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I think I have this one figured out but would like someone with better ears to verify it for me. I am listening to the song on a cassette tape that is many years old and not in the best shape. The song is by "The O'Kanes" and is titled "Oh Darlin' (Why don't you care for me, no more).
Nela
Sounds to me like Christmas came a day early, for ya'll. I know from experience just how good it makes you feel when the doctors come in and all they have to say is good news. We are all hoping that this continues and is only the 1st of many good reports to come.
Nela
Joey, you do need to check out filing to Social Security Disability for your wife. This is something she IS DUE if she has worked and paid into the system. Also, if she has worked and had taken out a "Short term" or "Long Term" insurance policy thru her workplace she is due money as well. Human Resources, thru her workplace, should help with this if she was covered. These policies normally pay 60% of her salary until age 65 (offset by any monies paid by Social Security Disability). With the Social Security Disability you will need to make an appointment with your local SS office and discuss this with them. They will help you fill out the forms and tell you what information you need to provide. ( ie; letter from doctor discribing her condition, letter from employeer stating last day worked, social security number) There is 90 day waiting period before you can draw anything and usually you will be turned down the 1st time. If so, you hire a lawyer and sue them (this is very common and the lawyer gets paid a percentage of the settlement) This money is due her (and you) and , like me, is needed for medical bills. I have stage 4 kidney cancer and was told that under no condition should I return to work. I also have had 2 heart stints (1 heart attack), diabetes and a few other ailments. If there is anything I can do to help you with this do not hesitate to contact me. I know we don't know each other but we are still "Brothers thru Chordie".
Nela
Looks like we are about the same age. Ols enough to know better but young enough to not care.
Nela
I'm beating they are all under 14.
Nela
Dean42, my suggestion would be to learn your chords, chord progressions and scales. Once you have learned to strum / pick with one hand and how to make the chords, move between the various chord positions and pick out the notes of the scale you are using with the other hand you will be well on your way to becoming a guitar GOD like the rest of us. By learning only 3 chords and how to move between those chords smoothly, you will be able to play thousands of songs. Learn to listen for the different beats or the tempo of a song as this will give you the strum pattern / rythem of a song. Keep your learning simple and your practice fun. Practice is something you need to do everyday if only for a few minutes. Keep at it and never be afaid to ask for help.
Nela
I have not felt well for so long its amazing to get up feel like doing something, again. After the procedure I underwent Wednesday I am able to tell a big difference. On top of the kidney cancer this a-fib condition with my heart was really getting too me. Also, some my medicines were adding to the problems and were constantly being changed. I have to monitor my blood pressure / heart rate each morning and keep records. This morming my BP was near perfect and my heart rate was at 65bpm. My heart rate was is now where it used to be before all this happened. With this a-fib my heart rate would be at 80bpm one minute and well over a 100bpm the next. This was causing shortness of breath and fatigue all the time. Yesterday and today I really feel good and am hoping it continues. The blood clots in my heart and lungs are gone, my heart is beating correctly and on my last visit to the hospital (M D Anderson) I got a excellant report concerning my cancer issues. What else do I need for Christmas?
Too all who have listened to my health complaints and concerns I want to say thank you for the well wishes and prayers. They were what I needed during this time. Also, I want to say Merry Christmas to everyone.
Nela
TD, don't have a recommendation for you but consider yourself lucky in that your son only wants a bass guitar. He could have asked for a drum set.
Nela
Thanks. ya'll. Zurf, if the Good Lord didn't intend for a person to eat fried crappie then he would not have invented tarter sauce. Or ketsup. Or taters. Or iced tea. Or hush puppies. Or onions. So eating fried crappie is a good thang.
Nela
Back home and everything went fine. The doctor had to stop my heart and shock it twice before it went back into rythem.
Kinda stinging all over my chest from the shocking but other than that I feel better than I have in a long time. Able to take a deep breath, now. Gonna take it easy for a few days then see about doing a little hunting and crappie phishing.
Nela
Well, looks like I will be checking in to the hospital in a few hours. My Cardiovascular doctor is planning on stopping my heart and shocking it to bring it back into rythem. This should be a simple procedure and I will be back home, tonite, barring any unforseen complitations. This "A-Fib" condition has sure been kicking my butt and I am ready to get over it.
Nela
Grah1, Sorry to hear of your problem. As I read your post you went to Crete to sing and now you are worried about your cold, cold nads. This could be a serious problem with the potential of causing you to sing "off-key". Sure hope you are able to find some stray nads along with a dog sled to haul them around in. Lots of luck.
Nela
Thank's ya'll. It's after 1:00am and I can't sleep so I reading the posts. Things have been rough for me, lately, but I am trying to keep things positive. It's possible that these problems I am now having are related to the medicines I am taking and nothing else. There are some serious side affects with some of my meds so this may just be a wake up call. I am currently taking 2 different blood thinners (prescribed during this hospital stay) in the hopes they will break up the blood clots I have. One of the blood thinners will go away in a few more days but the other one will most likely be from now on. I have to go back to the hospital, tomorrow, to have blood drawn and this will continue every couple of days until they determine that the dosage of blood thinners is where they need to be. I have to go back to M D Anderson Medical Center the 1st & 2nd of December where I'll be poked, proded, scaned, x-rayed and checked for everything. Right now, as I'm typing, I can feel my heart racing and beating out of rythem. If any of ya'll have had or know anyone who has had A'Fib you'll know what I talking about. It's hard to discribe this feeling but it's something I'll have to deal with until the clots go away. Once the clots are gone I will have another overnight stay in the hospital so my heart can be shocked and brought back in snyc. Well it's taken me nearly an hour to type this post and I am tired. Not sleepy, just tired so I'm gonna stop.
Nela
77pb77 - if you are just starting to learn and practicing your chords as you say you are well on the way to sore finger tips. This happens to everyone and is something that you will need to endure. As your finger tips toughen up your practice will become easier. As you learn your chords you will need to master both major and minor chords. You will need to learn which chords go together. There are thousands and thousand of songs out there with only 3 chords in them and are easy to play. Each song will have it's own key as well as the chords that go with that key. IE - in the key of "G" you chords would be G - C & D. In the key of "A" your chords would be A - D & E. This is just some of the things you will learn as you go - and the more you learn the more you will want to know. The folks here on Chordie are friendly and will try to help you. All you have to do is ask for help and keep practicing.
NELA
As all of ya'll know I had to have a "heart stint" last September and then I underwent surgury for stage 4 kidney cancer last year about this time. The surgury was very difficult and my left kidney, spleen and a small portion of my pancreas was removed. Since then I have been on a "Clinical Trial" thru M D Anderson Medical Center in Houston, Tx. and have been taking oral medicine for my condition. One of the side affects of this medicine is congestion in the lungs, flu like systems, nose bleeds, increased blood sugars + others. For the last couple months of I just haven't been feeling well. The medicine I was taking was increase from 5mg to 10mg while I was in Houston during the 1 week of October and thats when thing turned bad. I developed a horrible cough to where it was difficult to talk and I had to sit up in a chair in order to sleep, had shortness of breath, no engery, blood sugars in the high 400's to mid 500's and just lelt like crap all the time. M D Anderson stopped the cancer medicine and I underwent sreriod treatments (blood sugars sky high) along with antibotics. I had follow with my local Oncology doctor for this along with 2 different CT scans on my chest / lungs that showed some congestion but other that that everything was clear. I finally got rid of the cough and started feeling better. On November 8 I started hurting on my left side at the bottom of my rib cage and had difficulity breathing. My son carried me to the emergency room at our local hospotal where I was finally admitted after about 7 hours. The pain was very bad and the pain medication I was being given had no affect. Again CT scans and x rays were taken and it was determined that I had atrial fribrillation of my heart along with a blood clot in my lungs. After 6 days in the hospital I was allowed to go home last night. The final results of this hospital stay was 2 blood clots in my heart and 2 blood clots in my lungs. I am taking heavy dosages of blood thinners now to desolve the clots and have to have blood drawn every couple of days to check my progress. After about 30 days. when the clots in my heart have been desolved, my Cardio doctor plans to "shock" my heart in order to bring it back to rythem. In the meantime I am on limited activity (no hunting / fishing) can't lift more than 10 to 15 pounds - just sit on my butt and rest. BUT I AM GONNA PLAY MY GUITAR WHENEVER I CAN!!!
I'm damn tired of being sick and not feeling well. Keep me in ya'lls prayers and if you got any good "old" country music songs laying around I can play, send them to me. If I can listen to a song and find the lyrics I can usually learn it.
Nela
Good for you, Joey. October is a good month. My wife and I will celebrate 43 years on Thursday.
Nela
Welcome, John. For your granddaughter's 1st guitar I would look at one no bigger than 3/4. I would look into a quality guitar with a thin neck that would fit her hands. Also if the guitar is "steel strings" I would have it properly set up for easier play and use the lightest guage string available for the best sound. (expext sore finger tips) You may even want to explore a nylon string guitar for her. Regardless of the route you choose keep it fun for her and don't force her beyond her ability. Set up a time for practice and keep it under 30 minutes but lead her to explore things on her own. I have a 7 year old grandson so I will be going thru the same things you are in the near future. My plans are to keep things simple and fun.
Nela
MArty2b - welcome to chordie. When trying to understand the timing of a song I find it is better to listen to the base notes to get the "beat" of the song. Strumming along with the song will help but you can also find the timing by tapping your fingers on a table your foot on the floor. There are many strum patterns that could be used and finding the right one will be "trial and error". (not as difficult as it sounds). As Roger said in his reply you can try 1,2,3, 1,2,3 for 3/4 timing or 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 for 4/4 timing. Keep in mind that when you are counting the "beats" of a song you will count all numbers as downstrums. This patterns would / could work for MANY songs but not all. If the song you are trying to play is a "blues" song the pattern could be a 1,&,2.&.3,&,4,&,1,&,2,&,3,&,4,&. With this pattern you would strum down on all the numbers and strum up for all the &'s. Other common patterns are 1,2,&,3,&4,&,1,2,&,3,&4,&...
Again there are many strum patterns out there and the same pattern can be used for slow songs, fast songs or anything in between. This is a process that you have to learn and understand for yourself but is as simple as practice. When you are listening to a song be it at home or while driving back and forth to school or work you can practice "strumming" to a song. Just give it some time and practice.
NELA
TD, don't know what to say other than I am thinking about you and your family. We are all wishing you the best.
Nela
Nice guitar, Sat. I, too, play a Takamine Jumbo. If you don't have an acoustic amp you'll need to be looking for one as thats when they really shine. Sounds just not as good if played through a regular electric guitar amp. I use a Roland AC60 and it works very well. Check around and you should be able to find a good used one and save money over a new one. A(A keyboard amp will work, too, and may cost less than an acoustic amp)
Nela
Welcome, Steve. Feel free to join us as we all tend to help and support each other. If you have questions there is a place to ask them. If you want to answer questions asked by others you can do so, as well. We can treat you so many different ways you gotta like some of them.
Nela
Welcome home, rhwyatt. Reading your post you kinda sound like me. I, too, am awaiting a settlement from a class action suit from taking Avandia and having heart attacks. I started playing guitar when I was 13 but stopped when I broke my left arm. Picked it up again at age 54 and haven't stopped since - blues, old country, gospel and rock n roll.
NELA
Don't let the door knob hit ya where the Good Lord split ya! (not part of a song but should be)
Nela
and that finger is a "THUMBS UP" for a job well done. I have not been able to sit down and play music due to the issues I have had with both of my hands that led to surgery. Awhile back I heard a song on the radio that just kept playing in my head. I searched everywhere for the song, lyrics abd chords without much luck. I was able to find the song on you tube so I was able to listen to it and I was able to get the lyrics. I could never find the lyrics with chords. So having gone thru all those steps I made a post in the "Song Requests" asking for help. I got a response from one of our members who had taken the time to listen to the song and send me the chords as he heard them. So now I had the lyrics and the chords but since I could not sit down and strum along to the song I could not put things together. So I contacted this person again and asked if I sent him the song typed out if he could place the chords in their proper place. He agreed and I now have the song all written out with the chords where they go. Now keep in mind that this is a simple song that starts out with the chorus in the key of "B", steps up a half step for the 2nd verse, steps up another half step when it returns to the chorus for a 2nd time and then up another half step for the "tag" (repeat of the chorus). Since the song modulates as it does with the change in keys it make it difficult when you can't play along. This has been a great help to me and I want to personally thank our Chordie member "THEALEXPKEATON". Mr Keaton, thanks for your help with this song. Things like this is what makes Chordie as strong as it is, today. Members helping members is always a good thing. From Denmark to Louisiana - who would have thunk it?
NELA
Congrats, Dirty. You done yourself, proud.
Nela
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