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Hi Mikeward,
Welcome to Chordie.
Instead of counting the beats when you practice, sing the song in your mind instead. To sing the song you have to have the correct beat and words are more interesting than repeating one, two, three ,four.........
It then comes easy when you do actually sing it.
Roger
I disagree with Zurf and Geoaguiar. To my ear light and ultra light strings on an acoustic sound awful (I feel that these strings were developed to be bent on electric guitars). Medium and heavy, although harder to play with give the full rich sound expected with an acoustic.
As to them being too loud and drowning out the singing I have never had that problem. I normally play with my fingers as you can get so much variation of sound by using nail, skin, one or several fingers, strumming or picking which you cannot get with a plectrum.
Roger
"I Started A Joke" - Bee Gees
"Don't Let The Sun See You Crying" - Gerry and the Pacemakers (Cmaj7, Fmaj7)
"House of the Rising Sun" - The Animals
Hi there,
You need to go into your Profile and then Personality. Then set up an Avatar (that is what the little picture are called) but be careful as they can only be a maximum of 10K or 60x60 pixels.
Roger
Hi Albertocheets,
I have edited the Bobby Vee version to give you the correct chords and chord diagrams on: http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.g … 20246.html
It is in the original key of F but you can transpose it to suit your voice and the Faug is only in the intro.
Roger
I am a fan of the Bee Gees, but only their pre-falsetto songs.
Robin, who mostly sang lead, had an incredible voice and the quality of it was lost with all the later 'wailing' songs.
Roger
Hi Evsynator,
There is only only thing that comes to mind. If the motherboard has a built in sound card (as most seem to these days) your new one will not work unless you first go into the BIOS and switch the onboard one off.
Roger
Thank you Will,
I am pleased you like my humble effort and I will be pleased to perform at your wedding (at least the travelling expences will not be as bad as going to Badeye's or Rhiannon's 
)
Roger
Hi Gnomefry,
Thank you. It is always possible that bugs will appear and reporting them gives Per chance to sort them out.
However I have just been to look at the Sex Pistols page: http://www.chordie.com/song.php/songart … index.html and I found it normal i.e. the songs listed to the left of the page and the Wikipedia article on the right so it may be your PC.
It will be interesting to see if anyone else is having the same problem though.
Roger
Sorry about the delay in replying but I have been away for a few days and then been busy since I came back and only just getting caught up.
Badeye, thanks for the invite but if you wait another 24 years I will be 84 and even if I am still here I do not think the voice will last that long
James, somehow I cannot imagine the ever cool and assured Mr McCormick feeling faint and hyperventilating but I am pleased that you have found your soulmate.
Daddycool and Ark, thank you.
Saba, your presence is missed here on Chordie and I hope all is well with you.
Granddaughter Rhiannon I will ensure you have a recording of it (if you have not changed your mind by the time the 'Big Day' arrives) and look forward to your visit (if you have not changed your mind when you get older)
Helena, thank you. In fact thank you all.
Roger
Hey Ark,
It is about time we heard your singing and I hope we we will hear more in the future.
A beautiful haunting song and a wonderful tribute to your Father. I never wrote one when I lost my Dad but I did learn "Tears in Heaven" and took a lot of comfort from it.
Roger
Hi Mike,
Welcome to Chordie and what an excellent first song to post. I am looking forward to seeeing more of your work, well done.
Roger
Well done Helena and Phill. A great song and recording.
Roger
Hi Gnomefry,
Somehow I cannot imagine you as a Troll.
Anyway you have made a start so now you need to work out some chords and a melody to finish the song. I look forward to seeing and hopefully hearing the finished version.
Roger
Hi Alex,
Great song and recording. I am so pleased you are now using MySpace as I could never get your Putfile songs to play and I do like to see and hear people performing their own songs.
Roger
Helena,
My condolences on the sudden and unexpected loss of your very good friend.
This is a wonderful tribute to her memory. You have a knack of noting the ordinary, the mundane, and then expressing it with great feeling and emotion.
Roger
Hi Will,
Like James, I too am no expert, althought I have been known to write the odd love song or two.
The advice already given is excellent and so if I may add my twopenny worth. Sit down with pencil and paper and write down the message you want to convey in normal prose. Then the hard part, re-write it as a poem, remembering that the metre is more important than the rhyme in a song (which is your goal). Once that is done either 'borrow' someone else's music or write your own to finish the song. Then you can stand under her balcony with your guitar and serenade the lady of your dreams.
If you get stuck and want help you can always post your half finished work here and seek further advice or e-mail one of the songwriters privately for help as I am sure most would be willing to help.
Good luck,
Roger
The song "Take Good Care Of My Baby" was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and was first a hit for Bobby Vee in 1961. It was 17 years later, in 1978 when The Beatles cover version on the bootleg "Decca Tapes" album was released. OK enough of the history lesson.
I play it in F and there is certainly an Faug so in G there will be a Gaug but no other augmented chords. I believe that the 'aud' is a 'typo' from the author.
Albertocheets, welcome to Chordie, may I suggest that you also look at the Bobby Vee version of this song as you may find the chords have been worked out better there.
Roger
Hi and welcome to Chordie,
A quick 'Google' and I came up with this and there are several others if you care to look.
http://www.911tabs.com/link/?4620603
Roger
Hi James,
Another good recording, thanks.
Roger
Hi Froot,
I have two suggestions to make as you say that it is very hard to hold down the strings so I am ignoring physical strenth issues.
1: Perhaps the action is too high (too much gap between the strings and fingerboard) causing your problem and, unless you know what you are doing the best thing to do is to take it to an expert to check it and make the neccessary adjustments.
2: The other thing is to use a lighter gauge string which are thinner and have less tension. I personally do not like very light strings on a acoustic as, to my ear, the sound from them is very wishy-washy and ruins the tone.
I must point out that you do need to decide on string gauge before any work is done on the guitar as changing the string gauge will alter the set up of it.
Roger
Hi Russ,
Yes that seems to be the trend today and I am no better which is why I used my daughter's wedding photo. They have been together from late teens and she celebrates her 40th next year. I have to say that Steve is a great guy and I could not have picked a better husband for her myself.
Roger
Hi Daddycool,
Another fine cowboy song, like you I was brought up on Rawhide, Bonanza, Wagon Train etc, mind you maybe Wagon Train was before your time. Well done.
I hope you will son get your songs converted to MP3 so we can hear some on your MySpace
Roger
Thanks Badeye and Plill,
Badeye, if do decide to have a third one you are more than welcome to use it, Better still I will cone and sing it for you and Gem and change the second line to "Brad for Gem and Gem for Brad.
Phill, it is on my MySpace but don't click the Website under my name as that is the Friends of Chordie link, hence my putting the right one with in my posting.
Roger
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