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I agree with the idea of buying an inleyed neck rather than surgury on your axe...check out e-bay. There are several outstanding inlay artists doing buisiness there. I bought an inlayed Les Paul for a song and it is beautifull.

As a 40 somthing fellow dementia sufferer, I share your problem. Have you tried writing the song out in 'nashville notation'? Its a type of shorthand that can shrink an entire song down to a paragraph size or less. I find it more usefull than having the whole tab in front of me and its usually enough to jar my memory.

Luck to you...

I am going to take lessons when I can find some free time. I've been playing for years as a 'self taught' guitarist and I have developed "my" personal style, but there are still too many things I want to do on the guitar that I can't do ( or just don't know how). I have no fear that a course can ruin or diminish my 'style' of play, its too ingrained by now.

Sooner or later every artist needs a new color for their canvas.

I first tried drop D a few years ago, and still use it a bit... But I fell in love with D modal tuning. You still get some great power chords but there are DOZENS of usefull one and two finger open chords available. ( most of them are dim or dim6 but that just adds a jazzy kind of feel )

Try it..I love it.

(DADGAD for those who don't yet know.)

Keep in mind that your results will vary, shake before using and do not operate heavy machinery while using this product.

I used to be 'Sandman'...ref to book "Logans Run" (ohmygod...he's really dated himself...)

Then I used 'elf' because I'm into Tolkien.

Now, its just my name because, at my age it no longer pays to be clever

The only recording gig I've done was a lot of fun, but I want to point out that I used my epi instead of my Martin for most of it. Was it tone or just familiarity? Hmmm. Dont know.

You can have my Epi Texan when you pry my cold, dead fingers from it.

I think Jay made a good point, buying a project guitar is quite different. I bought a guitar last year on Ebay, a heavily inlayed les paul body style electric. The winning bid was amazingly low but the shipping was almost $200.00. To add to this, it needed profesional set-up, new strings and a bit of TLC before it started to match my expectations. I now have it setup proper and am content.

My point is that I planned on having to do all that from the beginning. Ebay might be fun for browzing, but I'll still do 90% of my shopping in person, from a dealer I trust.

Love the new guitar though...so I came out OK.

As an alternate, try Martin SP strings in phosphor bronze. I think they sound better and last longer than Elixir.

I think one of the reasons that Heavy Metal is so hard to pin down, is that so many try to define it from 'outside'.  Remember, the first Grammy for Heavy Metal was awarded to Jethro Tull. ( A descision that embaraced everyone quite equally )

BTW... I admit that I'm an outsider as well, I like some of it but not enough to buy a concert ticket or ( God forbid! ) come within a 1/4 mile of a mosh pit. I guess I shouldn't vote...

I believe they are still availabe, but as 'flat wound' strings. They seem to be mostly popular with jazz players. The drawback to flat wound is an increase in neck tention. You can get most of the benifits without the neck strain by using 'half roun strings', they are traditional round strings that have been flattened on the outer surface.

I've tried them on my accustics but not yet on my electric. Wasn't very impressed.

Look both easy and tasty...Hmmm
I'll give it a go next time I grab for my electric and let you know how it went....

Thanx

Another thing to think about is the composition of the string...for example, Steel vs Phosphor Bronze. On my acoustic guitars I only use Phosphor Bronze strings as they give me a deep "bell like" sound.