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How can the death of Jim Marshall, not be one of the biggest news stories of the last week? Without Jim Marshall, the likes of Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend and Jimi hendrix would all have sounded a bit tame. They would never have made the impact on the English and American music scenes that they did. Rock and Blues wouldn't have made the impact that they did.

Without Jim Marshal, the whole of the current music scene would have been completly different, yet the news of his death was so low key, it took a few days before i got to hear about it. The news should be as big as Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley or John Lennon dying. He was as important as any one of them to the world of Music as we know it.

Thank you Jim Marshall for all the music you have given us!

http://www.jamplay.com/guitar-lessons/g … onic-minor

I've just been on this site and found a lot of pennys just dropped for me. The lesson itself seems a bit slow, but stick with it and read the text that comes with it.

Personally, I'd avoid cheap Fender acoustics. Cheap and nasty. I tried a Breadlove in one of our local guitar shops. I plugged it into a Marshal accoustic amp. It sounded lovely. I'm not too keen on the look of it but it's a great guitar to play.

Steve Fairclough works with Breedlove guitars. He does exhibitions and guitar fairs etc, for them. He has his own brand of guitars, "Fairclough" priced between about £200 to £400 depending on model. They are a ery nice range of guitars for their price.

Bands and guitarists who mmake the best music, really know their stuff. they learn to play other people's songs first to learn how a song or piece or music comes together. Bands who start off writing their own songs without having leared to play first, don't usualy have good rythms and melodies or interesting chord progressions. If you learn to play at a steady beat right from the start, it will save you a lot of re-learning later on.

A friend of mine who plays drums, says his drumming improved a lot just by practicing with a metronome. If your beat is steady it will look after itself allowing you to concentrate on playing the song. This will only come with practie. As for Mississippi John Hurt, that will be much easier if you can play at a steady rythme.

You could do worse than work your way through the Oasis song book. Good songs and not that difficult to play.

Try lighter strings.

I would play G 320003,  G/F# 220003, G/E 020003

                   A 002220,  A/G  302220 A/F# 202220 A/E 002220 I'd play the F# with my thumb.

These are known as slash chords. The G(before the slash) is the chord. The note after the slash is an extra note played below the chord.

Crafter are quite popular in the UK. reasonably priced too.
The dangers of wandering around a guitar shop heh?

But a minor scale has a sharpened 7th without it being in the key signature. A minor has a G# which C major doesn't have. It is the relative minor but the 7th note still needs to be a semitone below the root note. As it is in the major scale.

It also comes down to quality and craftsmanship of the guitar maker. You can pick up a guitar which has the right action, looks good but feels like a plank of wood. If you pick it up and it feels right. It probably is.

If you strum a chord and sing aswell. You are singing notes from a scale over the chord you are playing. You may not know the key or scale but it is still a scale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE5ZhBHy … re=related
Have a look at this link. He calls it chomping. It's basicaly playing a note just below or above the root note of the chord you are about to play.