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I play with a bunch of old time musicans. If you take away their capo they could not play. They mostly play 3 chord songs with maby a minor chord or 7 chord trown in. Just by knowing a few progressions, having a capo available and they are set. Take the chord progression of G...C...D - typical open chords, right? Ok, capo 2nd fret and play G...C...C - chord voicing is A...D...E. Hmm, capo on 3rd fret and play G...C...D - chord voiceing is Bb...Eb...F. Moving up to the 5th fret with the capo and play G...C...D - chord voiceing is C...F...G.

Pick a chord progression - say C...F...G. Capo on 2nd fret and play C...F...G - chord voiceing is D...G...A. Go to the 5th fret and place the capo - play C...F...G - the chord voiceing is F...Bb...C.

Thats the beauty the capo. If you know just a few open chord progressions, understand where the capo needs to be to achieve the key you need there are 1000's of songs that have now become easy.

I have a very good - easy to read and understand - capo conversion chart that I will gladly send to someone in an e-mail if they will help post it to this forum. Just let me know

Nela

For practice I burn a CD with 12 to 18 songs that I am learning, wanna play or can play. I clip a printout of the lyric's (w/ chords) to the CD case and file away. When I'm ready to play (practice) I take the CD with the sheet music - CD goes into the walkman, sheet music goes on my music stand - headphones go over the ears - and I'm ready to play one song after another (all I have to do is turn the pages. This gives me at least an hour's playing time - or more - per CD.

Nela

The last thing I would want to do is to take away from the forum BUT I do believe some type of chat room or IM where we could visit with one another and kinda get to know each other better would be good. I agree some ground rules would have to be put in place and strictly adhered too as this is a family forum. As things are now we make posts, receive comments, make more posts and receive more comments. I was just thinking of something that would be a little more interactive amoung us members. Would not need to be an everynight affair - maybe once or twice each week. I've been on other forums with thousands of members (none this big) and things went fine. Anyway, that's my thoughts.

nela

Just to update everyone, I will be giving the picks a send-off later this week. I am planning on adding something special for the next LUCKY person and maybe this will continue. As a hint I will say that the package will be going back across a whole lotta water.

Nela

Well, as ya'll can guess I have possession of the picks - for the 2nd time. As of this morning I have recieved an e-mail from the next person to have the picks sent to them. I will try my best to get them out in the mail next week, although I received them at my home I will be mailing them 300 miles away from New Orleans, La. as that is where I am now working.

Nela

Zurf, I have this song on a Country Gospel Greats CD - In The Garden by David Houston. I'll burn you a copy and send it to you if you will send me your address. Hope this helps.

nela

Jets60,

A lot of Patty Loveless' songs, that I have looked up, are shown as the key being a #. ie Timber, I'm Fallin' in Love. The key is C#. I capo 1st fret and play "C", barre "F" and barre "G" for the verses. The chorus goes "barre F", barre "G", barre "F", "B", "E", "barre G" back to "C". Played this way the song sounds exactly like her CD - except when I get to the 2 "off" chords - "B" and "E". Any idea if these 2 chords are correct? Something just don't sound right to me. Any help would be appreciated.

nela

Hmmmm, I noticed this product has a 1/4" input and a 1/4" output jack. Assuming this "tool" is to be used from the player to the instrument I would assume the "input cable" would come from the TS-1 Talent Simulator to the instrument. The "output cable" would go from TS-1 Talent Simulator to the musican. Anybody got a idea of just where you would make this connection? Anyone got a "mental picture" of this?

Nela

I just bought a Simon Patrick 12 string - used - that I returned after I had time to inspect everything properly. I discovered thet the lower bout had issues as well as some bracing being broken. Way too many problems for me. I am in the process of "high stringing" another of my acoustics and will give a report as soon as I complete the task.

nela

Mz Lena, you Old Doll, I just read a few posts back that you were having a little problem with your "little rear" swelling up since you been eating them bisquits and I wanted to offer some solutions.

If you are eating too many bisquits just try making them bigger. Then you tell everyone you cut down from 4 bisquits to 2 bisquits per sitting.

Never take a bisquit thats ready for the baking pan and deep fry that rascal. MMM-MMM good

Never add cheese to the bisquit dough prior to baking. This'en will make EVERYTHANG swell up.

Never add uncooked bisquits to your favorite fruit cobbler recipe before placing it in the oven. (Apple, pear, peach, cherry, strawberry) This will cause you to hurt yourself.

Never add a good sweetened cocoa powder to your bisquit recipe. It'll turn'em brown.

Nela

Go to a lighter guage pick.

Nela