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There is one answer - don't practice after you've just eaten. It might not be holding the guitar against your stomach, but rather sitting slumped or bent over too much in order to see your fretting hand.
Let a meal settle for an hour and see if you have the same sort of problem. I think it's probably down to posture, but whatever, don't give up!
Thanks Turret. Makes sense to me. I guess on an electric guitar the amplification comes from the magnetic resonance of the pickup. On an acoustic the pickup is more of a microphone, with the sound originating from the soundhole. Should have used a little common sense I guess. Thanks for your help and the recommendation of the forum search engine!
Well that's something I've learned today!
Cheers.
What's the difference between an acoustic amp and an electric amp? An acoustic amp IS electric.
Or do you mean something else?
I just Googled 'guitar tuning' and this was the first hit:
http://www.howtotuneaguitar.org/
There's loads if you search. Take your pick (excuse the pun!)
... And Headcase, I hope you meant SPARES not SPEARS. You would look awfully funny sticking a spear in you batter case. Not sure how good it would be for the guitar either.
What's a BATTER case? In case he wants some fried fish? 
But seriously, why would you think a battery may explode? Have you experienced such happening?
Cheers
Cheers. It was only about a day, but hopefully history. There were some misunderstandings, but not an auspicious start on my part. Best behaviour from now on and concentrate on the ol' gee-tar.
Thanks for the welcome back.
I found some on-line metronomes here:
http://www.metronomeonline.com/
http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/ … metronome/
http://all-guitar-chords.com/metronome.php
You can start with as little as 40bpm, and rack it up to over 200 with different beats. It does put pressure on, but that can only be good. Start slow and speed up.
The experts had best help with bar chords - I've almost got the F.
Get your life jackets on folks!
Looks as if we have another boat rocker.
YeeHaw.............
You make it sound as if this place needs a good shaking up. 
...I did not know the term had a negative ethnic connotation over there . . .
It's like so many other things - it depends on the sensibilities of who you speak to and how they receive it.
please refer from the term "jocks" when speaking about scotsmen when i am about.
This is a racis term. A name made up yet again by the english since they have derogoratory names for everyone in the world it seems.
I do not like the term Jocks and neither do most of the people I know.thank you.
All the best
Enjoy yer rabbie burns night. I am heading up further north of scotland where it is very rarely open and I will recite ( very badl) a poem or two as well as singing " the braes of Killiecrankie" and "my love is lie a red red rose"
Ken
'Jock' seems to have been made up some time after the 16th Century by the Scottish as another name for Jack. So not made up by the English. Of course, the Scottish never refer to Paddies, Micks, Taffies or 'Sassenachs'.
If you want to take it pejoratively rather than in the clear spirit in which it was meant, that's up to you. I don't walk on eggshells or do PC.
Google 'Jock', and see how many north of the border have no hesitation whatsoever in describing themselves as Jocks. Yes, it can be used pejoratively. And not.
I'm sure we'd sort it out over a can of Irn Bru. All the best to you, too.
Up yer jock strap. It's all a load of Ballochs, anyway! Last time I went to Scotland, it was closed. 
Hoping we're going to have an open mic. Burns' Night here. I'll have one for you (Jocks and Yorkshiremen should stick together - we have a common foe. )
Cheers for the welcome.
Many thanks, Russell. That's how I understood it, but was seeking clarification. Onwards and upwards! 
... No if your speaking of a progressing in the key of F eg. 1 4 5 the chords would be F Bb C not F A C and in the key of G it is G C D not G B D
Hi. You've got me confused now.
A Cmaj 'chord' based on 1st 3rd and 5th notes would be C, E and G? That's the chord itself.
The chord 'progression' in the KEY of C would be - based on I, IV and V of the C scale - the 'chords' C, F and G?
C chord as above CEG
F chord FAC
G chord GBD.
In the KEY of F you mentioned, the chord 'progression' is F chord, Bb chord, C chord, but the F chord itself is FAC, Bb=BbDF, and C=CEG.
If it's not that then I'm lost!
Cheers
An excellent resource. Duly saved and printed.
Many thanks.
Thank you for those kind words, Cam - and all! I do wonder sometimes if it's me being a little impatient. I get a fire in my belly when I take up a new challenge, and this new gee-tar has got me rockin'!
Cheers. 
Should I be disappointed? Three days ago I bothered to enrol and made my first post here:
http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=10402
Now, as there has been no response, were the questions either too trite for anyone to bother with, or too difficult and there is consequently an embarrassing silence? At the very least, after three days, is it too much to expect at least a reciprocal greeting?
Am I expecting too much from what I thought was going to be an interesting forum where one can contribute?
Cheers.
Harlow everybody peeps! Greetings from an Englishman abroad in sunny France.
Forty years ago I played a tuba in a brass band, but now have got back in to music again with a lefty acoustic-electric so that I can take more part in open mic and other spontaneous nights.
Just a couple of things for clarification first, if poss.:
a. Only been learning since just before Christmas, and tend to enjoy the slower, soulful music (at least initially until I get faster at chord changing.) To that end, I'm looking for a strumming pattern for Bette Midler's Wind Beneath My Wings. It seems that the slower the piece, the more difficult it is to strum. Or is it me?
b. Clarification - generally a chord is made up of the root, 3rd and 5th notes of that particular scale e.g. key C is C, E and G. The usual chord progression in e.g. key C are chords built on the root C (I), F (IV) and G (V), so that F will be FAC, and G will be GBD. Have I got that correct?
Many thanks.
Cheers.
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