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Hi Paul!
I have a little system to learn songs. I'm a total disaster at learning by heart...

I have a binder with plastic pockets. Every week I try to find a couple of new songs, print them out and place them FIRST in my binder. When I have time to play I start from the beginning and work my way through. This way the new unknown songs always gets the first attention.

The plastic pockets are good for many reasons: They protect the paper from messy fingers, beer and other party fluids :-), They make it easier to read because they ad some distance from the folder binding.

I have a second binder I call my gig-binder. When I go to a party or to my sons kindergarten for a live gig I lift over the suitable songs to that one.

/Missen

By the way the A/F# signs sometimes point you to play a bass run. Try to understand them and use them because they can add a lot to your playing (If you don't understand it or brake your fingers trying, just play the first chord and ignore the stuff after "/").

If it's a bass run it's often written like this: (example C to G and Am to C from Lennons Imagine)

G                               C       /e   /f    f#           (Play the C chord and then "walk" single notes (only low E string) up to the G) chord)
   Imagine there's no heaven.
G                        C       /e   /f    f#   
   It's easy if you try.
G                C       /e   /f    f#   
   No hell below us.
G                         C
   Above us only sky.
C              Em     Am       /b  C
   Imagine all the people
    D               D7
   living for today, oooh

You have to time the notes in the bass run to comply with the beats to next full chord.

He, he get some therapy for you I am god syndrom...

Well mate, Google is your friend. It took about 20 secs to find it. Google "lady antebellum love dont live here".
First hit is the one I gave you.

A tip to you (and to all): When you want to find a song you dont know who is singing or want to hear a song you want to play use youtube.

I've got youtube hits even on very unknown swedish bands/singers.

/Missen

Sadly it's becuse the guitar is so illogical (is that a correct english word?) there is so much to gain by learning the boring theory. I've done some basic studying and it really helps.

Of course you can be a great guitarist without it, but if you understand the instrument it speeds up the learning.
/Missen

Try this link:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/m/m … re_tab.htm

/Missen

Mean something like this doc?

http://actiontuners.com/?gclid=CJOtguKY … QgodHTrTWA

/Missen

merry christmas by the way...

Hi Gus!
To me it seems like your problem is more psycological than anything with your playing...

Anyone can learn to play a guitar, BUT to be good at it (as with everything in life) you have to like what you do AND let that joy shine through when you play.

I have been playing for 1 year now and I fully enjoy every time I get a moment with my beloved Takamine accoustic. It doesn't care if I play alone or have anyone listen, I enjoy, and it shows.

Last summer (when I had played for about 6 month) me and a friend was asked to be trobadours on a wedding. At first I was petrified, thinking I can't play/sing well enogh to have an audience of 110 guests listening. They talked us into it and there we were, nervous as hell, playing easy songs (a couple of open chords, no bas runs, no barré chords, nothing fancy what so ever).

All through the night people were singing along, dancing, giving us compliments. Why?
Because how ever rookies we were, however nervous we were, we fullheartedly LOVED playing for them.

So Gus, the next time you grab your gear, FEEL what you want with your playing. If the answer is that you want to play because you enjoy it and want to bring joy to others, you are home safe. If you don't find that feeling you should do something else.

And Gus, life is very short. Spend it doing stuff that are primarily good for you. If your happiness shows it WILL wear of to others around you.

/Missen

I played with a friend that owns a couple of Martins. He let me try one and boy are they sweet... I still don´t think it´s 3800 Euros better than my 200 Euro Tanglewood but It´s like you say, it has something you can´t put your finger on in the feel and sound.

The one I tried is built of brazilian rosewood and the Martins are suposedly built on the edge of exploding to get the tensions in them to produce the perfect sound. They also have a lifetime warranty to the first buyer of the guitar. Pitty they are so expensive...
I could actualy fly to the us, buy a Martin and fly back and still have some money left compared to buying it in Sweden.
/Missen

Hi!
A little tip. Click the "Resources" tab here on chordie. Click "A large chord chart".
Find the chord you want and click it.
Voila you get a lot of alternative fingerings for it.

For Cadd9 there are tons of alternatives. Take a look at:

http://www.chordie.com/voicings.php?tun … hord=Cadd9

I myself mostly use the second one on the las row (032033).

/Missen

Hi!
I always google for trobadours playlists. Many trobadours publish lists of what they perform when they do gigs. If they use the songs they are good accoustic songs.

/Missen

Hi!
Is the X the high or low E?

If it's like I think the low E (and you have turned the chord 180)  that chord is a Cadd9...

http://www.chordie.com/voicings.php?tun … hord=Cadd9

Last row second chord.

/Missen

Hi Doc!
I second most of what you say. When I wrote not rich I meant in money to spend on guitar stuff. My life is very rich otherwise. Beatiful and loving wife, 4 year old son and another one in wifes belly (4 months and only seen on ultra sound). Good and fairly well paid job (where I mostly manage on my 40 h a week and some rare nights/weekends). I still got my health (maybe a little to overweight, because i LOVE good food too, and I rather do some chords/scales than run in the woods...).

/Missen