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Hi Shaun!

I second Old Dolls Wonderfull tonight/Clapton. Also she's a gal so she should know (Don't only ask boys what girls like to hear...  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing"> ).

A little history if you want to step up the impact. My friend recorded his girlfriends 3 favourite songs (2 singback and one he played himself) on a cd. Fixed a date on a cosy restaurant and got the staff to play the CD without her knowing.

She started singing along with the songs, and after a while she asked him why he wasn't singing (wich he always does).

He answerd truthfully: That's exactly what I'm doing, and then he proposed to her...

They are still married, so i guess it worked.

/Missen

PS. If it's a new relation, maybe you should wait with the proposing bit...

Hi Steve!

I've been playing for 5 month. A friend showed me a simple strum pattern when I had just bought my guitar. I sat practising the pattern on just any chord until it stuck. Now I always fall back to that pattern if I don't know the right strum, and most songs sound good with it.

The pattern is: down, down, up, up, down, up

You can vary strum speed, muting, tempo etc etc to fit almost any song. Don't get stuck on having to pin point the right strum pattern.

Another tip: If I have the song I want to learn on disc, mp3 etc I start it up on my stereo, mute all the strings with my left hand (just put your palm on them to silence them) and strum along with the song. After a while my right hand/brain finds the pattern. When I've worked through the song a couple of times and feel the strum rhythm, I stop the music, take my TAB/Chords and use the pattern I just learned (to see if it sounds good). By muting when training to the music it doesn't matter if your TAB/Chords are in the right key.

Some songs are harder because the artist vary tempo/strum in different parts of the same song.

Try it, hope it helps.

/Missen

My Tanglewood is a metal string accoustic (my finger tips is like glass by now). I think the metal strings have a brighter crisper sound than the nylons. With that I don't mean the nylons sounds bad, they just have a more subtle ring to them. I suppose you can compare it to banging on a metal rod or a plastic, diffrent sounds...

I havn't seen any nylon guitars with all strings nylon (except some small children guitars). I think its more common with 3 nylons and 3 wound metal strings. One probable cause they use metals for the bass strings could be that the nylons would have to be thick (and hard to handle) to produce the bass tones.

All thoughts no facts...  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_razz.gif" border=0 alt="Razz">

/Missen

Hi Trippy!

At first I want to say that your english is fully understandable. If you are more comfortable in spanish check this link:

<a href="http://www.freeguitarvideolessons.com/index_spanish.html" target="_blank">http://www.freeguitarvideolessons.com/index_spanish.html</a>

I don't speak spanish so I don't now if its well translated, I think the web pages originates from Argentina, and I don't know if they use spanish or portugese (It was well translated to swedish, which is quite unusual).

Hope it can help you, and good luck with your guitar.

/Missen

Hi!
My rookie playlist (no or few barre's in my versions  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_razz.gif" border=0 alt="Razz"> ):

Wind of change / Scorpions
Jolene / Dolly Parton
Häng me på party / Ulf Neidemar (Swedish party song, easy and fun to play/sing)
Wonderfull tonight / Clapton
Wonderwall / Oasis

/Missen

Hi Scrimmy!

Don't take lessons just to learn the barre. It's only (ONLY!) about trainig and training some more. The teacher can't do much for you but hand you exersices that you can find in a book or free on the net. Only on this site there are loads of tips, and there is billions of guitar sites out there...

I'm not against the lessons, just don't go there thinking they will magicaly teach you the barre in no time.

As for your son I would suggest you check if there is any group classes. They are often less expensive and the kids gets the chance to play in group (and maybe get some jam-buddies to start a band with  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy"> ). Mostly you pay a fixed prize for say 10 lessons in a row (once or twice a week).

I myself (soon to be 40) signed up for a rookie group class. We are 5 + teacher (i'm oldes and the youngest is around 20). The funniest part is when the teacher "ensambles" us, giving some of us base-lines, others harmonics and himself soloing. Great fun and astonishing enough it sounds really good. For 10 lessons times 45 minutes I payed 650 Swedish crowns (should be around 50

Hello!

I've been into the thougt "learn on an accoustic" too. Own both an accoustic and an electric, and im starting to shift a bit on that idea (for some of the stuff you try to learn). I use my accoustic 80-90% of the time and I still think thats the one that give me more finger strength and harder finger tips.

BUT I'm now struggling with the for ever discussed barred chords, and I must say that there is a point in learning the grips on the softer electric strings. Once I've learned the chord grips and shifts it's easy to take them to the accoustic.

This way is faster (and less frustrating) then strugling with them on the accoustic.

So my point is: Get your hand strength up (by playing or physical training) then you can play whatever guitar you like, you will be able to play an accoustic good (maybe with some sore fingers...)

/Missen

Hi Harry!

Follow the tips of Jp3300 (play barre on your standard songs, even if you dont need to).

Randy tiped you about the way to find the barre chords on the 6:th string. I have made a word document with a chord table and some explanations to what Randy said. Check this thread:

<a href="http://www.chordie.com/forum/index.php?t=tree&goto=7446&S=6f09986dc0646fe6aa50e9416cab39e2#msg_7446" target="_blank"> http://www.chordie.com/forum/index.php? … =7446& amp;S=6f09986dc0646fe6aa50e9416cab39e2#msg_7446</a>

I also recomend you NOT to cheat and take the easy way out on the barre chords (simple F's and stuff). I did and had to work hard to get rid of the cheats (that stuck to my brain) now when I'm closer to playing barres decent.

I've been playing since christmas (about 0,5 - 1 hour/day) and I see the light in the end of the barre tunnel  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy"> it will work...

One thing I have done to get some self confidence is to train, train, train on my metal string acoustic to get the strength, and then play on my electric with accoustic settings on the amp. On the electric i'm very close to getting the barre right (in tempo). I also changed to more expensive strings on my accoustic, and they made it considerably easier to fret the barre chords.

/Missen

Hi again!

Had the Buzz-problem as you can see above. Last saturday I got totaly tired of it, went to my store, droped the guitar on the counter and asked him to put on some kind of more expensive strings.

He cut my 10$ D'addagios to pieces and put on a pakage of 35$ d'addagios. Man... Totaly new guitar. No buzzing (and they are only 3 days old), incredibly easy to play (light feeling, easy to press and still the same thickness), MUCH richer sound. Forgiving (finger the chord badly, if you're anywhere in the right fret, it sounds good). The rich sound makes it possible to fret "softer" and still get volume (softer fret, less buzz).

Try new string (maybe burn a couple of extra bucks on them) before you rebuild your entire guitar.

/Missen

F**K. Got the D7 wrong in the dok. The X7 chord is played with the outer fingers on the A Major shape (NOT the Am shape). If you use the Am shape with outer fingers pressed you should get an Am7.

On the E string the X7 is played like the open E7 (simplified E7). Only outer fingers on the E major pressed.

Don't know the barre Em7-shape, perhaps someone can enlighten us...

Attached a corrected version...  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_eek.gif" border=0 alt="Shocked">

Hi Jeames!

I've been thinking of doing a guide for my self on barre chord palcements on the neck. I did one for you now, that I of course will be using myself (thanks for kicking my but to get it done  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing"> ).

I have uploded a .JPG that is an explanation that I hope will help you (and others intrested). I will post a second reply with the word document if anyone is interested in developing it further.

Some say you don't need the theory, and maybe it's so, but this is music theory and I think it helps a lot, don't you.

Another tip (theory of course...): If you learn the full note scale (a,a#,b,c,c#,d,d#,e,f,f#,g,g#) you can name ANY note on ANY fret on ANY string of your loved instrument.

Just take the root of the string (e,b,g,d,a,E) and place the scale right on that note. When you pass the g# in the scale just restart on the a note.

Exaple: On the b-string a loose string of course is a b. If you place your finger on the first fret you move one step up the scale. This gives you a c note. Second fret same string gives you a c# (next in the scale).

Theory or not, this have made my life simpler...

/Missen