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(6 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Thanks very much chordians  for your replies, very helpful.

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(6 replies, posted in Acoustic)

What do you do when there's meant to be a bit of music in the song between the verses and you don't have the chords. Often it just says solo. Do you just go straight on to the next bit or do you try and play something?

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(9 replies, posted in Acoustic)

I have great trouble in finding the right key to suit, i never know whether to go up or down!!

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(9 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Bit of a stupid question here but here goes....
When playing the acoustic guitar what's the highest key you can sing in and what is the lowest?

I am a 55 year old female from England and have been teaching myself for about 9 years. I love picking and learning new patterns( Roger Guppy has helped). I have just come back from doing route 66 and met a great guitarist in Oklahoma.

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(23 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Thanks for your replies everyone, i can't sing at all well but i think i feel more comfortable singing to that ?key.
I don't know anything about music but if a song starts in G does that mean the song is in the key of G as they say? :=)

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(23 replies, posted in Acoustic)

I seem to have a thing about the G chord. Apart from the odd exception when i print a new song out, i very often end up transposing it to start with G because the tune doesn't sound right.

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(1 replies, posted in Acoustic)

My friend wants me to play April come she will bySimon and Garfunkel but so far i've only played simple picking patterns. Anyone got any suggestions for a suitable pattern for this that will not be too complicated but sounds reasonable? Is there many of you that play it?

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(3 replies, posted in Acoustic)

p.s i have never played like this before, ive only ever done ordinary straight strumming or just basic picking.

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(3 replies, posted in Acoustic)

I have been looking on youtube at the way people play the coldplay song ' see you soon'. I can't figure out how it's done. I watched Chris Martin and i've watched cover versions where people are playing it in a similar way but i can't seem to get to grips with it. Can anybody help? T hey seem to be using their thumb and then fingers in a strumming way.

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(5 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

thankyou for your replies. My local music shop just had a kyser spring action one and its really good. I used it this afternoon, very pleased with it.

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(5 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

whats the best type of capo to buy? i understand they do spring action ones are these the best?

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(0 replies, posted in Song requests)

I am having trouble learning who knows where the time goes which originally was  recorded by fairport convention written by sandy denny. Its also on imagine album by eva cassidy. Can some
one tell me what time it's played in because i can't seem to get to grips with a strumming pattern.

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(10 replies, posted in Song requests)

Roger Guppy wrote:

Hopeful,

There is nothing to stop you using that picking pattern to this song.

Roger

Yes, i thought of that, just wondered if you had any other little suggestions, always willing to learn big_smilebig_smile

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(1 replies, posted in Song requests)

Hello its me again! Has anyone heard this song and knows who sings it? The city streets are endless and cold,
     ive walked them mile after mile,
     im a country boy sining the blues,
     the blues counrtry style.
It was a favourite of my dad's and i would love to be able to play it but can't find it anywhere

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(0 replies, posted in Song requests)

Another question! On the tabs for the intro to joni mitchell's a case of you , i understand the tabs but i don't understand what the chords are doing above the tabs. If you were playing like the tabs where do the chords come in? Now when you have stopped laughing maybe you can explain, because to some, probably most ,it's obvious but not to me it's not!!

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(10 replies, posted in Song requests)

Thankyou for your replies,because im trying to learn different patterns, has any one got a suggestion for this one? Not too difficult! Im still playing the last one Roger told me which was good, bass string then 3rd string, then 1 & 2 together then 3rd.A simple pattern that sounds good, well somtimes when im playing he, he

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(10 replies, posted in Song requests)

Does anyone play this, if so how? Can anyone tell me what time it's in? Saw it being played on youtube by Peter, Paul and Mary in a fast picking pattern.

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(12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I only play between 20 and 30 chords and usually choose the easiest way in fact sometimes i cheat a bit which i know is not good. I sometimes go on to ezfolk.com because they have really basic shapes. I think if i had started playing when i was young things would have been different but i only started learning in my 40's. No excuse really , i guess i'm just a bit lazy!

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(45 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Roger Guppy wrote:

Marmite is a dark brown mess in a jar, supposedly a vegetable extract but tastes like the worst medecine you have ever taken. Even the masochists who claim to enjoy it only spread it very thinly on toast or bread.

It should carry a government health warning.

http://www.marmite.com/

Roger

mmmmmmmmmmmm, love, love it especially on cheese on toast

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(7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

bdmorningstar wrote:

I took my guitar to a luthier and while it was a good guitar, he made it sound even better.  He planed the frets, adjusted the action and restrung it.

Your problem could be due with how the neck is set, the bridge, or the strings.  In any case, a good luthier ought to be able to make the adjustments if they can be made.  (The luthier I went to also made some non-standard adjustments on an entry level mandolin to make it playable too.)

For the work I had done to my guitar it was about $80 US.

Hope this helps.

Im glad you mentioned how much it cost because my friends husband is going to work on my guitar, he is very experienced. You know what its like when its a friend who says they don't want payment or who don't like to say how much and i was wondering what to pay him. I was thinking of that amount approximately, in equivalent pounds of course.

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(45 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

MARMITE

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(50 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I love Coldplay, especially Chris martin. I guess it wouldn;t do for us to all like the same! I really enjoy all their albums though, it's not whiney drivel to me.

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(50 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Any silly pop what i call bubblegum music! Meaningless drivel.
I also think all these girl and boy bands who don't play instruments, they all sound the same to me.

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(32 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I like playing - Pancho and lefty
                     
                      When i stop dreaming
                     
                       Sleepless nights , all by emmylou harris

                       The dark end of the street -Flying burrito brothers

                        We'll sweep out the ashes and Love hurts

                        Unwed fathers -- John Prine  loads more but these are among my favourites