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A 86 Squier Stratocaster, a fairly new

Yamaha APX5 Elektroacoustic which is a great piece for it's price

and the same as a 12 String (APX5-12) which doesn't sound that good for a 12 String, is really hard to play for me, but I got it in absolute mint condition at about half it's retail price on ebay. Maybe as I progress, I'll learn to make it sing.

They're located in south-eastern Germany, lil' ol' town called Pocking. Sometimes they do gigs in Austria.

You can get the CD amazon, although please let me point out that I did not want to enhance CD sales with this thread.

Cheers,
nc

As for tabs on arpeggios, it's like cytania wrote:

Play the root of the chord with your thumb ( for Em that's the open Low E String, For Am it's the open A String), then do a pattern with your first second and third finger on the G, B, High E String.

                       Em                                     Am
E---------------0------------------------------------0-----------
B-----------0--------0-------------------------1--------1--------
G--------0----------------0--------------2-----------------2-----
D----------------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------0------------------------------
E-----0----------------------------------------------------------
     like          a        river     flows

See the pattern? It's always root note G B E B G. The root note is usually on the lowest (in terms of pitch) String that is involved in Chord.

So for your Elvis song, you need the chords Em, Am, A7, Dm7, G7, you can look those up in the resource section here at chordie.com

Remember that the thumb plays the three low pitched strings, and your first, second and third finger stay on G B and E String respectively.
Practice on one chord until you can play the pattern at tempo, use a metronome if you have one. By that time, the muscles in your hands will have gotten accustomed to the pattern so that you can stop focusing on your picking hand and focus on the chord changes and the singing.

Cheers,
nc

Arpeggiating over a chord means that you don't strum all strings that make up your chord at the same time but play a little pattern with the single strings of a chord by using your fingers.

There are a lot of nice patterns for Chord Arpeggios, and I have to admit, I'm not really good at fingerpicking, but for this song you could try a similar pattern than the one usually used with "House of the rising sun".

For each Chord, play the Bass String, then G-String, B-String, high-E-String, B-String, G-String.

Play the bass string of the chord with your thumb(t), the G string with your index finger(i), the B String with your middle finger (m), and The high E String with you ring finger (r).

So, fingerwise, you would get the following pattern:
t-i-m-r-m-i

Hope it helped.

Cheers,
nc

You're making progress, as I see, that's great.

You can play that intro you're playing over the whole song.

See here:
http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.p … OCKING.TXT

This version is formatted quite nicely, that means that it gives an idea of where to change the chords while you sing the lyrics.
Exactly when to start singing depends on what strumming pattern you're using, and you're probably going to change that pattern with every line of that song very soon, that's JAMMING, YEAH
Unfortunately, the song above is a little off in the first line, so here's where I would change the chords:

G           D                               Am              Am
  Mama, take this badge off of me
G           D              C            C
  I can't use it anymore

I suggest this:
In order to get a feeling about how the singing ties in with the guitar playing, you could sing the song to yourself and just play the very first downstrum of each new Chord. You can get an idea of when to place that first downstrum from the link above, but you'll also recognize that by yourself while your singing, because your voice will make the same changes in pitch. I will just "feel right".
Now, in the two lines above, I indented the lyric lines a little while the Gs on the chord lines are the very first character of the line. That means I would Downstrum the G, the start singing the "Mama...". The other Chord symbols are right on that syllable where your first downstrum of that chord should be. Note there's two Am and two C, because you play those chord for two full measures.

Once you're comfortable with all those first downstrums, you may want to bring in the other down- and upstrums for each chord while you keep singing. You sort of tie all those first downstrums together with whatever strumming pattern you want to use.

Basically, singing and playing is something you will get comfortable with. I remember watching someone freely strum along to loads of songs at a party. I had been playing for just a few months by then and I was still to get comfortable with very basic chords.
So I tried that at home and it seemed impossible. I thought I would never be able to sing and play at the same time, but I kept trying with simple songs. I had a whole load of songs printed out by then, and it literally happened over night that I could play that one song I was failing at the whole time. To my surprise, I could strum along to pretty much my whole collection of songs all of a sudden.

That's just how it happens, keep trying, you'll get it.
A good thing is to watch others play, so remember searching for "acoustic cover", "acoustic lesson" or sth similar on youtube, along with whatever songtitle you want to see people play.
Helped me a lot.

Hope it helped a little and I didn't confuse you too much

Cheers,
nc

My five cents worth:

I guess you have the D/C down already, Old Doll, I think adding the C with the pinky works great, because to me the Chord actually sounds better when I mute the open D string with the pinky at the same time instead of stretching the pinky over it.
It's not strong enough (yet) anyway.

Oh, and feel free to sport any signature you want to. As long as it's not offending, or something worse, I would NEVER think of calling your signature "rubbish". If nothing else, it's unique and original, and (probably) not just a lyrics quote...