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I'm getting the eight channel regardless, because I'm setting up a stage in my basement.  I may want something else for my office where I'd like to be able to run two mics or a mic and an instrument cord and mix for my own use. 

- Zurf

Tubatooter, could you send along the information on the USB adapter you're talking about?  I'm considering an eight channel mixer with a USB output so that I can run it to the computer.  The only problem is that it comes as a single signal and then I wouldn't be able to mix on the computer with that set up.  It would record exactly as sent. 

- Zurf

Play it mean on the guitar and add some whiskey and cigarettes so rasp up your voice to match the meanness of the guitar.  Problem solved.

I generally play alternating bass note or bass shuffle (especially with C and G), so I'm probably using G/B some.  How's that for playing a song instead of playing guitar?  I wasn't using Am7, just regular old Am, but I think one of the hammer-ons I figured out kind goes from G to Am7 to C/B to Am if I had to write it out.  Or maybe not.  I just play the open A string and hammer on the second fret then move to the Am chord but hammer onto the second fret of the D string.  I think.  It's real similar to that.  Sometimes.  Not every time because that would get too busy. 

In short, I have no idea what chords I'm using to get between the chords I go from and to.  I just get between them in some sort of way that doesn't usually sound too terrible. 

- Zurf

That's pretty short.

While I think that's true Jerome, everyone has to get to that place by their own path. 

For me, it was a necessity.  I've played a fair number of instruments before guitar: trumpet in an orchestra, trombone in a Dixieland band and a playhouse, tuba in a marching band and a brass choir, classical and playhouse orchestra upright bass, electric blues bass, and country/folk style harmonica.  I learned each of those through the classical method of learning notes and scales and reading music (actually, not reading music on the blues bass, that was the listening to Magic Sam records variety of learning).  Anyway, when it came to guitar, I had a mental block on learning in the classic style.  I tried over and over again, but failed each time.  The time it stuck, for me, was when I just started to play songs on the guitar and not learn the guitar as an instrument.  Am I progressing more slowly than if I had learned scales, argeggios, and inversions?  Absolutely!  Do I understand theory as applied to guitar?  Not a whit.  Would it help if I did?  You bet, especially for lead licks and playing by ear!  But, in the meanwhile, I'm playing songs and learning that those things are important and working them in here and there.  Eventually, I'll play guitar too.  But for now, playing songs on guitar is good enough.  Slow but steady works for some of us.  It's the same destination, just a different path.   

- Zurf

Oh, you have no idea.  It's easy to talk smack here on the boards and quite another to sit down and play.  I've sent a few songs I've recorded via e-mail to Russell and some other friends to get constructive criticism, but I've not been brave enough to play on Youtube or at an open mic or some such yet.  Now, everyone sitting around the campfire and chilling out on a summer evening - sure.  But that's just buds and I'm big and generally ornery enough by Friday night that folks keep their perspective on my playing to themselves.  And there's actually a couple of folks who seem to enjoy it.  Well, really just the one guy.  And my kids.  But they don't know any better.

- Zurf

There are books available called "finger chords" or some such.  They show not only the chord chart but also include a picture of someone's hand making the chord on the fretboard of a guitar.  I've got one and it's extremely useful.  I think it cost around $12 or $15. 

The easiest way for me to describe it, and hope that I don't get things backwards of the way they ought to be, is this.  Take the chord chart, which is depicted straight up and down and pretend that you are looking straight at your fretboard of your guitar.

- The left most vertical line on the chord chart is the low E (assuming you have a standard right-handed guitar). 
- The right most vertical line on the chord chart is the high E. 
- The horizontal lines on the chord chart represent frets. 
- If you see a number to the left of the chord chart at the top "fret", that's telling you which fret number the top line on the chord chart represents.  For instance, if you are looking at a chord chart for C9 (as I am as I write this) and it says "8" to the left of the chart, that means that the top line of the chord chart represents the eighth fret of your guitar. 
- If there is a circle above a vertical line of the chord chart, that means that string is played open in the chord. 
- If there is an X above a vertical line of the chord chart, that means that string is not played in the chord and you either have to miss it with your pick or mute it with one of your fingers. 
- The solid dots on the vertical lines within the chord chart represent where a finger presses a string. 
- You may need to use a 'barre' to play some chords.  A 'barre' is when you outstretch a finger across two or more strings (sometimes the whole fretboard as you would for an "F" or "B" barre).  For instance, if you are looking at a chord chart for G#m7 (as I am while I type this) and see four dots right next to each other on the 3, 4, 5, and 6 strings (D, G, B, e), that means to outstretch a finger across those four strings and press down. 

I hope that helps.  But to me a picture is worth more than eight bullets in a message, and so recommend getting yourself one of the picture chord charts at your local retailer or an on-line resource if your local music store doesn't carry one.  I've actually recently purchased a poster that I'm going to frame and put in my practice area so that I don't have to keep flipping pages. 

- Zurf

p.s. Edit to add: By the way, it did not sound dumb.  To figure that out requires a spatial relations perspective that does not come easily to everyone, so I'm sure there are a number of people who have had the same difficulty as you. My mother was a brilliant woman who performed amazing feats of geometry in her quilting art, but figuring out how a flat vertical chord chart facing her related to a 3D horizontal fretboard facing away from her would have proposed a great challenge to her. So, I'm glad you asked.

p.p.s.  I couldn't read tab if my life depended on it.  One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Boy, that'll give you confidence in the product.  I hope he was just having a real bad day and doesn't act like that on a regular basis.  The pawn shop I stop in on from time to time is as exactly opposite that as I can imagine.  They'll lend you a tuner to let you try alternate tunings if you like, and then try to show you some nice jewelry for your wife (because she's so pretty).  Honey, not vinegar. 

- Zurf

vxn911 - relax.  Roger was explaining as a courtesy why your post was edited.  Your intention was good, which is why he didn't delete the whole thing.  He probably wanted toni-x to know that you had tried to help him. Chordie walks a fine line on Copyright and so is very firm on the line they have drawn.  Your continued input is welcome. 

- Zurf

Pretty cool PapaTom.