......... recorded on SoundCloud, could you tell me where to place a capo to make it sound right? Because it will sound wrong, I can 95% guarantee it.
Thanks
Bill
27 2021-08-01 13:22:04
Re: Song Assignment? (30 replies, posted in Songwriting)
After scrolling up, I found YOUR version, TIG, but before I comment, let me first apologize to you for being so slack in answering your e-cards/e-mail. It wasn't that I didn't want to, I just did not know what to say! It meant so much to me then, as it does now, but I just couldn't find the words. I just sat here in the dark thinking it's all just a matter of time anyway, so why bother.
I was wrong to think that, so I hope you and all of you will accept my apology. I'm getting back to my old self - slowly - now that I have a goal, and now that I have not lost any of YOU.
I only just saw your song, so let me look at it thoroughly again - it looks awesome!
Thank you, Jim!
EDITED TO ADD: Your song made my eyes sting, Brother. If you think it's okay, what I'd like to do is put some soft guitar chords behind it and recite it. As you know, I'm not good at adding chords, I know how I'd like it to go, but can't seem to make the music match the words.
Wow! You guys work well under pressure, don'tcha? I'm floored! Peatle, Phill, Jets/Jeff and Jim. Thank you ALL so much!
28 2021-08-01 13:16:17
Re: Song Assignment? (30 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jets, that's great! I like the fact that it's "TomPetty--Like". Means I can sing it or "talk it" a little of each one.
Thank You!
And thank all of you for contributing your music to "The Walk To End Alzheimer's". There will be a little ceremony at 9 am on 10.16.2021, and I'll try my best to give it the performance it deserves.
Bill
29 2021-07-31 20:57:26
Topic: Wow! Y'all Weren't kidding!.... (4 replies, posted in About Chordie)
........ there really isn't much going on in here these days. I hope I can make up for some of that by engaging you all in some of my "crazy" talk. I got the 6 string down, polished it up a little, and started getting my fingers "calloused-up" again.
The song I started on is my favorite "easy song" - "The Cocaine Blues" ("Early one morning...." that one.).
Do you have one, that's your "warm-up" tune? One of my band-mates used to play a few bars of "Wildwood Flower" to get his fingers limbered up. 
If any of you have FB pages, I would be happy to have my friends from Chordie on my list, and I'd sure like you to share some of your Sound Cloud offerings there on FB, if that is possible.
If you go there, you already know my name (look up the number). Look for the one playing the blue 6 string and that'll be me.
Thanks
Bill
30 2021-07-31 20:25:27
Re: Song Assignment? (30 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Phill,
Awesome, my friend. Just the right amount of humor without being overbearing. Thanks, my friend! So glad to hear back from you and please give our love to your Ann!
Bill and Dondra Craig
31 2021-07-31 13:59:38
Re: Song Assignment? (30 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Pete, I LOVE it. Thanks for taking the time, and here's hoping you feel well again soon, dear friend!
Bill
32 2021-07-30 13:17:11
Topic: Song Assignment? (30 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I'll let y'all decide - you guys are so much better at it than I am.
I need a song about GOALS. It should be easy to play (A_E_G_D ) and I need it by the week of 10.16.21.
Now, I know you don't OWE me this, as long as I've been gone, but I've committed to doing the "Walk To End Alzheimer's" on that day, an the way things are going for me, I'm not having much luck remembering stuff these days. This morning - for the first time in a long time - my fingers paused over the keyboard because I couldn't remember the name of this place.
Finally it hit me.
I still maintain my blog - although I call it a "journal" now - and y'all are welcome to visit and read. It's still humorous, because every now and then I can still do "funny".
Whatever y'all can come up with would be appreciated but may I make a suggestion? In addition to making the song about goals, pass it around amongst yourselves and add/subtract/delete - whatever. I'd like to give as many of you credit as I can.
I know at least 3 of you who can write songs at the drop of a hat, so if you can help me out, I'd appreciate it.
Love You!
Bill
Blog address: www.wheretobud.blogspot.com
33 2021-07-26 23:56:49
Re: Can I Come Back? I Have Missed Y'all (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Friends, I have an idea. It may not appeal to all of you, but I'd like to give it a try if we can.
I have downloaded "Messenger" and am keeping it separate from my Facebook program. I have a webcam (a present from Dondra) and I would like to try out talking to each other that way if we can. I still have my Snowball mic or I can use the headphones which come with a mic. I may need a tutorial with one of you before we go "live", and I do not know how y'all feel about it, so how do you feel about it?
Thanks
Bill
34 2021-07-20 00:22:28
Re: Can I Come Back? I Have Missed Y'all (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
To not belabor the point, the health of both us has taken a downturn. Dondra is prone to falling because of her stroke and bangs herself up pretty royally sometimes.
Me - well, I'm not sure if I told anyone here, but I have prostate cancer which is responding to radiation treatments. The Hospital I use CTCA (Cancer Treatment Centers) treats the total patient, so anything I need in the way of a procedure gets done there. No more trips all around town.
The guitars, mike and amps are packed away for the day when I will once again have enough energy to sit and play, but right now, it's just not happening.
I debated with myself over whether to come forward with this news, but you all have just been too kind to me to keep you wondering and guessing. All the gifts ever presented me here whether tangible or intangible are still with me and always will be.
I can't say if I'll be here at the rate I was before, but I'll be here all I can
Thanks and we love you!
Bill and Dondra
35 2021-07-19 12:22:16
Topic: Can I Come Back? I Have Missed Y'all (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Hello Chordie Family,
So many things have happened with many to do with mine and Dondra's health - both physical and mental, but I'll wait on your decision and what you might have to say to me.
Thanks
Bill
36 2020-03-05 13:35:27
Topic: Thank You, Pete....... (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
......... for the very nice e-mail you recently sent.
Yes, I have just recovered from Prostate Cancer and have been declared "cancer - free" by my oncologist. I haven't mentioned it here, because --- well ---- because with all of our recent bad luck, I didn't want to be a "Sad Sack" or have you all think, "Oh no! HIM again!"
The whole story is on the blog, as is the news regarding our great-grandson Christopher. I haven't been around lately, so I don't want to add anything else here nor do I blame you for not wanting to read the blog. Just know that Dondra and I are looking after each other, are doting on our new addition to the family and that I hope to return at some future time. I have not picked up a guitar in months and haven't written anything - so nothing to share except this message.
Thanks
Bill
37 2019-12-24 18:04:55
Topic: Merry Christmas And Happy New Year..... (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
...... to all of my Chordie family!
I'm dealing with some health issues which have resulted in numerous trips to the hospital, so I have not been active of late. I hope you will understand and know that you are still in our hearts.
Merry Christmas to all
Bill and Dondra Craig
PS: Dondra's doing just fine and sends her love.
38 2019-07-09 16:01:13
Re: Tuesday's Flying Fingers (474 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
I love jazz guitar - Wes Montgomery being a favorite - and this guy is great! I posted on his YT channel and asked a question. Wonder if he'll answer?
Great choice, TF.
39 2019-07-08 14:32:43
Re: Beaching (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Note and like left on Soundcloud, Jeff, but I'll say here, I love writing of any kind and music of any kind which "paints a picture" for me. If your song were of a symphonic nature, it would be known as a "tone poem". As I wrote on SC, all it needs now is the sound of waves hitting your beach.
You are among some GREAT writers here on Chordie, jeff, and it's a pleasure to me to listen to your work.
Bill
40 2019-07-08 14:23:41
Re: Max And Sin (7 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Pete, my friend! I left you a note on your YT channel, but I'll say right here, you own this tune - and not just because you wrote and performed it, but because you put so much of yourself into it. Did you do this on your phone?
STRONG work, my friend!
Bill
41 2019-07-06 17:02:46
Re: Super hero (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Gray One! I left a note on YT, but here I'll say I think Ray Davies and/or Joe South (rip) would be envious. This one has some real "introspection and hits home with me and I bet a lot of other dads and husbands. I hope you put it together into a rock song for your band and hope you'll consider playing it on Father's Day! 
Bill
42 2019-07-05 22:13:10
Re: Can't Do Anything With These (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
In looking through my trunk (which has all my notes to myself about songs, poems and stories), I found an addition to the phrase/title: Last Great American Love Song.
The addition (on a different post-it note) goes like this: "By the last great American fool".
I think I was trying to turn it into something country-sounding, but just never could get there.
Story of my life - a lot of unfinished business.:)
Bill
43 2019-07-05 22:07:10
Re: The Last Great American Love Song (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Loved it, Jeff and the style you played it in reminded me of the old days, when we used to watch a show called "Hootenanny" on Saturday nights. Folksy, mellow and thought-provoking. Never would have thought this snippet of what I never could use would turn into something so pleasant to listen to.
Thanks again!
Bill
44 2019-07-05 16:38:10
Re: Can't Do Anything With These (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
A whole new aspect! I LOVE it, especially the emotion it conveys and how personal the words must be to you.
Great work, my friend - much appreciated, and please don't describe yourself as "ill-educated, ill-informed". Anyone who can hang words together so meaningfully is anything but!
Bill
keepitreal wrote:
This is a work in progress from an I'll educated , ill informed Englishman. I hope no one finds it offensive.
Inspired by, Strummer Boy Bill
Words by, keepitreal.Walking through the sacred halls of learning.
Voices of Angel's like a choir in my head
People trying to stop Cambodia burning
Nine of them are injured, four of them are dead.CHORUS
Is this the song of America
America you've only just begun
To sing the last great American love song
Don't sing it down the barrel of a gunSomeone, somewhere in a song I wrote
Said thank God, were free at last
I have a dream of equality
Now that dream has passedCHORUS
A friend of mine in a dream I had
Told me to give peace a chance
Died in the arms of his lover
Never got to have that one last danceCHORUS.
___________________________________That's the story so far, with a few more verses to write. If anyone is offended please let me know and I won't post the finished product.
45 2019-07-05 16:32:42
Re: The Last Great American Love Song (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thanks to all for the comments and especially - thank you, Jeff for using your talents to craft my couple of phrases into this great tune!
Bill
46 2019-07-03 10:10:26
Re: Can't Do Anything With These (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
This is amazing! I could never have come up with the content you wrote here so eloquently, Jets. You and Jim are very prolific songwriters who can write just by being given a subject.
I do not feel I deserve writing credit since I was never able to actually even put anything together which made any sense, but I thank you for the honor.
I feel a bit like Ringo, who after a very long studio session remarked, "It's Been A Hard Day's Night, mates."
47 2019-07-02 17:26:10
Topic: Can't Do Anything With These (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Maybe one of you more talented songcrafters can. Anyway, they're yours to try.
The first is just a song title: "The Last Great American Love Song".
The other is a line which may also be a title: "Someone In A Song I Wrote....."
The first one I couldn't handle because maybe I built a "block" against it. I mean who wants to write the last great American love song?
The second went bad because of the next verse: "Someone in a dream I had......"
Where else was I going to go with it? "Someone in a doctor's office?".......you see my dilemma.
I'd be interested to see if anyone works one or both of them into a decent tune.
Thanks
Bill
48 2019-07-01 17:09:59
Re: Sad news... (16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Jim
My wife and I send our sincere condolences on your loss. The Chordie Family, though we do not know each other personally, are very loving and supportive - as I can attest.
Sending warm thoughts your way.
Bill
49 2019-06-18 13:02:33
Re: Ode to a Special Education teacher (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
A great honor for a great lady! Lovely words which I know she will enjoy hearing as a song, should you choose to record it, Jim.
50 2019-06-12 16:04:50
Re: Tune Will Come. (9 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Note left on your YouTube channel...... I found this very inspirational and your sincerity came through loud and clear. Awesome production on the video as well!