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I am going to try sending a couple examples. If they don't work, you may need to advise me on the best method.

Tunedeaf

Uh Oh...now I'm wishing I had read the forum before I reported a couple of issues! <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_redface.gif" border=0 alt="Embarassed">

Congratulations on the new arrival and welcome to your new life!

Tunedeaf

Hey Rogerpuppy:

You know, I'm a Service Technician in the real world and one of the things that drive my customers nuts is when their system won't fault for me the way it faulted for them...kinda like your tooth not hurting anymore by the time you get to the dentist! <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">

All of which brings me to your post (and thanks for the feedback BTW).

I read your post and said to myself "Self" says I, "Isn't that the way you always do it anyway?" and just to be sure, I went to a public songbook, picked a likely candidate and followed my standard routine which is exactly what you outlined and, sure enough, this time I got the song saved to my songbook.

Sheesh!

Darned if I know why it should work today for the first time ever, but heck, as I tell my customers, I don't argue with success.

As for the ethics of saving a song from someone else's book to my own after they had edited it, I honestly hadn't thought of this before as an issue, but I can see where some folks might find it an interesting moral dilema.

I figure that every song I find here represents *somebody's* initial effort to transcribe the song and it wouldn't even *be here* if they were'nt amenable to having folks copy it for their own use.

The majority of songs in my songbook have received some tweaking on my part to make them more closely match my ear and ability to play (or inability to play according to some <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing"> ) and I do the editing for my own benefit.

If someone likes my version and chooses to save it for themselves then I'm more than happy and even a little flattered to have them do so.

Hope this soothes any qualms you might have about saving songs from other songbooks and thanks again for the advice and feedback!

Tunedeaf

Hi Roger:

I have no problems printing songs from public books or the general search. I just click on the "file" button in the top left corner and "save as" to my hard drive, then print from there.

It's always worked perfectly for me.

Tunedeaf

Barre Chords....ARRRGH!

I never use them and I know this will drive the serious players nuts, but I've found that almost any barre chord will sound O.K. if you just fret the fop four strings and strum with the emphasis on them.

I know I should practice, practice, practice, but as a guy with no higher aspirations than to sit in my den and play well enough to recognise and sing along with the tune myself, this works sufficiently well to allow me to play enough songs well enough to keep myself motivated and keep the whole guitar playing thing fun.

It all depends on your motivation for playing...do you want to be a Guitar God (something that no amount of practice will ever make *me*), or do you just wnat to play for fun and relaxation?

Tunedeaf (forever mediocre)

Good Morning Admin:

I've just been perusing the public books and noticed that the rating listing has changed from giving the number of ratings when you hover over the stars to saying you should open the songbook to rate it.

There appears to be no mention of the number of ratings for any of the books again.

Is it just me or was this a conscious change for some reason?

Thanks and TTYL

Tunedeaf

Hi Again Dreamer:

I'm not 100% sure because I don't know how Chordie works, but I've got a nasty feeling that the link may only work when I'm on-line.

The link is to my version in my songbook and I'm not sure how Chordie stores entries there. I do know that I've searched songs I've updated and not found my versions in the general song search, so I think that Chordie has some method of saving entries in personal song-books that is different than how it finds songs in general.

Of course that's all guess work.

I did try the link just now and it brought me to the copy in my song book.

You can try looking in my songbook (A tunedeaf songbook) and it might come up.

As for the missing chord between the Gsus and G, I think you're right and I missed it the first time through.

Try this...[Gsus] Turn and look [Gsusalt] be [G+b] hind,

Gsusalt being my own name for 000033 and G+b being another made up name for 320033. I can't always find an official listing for the fingerings that sound right. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_wink.gif" border=0 alt="Wink">

It sounds more complete to me as I try it now.

Also, I've found Chordie to be a bit quirky of late.

I get a lot of really slow page loads and as many outright failures.

Probably related to the new database our sysop is working on.

Tunedeaf

Hi There:

Try this version and let me know how close it is.

<a href="http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultimate-guitar.com%2Fprint.phpreplaceqmarkwhat%3Dtab&id=264573&songbook=source&transpose=-5&1944-06-06=always&tuning=EADGBE&transpose=0" target="_blank"> http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/?url= … 2Fwww.ulti mate-guitar.com%2Fprint.phpreplaceqmarkwhat%3Dtab&id=264 573&songbook=source&transpose=-5&1944-06-06=alwa ys&tuning=EADGBE&transpose=0</a>

I've had a lot of fun playing it since your original post put it in my head, but I've only heard the song a couple of times and I'm not sure how accurate my version is.

Tunedeaf

Hi Again:

I'm not really worried about people "stuffing the ballot box" as it were. I doubt most folks are so insecure as to take the time to pad thier numbers.

My inquiry was just based on trying to make the rating system as informaive as possible.

As with any survey, the number of respondants impacts the accuracy of the results, so if I were to search by rating and found a book with 100 votes and a four average, I'd have no doubts that it was worth looking into. With no total votes, the high (or low) rating could be strictly the opinion of one or two individuals and therefore shouldn't impact my decision on checking it out.

Now, if I saw a book that was highly edited *and* had a high rating with 100 votes, I'd probably dedicate days to going through the entries!

Also, I hope you won't take my suggestions as criticism. They in no way are. Chordie is by far and a way the best site for aspiring guitarists and the site that I always refer to first whenever I'm playing.

Tunedeaf

Hey James...heck, I'm just here for fun <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_wink.gif" border=0 alt="Wink">.

Really, I'm here for pretty much the same reasons and because Chordie is such an excellant source for songs for me to try and practice on.

On another note tho, I was just browsing thorugh the highest rated book in the public books and noticed that the song I looked at (Time of your Life) had numerous comments attached. I think it would be very neat to have songs that had received comments have some form of notation in the title list in the book...like an asterisk beside the title or something.

I'd also like to know when someone had left a comment on one of my entries. As I mentioned earlier, I welcome suggestions/comments on all of my re-workings.

And if someone could identify my made up chords, that would be great too! <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_wink.gif" border=0 alt="Wink">

Or...you could run it through a postage meter as a postage meter will automatically date the material and the newer machines print a perfectly legible mark pretty much every time.

Heck, you might even want to run the original piece of paper that the song was written on through the meter as well.