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These the I, IV and V chords for the main major keys for 'easy' guitar. There will be minor chords in between but you can usually recognise the key fom it's 3 major chords.

Key of A: A, D, E
Key of C: C, F, G
Key of D: D, G, A
Key of E: E, A, B
Key of G: G, C, D

Get the pianist to play the 3 chords and (s)he should be able to recognise the key.

This wasn't meant in any way to be put-down to people who work in retail, just a rant about a ''superior' attitude of a small number of individuals I have come across. I don't want anyone bowing and scraping before me either. Just customer service - civil, friendly, reasonably knowledgeable about the product being sold, willing to admit they don't know everything. If you happen to meet such person when you're about to spend hundreds of €€€€€, all the better for both sides of the transaction!

Sure, we can project our attitudes etc. and of course I too in a way would like to be a rock star rather than be in the 'normal' job that i do! And you never know what's happening in someone's life. But I feel strongly that people should not be made to feel intimidated in a retail store, even if they aren't sure what they want and need some advice.

Saw them once in the Olympia - Ronnie at that time was singing just a few songs with them but it was a great show. They made the Stones look and sound like a schoolboy band.

Just God's punishment for allowing Cork to be beaten. You know he's a Corkman, doncha?

Re flyfishing, come on over! Very good when the flood is just dropping!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_%28str … trument%29

"The word is thought to have come from the German Nut (pronounced "noot"), meaning "groove" or "slot"."

It's often assumed that the best guitarists will be electric players who play very technical and/or very fast fretboard shredding type of guitar  (not saying that's your assumption, upyer) but I've long since got bored of this style of music. Of the others mentioned above, I've seen videos of Kaki King play and again and her technical prowess leaves me a bit cold (though I am a fan of the Ovation guitars she uses). I'd be more interested in players with a talent for melody, harmony, improvisation, rhythm, compsition etc. In this regard I'd consider Joni Mitchell one of the best guitarists and all-round musicians in the world full stop, regardless of gender.

The Alarm? As in '68 guns'???

The more ways you experience something the easier it is to remember/learn. This applies to songs, poetry, mathematical formulas, anything.

For example hear it, AND write it,  AND sing it, AND read it silently, AND read it aloud. Do each of these over and over again. The more time syou do all these things, the more it's embedded. It's the only way I've ever learned anything. Of course, our ability to do so declines with age!