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hi 77, welcome, i'm not dyslexic, though you wouldn't think it, it took me 4 tries to get dyslexic right! i learnt my chords from chord windows when i started playing, in those days you had to buy a book (as opposed to the net). the one i got was "tune in a day" and it showed you how to play various standards. after learning the shapes i learnt the symbols (chord names) eg A-D-E etc.
at 15 i would race home from work and learn a new key, unlike most on chordie i found G to be my nemesis. i've got it now as most of what i do is in the key of G!
maybe it's because i was a motor mechanic that i never suffered with bleeding fingers!
keep at it and you will get there.
phill
just as an update; i plugged the HD into my old dell laptop, and it immediately crashed, so i'm going to bin it and bite the bullet and buy a new one, if i can find a way of hiding it from the wife.....
ken, i'm lost for words. fab video, very tenderly sung and your voice is great (not grate! 
) buitiful guitar playing...your a star.
phill
i like metallica, so i'm with you scott
thanks again for the advice, hi kap me too, i muddle through pressing everything until it either works or tells me to walk away in jerking motions! (hope that's not too specific, but i've been frustrated by this thing for hours) i've finally found the drivers for the wireless router, after downloading god knows how many "free" fixes. why do they say it's free when they want to charge X amount to fix stuff. they should put the cost at the start not when you've downloaded and run through everything. enough of the rant.
as advised, i shall hook the external drive to an old XP laptop and see if there's anything there.
thanks phill
i dont really know much about slide playing, but i have a piece of tube that i cut from a chrome shower curtain pole! sad am i not?
the alternative is what steve howe of yes uses, which looks like a comb, but isnt obviously, so i suppose you could use any chromed comb like piece of metal, just so long as you can grip it....?
thanks amy, doug, i had an external HD, and now i'm thinking about it i kept getting warning flashes up that it was full so no room to back-up!!!! idiot that i am i just ignored it, so i'm thinking now that that was my problem! so i've now disconnected the drive, and i'm thinking about formatting it from an old lap top i have. my PC seems to be running well without whatever was backed-up on there, so there cant be anything vital on there? i shall wait for confirmation from (obviously) more PC minded persons before re-connecting the external HD or formatting it. please tell me i dont need to spend more money on a new one?
the avast got deleted with everything else....but i've re-installed it now.
thanks for the advice cos i'm just a key plugger and techy stuff is a little beyond my aging brain cells.
phill
hi uncle joe and welcome, i find myself playing to the grey rinse brigade more often than not, but hey ho, an audience is an audience innit?
phill
thanks russ.
hi doug, i managed to get it going in safe mode, and ran system restore several times, then when i got to the end of my tether, i put in the windows disk and let it run....when it finished there was a blank canvass, just the basic windows stuff. i've had to down load the programs i already had on there, but as i said my songs, poems and stories have gone. i did download a program from c-net (cant remember what it was called) but it only found 2 windows programs. i'm hoping someone knows of a better program they can recommend?
i had avast running at the time, so i dont understand how it got in, piggy back maybe?
phill
hiya dave (H&M)
it's always nice to have new blood, let us know if you have any music, your own or covered that you'd like to share, and as the guys pointed out above join in, but please do not spam and if you have a question or just want to chat, please do we are all very friendly.
phill
nice one jerome, i like it. when my PC recovers properly from the crash it just had i'm hoping you'll have recorded it.
phill
i updated a program yesterday by accident called "pluralprint mouse" which fatally crashed my PC! all my photos, songs, poems and stories are now gone, the photos were backed up on cloud so that's OK but i'd like to get the other stuff back. i've heard that nothing actually gets deleted from the hard drive, just forgotten, so i wonder if there's a "free" prog out there someone can recommend? i'd be eternally grateful.
phill
going back to the original theme; a lot of people use chordie just to get chords for some song they might want to have a go at, that's how i found chordie. the only time these people will post is when they are looking for a song that is not listed or they're having trouble getting their song book to display on their tablet, does this sound like a moan? it's meant to!
as doug mentions, social networking sites have their uses and they also are rife with pests so i wont bother with them.
as a mod i've had to warn certain members to curb their language and attitude. lets keep it friendly and helpful.
phill
i also put the chord symbols in brackets thus [C] , then add a colour to them usually red. it's so much easier then to upload a song to chordie you only need to add the chopro triggers.
i use apache open office which is free and can read m/s office and others and do a lot of other neat stuff...worth a look?
thanks jimmy,
it's a funny one for me cos when I started writing it was kind of up-beat, then I came back to it a little later and it had become a bit country, so I gave it that country twist and took it from "I love you baby" to "oh no she's dumping me!" and back to "I'm getting better" at the end.
i've uploaded the song onto Myspace, you will hear it if you click the web link to your left.
i've also put it on sound cloud but have no idea how to set up the link, any help would be appreciated.
phill
i've had your email russ, i'll get onto it ASAP
hey grah, hope you're going to record the performance and post it for us all to hear in "battlefield conditions" so to speak?
sweet little ditty there ken, you led me in totally the wrong direction. nice one.
phill
artie, this is brilliant! 5 *. i had one heck of a job singing it as i was laughing so much. i actually do "take it easy" in my stage act, i may well use your version instead, gotta run before they taze me!
thanks dino, i'm trying, or as the wife says; very trying!
kap54 where are you? howdee ken great to hear from you after all this time. sometimes the songs just come out like that, hope the recording is up to the great comments.
phill
hi russ. no it was an absolute nightmare! everything was wrong. i've done it again tonight from scratch, the beat was too fast, the drums wee awful, there were a multitude of guitar errors and the harmonies and vocal were sickening. i originally wrote it in Eb, then took it down to C, so my voice wasn't at all at home. so i've put it back up to Eb. i have finished the recording and i shall be putting it up on my space later. hope i get a few listens and comments.
phill
hi tyson7, thanks, it took a bit of searching and knowing what i was looking for. i think the end result is good though.
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