Hi Gnomefry,

Somehow I cannot imagine you as a Troll.

Anyway you have made a start so now you need to work out some chords and a melody to finish the song. I look forward to seeing and hopefully hearing the finished version.

Roger

Helena,

My condolences on the sudden and unexpected loss of your very good friend.

This is a wonderful tribute to her memory. You have a knack of noting the ordinary, the mundane, and then expressing it with great feeling and emotion.

Roger

The song "Take Good Care Of My Baby" was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and was first a hit for Bobby Vee in 1961. It was 17 years later, in 1978 when The Beatles cover version on the bootleg "Decca Tapes" album was released. OK enough of the history lesson.

I play it in F and there is certainly an Faug so in G there will be a Gaug but no other augmented chords. I believe that the 'aud' is a 'typo' from the author.

Albertocheets, welcome to Chordie, may I suggest that you also look at the Bobby Vee version of this song as you may find the chords have been worked out better there.

Roger

Random Rock ?? 

Hi Froot,

I have two suggestions to make as you say that it is very hard to hold down the strings so I am ignoring physical strenth issues.

1: Perhaps the action is too high (too much gap between the strings and fingerboard) causing your problem and, unless you know what you are doing the best thing to do is to take it to an expert to check it and make the neccessary adjustments.

2: The other thing is to use a lighter gauge string which are thinner and have less tension. I personally do not like very light strings on a acoustic as, to my ear, the sound from them is very wishy-washy and ruins the tone.

I must point out that you do need to decide on string gauge before any work is done on the guitar as changing the string gauge will alter the set up of it.

Roger

Hi Daddycool,

Another fine cowboy song, like you I was brought up on Rawhide, Bonanza, Wagon Train etc, mind you maybe Wagon Train was before your time. Well done.

I hope you will son get your songs converted to MP3 so we can hear some on your MySpace

Roger

Thnk you Russ,

I am listening to it as I write. As I guessed I had a different melody but similar tempo, I like our version best though.

Roger

Hi Greendale,

Very good sang for your first attempt on Chordie. I look forward to hearing it when you get your MySpace sorted. hank you,

Roger

Hi Russ,

I have just played this one as, unlike young Will, I do not have a guitar in my head so I have to physically perform a song. I played it fairly upbeat and I look forward to hearing it on MySpace to see how wrong (or right) I got it.

Roger

Hi docralf,

Welcome to Chordie. I cannot understand why you have posted this link as the song is already here in Chordie: http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.u … ;id=421086

If you care to look on the right hand side of the screen just below the 'View' box you will see that there is an auto-scroll.

Roger