Welcome Cork,
I visit this site quite often and they know what they are talking about.
527 2012-07-21 19:39:53
Re: Back from the Great White North (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Wow, and that's from a friend. Naolslager only got his brother a cheapo Seagull. Now I want to be your friend or your friend's friend instead of Naol's brother. 
528 2012-07-20 20:36:01
Re: friday's blues fix (1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Good one Badeye!!
John Mellencamp covered this a few years back. I think he did a pretty good job.
529 2012-07-20 20:30:30
Re: Valdosta, Georgia or Bust (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I used to live in Valdosta!!!!! My dad was stationed at Moody AFB. Being from California, I hated it there. Couldn't wait to get out of the sticks and back to civilization. That was back in '88-'89 when I was 13. My dad and I had some of the best fishing trips ever in Valdosta. Nice place to be from, but could never live there again.
Congrats to you and your smarty pants son!
530 2012-07-19 03:19:52
Re: Here is a guy that should be shot. You don`t do this to others. (21 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Astronomikal wrote:
Unfortunately for Tony Martin (second URL in my previous post), UK laws favor the criminal in a case like that. If you want to shake your head in disbelief, read that article.
Thank God for the second amendment.
I'm definitely shaking my head in disbelief. After being robbed 10 times I'd be a little trigger happy too. And the robber wants to get paid? How in the world does something that stupid even get filed? WOW......
531 2012-07-18 19:46:48
Re: Here is a guy that should be shot. You don`t do this to others. (21 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Here's the story:
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/G … 83246.html
I would have beat that guy until the cops got there. Why are people so stupid? Frustrates me to no end.
532 2012-07-18 19:41:59
Re: Now for the Rest of the Story (18 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Nice choice DJ!!! If he doesn't end up using it I will be your brother. I would love a Seagull!!!!
533 2012-07-17 22:40:38
Re: NGD or GAS (6 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Good score J3!!!!!
I'll bet the kidney stones didn't have you thinking about the hot car very much. Glad to hear that the guitar was ok. I have 3 Yamahas and I agree, they make some good stuff.
Do you have to pass the stones on your own or did they do something for ya at the hospital?
534 2012-07-13 00:21:52
Topic: Dylan story (5 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_210630 … source=rss
I'm not a Dylan fan, but very interesting.
535 2012-07-07 02:58:40
Re: Picks Around the World (412 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Bumpity bump bump.......
Did this project die?
536 2012-07-07 02:57:11
Re: Heat Wave? (23 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Dino is up north from me so I don't know if he's as spoiled as we are in southern California. It gets hot, but it's dry. The past few years haven't been bad at all. During the summer it get to just over 100 for a few days at a time. Like Dino said, it's supposed to hit 100 next week for a few days. It's moving in from back east. We have the best weather.
537 2012-07-07 02:48:28
Re: About sums up life (19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
You'll have fun. You're the kind of person that can have fun anywhere.
Kinda sad and harsh, but I have come to not expect much from others as far as planning things goes. Something always changes and it's rarely my fault. So I don't get my heart set on things until they happen.
Galena, isn't that French for Podunk?
538 2012-07-07 02:38:49
Re: JJJ your day! (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Happy birthday guys!!!! Go have yourself a good strum.
539 2012-07-02 23:33:59
Re: Basic Technique ?? (7 replies, posted in Acoustic)
+1 for Zurf's suggestions.
To add, you have to work on one or the other. It's almost like you switch back and forth between strumming and chords. You start with one, when you get good at it you work on the other, get good, then back to the first and so on.
check this out for strumming:
540 2012-06-29 21:31:34
Re: I was told by another it didn't matter` (20 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Astronomikal wrote:
topdown wrote:The rhythm matters, the beat matters, the feel and tempo matters.
Strumming patterns don't mean a hill of beans.
I think I get what you're saying, but I read your statements above as a contradiction. In my tiny little mind, the rhythm, beat, feel and tempo are all determined by (or at least influenced by) the strumming pattern.
While I totally agree with your rule #1 (if it sounds good, it is good) there are purists out there, and I'm likely one of them, who expect a song to sound a certain way. If I play an ABBA song using a boom-chuck pattern, some may think it sounds good (in the name of "interpretation"), but to me it would sound pretty awful.
So maybe I'm in the minority here, but I think the strumming pattern DOES matter. But hey, to each his/her own.
I totally agree with 'Nom. And to add, (I've side this before) most newbies have no idea how to go about learning how to strum and they don't know how to make a song their own. So when they want to learn a song it is going to be an imitation. They like a song for how it sounds and want to reproduce it. With more experience they can make it their own.
Anyway I can see both sides of it.
541 2012-06-29 01:15:20
Re: I was told by another it didn't matter` (20 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Astronomikal wrote:
Just a guess, but maybe what she's trying to tell you is that at this point, as long as you can strum and keep a good rhythm that it's more important to work on getting your chord changes down, clean and on time.
Once you become more adept at changing chords quickly and cleanly, you won't have to think about that part as much, and then you can concentrate on varying your strumming pattern to better fit the song you are playing.
That's the way I really learned how to play. I was stuck in a strumming pattern and all of my songs sounded alike. But that allowed me to become much more adept at chord work with my fretting hand. After that period, chords became more automatic, and then I concentrated on varying my strumming.
Anyway, it worked for me.
I'm hoping that she meant what 'Nom said because I believe that the strum is just as important as the chords. It gives the song it's rhythm. Was this in a teaching kind of setting that she told you this?
542 2012-06-28 04:15:03
Topic: What do you do for fun? (16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
A customer of mine asked me this question and my response was "I don't get out much". Weirdly, that's the truth. There are things I like to do but don't do them on a regular basis. During summer we are in a family bowling thingy. Other than that I work, check in on the computer for a couple hours or so when I get home, then there's always something to do around the house. Saturdays are filled with yard work, something with one of the cars, and the things I don't want to do after I get home during the week. Sundays it's church and all our grocery shopping. When I do find time to do what I want I'll end up napping because as soon as I sit down for a rest my body shuts down. I really have no life.
So I am posing this question to the Chordie nation. Not things you like to do, but things you ACTUALLY do for fun.
543 2012-06-27 01:40:35
Re: NGD (18 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I have my hands full with just 6 strings. 6 more would drive me nuts.
Happy NGD!!!
544 2012-06-27 01:38:24
Re: Protecting myself from the netherworld (28 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I've always wanted a cool guitar hat. Never tried searching for one tho. Maybe pics will inspire me. Or maybe I'll lose all hope after seeing how good Sir Zurfwalker looks in his.:lol:
545 2012-06-25 23:48:10
Re: instruments of the world. (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I'm thinking it's impossible to count how many there are in the world. I'm sure there are lots we have never seen or heard about.
546 2012-06-25 23:45:44
Re: I'm in a big Rutt (8 replies, posted in Acoustic)
I agree with Zurf, pick a diff genre. If you're playing the same type of music, especially from the same artist, it will sound the same and get old.
Maybe we can help, what other types of music or bands do you like?
548 2012-06-23 16:46:40
Re: NGD (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Score!!!!!!
I hope the wife doesn't break you gently. Or the guitar.
And you know the rules.....pics please.
549 2012-06-19 04:08:10
Re: Blackstreet "No Diggity" Cover (25 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Very interesting choice of song to cover.:P
Good job tho.
550 2012-06-18 23:15:55
Re: New Chord Search engine: searchbychords.com (36 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
beamer wrote:
Not everyone can sing. Not everyone is able to transpose, ( I let the program in the song list do it for me) and many dont get the I III IV thig at all. 12 yrs and I just cant get my head wrapped around it and most music theory. That is why we like chords
With someone singing I wouldnt even know which way to transpose a song up or down and to what key? ( The key unlocks my case right?
I'm sitting in the same boat Beamer. We learn a little theory here and there, but for the most part, It's another language. I can't sing, therefore I have no key.