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Paddling. Sounds weird, but when you paddle into whitewater you need to be both focused and calm but the adrenaline is rushing from the sound of water falling over rocks and the current getting swifter. So there you are looking at the rapid and heart rate's up and shoulders are tense, but you have to overcome the tension or you're going to spill because you have to be physically loose to navigate the boat. So you have to be both excited and calm at the same time. Once figuring out how to do that, it's transferable to guitar.
- Zurf
PapaTom wrote:OK, so are you talking about the "B" chord, as in the one that lies between Bb and C and takes eleven fingers to play on a uke, or is "B" just short for "Barre" chord?
(Sorry...all those responses were really funny, but I need to know if you're all laughing with me or AT me 
Take the 11 fingered chord you need for your uke and add two strings and four more fingers and you've got the B chord for guitar. The chord chart for it is in my new avatar. You have to barre at the second fret all the way across, and then barre the D, G, and B strings but not the high e string at the fourth fret. It's evil, I tell you. Evil. The chord can only be played by mutants, like Russell. [LONG LIVE THE MUTANTS!!]
Russell once wrote a whole song that used nothing but B shaped barre chords called "Zurf and the Evil B". There's something wrong with his head but his fingers work real good. I think he's got a little cat DNA. Except instead of retractable claws like a cat has, Russell has retractable fingers in the pads of his palm.
- Zurf
Worse than the B chord!?! I don't think you're playing it right. :-)
Goofy cover, but this book will get you going in the right direction: http://www.amazon.com/Mel-Teach-Yoursel … amp;sr=8-3
It's the one I used. Despite the adolescent cover, the material inside is good. It walks you in slowly but by lesson six you're very well challenged. Or at least I was.
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Seriously though, that avatar would make a decent tattoo.
bensonp wrote:I think Jack the Ripper aslo favored the B chord.
Almost certainly. As did Chairman Mao, Stalin, and Idi Amin. Though I think Mike Tyson once knocked out the B chord at 1:17 in the second round.
bensonp wrote:Zurf can expalin much better than I how evil and dark the B chord can be.
The B chord is the primary cause of divorce world-wide.
Every conspiracy theory you've ever heard is true, and the B chord was behind them all.
The B chord will poison your mind, your heart, and your fingers.
The B chord is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
The B chord makes a grown man cry, a young child go bad, and a dog bite.
The B chord does simply horrible things to your pets while you're at work. It's why they're so weird.
It was the B chord that put the serpent up to it in the Garden.
The B chord is the only thing to make Chuck Norris afraid.
It was the B chord that caused dinosaurs to go extinct.
The moon used to be part of the earth, until it insulted the B chord.
- Zurf
The tattoo thread got me going.
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Roger - I lost my mother suddenly in May of 1996, the Wednesday after Mother's Day. There probably hasn't been a day since that I haven't wished I could talk to her. I can't say that I know what you're going through, but I know what I went through and wouldn't wish it on you or anyone. If you want to talk or IM or e-mail or anything, just reach out.
I wish we could sit together at the kitchen table and sip some coffee and just let the words hang in the air waiting to be said. It's something I wish we could do for you, to just be there. But we can't. It's all electrons. The thought is there.
Call if you need to. IM if you like. My heart is open to you and my prayers are for peace for your mother's soul.
- Derek
I always thought it was Pythagoras who came up with the notation method to go along with his tonal experiments. Perhaps not, though. It's not like I ever heard Pythagoras bragging about it personally or anything.
- Zurf
There is. Music is math. Mathematics is the study of the relations of intervals. So is music. They even use the same sections of your brain. Children who study music also have increases to math scores. My sister used to read a fair bit about the correlation, so I'm sure that there are books and articles and theses written upon it. Some Googling or Amazon searches should give you at least one evening's worth of entertainment.
- Zurf
What, and give up my hard found 17/64's open end wrench? No way!
- Zurf
If the song is one you wrote, you can post it in the Songwriting forum. If it's owned by someone else, then you'll have to find another place to post it. If I knew a site reference, I'd give it to you, but I'm just no good at writing tab so can't help you.
Welcome to Chordie. I look forward to seeing your contributions.
- Zurf
I'm saying "Hello" to Matthew Bellamy right now. I see you've got 18 posts, but I haven't seen any yet. So, welcome to Chordie Matthew.
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Ask Detman101 about his "good" acoustic guitar. I can attest that he coaxes some sweet, sweet licks from it.
I tend to get junk and be gentle with it. I'm saving for a good guitar, though. I'm not going to define "good" by the price tag, but it's going to cost me more than my other guitars. I'm sure of that much. Probably more than my other guitars all put together. But that's only $200 for five guitars (two of which I have since given away), so it won't be hard.
When I get a 'good' guitar, I'll play it the same as the others, except maybe will bring it inside the tent at night when I go camping rather than leaving it under the portico.
- Zurf
jerome.oneil wrote:I have thought about getting the circle of 5ths tattooed on my left forearm, though. Permanent cheat sheet.
Brilliant!
I'm thinking if I ever get one it will be the universal "no" circle with a line overtop of a chord diagram for the B chord. Don't know where I'd put it. Probably my buttocks just to show the B what I think of it.
- Zurf
I "won" one of these in an on-line auction. It's got all the new in-the-box items, including some sort of software. Any hints or suggestions on how to use it?
I was figuring to just load the software, plug it in, and see what happens.
- Zurf
selso wrote:My problem is I'm running out of space!!!
Oh my! I'll bet you have some cool ones.
My daughter was listening to her soundtrack of Chipmunks: The Squeekwell today. One of the songs was "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees. That seemed redundant to me.
- Zurf
Remove "China Grove" add "Crosstown Traffic". Thanks for the Jimi reminder Selso.
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I'm not really named "Zurf". :-)
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Usual caveats. Subject to change without notice.
1. Bass riff in "You Can Call Me Al"
2. Distortion intro in "Magic Carpet Ride"
3. Bass riff in "My Generation"
4. "Walk This Way"
5. Intro to "China Grove"
- Zurf
That's it guys. Thanks. My eldest is growing in spirituality and old soul and country songs may not be cutting it any more.
Now if I can just sing it without getting a big lump in my throat remembering my Momma's voice and her settling me in to bed.
- Zurf
Thanks Pix. I've never heard of Amos Lee. That was a happy, mellow song. Seems like all the songs I'm learning are about misery and loss. That's what I get for liking country/folk music I guess. I liked that real well. I need to spend some money on the new artists like Amos Lee and Jack Johnson and Andy McKee and all these other guys not making the radio.
- Zurf
This may belong in Song Requests. Sorry if it has to be moved.
My mother used to sing a lullaby to me about walking in a garden with Jesus. It starts "We walk in the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses." If anyone knows the proper title to that song or a link to the remainder of the lyrics, I'd be grateful if you could pass it along.
- Zurf
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