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Guitarpix wrote:Hooked on this song at the moment!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzQmC3S-mE "Got to be True To Myself" Excellent song! Just found it yesterday and worked out the guitar this morning. It's easy to play but I'll be listening to it all day to get the lyrics timed correctly and memorized! C#, G#, A#m, F# All the way through with a little riff in the chorus between the G# & A#m that goes like this...
E ---1-4---2-1------------
A -4-------------4---------
Good song, I love the lyric!
My teacher is getting me into some Beatles songs (that I like) that are big with B chords. I am going to follow the suggestions I heard here about trying new songs with different arrangements/chords to build up my own confidence and skill.
I noticed on a song that I printed out from here, a few barre chords. But, I'm going to suck it up and learn them. As several people have mentioned, I need to do this, accept the challenge and practice.
Zurf wrote:Russell_Harding wrote:the first rule is play the snot out of a B chord 
LOL! Now that was just mean. You know that I am allergic to the B chord.
- Zurf
I am determined to beat my allergy to the B chord and it's siblings! lol
Peace
Tim0473 wrote:Thanks Zurf and everyone ... now that I think about it Ozy, I would have loved to have donated the acoustic to someone who couldn't afford a guitar ... I'll keep that in mind next time
Whatever works for each of us is valid. Russell_Harding also makes a valid point for that particular circumstance. I'm lucky in that I can afford a good guitar. Some of us are scraping by and have different needs. My point, it's the music in all of us thats important and whatever instrument we use to express it, is good. We still have the cheap, beat up old Sears Silvertone that is worthless money wise, but, it was the instrument that my daughter picked up as a child and showed us she had a skill and musical soul. It's cracked, and the Fret shop said it would cost more to repair than it was worth, but, it still has a decent sound and it was a gift to my daughter from her grandparents. I:E, priceless. My original cheapie was ok to start with and showed me that I was in it for the long haul. So it deserved to be passed on to another person exploring their guitar dream. I have no idea who has it, but, I feel good that it's maybe showing the way for another musical soul!
Cool I have a sister in law that works in Cincinnati and she's into guitar. And she lives in a nearby area of Kentucky! I'll bounce the idea off her and see what she thinks!
Tim0473 wrote:Sweet thnx guys ... I had the same thinking ... like I told the guys at Guitar Center, I didnt want to see it sitting around in the house not getting played, not to mention sitting in a pawn shop ... at least with it being back in the store, I know it'll get sold and someone will enjoy it
Exactly, my first guitar was some 150 dollar cheapie that I gave to my daughter. But, then my teacher found a nice quality guitar that was more her size and had a better sound. And it was 180 dollars at a place called the "Vintage Fret Shop" in Ashland NH. We went down to test play it and she loved it from the moment she strummed her first chord on it.
My old cheapie was given to the Mountain Top Music Center school to be given away to someone who is starting out and can't afford to buy one yet. I agree with the sentiment about giving it away for future use rather than keep it around gathering dust.
So I agree.............a good deal!
Yes I checked out their other stuff. I agree it takes talent to do that.
I am in awe at such creativity! That was awesome! As Duke Ellington once said: "If it sounds good. it IS good."
And that was good. For a person of my eclectic tastes that was true musicianship!
Guitarpix wrote:Little Wing by Hendrix at the moment... Trying to work out an acoustic arrangement for it.
I heard a bluegrass version of the Stones, "Start me up" and it is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD! I can't wait to see what you come up with. <grin> I may try an acoustic version of AC/DC's "Highway to Hell". ; )
Registered Nurse by training, Full time Father and House husband atm. Wife is a pharmacist and makes much more money than I can. <grin> So we made the decision that I would be a stay home parent until our daughter goes to college.
Better class of losers--Randy Travis. I'm not a big country fan, but, I love this tune!
JJ Cale--"After Midnight", the original and best version of the song. He was a big inspiration to Eric Clapton. It was great to see Eric Clapton give JJ Cale his due and their recent collaboration was awesome, to say the least!
John Hiatt--Crossing Muddy Waters.
Thanks for posting those websites. I'll explore them all! It'll give me more incentive to practice more! <I hope>
Peace
Thanks, maybe someday I'll add my own contribution to the pile! I have been mentioning Chordie in my other sites. And to anybody I know learning guitar or just plain into guitar. Like an online friend of mine from Scotland, her brother is really heavy into guitar, she passed on the Chordie info to him and he was quite happy to see it.
Peace
AC/DC -- highway to hell
Allman Bros--Whipping post
JJ Cale--After Midnight
The Animals--Don't bring me down
Jefferson Airplane--White Rabbit
The Indigo Girls--Closer to Fine
Crosby and Nash--Lay me down
Devonsquare--If they could see me now
Phil Ochs--Chords of Fame
Mary McCaslin--Wendigo
The Yardbirds--Heart full of soul
Amboy Dukes--Journey to the center of the mind
Richie Havens--Darkness, Darkness
There's more, but, I'd be here all day listing them! lol
Damn, the arms race continues! : ( I found the most virulent and tenacious spambots came from Asia and eastern europe. Though one in particular was from Germany selling viagra. If they were from the US, I could usually keep them at bay by banning their email addresses and IP numbers. The more persistent ones had their usernames disallowed.
I hate spambots!
Washburn Acoustic guitar with 1 7/8 fret board! I love it!
My teacher gave me a big list of strum patterns in 3/4 and 4/4 time. But, I have found that over time my ear has gotten better at picking out the different strum patterns from musicians like Phil Ochs, Gordon Lightfoot, etal. When I learn a new song I start simple and then work on trying to flesh it out to be more interesting to me.
I know when I listen closely to various artists, a lot of the time they are doing their OWN style and not following any one style.
upyerkilt wrote:thanks Ozy for that,
Thankfully we do not get many spammers anymore after the website ownder done something to stop that.
That is not to say the increase in members were not spammers trying to spam but couldnt.
Cheers
Ken
I keep hoping and praying for the development of technology that will allow us to reverse spam the spambots and shut them down or destroy them. >: )
<sigh> I can dream can't I. hhhhhmmmmm, maybe I'll surprise my teacher and write a Blues song about spambots! lol
My beautiful Washburn is named Victoria. I just love the name and I love my Guitar, put the two together and it gives me more incentive to practice! My wife and daughter find it amusing, but, they're used to it by now. 
First was the "Beach Boys" 1974
The best was the Maine Folk Group, "Schooner Fare" at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison Maine. Approx. 1995-96
Spambots will flood a site and your membership can jump big time. I'm an admin. at a Asperger's/autism site and we went from about 1000 members to 2500 within the space of 3-4 months. I had gone on vacation for a week and I'd come home to 100-300 spambots over the course of 3-5 days. It took me 2 weeks to check each one and delete them. The forum owner upgraded to a more recent phpBB level and that took care of most of them. Now I'm down to 1-3 a month. At least until the spambots upgrade their technology! OY!
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