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August always works for me. I'm usually pretty busy with work obligations in July and I'm already taking a weekend for a local music festival.

Thanks Bill.

I don't really know it yet so I had it in front of me. Still managed to screw it up a couple times.

The same one you posted in: Chat Corner.

When something is coming up it's announced here.

On the far left side of the tool bar you have the play/pause button. When the video has finished playing that button will be replaced by a partial circle with an with an arrow attached to the open end. That's now the "replay" button. Hit that and it will start over.

Yep.

I have a much, much older soundhole P-U. I just pop it in when I need it and take it out when I'm finished. Simple

Many of us here, if not most, learned to play BI (Before Internet). We ALL started at the same place you are right now; a desire. 

Me personally, I bought the "John Pierce Guitar Chord Encyclopedia". I then bought a songbook that had a lot of songs that I wanted to learn. At that point it's just a matter of practice. Learn to play the chords and play them cleanly. You want to hear them ring. If you have a dull, muted sound, something is wrong. All the books and instructional video's won't do any good until you're really committed to practicing.

It's a journey. You won't get there tomorrow or next week or next month. But if you stick to it, you WILL get there.

Happy playing and enjoy the journey. It will be very satisfying.

Here's a video with a couple very basic first steps. There are 15 more vids by the same person to help you move along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llNuwhZWXKA

If I did this right, here is a chord chart with all the basic chords you'll need to help you get started.

That's a beauty JJJ!!

Happy NGD.

The change in tone can happen so slowly that you don't even realize it's happening. If you've had your strings on for 2 years and play regularly, do yourself a favor and treat your guitar to a new set. I think you will be pleasantly surprised at the brighter sound that comes out of it.

I play almost every night for 15-30 minutes. 2-3 times a month I get together with a couple friends on the weekend and we'll play for 5-6 hours.

I would typically change strings 3-4 times a year. If I haven't done it recently and a Chordie event is coming up, I'll change them to have fresh strings before I go. So that may make it 5-6 times a year.

Don't know if that's good or bad.

Ask and ye shall receive.  

This morning at 7:30. Around 6" on the shed and coming down heavy. Closer to 10" now at 9:00.

I have a video of our youngest dog experiencing his first snow. I'll post a link to that later. I need to upload it but I need to move some of this snow first.

Yep. It starts here around 11:00 tonight. You guys are probably a few hours later.

Better throw another log on the fire.

If I'm understanding correctly, you're looking for songs that have the chords over the words for the entire song like this one.

http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/?url= … ranspose=0

I went through my songbook and found that there aren't very many like this. Most of them have the chords for the first verse, refrain and a bridge, if there is one. I'm guessing it's done to save space but could be totally wrong.

When I'm working on a new song, I decided to learn the chord progression first. Once I can play it through without looking at it I add the lyrics. It's worked for me- most of the time.