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Hi Alan,

Unfortunaltely I missed the original posting of these songs but you have two very good ones there. I enjoyed listening to your recordings. OK some of us, me included, do get involved in recording with multiple tracks, but quite honestly a simple guitar and vocal recording is all that is needed so that we can hear the melody, tempo and style of how the song is intended to be.

Well done, it's a pleasure to hear you,

Roger

OK I have never tried any alternative tunings and I may be thick, but it seems to me that if you retune your guitar this way (or any of the other alternative tunings) then you will have to re-learn all the chord shapes that use the altered strings. Not only that scales will be changed too and have to be re-learnt.

I know some of you guys/gals do use alternative tunings so perhaps you can enlighten me as to how you play with them.

Roger

Adam's Ale - I need all my faculties when playing and singing and certainly do not need the gas from fizzy drinks.

Roger

Guilty as charged. Badeye had put a '[' bracket before soc instead of '{' and this had altered the formatting of every post in this thread.

Badeye. Since my last reply to this I have found that I do like green tea but still not the ordinary stuff with milk and sugar - still like the song though

Roger

Hi Phill,

I knew a "lady" like that once, thank goodness I had the sense to get away, wiser but poorer. I hope you will soon record this one. Thank you,

Roger

Hi Shady,

Nice song and a great tribute to a wonderful artist. Thank you,

Roger

I recieved a 4 string plasic guitar for my Christmas when I was 11 (50 years ago). I have gone downhill ever since .

Roger

Zurf is very probably correct (apart from his phobia with the B chord ).

To confirm this first look along the fret board to check that it is not bowed (truss rod adjustmant can correct this if it is bowed).

Then pluck your high e string starting open and then going up the fretboard one fret at a time pluck each note going to the highest fret ensuring that each note rings clear with no buzz. Then do the same for the other 5 strings. This will ensure you do not have a raised fret.

If both these check are OK then I am afraid it is operator error and not an equipment fault so more practice or maybe reviewing the way you are playing the barre chords is in order. (The finger that does the barring should be rolled slightly on it's side as it is straighter there and can exert even pressue on all strings).

Hope that helps,

Roger

Hi mmyburgh and welcome to Chordie,

As a beginner you may not know but Bb is also A#. So if you have three notes A ? B the midway question mark note which is higher that A can be called A# but it is lower than B so it can also be called Bb, whether it is shown as a sharp or a flat depends on the key you are playing in. It can be rather confusing but in time you get used to it.

The notes run like this:

A
A# or Bb
B
C
C# or Db
D
D# or Eb
E
F
F# or Gb
G
G# or Ab

So -

for Bb look at A#
for Eb look at D#
for Bb7 look at A#7

The Chordie chart shows sharps and not flats however some of the chords you are looking for are not there so have a look at: http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/index.php here you can signify what chord you want and you can get several different ways of playing it.

I hope that helps,

Roger

Hi Ark,

Thank you. Things have been a little crazy with me of late and my on-line time has been very restricted but I am hopeful that in a couple more weeks it will be back to normal.

Hi Russ,

I just had to get a song in for Valentines but I am rather surprised that there were no more this year.
BTW It looks like I shall moving the weekend after next as I have found a new site with plenty of space for the cats to run around in. Best of all it is rent free!!

Roger

Hi Jeff,

A good well thought out song. Apart form a handfull of times in my teens I am lucky enough know when to say no and I cannot remember the last time I had too much to drink although many of the people I know here in Portugal are not so fortunate. Thank you.

Roger

Hi Kenny,

I just played this, loud and rocking, but without the benefit of Russ's lead of course. I enjoyed the song although I would love to hear a recording of it eventually as I always have a melody problem when there are long periods on the same chord and I then find that the writer's version is so much better than what I was able to do when it gets recorded.

So your homework for the next few days (or weeks) is to get to grips with your Boss BR600

Roger