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No glass of Guinness is perfectly poured if the glass is not subsequently handed to me. If the glass is subsequently handed to me, then I don't care how well it was poured. 
Thanks for the invitation. I'll have to pass, though Ireland is surely on my "wannago" list. As well as Scotland and New Zealand.
- Zurf
Sometimes it's the little things in life.
It's always the little things in life, because the big things are outside of our control. So are the little things, but there is the illusion of mattering when it comes to them.
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I would love to get in on this action. Do you think they'd fancy a trip back across the pond?
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The Neanderthals using stools as beer rests and all playing while standing in a circle with sheet music taped to one another's backs to make sure we're all playing the same song. Now see, that's why I come to Chordie. You don't come up with ideas like that all on your own.
My acoustic doesn't have a top button either, so I just tied a rawhide shoelace under the strings up between the nut and the tuning pegs. It works fine.
Not really. I have played bass standing up since my teen years (which were a long while ago). I actually have a hard time playing bass while sitting down. So, standing and playing SOMETHING is pretty natural to me. It will take a little getting used to with guitar, but probably not much.
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I am quite familiar with the application of barstools.
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Did you install the strap button yourself? If so, you are now also a Luthier!
No, but I had to cut a piece of rawhide strip (aka "piggin' string") to tie around the neck because my acoustic doesn't have a top button. That might make me a cowboy. I've got the hat and everything. Well, not the horse. Or a range or anything. Not an open range anyway. There's a range in the kitchen though.
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No. No one has agreed to pay me for my musical abilities. And I have not performed to great accolades in front of a crowd. Nor are bands seeking me out for my rhythm guitar prowess. These are not the things that make a person "professional." Oh, sure, in the strictest sense of the word, yes they are. But what has made me a professional is that I have finally gotten around to putting a strap on my steel string acoustic so I can now play standing up. THAT is what it takes to be a professional. To paraphrase Billy Crystal in his Lorenzo Lamas character, "It is better to look good than to play good darling."
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That's great!
At that age, and at most ages, I was fortunate to have a good relationship with my mom. I wasn't a popular kid. In fact, rather the opposite. But no matter how bad teasing got, I always knew one thing absolutely, and that was that my Mom loved me and she was always on my side. Always. That meant a lot.
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Well, it wasn't really 1,000 margaritas. No headache this AM, but I did have a heck of a mess to clean up in the kitchen. I prepared three different Mexican entrees last night with the kids to go with the margaritas.
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You'll have to meet my nephew and niece some day. My nephew I've bragged on before here. Humble with no cause for it. He really is as good as any claims he could make. A true renaissance man with high intellect, athleticism of an international calibre, and an award winning artistic bent. My niece shies from competition, but she is graceful as a dancer, beautiful as a model, and smart as a Rhodes scholar. What is particularly impressive about her is how she lives. She lives to help others. She has dug wells in the desert for Native American tribes, sat by the hospital bed of a friend reading books to a comatose vegetable for months on end trying to keep an active brain active in a dying body (successfully I might add - her friend has miraculously recovered), and she can play guitar better than any of us typing away on a Friday evening that's for sure. I may be a bit proud. Just saying. If the world comes down to those two and their friends, and we have to rely on them to take care of us, I'm not worried. In fact, it makes me want to call my Dad an apologize.
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Here's a video of said hole. Aint it funny how time slips away...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZaZqx9v3dU
And aint it funny how you sometimes just plain old don't notice the treasures we have til they're almost gone.
How can anybody hear that kind of talent and question the existance of God?
Holy smokes. Chris Kristofferson, Doc Watson and a few other big names sitting around watching and smiling and dreaming of having that kind of talent. What a campfire that would have been. Man alive. Willie is some kind of something. Funny How Time Slips Away, Crazy, and Always on My Mind are three of the best songs ever written by anybody in any genre anywhere. I can remember my Momma singing me to sleep with Patsy Cline songs written by Willie Nelson. He's been at the top of his game for 40 years. How many folks can say that? James Taylor maybe. Not many others.
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My nephew and niece's generation is taking over now. My nephew was a roller blade punk. If he and his sister (my niece) are any indication of the sort of folks taking over the world from us graybeards, all I can say is that we ought to turn over the reigns as soon as possible.
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Ha! I don't have any Waylon in my reportoire, but I do have a little Willie. Wait a minute, that didn't come out right.
It's too warm for a fire here too, but there's a ton of skeeters and the smoke is keeping them away. We haven't been infested by suicidal skateboard dudes either, but more's the pity. I used to be one of them and have the scars to prove it. There's some kids down the block that keep building ramps and all I can think of is "go bigger, dudes, go bigger." At my best, I was a whole lot wimpier than my memory tells me. I'm looking at these guys and thinking that they'll probably have memories bigger than mine some day.
There may be a song in there somewhere. "1,000 margaritas and a skateboard ramp" We'll see. We'll see.
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It's Friday night, I've had a good week at work with a couple of accomplishments worthy of note (my bosses did notice), I've had about 1,000 margaritas, there's a fire burning in the campfire pit, and I'm ready for some strumming. Hot dog. I love a night like this. I may hate the morning though.
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I think you need to get your husband to use a Sharpie to draw out a cool tattoo design on the back of your new guitar. That would be awesome.
THREE CHEERS FOR THE CHEATER CHORDS!!
In another thread, I asked about Little Bitty. I got turned onto to using the capo and playing in D to make it easier to play the song in E and do good hammer ons. So, rather than hammering on into A7, I decided to do a little run-down from D to C to A7. It sounds good and begs for a resolution, which is obtained when you return to D.
So, how to do it? CHEATER CHORD ON THE C!!! I can just pull the B string finger (ring finger) back from the third 3rd fret in the D chord to the 1st fret for a cheater C. That leaves my index and middle fingers in EXACTLY the same position from the second fret on the high e and G strings from the D to move them over one string to the second fret on the B and D strings. I may experiment to moving the fingers over first, but sliding them back to the first fret then up to the second fret to land on A7 and only playing the top three strings for the cheater C.
Anyway, if it hadn't been for this thread talking about cheater chords, I'd never have thought of using a cheater C to make the run-down work and require a resolution as badly as it does. C not being in the D chord, but is in D7, so there are basically two seventh chords in a row SCREAMING for resolution. The A7 is quick and painless then resolves back to D almost immediately. It sounds pretty good if I do say so myself. (and I'll have to because I don't have any way of recording it for anyone else to say so).
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That's the spirit! Reckless accumulation of musical instruments is to everyone's advantage. I can't even remember how many guitars I've accumulated and given away over the years. It's quite a few.
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Well done Mekidsmom. Those chords will carry you a far distance.
As far as your frayed string, that's a good thing. It means you're playing. For some reason my classical and the folk/classical (a folk cutaway style guitar with nylon strings) my daughter has both blow the D string fairly often. It may be worth your while to have a few spare D strings in your kit. I'd like to find one of those folk/classical guitars in a full size. But if I got all the guitars I'd like, my house would be nothing but guitars. I guess maybe I'd just better learn to play the one (OK, three not counting the basses) I've got.
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Well then I'd say to keep that old acoustic guitar close. Thanks for sharing that intimate story.
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Using D shapes works well wlbaye. Thanks for the good advice. Plus, hammering onto an A7 is soooooooo much easier than hammering onto a B7.
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The key was 1-6. You named the strings correctly. Your teacher used that method to drive home the point of which string is "1" and which string is "6". Seems like he/she did a good job. You'll never forget it now, which was the point.
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May she rest in peace and the good Lord have mercy on her soul.
That was a trio not only in music, but in life. They seemed to genuinely enjoy making music together.
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I recently purchased a small vial with a spray attachment filled with a 100% DEET solution. That works extremely well. Never mind the psychotropic side effects...
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Wellllllllllll - that may have a little something to do with it. I'll give that a try. Just as soon as I remember where I put my capo...
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