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It's a straight-forward song in D with a standard Country boom-chuck. I replaced that with a finger pattern, but still like to do it with a pick sometimes and get that boom-chuck pattern. If you search my songbooks (I made them public), there's a simple version of it in the country version. All my songbooks start with "Zurf's...", so they're easy to search and find. At the end, the chord chart uses a Bm, but I ignore that and use the bridge chords again instead.
- Zurf
Welcome to the forums Vasan. Good picks on songs.
Forever and Ever Amen - Randy Travis (I think Paul Overstreet wrote it)
Distantly in Love - Jimmy Buffett and Steve Goodman
Close Enough to Perfect - Alabama (don't know who wrote it)
- Zurf
What to do with that knowledge? Why, get back to playing of course.
Topdown's been saying it for years - if it sounds good, it is good.
- Zurf
Join us and you'll quickly learn that there is no need to be shy. It's a bunch of back-porch pickers demonstrating delusions of adequacy and occasional flashes of competence.
As far as travelling, take the guitar. You're travelling, that's why you have a travel guitar. Right?
Lessons or not, as you see fit. But don't let it get in the way of joining in on one of our virtual picker's circles.
Well there's a Tak in another thread...
I think about the best guitar going for the price right now is either Recording King or Seagull, but there's tons of good feeling guitars and reasonable prices.
Be sure to also buy him a humidifier and a beginner's video and tell him about www.justinguitar.com.
Thanks for the nod.
- Zurf
Dude. I had to clean up a couple of folks who wiped out their motorcycle today, until a medic showed up They're probably both going to be fine - though one of them may take a while first. I think to the situation you had with your neighbors a while back, and I'm freaking floored. Today was about as much as I could take. If you come up in June, I'm giving you a hug and buying you a drink or seven.
- Derek
topdown wrote:I have a bad temper and I like to drink. I've stayed away from real guns for those very reasons. No doubt I'd be in prison and my kids would be without a mother (my ex) had I'd owned a real fire arm.
IMO, the MOST responsibkle gun owners are those who do not own any guns because they know they shouldn't. It's definitely not for everybody.
Well said Astro. Kudos to Topdown for knowing what is appropriate and what is inappropriate for him. Well done, sir. Well done.
Stevie is forever 29 - and thinking she's old when she sings "Landslide."
- Zurf
One of my regular fishing partners is extremely interested in all things related to firearms. He has several hundred guns for all different purposes. He's a safety instructor and does frequent accuracy and safety training classes at his club. He also sponsors sighting in days. As a former V.P. of a couple different manufacturers, he knows a lot of industry folks and gets them to come to the club to help members get the best performance possible from their firearms.
If you're ever in my neck of the woods (northern Virginia), let me know and I'll try to get the two of you together. My buddy loves nothing more than taking folks over to his club for some target shooting or practice. Then we can go grab a burger and a brew somewhere afterwards.
- Zurf
I don't know the answer to your question, but I wanted to welcome you to the forums. Someone with a clue will be along directly to provide an answer.
My favorite of his is Tangled Up In Blue. Among my least favorite is The Hurricane. Both long story songs. Go figure.
- Zurf
jerome.oneil wrote:There has been a couple of stories in the news about good senior pranks that resulted in complete over reaction by the administration. In one, the seniors covered the entirety of the building with post-it notes. They had consulted with the school janitor before doing it, and it was done with knowledge of a school board member. In the "nothing broken and no one hurt" world, a pretty good prank, well planned and well executed.
The school's response was to laugh and say "OK you clowns, you have an hour to clean it up.."
Oh wait, no it wasn't, it was to suspend the six kids involved and fire the janitor. When 40 other kids protested, they got suspended, too.
Unfrickinbelievable.....
And we wonder why this world is going to hell in a handbasket....*sigh*
Dm
Perhaps the principal was concerned that he'd get a paper cut. I can't speak to the issue of suspending people for expressing their opinions. It seems the principal in that case was interested in demonstrating to the students an important lesson on civics regarding personal liberty and abuse of authority.
- Zurf
I don't know that you're paying more just for the name for a Martin or Taylor. They are excellent quality guitars, and as you did above there they are pretty much the standard of measurement for other quality guitars. You will pay a lot for the guitars, though. That much is certain.
The 000-15M that I want (and that the lucky duck Mekidsmom just bought) is worth every penny of the $1000 (or so) that it costs. Compared to other $1000 guitars, there's nothing else that sounds similar. However, when I bought my Guild, I compared it to other guitars in the room from Taylor, Martin, Larrivee, Breedlove, and Blueridge, and nothing else came close to the tone and volume it had. Does that mean that Guild is better than those other brands? Nope. It means I liked this particular guitar better than those particular guitars. Does it mean those other guitars are overpriced? Nope. Those are still very good quality guitars by reputable luthiers.
All that said, Takamines are good guitars. At every price point level, they are definitely in the mix of good value for the money at that price point.
- Zurf
$359 is 1/3 of the way to the Martin I want. I'm not sure what yours will cost, but 1/3 of the way is kind of a big deal.
- Zurf
The Chik-Fil-A in our town has a topiary cow statue in front of it. The seniors at the high school stole the statue and put it by the high school's sign. In "retaliation", Chik-Fil-A sent their cow costume guy over to the high school with lunch for the students who did it and the principal. They took a bunch of pictures of the kids hugging the cow, and dancing around on the front lawn with the cow and put the pictures up on their Facebook page. It was all very silly.
I like it when people don't go crazy over "youthful exuberance." The Chik-Fil-A manager must have a sense of humor.
- Zurf
If you want to talk about personally emotional, then it's the final verse of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" for me. "We sang the songs of childhood, hymns of faith that made us strong. Ones our mother, she had taught us. Hear the angels sing along." I can't get it out. My Momma's been gone since 1996 and I still can't sing that verse.
(please note regarding the over-use of lyrics in a post rule: Will the Circle Be Unbroken is in public domain and not a copyright risk for reproducing a verse.)
- Zurf
Damien - That had my wife and I roaring. Good work!
I was looking at those pictures when my wife walked into my office and looked over my shoulder. "Hey, isn't that.... Damien? But, but, he's not old enough..." I about fell out of my chair laughing. When I showed her the topic title, she laughed hard too.
- Zurf
I didn't care for his last work. I read an interview with him today. He didn't much care for it either, it seems. He says this is much better. I'll give it a listen.
- Zurf
I also agree with Justinguitar.com.
- Zurf
Zurf, could you describe how to do a walkup from A to C? And remember, I'm not very experienced, so you've really got to spell it out for me. Thanks!
You just take a finger and after you play an A on the A string you leave all your fingers in place as much as you can and put a finger on the A at the second fret to get a B, and then you move to a C for an easy and nifty bass walkup.
- Zurf
I'm not too experienced, and until recently, the Bb was the hardest chord for me. I've been working a long time on "City of New Orleans" by Steve Goodman, and there's a part of the song that goes-- Em7 A7 Bb C -- and when I tried to go from A7 to Bb the City of New Orleans turned into a train wreck. But now, after months and months, I can finally do it without the chord sounding muted and icky. I feel happy!
Just do a walkup from A to C. That's how I cheat that.
I've been working on an acoustic version of "Magic Carpet Wide", which has a Bb in it, which I play as a Bbm7. It works OK. Not great. The second time on the Bb I just do a quick riff on it instead of strumming. That'll teach it.
- Zurf
The Beatles loved B Chords. A lot of their tunes have one or more B's in them.
B is a mutants only chord. There is little question about whether George Harrison was a mutant. He was, and therefore, B-capable. Long live the mutants!
Sounds like it would be tough to beat a long weekend spent like that.
Well, Gordon Lightfoot's "Don Quixote" is a feel-good romp about a lunatic running about the countryside with all the tools to fix society but no one will listen to him.
- Zurf
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