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The rhythm guitar lines and even some of the the lead lines are not very complicated on most AC/DC arrangements.
AC/DC is has the rare ability to take a song with a simple frame work and make it sound snappy and origional.

I'm a rightie and I was amazed to see a lady pick up my guitar, turn it over and play it left handed.
Most of her chords were limited to four stringers but she played (reggae only) rhythm quite well.                                                                                     Her voice was very hoarse from yelling at her kids.

I agree the intro of every song is vital to hook the audience.
When practicing, attention to detail is the difference between mediocre performing and outstanding. Remember to clean up the outro (ending) as well so the song does not grind to a stop like a herd of cattle.
So many song callers sweat the first song of the evening. Gotta open with the "A" material. We want to hook the audience and set the tone of the evening.Look to a song that is up tempo and interesting to a general group. You get a sense of what the crowd is enjoying as the evening goes along and can pull up appropriate tunes as you get to know them.

This may wander off topic but 20 years ago my band played a joint called the Dixie Club in Mobile, Alabama.
My wife told me as I joined her during our third break of the evening, that this arab guy offered her cocaine if she would go back to the ship with him. I asked her if she was going. She said she turned him down.
I was delighted to inform her that the same arab guy made the same proposition to Robbie, our male lead singer a half hour before. He told me he turned the guy down as well.
Poor old arab guy had to go back to his ship all by his onesies. =

The tuning on a smaller guitar should be no different than that of a standard size guitar.

Women have to be smarter than us men because they have always possessed what we have been seeking.
A guitar resonance chamber can be most any shape. The most common guitar shape is like that of a woman. This makes sense if we must spend long hours with our arms wrapped around one.
I am still married to my first wife for 48 years. I think we are still together because we easily agree on the major issues amd argue like crazy over little things.

Seems there are as many ways to approach guitar as there are guitar players.
I never took time to learn to finger pick because playing in a bar band necessitated learning new tunes with not much time for new techniques. I never came back and learned to finger pick.
I did try to switch to left hand playing to use my faster right hand on the fretboard. Wow that was a total failure.
I believe some players think in patterns that direct them to play lead or solo guitar and others, like me, think harmonies and are more comfortable strumming chords.
I had a bar patron walk up and ask me why our lead guitarist's hands traveled all up and down his guitar neck and my hands stay pretty much in the same place. I told him the lead player was looking for it but I had found it.

I like to work on two tunes at once. I bore easily so a switch to rehearsing the second tune breaks the repetition - usually when memorizing lyrics.

Bose has a nice sounding small system that can be added to if the ensemble adds on more members.
I still have more research to do but I am very interested in some form of this system.

I was served "blood pudding" at a bus station in Scotland. Yuck!
Lasagna in Dublin, Ireland is orange and yellow colored. Ooey gooey!
Sweet iced tea in Seattle is undrinkable.
A New England boiled dinner is totally unseasoned and bland.
Russian guitars are made from cheap pine wood.
Japanese tubas lack warmth of sound.
Politicians everywhere, are a pack of lying weasels.

1. I play in a band called John Reno and the Half-Fast Creekers.
2. Rehearsal is vital - especially if you play the same joint 6 nights a week. New material is a lifeline to income. It keeps the management, band members and the customers interested.
3. To perform in public, one must have a polished act consisting of four hours of music your target audience would appreciate - at least 40 tunes.
4. Don't dream of playing in public, do it. Open mike nights are a good place to find out if your prepared material is enjoyable to an audience.
5. Self confidence comes from more than adequate preparation. Drill your new tunes until all lyrics are remembered and music and words together flow like they are supposed to. When you drill a song until you are so sick of it you never want to play or hear it again, you have that one "down".
Shyness can be overcome with a super tight show with better material than the competition.
6. I played a single guitar/vocalist act for 10 years. I you can stay cheered up while working alone you can make more money than with a band. Bands pay less but are lots more fun. My voice is o.k. and I only strum. In a band I can play horns and sing back up to a lead singer with a better vocal instrument.
Dennis Gray
tubatooter1940
http://www.myspace.com/johnrenomusic