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Reading the title of this thread made me think of using old beater guitars for outside use.
I took my nice Yamaha flat top sailing until the salt air killed the pickup I glued under the bridge.
It has ceased to function.
My buddy John Reno gave me a new Applause guitar he got for free at a music store raffle, to keep on my houseboat and take when we go sailing (gotta serenade the dolphins don't we?) The plastic body and laminate top are holding up fine in the marine environment after three years.
I gave my Martin Backpacker to my grandson because the small body fit his but I borrow it back when we travel. That has to be our most expendable guitar should the worst happen.
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Hows about a medley of songs by Chuck Berry? Pick three or so driving rock songs by him and run them one after another.
I used to do medleys by Creedence Clearwater Revival - using 2-4 verses of one of their songs running right into another.
What about a combination of three or four Eagles songs - or a 3 or 4 tune combo by your favorite group.
I have posted before about a fast combo of "Shake it up Baby" by the Beatles and "La Bamba" by Ritchie Vallens - both songs have a fast A,D,E progression. Good luck with the Spanish.
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I am a fan of Gove Scrivenor who plays guitar with his fingernails - espacially his index fingernail.
The wear and tear on the nail is huge so he carries a kit with him to make and install a new nail in a few minutes. I saw him tear a nail on his index, take a five minute break, then pull a false nail from his kit, glue it on, cut and file it to shape and resume picking within five minutes.

I also have had good luck with Musician's Fiend.
The have advisors who will let us pick their brains for free.
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Willie and Waylon, a hard combo to beat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVM2MgJnwgc

The nice thing about guitar is whatever you play-no matter how simple-if cleanly played, sounds great

Playing the F chord while leaving the little E or first string open is an F major seventh chord that is really lush and full sounding.
That red Gibson he's playing sure is purdy.
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arst06d,
Welcome to chordie.
I found the song on U-Tube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVKhV2jRpAk

The lyrics are at:
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/beth … _mine.html

Scroll to the bottom of this page for a link to the tab.
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I believe that most any chord on the guitar can be made within four frets to save gross hand movement up and down thre neck and increase speed changing chords. This requires learning alternate barre chords that may feature different inversions and fewer strings to make the chord.
This is an efficient technique for an electric guitar player playing rock where two and three string "power chords" work. Added distortion effects can increase sustain from normal to infinite.
Another approach for acoustic guitar is to feature "open string" chords to utilize the max number of open strings played to get the longest sustain of sound from the guitar with a normal natural sound.
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Hi Pix, I also have switched to a different song with a similar progression - sometimes without realizing it until it's too late and I'm past the point of no return. Minds will wander won't they?
This may work out okay if I'm playing alone but playing with a band, this can create something akin to a musical car wreck.

I agree. Nothing worse than a timid player.
I you should hit a stinker, splatter it off the walls. Maybe everybody'll think you hit a dissonant.:)=)

You all are familiar with the meddling mother-in-law stereotype. My mother-in-law moved in with us when we were only married for three months.
She was ill and had lost her husband. I had misgivings at first. The second time I laid eyes on her was to travel by myself to her home in the mountains and bring her here to the deep South.
We came to get along fine. She was a straight shooter and lived by a clear set of rules that made it possible to do business with her. If she had a beef she would address you to your face and never talked behind anybody's back.
My wife worked nights at a newspaper and I played in bars six nights a week. We never had to farm out two kids off on a babysitter. Granny was there to love and care for them and she loved to help with housework. She was there to get the kids up early and take them to school so we could sleep in. She lived with us 20 years and then moved in with my wife's sister after her divorce and helped raise her two kids.
She contributed so much to all our lives. When she became senile, she was the most popular person at the hospital because she helped the nurses care for people and clean. She didn't know she was a patient. She went right to work.
She forgot most people's names but she always remembered mine. We were friends.
She's passed away now. I miss her.
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