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You're too nice to your guitar, if you're changing strings, you should put some gauge 10's on it. Chances are, it came with 9's and 10's have that little bit more tension to straighten up the next and stop your fret rattling. My guitars live in my car boot, i'm probably a bit neglectful (neglecting?) but i always have practice straight after work.

Actually, just googled "Yamaha APX 4A SPL", turns out its an acoustic. Try to get slightly thicker strings, if that doesn't work, very very carefully, adjust your action with the truss rod using an allan key. Can't stress how careful you should be, to avoid stressing the neck (hardy har har). If you've no idea where you're truss rod is, it should be where the neck meets the body, and you should access it through the sound hole. You'll probably need an 1/8" allan key and you should turn the rod anti-clockwise.

Yeh, thouht it evolved from the cuatro (little spanish 4-string guitar).

Wikipedia gets that name from this: 

"Spanish guitarra, derived from the Latin word cithara, which in turn was derived from the earlier Greek word kithara"

Before that, a lute was taken to spain by the romans..

Actually just read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar

That's brilliant, hope i have musical kids, and not engineery kids, or a nice mix of both. Gill should make em fairly musical too. either way they're gonna be ginger.

Apparently (after googling) this is it

E|0
B|0
G|0
D|3
A|2
E|3

Don't ask me why, i'm a bit drunk

D7sus4.

Its got two D's so its the most likely. The low G is the sus4 part because it is the fourth note in Dmaj, the C on the A string is the 7th. The other three notes go DAD, which is a D power chord.

ha, ouch, i had another gig that i played horribly injured. I had a broken wrist, which was broken in a similiarly stupid way.

found a picture actually:

You can kinda make a black cast wround my left wrist

i love sufan stevens, so does gill (my girlfriend). she occasionally appears on the forum.

I played a nasty trick on our singer when we were recording. He did his first take and his seemed so proud of it (it was pretty good) that I decided to burst his bubble by autotuning his performance to the wrong key. So I manually selected G#maj (think the song was in D) and shifted the fine tuning a few cents. He listened back to it and was really annoyed with himself for going out of tune so often. We did this for a few takes before he went home in the huff. I sent him the finished track a few days later with his performance sounding awesome again (un-autotuned) and he thought I was some sorta audio wizard until I told him the truth.

I thought it was funny, but i'm probably a bit nasty.

You should try to find tabs for songs you quite like. What sorta music do you like? I'll see if I can think of any fairly easy songs to learn.

You should probably try the shuffle, its based on triplets missing out the middle one.
So its like this:

1  2  3  4  
123123123123
X XX XX XX X

I think you should get a Boss OS-2. Its an overdrive/distortion pedal with a knob to sweep between the two. Gives you a nice range of distortions and overdrives. I've had two (not because I broke it but because I left it at a disgruntled band members house).