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Thanks Old Doll. I do write for a living, but not the way you mean. My writing is extremely dry corporate policy and regulatory analysis stuff. Or was, up until about a week ago. I took on new responsibilities. It's still sinking in. Been doing the writing for five years, and want to get back as soon as possible, but there's no one available in the company who has the experience I've got at a job that needs doing for the next year or two.
- Zurf
Good luck, not that luck has anything to do with it.
- Zurf
That wasn't flash reflection. His pets actually have laser vision and they were trying to kill him for dressing up the dog. Actually, the cat was just trying to kill him for entertainment because that's what cats do. The dog only made a half-hearted attempt because dogs are forgiving. If you don't believe me, just check out the skull of the pizza delivery guy on the bottom step.
- Zurf
You know, just thinking about this for a second, the part that's really funny is that I got the Am7/G which I have never seen before correct in the song I was playing (Three Wooden Crosses), but I've been playing C/G wrong all this time and it's in everything!
- Zurf
Well, see? It's ALMOST the same.
Man, I could really use some more fingers on my left hand. I've got a couple toes I don't really use all that much. Maybe a plastic surgeon could do something for me.
- Zurf
All I know is that if Russell understands this chord structuring stuff that there's no way in heck I'm going to take him on in chess. I can see it now...
Russell: "That's your opening move?"
Zurf: "Yep."
Russell: "You sure? I'll let you change if you want."
Zurf: "I'm sure."
Russell: "Checkmate."
- Zurf
AHA! Am7/G does have the same chord fingering as C/G! (but doesn't play the high e) So to get between Am and Am7/G, I just lift my index finger from the G string and move it to the G on the low E string and don't play the high e string. Beautiful.
Chorderator. My new best friend.
- Zurf
zguitar -
I have no idea if that's right. I'm of the "if it sounds good, do it" school. I was using cross-picking on a song for six months before I even knew it had a name. It just sounded cool (to me) on the song, so I did it. For power chords I think you just play the low E (6) and the A (5) strings in any shape that makes those chords and includes those strings.
- Zurf
How do you transpose it? Easy. Put a capo on the second fret and play everything exactly the same while pretending that the capo is the nut.
Or you could put in an F5no3 chord. Which I am supposing is equally impossible to an E5no3 chord. What confuses me is the 5 no 3. What the heck is a chord if not based on 1,3,5? 5 is already in the chord, and no 3 in a chord makes it a duad or some other weird and obscure musical term I'd think. E5no3 would just be E and the fifth, which is ....B (I think) without an A (the third). I do that all the time on bass - just playing the root and fifth, but not on guitar.
With an F base it would be F and the fifth of F, which is .... um..... no idea. Let's see, maybe C? I'm going with C. F and C. Not much of a chord. OH WAIT! That's a power chord on guitar!
I think that's meant to be a power chord based on E. Finger your usual E chord and just play the fifth and sixth strings.
Whew. I hope that's right.
Russell or Jerome will be along. They live for questions like this. Or someone competent anyway.
- Zurf
Nope. No sense at all. I'm sure Jerome followed it. Mostly I'm just curious about how to play an Am7/G.
- Zurf
One of those slash chords I love so much.
Is Am7/G the same as C/G with a spare G on the high e (1 string)? If not, is sounds OK in the song. It's passing between Am and F. The song is in C (I think).
- Zurf
I helped the neighborhood kids carve pumpkins for jack-o-lanterns. Later, I was part of a parade float promoting my neighbors business. Then I went to a party where I supervised over-sugared, over-tired kids while the rest of the adults drank a few cocktails and visited. The minute I'd turn my back some portion of the kids would make some other portion of the kids cry. My turn in the barrell. Next time, someone else will get kid duty. It's how we do it. Not usually a planned thing, but it works out pretty well most times.
- Zurf
Did Kenny Loggins write that song? I think Neil Diamond did a cover. Maybe give it a try anyway. I'm frequently wrong on these sorts of things, by the way. The trivia all gets together from time to time for parties and they leave bits and pieces at one another's houses like so much Tupperware, so things get all mixed up in my head.
- Zurf
I like Ibanez' electronics. The guitars themselves can be hit or miss, so be sure to play the very one that you'd be buying.
I've like Alvarez guitars in the shop when I've played them, and they seem a good price. Mitchell is another brand that I've played, but only the twelve strings, and they've sounded pretty good. If the fit and finish (of which I am a poor judge) are any good, then that's a brand you can check out.
I like the suggestion of electrifying your current guitar that you like. It's already an old friend of your fingers.
- Zurf
I came in and the top post was from Old Doll, posted "Yesterday" and there were no responses yet. I have nothing of merit to say, but I didn't want today to feel forlorn and unproductive.
- Zurf
Sorry. I can't find that lesson book from last year. Most of my books and such are packed away during our remodel.
- Zurf
Poker is gambling of sorts, but there's a great deal of skill involved. Good people win frequently. The great-uncle I mentioned before made a career of it. In the early days of Vegas - so he wasn't just playing tin horns. He was playing other professional gamblers. Highly skilled game. Now slots are a gamble!!! They're a losing game for nearly every one, but every once in a while there's a winner. There's no skill involved at all. Just put in your money and watch it go away. Slots players are gambling that they can be that one winner from out of thousands of players. In poker, it's fairly easy to tell within a few hands if you're at the right table or whether you're playing with folks who don't know the game, or whether you're totally outclassed. In either of the latter cases, cash in and go home. An inexperienced table will cost you hands by making dumb plays. At an outclassed table, your seed money will be gone in an hour or less, I don't care how much it was. Unless it's Texas Hold'Em because then you've already put your money in the bank and you don't get it back if you leave so you can't benefit by quitting and you can't lose any more unless you buy into a new game. But if you want to learn poker, you have to lose some money sitting at the outclassed table to have your skills challenged and stretched. It's like tennis - play with someone a little bit better than you are from time to time to improve your game. In poker, consider the losses to be the cost of a lesson.
- Zurf
I took a group class last fall and it was a blast. You'll be teaching how to hold the guitar, how to strike the strings, and other things. I'll look for the book we used and send you the title. It's a Mel Bay book, so easy and inexpensive and fairly well put together.
As far as songs, it's hard to go wrong with country gospel, or 'stained glass bluegrass'. "Oh death, where is thy sting? What has happened to your reckoning?" Great stuff, usually three chords and the truth type songs. They do rely fairly heavily on minor intonations, but you can brighten them up with major chords. Randy Travis has a couple of excellent albums with acoustic church music that you could arrange for beginner guitar. "Glory Train" and "Worship & Faith" are two that come to mind, though there are likely some others.
Hymns are tough as they were mostly composed for piano and so contain a WHOLE lot of flats and bizarro world chords.
- Zurf
Get one of those New Zealand aboriginals to whack your elbow with some voodoo. If you can't find someone to do that, then just keep your chin up and plug along. I expect you'll get it worked out. The study of body mechanics and understanding the effects of injury has been coming a long way recently. Perhaps your solution isn't medicinal, but mechanical. As in body mechanics.
- Zurf
A fishing site I frequent sets up "rodeos", which are nothing more than a couple of guys figuring out when and where they're going to camp and opening it up for others. They rent a block of spaces at a campground, or in a few instances of popular events the entire campground, and have at it for a few days or a week of fishing, paddling, boating, and campfire music. Some may choose to have an adult beverage...
Anyway, it would be great fun to do something like that for Chordie. Jets60 and I have talked of it, but neither of us have the free time to pull it off at present. Still, it would be fun. There are bluegrass festivals at campgrounds all around the mid-Atlantic. Even if we don't pull off a singular Chordie event, it may be fun to get a block of campsites at a bluegrass festival or twelve and have our own fun around the campfire.
- Zurf
I played for money a long time ago. I got pretty good and regularly came out ahead and started to think I was pretty good. Then I had my old bachelor uncle sit in on a game and he had us all cleaned out in about a half hour leaving us to scratch our heads and wonder what happened. He gave us all our money back (which we refused to accept). He just wanted a little fun and taught us all a lesson in the bargain.
Then I had another uncle who was a professional gambler teach me a bit about the game and I started to come out ahead more often. Never did take to his tricks with double dealing and bottom dealing and such. Never used hold out cards. I always played honest, and won or lost honestly. But it was useful to be able to figure out when someone else was cheating.
I've never played on-line. Would rather sit at a campfire and play some nickel ante with you.
But not Texas Hold-Em please. I can't learn another language just now. Five card stud, five card draw, and seven card stud if we feel the need to get fancy. Baseball, Chicago Roundabout, Firehouse, Texas Hold-Em, all the various games have no appeal to me. Good old poker. My favorite is seven card stud (which is basically Texas Hold-Em without the weird language, crazy betting rules, or television cameras).
- Big D
I got an e-mail about some sayings copied down from an old farmer known to the author of the e-mail. That's probably not true, but that's what the e-mail said. It's probably been around the world 400 times by now, but still I liked the sayings and thought they fit in here, so here goes. One of my rare 'cut and pastes'.
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* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
* Keep skunks and bankers at a Distance.
* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.
* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.
* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
* You cannot unsay a cruel word.
* Every path has a few puddles.
* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
* The best sermons are lived, not preached.
* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't Never gonna happen anyway.
* Don't judge folks by their relatives.
* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think
back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't Bothering you none.
* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.
* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with,
watches you from The mirror every mornin'.
* Always drink upstream from the herd.
* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.
* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.
* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin'
somebody else's dog around.
* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.
Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God..
* Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.
Wow bensonp - I hope that family's on the mend quick. I'm worried about that 4 month old being around swine flu, but what can be done? Nothing. A baby's got to be taken care of by someone.
Thanks for all the well-wishes.
Get well soon to Crevs and mekidsmom. Should have said that in the first post. Sorry Crevs. Got some whine going and forgot to be sympathetic to your illness.
Wolfman, I got no sympathy. I got a smack upside the head for keeping her awake at night. (not really, I've got a great wife)(but I really didn't get any sympathy - just no smack either).
- Zurf
Yesterday the doctor told me I don't have pneumonia. I've had a dry cough since I didn't have a heart attack a month ago. Then I had a strong reaction to some mold and was all drippy for a week. The drippiness went to post-nasal drippiness. Apparantly the dry cough was a respiratory infection, and the additional irritation and existing weakness caused another infection to set in. So my wife was finally sick and tired of hearing me cough and made an appointment with the doctor. He told me that I don't have pneumonia, but I'm ripe for it.
My favorite cough syrup is a shot of cold Southern Comfort. With all the meds I'm on now, it'll be a while before I'll partake of that favorite. No sense in upsetting the chemical apple cart that is my metabolism just now.
Fortunately, I can work from home.
- Zurf
I'm like you used to be. I just hold it in my fingers and if it feels right, I buy it.
That's my system exactly. And if I don't like the sound of it for that song, then I pick up a different one and try it.
- Zurf
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