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Pers, I get this error occasionally when I've clicked on my Songbook tab but I've found by clicking on the tab a second time, I can access my songs.

Cheers.

Thanks Roger, yeah I wasn't too clear in my original post. I knew I was always able to transpose, but without the Edit feature I wasn't able to save the transposed version. Thanks for all the great work you and the other mods do.

Cheers,

With Chordie being such a great site, I've grown lazy. I play for my own enjoyment and when every song I like is right there in front of me on my computer, I don't need to memorise anything anymore. Of course, if the computer should ever crash...:(

Welcome Tony.

What the others have said is spot on...we've all been where you are now. If I can add my two cents worth; be prepared for the 'plateaus', in other words those times when you don't feel you're making any progress. This happens to most of us at various stages, just stick at it and work through those times  and all of a sudden you find yourself moving forward again.

Welcome again to Chordie and may I say you've come across a gold mine here. Stacks of very knowledgeable people with lots of good information.

Cheers,

Turret

Hey Z,

I know exactly what you mean but I must admit I have a quiet little smile to myself when I read a songbook comment like:

"I've been playing guitar now for 3 months and can play all these songs easily"

When you open up the songbook it's like a Who's Who of the most difficult songs known to living man!

So I've learned to be my own barometer of what's easy and what's not. If it was just about strumming the chords to a song then maybe a lot of songs are easy to learn but as you pointed out there's a whole lot of other stuff going on as well that distiguish the song from just a nice sounding chord progression.

I'm sure you're about to get a whole lot of good advice from some well seasoned players here but if I can just jump in with my 5 cents worth. Don't give up. Keep practicing and keep challenging yourself. Don't just pick up your guitar and strum the same stuff every time, find something new that's going to stretch your learning. For me, I tend to be learning in stages. I'll pick up some new skills in a hurry and then I seem to plateau for a while before I step up to the next phase.

Be patient, keep practicing and be your own barometer.

Cheers,

Turret

Hi Coffeefairy,

I think you'll find the Eric Clapton version might be another song that is experiencing copyright issues here on Chordie which is why it's no longer available.

However, you will find the song under Kenny Rogers if you do an artist search. From there it should be a simple matter to use the transpose tool to change it to D.

Cheers,

Turret

Hey Bensonp,

Is it just coincidence that your link to Tom Rush didn't work for me or do you think it might be that my computer is now forgetting things as well? 

As a teenager in this part of the world, you were nobody if you couldn't play House of the Rising Sun and the Smoke on the Water riff.

Cheers to all,

Whoa Pix! That's scary! How did you know about the bonsai? I don't think I've mentioned it here or anywhere else. Are we travelling in similar internet circles? Either way I'm impressed

Sadly two of the little guys are no more. We've just had four days straight of +40 Degree Celsius temperatures in this part of the world (you'll have to do the conversion to F but we're talking around 110 F). The heat just sucked the life out of them.

Good talking to you and also thankyou Kap from me for the original post

Turret

Years ago a friend described something as:

"Bigger than God's underpants"

Still makes me smile to this day.

How does this topic not contravene the guidelines for enjoying the forums posted by Upyerkilt some time ago?

http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9795

I get more than enough politics at work and from other websites, I'd prefer not to come across it here on my favourite music site as well. Apologies for any noses I may have bent out of shape.

Best regards to all.

Pete

Hi Folks, I'm getting the impression from some of the posts that the cleaning of the fret board happens while the strings are removed. I was told some time ago that when changing strings, I should only change one at a time as the tension of the remaining strings prevents the neck from twisting (?) out of alignment. Can anyone help me here? If it's not a big problem then I'm thinking that cleaning the fret board is going to be a much easier process if I can do it at string changing time with all the strings off.