As promiced I arrived home and recorded your song. It is a 'one take' so you can hear the melody I put to the chords and of course it is on FoC:

http://www.myspace.com/friendsofchordie

Roger

Hi Rhiannon,

I have had a chance to do some more work on this song and come to an Internet Café to show you the results. If you do like it I will record it when I get back to my own PC. I have altered the chords and added 2 verses and two choruses. Each chord is one bar long so you will see that the chorus's are twice as long as the verses, a little unusual but I think that it works.

Roger

His Valentine Rose Rhiannon Gilson and Roger Guppy

Hi Fujicrow,

The wire wound strings will be affected by the grease and sweat from your fingers and also corrosion. It collects in the grooves and eventually you can hear that they need changing. Plain wire strings are similarly affected.

Plain nylon strings however are not affected in the same way and so do not need changing as often. When I had a classical guitar I would change the plain nylon ones every second or third time I replaced the wire wound ones.

Roger

Hi Phill,

Done MySpace? I have four of them to look after!!.

I think what you have done is what I did and many others have and signed up for an ordinary account instead of signing up as an Artist. I had to cancel mine, wait a couple of days and then re-sign as an Artist but I am sure I remember seeing somewhere that there is a was to convert now. Try looking in the MySpace FAQ. If you have problems please come back to me.

Roger

I had a twelve string back in the 60's when there was only one gauge of string available and it had to be tuned to D to reduce the neck tension. I was very fond of that guitar, I love the fullness of the sound and long to own another.

My friend has music store and on his shelf is a 12 string which gets a airing each time I visit and as it is not too expensive I may do a deal with him at some time to stop me getting all broody when I hear folks talking about one.

Roger

Hi Phill,

"Don't believe in faeries"!!!, of course there are faeries, when I was a kid everytime I lost a tooth the Tooth Faerie would leave a shilling for it whilst I was asleep.

I did enjoy what I was able to play of your song. Unfortunately, when playing a completely unknown song I cannot remember ther chord sequence so I can only play as much as has the chords listed but what I played was good.

Roger

Hi que522,

I would suggest you took it back to the guy that did the work on your guitar. It sounds to me as if you may have a sightly raised 21st fret or the action has been set too low, unless you have changed the strings since it was set up. Putting on a lighter guage set of strings can give this effect too.

However someone more qualified than I may be able to suggest something different.

Hope you soon get it sorted,

Roger

Mine was not as posh as all yours.

It was Christmas 1958, I was 11 and both my brother Colin and I received a 4 string, plastic guitar with Elvis Presley badges on it. It came with an 'autochord', a plasic box that strapped on the fingerboard with buttons to press to play the chords so no sore fingers. We were soon playing "Home On The Range" (the only one that remember that came with it's songbook) until the 'autochord' broke, then it was sore finger time. Unfortunately the plastic frets did not last too long neither and so those guitars have long since been destroyed but I do wish I had kept mine.

Roger

Great song Jeff,

More brownie points from 'she who must be obeyed' no doubt

Roger

Well done Alvee,

Good song, hopefully the first of many. I only need now to persuade you to record it so we can hear how you intended it.

Roger

Hi Lieven,

I think you are trying to go down the wrong road looking for 'software to correct tracks'. It is far, far easier and quicker to re-record a guitar or vocal track that is not right.

Russell is absolutely correct, apart from a microphone, you appear to have everything you need. I know you are impatent, but you really must set aside time to read the Boss 600 manual and experiment with it, the more you use it the easier it becomes and the more you find out what it can do.

Take care,

Roger

Hi Oldnewbie,

The problem with .wav files is the size, mp3 are compressed to approximately 1/10th the size with little loss of quality. It normally takes me about 5 minutes to upload and mp3 song so you can see the time it would take to upload a .wav file, also the website would have to allocate 10 times the amount of disc space for each user.

Arkady's suggestion is probably the best but if there are only a few songs you want to upload I can put them on Friends of Chordie for you. The problem there is that with space for only 6 songs the oldest one has to be removed each time a new one is put there, so the length of time it is available depends on how often nwe ones are sent to me. Please write to me privately if you do want to go down this route.

Roger