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i see some ultimate guitar stuff posted here so i will direct you to that website........ although i hate that pop up infested website, you can get quite a few Daughtry songs there............

i was wanting the Breakdown song too......but on ultimate-guitar you can the "Home" song......the one that says tune down 1/2 step.......it's dead on and just a fun song to play......very hard to sing though.....the dude has a great voice......

good luck

senor

so now i go to the store to buy more strings because i am out and i want to change them more than every 6 months... <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">

and low and behold we got choices.......more choices than i realized and i dont have a clue....

i just asked for Martin strings for my Martin guitar and the girl asks if i want "medium" or "light" .......metal or nylon..........coated or uncoated...........blah blah blah.......and actually i dont remember all the questions and choices because i glazed over..........

the guitar was given to me as a gift and the second set of strings i had were in the case........

the first set of strings on this guitar were new but they were not "shiny"/"bronze", they were just a dull tarnished color.

the new ones i put on are now shiny bronze......

i asked to see the box with the "light" strings and that box looked familiar. i then asked to see the box of "medium" and that box looked familiar. i then asked to see the "heavy" strings and there was no such thing............hmmmmm.........

so i bought some light and medium strings..........

BUT

WHAT DID I REALLY "WANT"????? what will i "like"?

the ever "high maintenance",

senor

well, i got the job done and i wished i had seen the article just posted, it would have helped a little bit......

the guitar sounds great so i guess all is well......is that an ok measure????

it did help doing one string at a time. especially for my first time. had i done them all at once, i would have really gotten things completely unorganized........

but dumb question time:.... <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">

does it matter which way you turn the "knob"?

on my "big string" at the "top", i actually think i got it backwards but it looks more comfortable that way because the string makes a straighter line to the "knob". it seems that doing this with the smallest string at the bottom would have allowed a straighter line to it's "knob" as well..

so can you do strings 1 and 6 "backwards" so that the strings make a straighter line to their respective "knobs"???.....plus this gives more clearance for the other strings to get to their proper position........

thanks for any help/advice......

my guitar sounds great again so things seemed to have worked. i just dont want to ruin it....

senor

PS....by the way i have a Martin D 28.......if that matters

double PS.....at one point i got one string backwards and it pulled up against another knob that it should not have been touching. had i done all the strings at once, i would have had a rat's nest. hopefully things will go smoother on my second time around and any future changes..........

THANKS EVERYONE!!!!!!!.....AWESOME!!!

will be my friday night project!!!

senor