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

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

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

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

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

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

Random Rock ?? 

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 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

Thnk you Russ,

I am listening to it as I write. As I guessed I had a different melody but similar tempo, I like our version best though.

Roger