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It's not the restringing, it's the cutout of the body that will be a problem.  If you're a southpaw, get yourself the right tools, and have fun.

Not so much recording or editiing, but I'm setting up a small in home studio right now.  I just yesterday bought an M-Audio USB-MIDI keyboard, and a small 1x1 MIDI interface to control my POD.  The whole thing plugs into my Mac, and I use Reason to set up loops and jam tracks.   The keyboard and MIDI interface cost me all of $130.   I'm not sure what the POD2 costs, as I got it second hand for $60.

WRT the computer.  Stuff it with as much memory as you can.

If you are in the US, copyright is given as soon as you write it down.  There is nothing else you need to do.

Charge whatever you can negotiate.  That's contracts.

If chordfind doesn't work for you, you might take this as an opportunity to expand your theory knowledge a bit.

What notes are you playing?   Stack them up, and figure out what the chords are.

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/COLORhey look..i alaways wanted to play guitar and the first song i wanted to play was "away from the sun" by 3 doors down....an along with any song...how do i become quicker when it comes to switching fingers on chords and notes

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Practice.  There is no other way.

Fret the first chord of your progression.  Play it a lot.  Take your hand away from the fingerboard and put it back.  "Squeeze" it to help ingraine muscle memory.

Then change to your next chord. 

Repeat that every day.

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i can only really play A G C E without having to look at a diagram of the chord on screen.
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Learn to play D.

That will free I IV V chord progressions in three different keys, and that means you can play thousands of songs, as they all progress the same way.

A D E

G C D

D G A

Add F and B and you're really rolling.

E A B

C F G

And practice.  Lots and lots.

How about setting up some regionally connected sub-forums?

"Western US, Eastern US,  England/Ireland,"  etc...

Might help to keep things a bit more organized.

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Dude, I like all of them but Greenday, they just never caught on to me, I always thought punk was both an additude and a style? I skate so im into allota skate-punk like rancid, i thought that was what it was considered. thanks for replyin, later.
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Good punk is fast, and I prefer a cleaner guitar tone over one that's completely distorted, and the lyrics should be just on the edge of raunchy.

Guttermouth is a band that I've liked for a while now.

I've got a friend that does a great, slowed down mellow acoustiv version of the Ramone's "Sheena is a Punk Rocker."   It's pretty good.  But is it still punk?

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That is, a copyright holder can not charge a critic a fee for quoting some lyrics in a review, for example.

"Fair use" is pretty well defined in the law, and has very specific meanings within copyright.

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t into Punk anymore - although I did buy "Never Mind the Bullocks - Here Come the Sex Pistols" when it first came out on vinyl . . . guess that sort of dates me.
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You're old!

My 17 year old daughter had never even seen a vinyl record until a few months ago.   I remember saying to her one day "I'm going to buy such and so's new album."  Her response?

"What's an album."

Ahhh, kids....

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The problem I have when looking at tabs and chords to songs is not the how the time signature works but the beats per minute to which I can try and set my metronome to.  Is there a general rule for bpm for each of the time sigs or is it a case of finding a recording to the song and having a listen?
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That's pretty much a matter of taste.  When you play a song, it's your rendition of the song, so play it at a tempo that suits your style.  I tend to prefer more up-tempo music, so everything I play is a little faster than the original might be, usually.

Typically, songs in 8 time (6/8) etc will have a little bit more speed to them, (even though they feel like they are plodding along), than songs in 4/4.

It's the *1*23*4*56 (emphasis on the one and 4 beat) that gives it that waltzy feel, and it's speed.

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Now how the heck do I discover what key this blasted song is in ?  Never ending questions eh ?  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_confused.gif" border=0 alt="Confused">
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Couple of ways. If you know what your "base" chord is (the one you keep coming back to for each verse), that's probably the key.

If you have it recorded, you can also simply find the single note that goes with the entire song, and that is probably the key as well.

If you are new to guitar, and the song is played at the nut, I'm going to guess you are in either E or A, or possibly G.

Let us know what you find!