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I have had a text message from Lieven this evening which he has asked me to pass on to you.
He will not be around on Chordie for a while as he is back in hospital with 4 broken ribs and is awaiting surgery for nerve entrapment in his elbow which is curtailing his ability to play.
Roger
Hi Keir.
Learning to play the guitar, like any instrument, tends to be a series of hurdles, but persevere and I am sure the effort will be well worth it. At two months you are still at the start of the learning curve and you will sometimes seem to take a backward step. Often this is through expecting too much of yourself, Rome was not built in a day and you cannot learn to play the guitar in just a few weeks. Sometimes it helps to take a backward step and again go over what you have learnt, and I am sure that in week or two you will be back on track and wonder what all the fuss was about.
Old Doll may well be right with the strings on your acoustic. Electric guitars tend to be fitted with 8 or 9 gauge and if your acoustic has 11's or 12's on there will be quite a difference, however I would not recommend anything lighter than 10's for an acoustic.
Roger
Congratulations to you Pat and from someone who has been playing for 50 years I can assure that I am still learning and aspiring to do better.
Roger
Hi Rick ane welcome to Chordie.
The songs that you have found are in tab form where the strings and frets are shown to pick out a riff or the melody of a song. Near the top of the page look for SHOWING ALL SONGS and click on the change at the side. You will then see the filter menu so you can show only songs with chords. That, I hope, should help you find what you want.
Roger
As you can see I have removed everything except Amy's initial post and closed it as a 'Sticky' to remain at the start of the 'About Chordie' section as a reference for anyone who need it.
Thank you Amy for this,
Roger
Hi Pete and welcome to Chordie,
As a newcomer you probably do not realise that Chordie is a search engine that picks up songs from other sites. If you look at the message at the top of this song you will see that it has come from http://www.guitaretab.com/ and only they can make changes to it. Looking in the Chordie index I see that this song is attributed to Cat Stevens and several other artistes too.
Roger
Cam,
I am sure that your Mother-in-Law was proud that her daughter chose you. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family
Roger
Welcome to Chordie Arnbold,
Look down the right hand side of the song page and you will see Songbook: ADD. Just click on this to add it to your song book.
Roger
I was the Service and Bodyshop Manager for a Ford dealership some years ago and and apprentice was asked to clean the paint store by the foreman. When I arrived there the youngster has been merrily cleaning off the paint spills in an enclosed room with cellulose thinners for some time. He was as high as a kite and I ended up with the job of taking him home and explaining to his parents how he got in the state he was.
So Zurf remember a little moderation please,
Roger
As long as you don't go overboard. you won't do much damage whilst adjusting the truss rod. Just rmember to losen your strings give it half or a quarter of a turn at a time. I think this is less drastic than filing the saddle down. You can always lossen off the truss rod if you've made it too low. You can't stick the filings back on the saddle.
It's not too difficult and you'll learn a lot along the way. If you are able to adjust your truss rod yourself, you can experiment with different guages of strings.
Chris, as you no doubt know the truss rod adjustment is for removing a bow from the fretboard and not for adjusting string height per se. Your post does not make this clear and may be misleading for a beginner. Truss rod adjustment, nut height, bridge height, fret height and intonation are all a part of setting up a guitar to make it play and sound the best it possibly can.
Roger
This is one for Per, the founder of Chordie, and no doubt he will reply in due course. I have no idea whether this is possible or not but I feel that it may not be possible, we shall have to wait and see.
Roger
Hi Pete,
If you have not already e-mailed Per write to me and I will change it for you. Unfortunately my PC was down for a few weeks when you raised this issue and so I missed it
Roger
Well done Jeff and thanks so much.
The question was actually raised by some students at a small private school I help out at. Now 'Mr Roger' can go back with an answer as all good teachers should be able to but I will be honest and let them know that I picked your brain to get the answer.
Roger
Edited 23:50 to add:
Checking Topdown's link more fully I see that there is also a phonetic translation to get the pronuncuation right too.
The German words that Elvis sings in Wooden Heart go:
Muß i denn, muß i denn
Zum Städtele hinaus
Städtele hinaus
Und du, mein schatz, bleibst hier?
I have tried the on-line translaters and get no sense from the replies so I was wondering if anyone has an accurate translation please.
Roger.
**Note these words were written in1825 so copyright is not an issue**
Five stars and the shortest comment in the world added 
Roger
'Bout time I threw one of my favourites into the pot instead of just listening to everyone else's. So please try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHHOnMd6 … re=related
Roger
Hi and welcome to Chordie,
The only place I could find these chords was at: http://rock.totaltabs.com/tablature/Her … ord_36345/
You have to enroll for free to see them but unfortunately cannot print them unless you take out a paid membership, however you can copy and paste them if you want a hard copy.
Roger
If you are not prepared to add a button then you leave yourself no option.
Personally I think that if a matchng (or very close) button is fitted then it doen not detract from the guitar in fact I would say that it enhances it as you can secure your strap in what I consider to be the correct manner.
Roger
My friend has the 900 and he records his backing tracks with his keyboard and guitar and then adds his vocals. He then transfers and records the track to his PC using the audio out from the 900 to his PC. He has never used the CD recorder on his 900 to do this. From my point of view the 600 is better as it is cheaper and if i wanted to record to a CD I would do so from the PC anyway.
Roger
I deleted my whole post, rather than be SINGLED OUT in BOLD print for a MISTAKE I made, when I honestly tried to help someone. So Sorry! I will think twice about posting again!
Hi Sherri,
Zurf has hit the nail on the head in all aspects so I will not repaet what he has written. As I explained in the e-mail I sent you before reading this, in an effort to help someone I too have been guilty of the same thing when I first joined Chordie so don't feel to bad about it. I realised your intention was good which is why I edited your post. You can see from the 'Sticky' from Per (the site owner) at the start of the 'Song Request' section how seriously this can be.
Please keep the posts coming and enjoy Chordie,
Roger
Well, I went to the Costco in Winchester, Virginia with a buddy of mine and we almost hit Oliver North as he was headed into the store. Then when we were done and on our way out again, guess who stepped off the curb in front of us and we almost hit? Yep. Oliver North again. But I knew who he was.
I took a guided whitewater trip one time and there was an old-timer with a young gal (twenties or so) in an old beat up aluminum canoe with a terrific home made tandem skirt. The guy was wearing jeans and a sweater for a cold bottom-release run on a controlled river. Definitely an old school paddler. Well, his canoe takes on a ton of water and I'm getting nervous about seeing him back there behind us on all the lines with his sloshy canoe and made mention to him that it might be time to bail out. "Soon. Soon," he replied. A little later, "Dude, that canoe is really listing. You need to bail." "Oh, I'll be all right. There's a pinhole in the skirt. We'll be fine." I figure the guys a doofus who doesn't know squat and he can learn his own daggone lesson the hard way. At the takeout, he came up and introduced himself. Said it was nice of me to try and make a safety recommendation. It was Lou Matacia, an absolute whitewater paddling legend with more first descents than anybody his age except maybe Randy Carter. It'd be like meeting Eric Clapton and making some recommendations on putting together a blues lick. And, by the way, guess who was shivering like mad and in the early stages of hypothermia? Not Mr. Matacia in his denim jeans. I was in all my fancy clothes. So it would be like playing a really horrendous lick ending on a sour note and THEN suggesting to Eric Clapton ways to spruce up his solos.
- Zurf
Which reminds me............................
A couple of months ago I was looking after my friends music shop whilst he was in the UK and a guy came in lookng for a set of guitar strings and with my best salesman hat on I offered to fit the strings (for a small fee of course) and also tried to talk him having the guitar set up suit the strings, not forgetting that it needs the intionation right to get the best out of it when playing up the fretboard. The gentleman thanked me and politely declined my offer. OK you win some and lose some.
A week or so later I walked in the shop and the same guy was taking to my friend Howard (the shop owner) and on seeing me the guy and I exchanged greetings and a handshake. Howard said "So you guys have met then?" and I explained that in Howard's absence I had sold him a set of string but could not get him to have his guitar set up. With a very large smile on his face Howard said to me "I better formally introduce you to Ian Gillan from Deep Purple then". Deep purple was about the colour of my face, but we did have a good laugh.
Roger
Hi Wayne,
Nice one, my friend. I enjoyed listening to it and (hope you don't mind) made a couple of small changes to your post so I could print it out to give it a whirl myself later today.
Roger
I have removed the link from PapaTom after finding that Manicbassman is claim is correct.
Roger
Welcome back Roger..... some of us thought you'd expired....?
Thanks Doug, but you can't get rid of me as easy as that 
. A serious PC crash followed by a minor illness and a trip to the UK for my baby girl's 40th birthday have kept me off line for a while.
Aplogies to Lieven for going off topic.
Roger
MY POINTS ARE
1) If you sing, the melody coming out from your vocal chords, will be different, because of the anatomic structure, so if you record your voice and listen, it sounds different.
Lieven when you hear yourself talk or sing normally a good percentage of the sound is transmitted internally to your eardrums but when you hear a recording you are hearing externally through your ears canals only (just as everyone else hears you) which is why you sound so different. I, and I am sure many others who record regularly, are so used to this that we do not notice the difference anymore.
Roger
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