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Hi Altex,
How about taking them to your local radio station and explain who you are and what you are about. If they are interested you may get an interview and your music played on air and, you might then get folks busting a gut to get one of your CD's.
Take care,
Roger
Hi Helena,
A beautiful and moving song that plays well and easily and a melody comes naturally. A wonderful tribute to someone who meant a lot to you. I know it was his funeral today and you have been in my thoughts.
Take care,
Roger
Lovely song Jeff,
Easy to play with great lyrics that, with your permission, I will record and sent to my youngest grandchildren.
Thank you,
Roger
Hi Marcalan,
Beautiful lyrics. Do you have the chords please as I would like the chance to play the song?
Thank you,
Roger
Hi James,
I whole heartedly agree with you in the song, manufacturers are making cars so difficult to work on that it is not only the man in the street like you and I but all the small one and two man garages that are suffering. At one time I sold diagnostic equipment to garages and I know how the smaller places struggled to try to keep up to date with the technology.
That being said you have a nice fun song there that is easy to play and enjoy.
Thank you,
Roger
Hi Zurf,
If you read James's sticky at the start of the Songwriting section it gives you instructions on how to write to come out 'all nice and purdy'. Two things to note though, it is basically writing in a specific way for a computer to read and convert, so everything must be exactly right for it to work. The receiving programme/site must be set to recognise and do the convertion just as Chordie is.
The start instruction is [song and the finish is [/song], you wil note that I have deliberately omitted the ] from the start command to prevent it from trying to convert this message.
There used to be a site called "By The Chord" that you could upload your song and then print it converted but that has now closed down but someone may know another site that you can do this.
I hope that is of some help,
Roger
Frank, my question was put this way just to bring a smile to Toney and if you or anyone else enjoyed it like this then I am more than happy. As for writing a novel now that is a completely different ball game but if anyone wants to donate sufficient funds I will go over and follow him around for a month or two for inspiration to complete it 
thanks.
Blinddog, you are a little out of context here but if you look at the large chord chart in the Resources you will find F6 easily. There is no C6 listed but there is a D6 and if you click for the different variations you can find one you can drop down two frets to give a C6.
Dguyton, thank you so much for the link I found it on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-K4CXvxNcw I have saved this to my favourites so I can study it later. She is amazing.
SouthPaw, Toney if you are one tenth as good as KT Tunstall I really want to see you perform. I shall now start saving for the flight.
Thank you all,
Roger
The 1945 film "Brief Encounter" has been recently brought to my attention and I noticed that there has never been a title track song written for it. I thought it might be fun and a bit different to write one so here is my offering:
Recorded at: http://www.myspace.com/rogerguppy
I hope you like it,
Roger
The Gmaj7 I used was 2 2 0 0 3 3 not the one shown here.
Actually, if I am honest, I used x x 0 0 3 3 as I could not get my finger round the 6 string chord so I cheated and used only 4 
Hi Toney (or anyone else that can help, please feel free),
OK the system sounds good although I still do not understand the actual mechanics of the process so I have two more questions.
As it is a rather long way to come and look over your shoulder do you happen to know if there are any sites that show how the equipment is used?
As language is a problem for me over here what should I look for in the local music shops if I want to try one out?
Thank you,
Roger
Hi Boxer,
Lets try an obvious one. Look on your task bar and you will see an icon of a speaker, double click on it to open it and make sure that the mute boxes are not ticked. If they are clear them and it should be OK.
Fingers crossed,
Roger
Hi Toney,
You have mentioned when you perform that you use a piece of equipment to 'loop' your other instruments and this is something I know nothing about. From the little I have picked up I think it can give you drums and then repeat play your instrument, so I have this vision in my mind and to set the scene:
It is a hot sunny day, the local saloon bar is filled with the local townspeople, in one corner a game of poker is in progress and in another is a stage with musical instruments upon it. Then the saloon doors open and a figure is silhouetted between them. A hush falls over the room as this man ambles in. He tall, broad of shoulder (possibly a 41" chest) and narrow of hip, slightly bow legged, wearing heeled riding boots with jangling, silver spurs. He has Levi 501's with a denim shirt, a colourful silk bandana at his neck and a Stetson upon his head. Around his waist is a magnificently tooled, silver buckled leather belt with a matching holster on his left holding a bone handled Colt Peacemaker balanced by a large Bowie knife sheathed on his right. His face is deeply tanned and a hand rolled cigarette dangles from the corner of his mouth. He smiles ruefully and breaks the silence with a slowly drawled "Now you all relax and enjoy your drinks. I done come here to entertain you all" as he makes his way to the stage. (OK remember that I was brought up on Zane Grey, J.T. Edson, The High Chaparral and Rawhide so to me all Americans are Texan cowboys).
Right so now you get onto the stage and flick a few switches and start the drum beat going, then pick up the bass and play the bass for the verse, then you go to the keyboard and add that to the now looping drum and bass, the acoustic is next and then that is changed for the new Washburn. Now you are ready for the vocals and lead guitar, but hang on a minute we have now had four variations of the first verse (and not even thought about the chorus yet) before a note has been sung so the audience will have either dropped off to sleep, gone home for their supper or nipped off to the OK Corral for a gunfight.
Now I do realize that the scenario in the previous paragraph cannot possibly be true so just how does this 'looping' work please.
I have aimed this slightly tongue in cheek question at SouthPaw as I know he regularly uses and advocates this equipment but I would really welcome an answer from anyone.
Take care,
Roger
Hi Toney,
Lovely looking guitar, pity we cannot hear you playing it. Unless of course..................................................well, FoC can make space for you 
Nice to meet the latest edition to your family though.
Take care,
Roger
Hi Altex,
One of the problems here I think is the time difference. All the Moderators of Chordie are in the Europe or America and we tend to be in our beds when you are up and about in your part of the world. Unfortunately we have no Moderators in your time zone.
As SouthPaw pointed out we are all volunteers and we do the best we can, but your help in reporting is important. Any report you make is flagged and highlighted to any of the Moderators as soon as we log onto the Forum which gives us the chance to eliminate it without having to look through every posting to check whether it is fit to be on Chordie.
Roger
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Shake ,Rattle and Roll"
Roger
Hi Bobby,
Great music, I particularly like the track "Lost". A fine band (oops nearly showed my age and said group then ) you have there.
Roger
Hi Arkady,
Nice song you have here with a clever twist of words in the chorus. Well done,
I would love to hear you singing this one, how about a recording?
Thank you,
Roger
Great song Mark,
Having had the advantage of hearing a recording of this song I must say that you should upload it for every one to hear. Your recording comes over far better than the written word. Well done.
Thank you,
Roger
Hi Marclan,
I find three line verses difficult to work with but maybe you could try something like this. I fingerpicked it and the first C, Em and F are two bars duration and the rest just one.
[C]It was madness [Em]when she came
When she [F]left, it was the [C]same [G]
And [F]everyday, [G]in between, was [C]alive! [G]
[C]She raced [Em]through our minds.
Made [F]fun of our [C]lives. [G]
Our [F]inner fears [G]exposed, in our [C]darkness she [G]loomed.
I hope that this gives you an idea to help.
Roger
Nice one Jeff,
When I wake in the morning it is usually the face of a cat that greets me, we all cannot be as lucky as you.
Lovely song,well done.
Thank you,
Roger
Hi James,
Great song and a brilliant recording. I hope the festival went well and I am wondering if your song did get performed during the event.
Take care,
Roger
Ken now has a new title, he has been made an Administrator. He has been Moderating the forum far longer than any of us and I am very pleased that Per has done this.
Everyone, I am sure, appreciates both Ken's sense of humour and fairness and he is an excellent choice.
Congratulations Ken.
Roger
Hi Rebel,
Minor chords can give the effect you are looking for so you could try something like this:
[Am]He was a drifter [Em]with no name
[Am]Born to rob them [Em]trains
[F]He was the quickest quick[C]draw in the west
He [F]liked his whiskey [G]strong
[Am]And he sang a cowboy [G]song
And [F]leavin' town's [G]what he done [C]best [G]
A full bar for each chord except on the last line which is half a bar for each chord.
Roger
Hi James,
An epic saga you have here (4 page print out). Well crafted lyrics to give a completely different viewpoint of Johnny Cash's adventure in you home town. A very interesting chord sequence makes this into another extremely good song from you. I do hope you are going to record it, the combination of spoken and sung lyrics will make interesting listening.
Thank you,
Roger
Hi Helena,
"Goosebumps" Just so that you and no else one gets the wrong idea, like most female songs I play, I automatically flip the gender to a male perspective and this song brought to mind some very pleasant thoughts about certain lady from my past. For reasons that will never be made public those memories have been suppressed but this song brought them, and her, to mind - hence the goosebumps. Now I have to forget again.
Roger
Strange custom they have in American. From an early age they train their children to be extortionists.
Roger
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