is easier to perform with somebody on stage with you than on your own and you wil not need masses of equipment as you can plug into his.

My friend Howard who runs a music school has a regular Sunday night gig at a local restaurant and he regulary invites his up and coming pupils to do a spot with him. It gives added interest to the audience seeing someone new, it is relaxing for him to let someone else take the lead for a while, and the guest does sometimes get offered his own gig by a member of the audience (I know as I have guested with him three time and got two gigs from it).

So get out and about and talk to the performing artists and see if you can strike a deal. When you have done a couple and realised that the nerves seem to disappear a few bars into the first song you can then start and push for your own gig. I would suggest though that the first song you do is one that you do standing on your head with your hands tied behind your back and a gag in your mouth - the first one will be the one that nerves might affect so make it one you know very well.

Roger

Hi Kenny,

My favourite songs are the love songs, the sad ones and the romantic ones and, not being one to even try and attempt to sing like an established star, I try to do my own thing. My voice is as it is and I try to sing naturally, I exersice it to try and increase range but not tone, and that is how I sing.

I have just done a quick calculation and in the past 14 years I have only smoked in total for 2 to 3 of them so I probably lost my cigarette huskiness a long time ago.

Roger

Getfiddle the whole point about having Administrators is that they CAN alter any message to remove spam and abuse. We interfere as little as possible but there are times when we have to take action and sometimes, as in this case, we step in to help someone.

However if you had read Kenny's message you would see that it is not the body of his message he was concerned with but the title, and I think that you are wrong. I do not think that a Member can alter the title of his posting whether it be in Word or any other format only the body of his message. Kenny has been around Chordie a while and I am sure if he could have edited the title himself he would have done so.

Writing a song in Word is not as easy as writing in chopro getting the chords in the right place is a nightmare also if you try to print it out and alter the font size to make it easier to read the chords are then in the wrong place again. Writing in chopro does not have this disadvantage and the the chord grids are also shown which can be very handy if an obscure chord is used in the song. You can also make yourself a very nice songbook of just your own songs by printing out the chopro formated oned.

If you have not already guessed I am a big fan of chopro.

Roger

Hi Kenny,

Just got your e-mail and I went and changed the subject title of your song for you. Chordie does work slightly different for us Admin folk so it is possible that you may not be able to do what I have done. I simply went into edit and changed the the subject from For Me I Cry (I think that is what is was) to Left Behind.

It may be that Members can edit the content of their post but not the subject (I seem to remember Jeff, Jets60, having a similar problem a while ago). If that is the case, on the rare occassions that this service is required you will have to bribe one of us Admin folks to do it for you.

Roger

When you have a surname that is as unusual as mine you get used to folks getting it wrong so don't think twice about it.

When you are learning to play the guitar it is important that you start by only playing songs that you know really well and preferably with few chords in it. (In the 50's and 60's there were many songs with just three or four chords but there are fewer, I think, today).

Start by just stumming the chord on a down stroke and at one beat per bar. Sing along with the song to get familiar with the changes. Then when you are happy with the changes, put down your guitar. Listen to a recording of the song or play in in your mind and at the same time tap your right hand on your thigh in time to the music, not just a steady beat but vary it to go along with the song. Then pick up your guitar and convert that rhythm that you just tapped out into a strumming pattern.

OK easier said than done but I hope that helps.

Roger

Eva Cassidy's version of "Fields of Gold" is far superior to Sting's.

Her "Over The Rainbow" knocks the sox off Judy Garland's original.

Roger

Dear guitar,

Although we have never met I have spoken to your good friend Nela several times and he informs me that you are unwell so here is wishing you a speedy recovery and hoping you are soon back to your old self.

Roger

Hi Seagull and welcome to Chordie,

Ark is correct there are several different ways of playing a chord and finding an easier one is probably the best alternative. If you look at the Chord chart in Resources and click on a chord it will give the different varations.

Out of interest I just looked at the Gmaj7 and found 22 different ways of playing this chord and 10 of those are open chords including, of course, the one which Ark suggested.

Roger

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I do not think that there is any way of converting from the Chord Charts, that info came from my head, but I have been playing for a day or two. Perhaps if you look at Anastasia's "Tuning Question" in Acoustic the info that I and Alvee passed on will help.

Incidently if you edit your song instead of putting the chords above the line put them in the line where they change and in square brackets like so : [C]Mary had a [F]little lamb........... Then James or I can easily make it look all nice and purdy with the chords in blue and in the right places with the chord grids shown.

Roger

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Oops! red face and all that, bad glasses, senior moment or just temporary insanity I missread. You are right and I am wrong. I will write 1000 lines "I must read things properly first before passing them on"

Roger

PS thank goodness for computers, the 1000 lines took less time to write than this answer