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School here - start Kindergarten at 5.  Enter 1st grade at 6 and proceed to 12th grade (H.S. Senior) at 18. 

At this point, there are a zillion options.  Military training (4 to 6 year commitment.  You get paid, but you also have the opportunity to be shot at.), getting a job (but probably not a good one), obtaining training in a trade - carpentry, truck driving, electronics technician, what-have-you (usually about two years), attending a junior college for an Associates Degree (usually two years), entering a certificate program (more for folks with some experience in a particular field who want to advance in that field), University (mostly four year programs that take five years to finish), if you want a medical or law degree then you go to medical or law school.  I don't know how long medical school takes, but many doctors first earn a Master's degree in biology or anatomy or some such so they have two to three years of grad school before entering medical school which I think is about four or five years plus an internship for a year or two.  Law school is usually two to four years depending on whether you attend full or part time.  The times can vary.  I think three years is pretty common.

As far as Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Penn, Brown, and a few others, those ivy league schools are indeed extremely expensive.  However, I know a fellow who was in an MBA program at Harvard.  Just getting into the program allowed him to get very good loan terms for the expense so many of the graduates get such good jobs upon completion.  I earned an MBA from a private school in Virginia (Shenandoah University).  It was a good education, but not well recognized.  The education has allowed me to advance my career, but nothing like the height and speed a Harvard MBA would permitted me.  On the other hand, I have to think that while I think the education I received at Shenandoah was good, that Harvard's education is probably better.  They don't get to maintain elite status by doing a poor job. 

Hope that helps.

Students can get scholarships for all sorts of things. 

- Zurf

I like fingerpicking for some reason.  I don't listen to all that much fingerpicking music, but I rather like it in my playing.  Goes back to my bass days, I guess.  Anyway, when I play with a pick, it took me a while to figure out to use a fairly soft pick to let me hold on more.  So I kept dropping picks until figuring out that little nugget of information for myself.  But I wouldn't stop playing the song, I'd just start strumming with my fingers.  I found that if I do my downstrokes with my index finger and my upstrokes with my thumb that I didn't catch.  By having the fingers at an angle to the strings, and because I already had some bit of nail protruding from my finger for the fingerpicking, the strumming went a lot better.  Now, to Crowellb's point, using a pick is still better for strumming I think.  But, if you HAVE to strum with your fingers, try that thumb/index finger technique and see if it works for you.

- Zurf

I would add one thing - Moderating actions are taken at the sole discretion of the moderators and administrators. 

Guests (including members) on the Chordie site must understand that moderating decisions are unilateral on the part of the moderators and administrators.  They MAY, but are not required, to discuss or explain them.   On another site, I had a falling out with a moderator.  He chose to edit or remove all of my posts - controversial or not.  While I didn't like it, I recognized it as his right and just moved on.  I sent a letter through the post to the owner of the site to explain why I was leaving it in case he wanted to get different moderators.  While I thought the actions of that moderator were petty and selfish, I nevertheless recognized it was within his authority and power to act that way. 

Some people view internet forums as places to let their hair down (for those with hair) and cut loose.  I view it more as being in a friend's living room chatting with some friends and some new acquaintances.  While we are welcome, and encouraged to share our views, we must also treat our hosts with the courtesy and respect due a host.  Further, if our host asks us to excuse ourselves for a time, we must also abide by that request.   

- Zurf

I don't know if all three of those crimes are felonies.  If they are, and you are convicted (not arrested - you have to be convicted), then yeah, that's three strikes.  You're wearing soap on a rope for the rest of your days.  Fair or not, I don't really know.  I haven't thought about it much.  I think maybe it's not too fair in that it considers past crimes for which you've already paid your "debt to society" in the conviction of a current crime.  Seems like a debt paid is a debt paid and ought not to be re-opened.  Now, if the person is still on parole and the debt isn't fully paid yet - hey, well maybe that's something else.  Like I said, haven't thought about it much.  The most trouble I get into with the law is trying not to laugh at their silly hats.

- Zurf

Thank you.  As someone who has barely stuck his toe into the ocean of song-writing, getting a good recommendation from someone whose work I admire is truly useful information. 

- Zurf

Wow!  That Chuck Mangione quintet with Grant Geissman was awesome.  It was Charles "Meat Man" Meeks from that quintet who inspired me to play electric bass.  Just flat out seriously good "in the box" bass playing.  Solid, moving, and low.  Good stuff.  Bellavia is still one of my favorite songs to play. 

As far as guitar, it was Bo Crowder who inspired me.  None of y'all are likely to have heard of Bo, considering that he's not a professional musician.  He's a friend, a fisherman, and a talented guitar player.  He demonstrates his talent with humility and kindness at back porches and campfires, singing and playing with friends.  Anyone and everyone, no matter how skilled or talented (or not) is welcome to join him.  It's all for fun, and the more the merrier.  I like his attitude.   When I grow up (musically speaking), I'd be a happy man if I could be like Bo. 

- Zurf

In that case, much happiness to the two of you. 

- Zurf

Corts are generally good.  But why are you buying a guitar that you haven't played.  It could be the best made guitar in the world but if it doesn't fit your hand and sound good playing your style of music, it's not good for YOU.  Play it before you buy it.

- Zurf

Geoaguiar -

My chances of recording are slim.  I have a four track recorder I don't know how to use, plus downloaded Audacity but don't have a mic (and I'd need two because my acoustic is a straight acoustic - no "e" to it). 

I'm sorry but you'll have to go to a riverside campfire to hear it. 

Sometime or other I would like to put together a small studio.  I'd like to record some scales for practice and to play harmonica over to improve my harmonica playing and my guitar playing in one shot.  But at this point, money's too tight and space is even more constrained. 

If I get a couple cheap computer USB mics for my computer I'll record it and send it to you directly.  It's a pretty poor rendition because I'm a pretty poor player, but you can use it for ideas and make it better for yourself. 

- Zurf

p.s.  It's not really a cover - it's an 'arrangement.'  It's more bluegrass the way I play it than it is rock.

Just to be clear then, you're NOT sending me the guitar?  Back to saving my change...

- Zurf

Redefine what you mean by "inaccurate."  If what you mean is, it's not exactly like the original artist, then duh.  However, if you redefine what you mean to be an arrangement on that song, then it stops being inaccurate and starts being another way of playing that song.  Even artists who perform their own songs over and over change it up.  By your first definition, they're playing their own songs "inaccurately."  Music isn't about mindless repitition.  If that's what you want - go put on the album.  If you want to play music, you must learn to appreciate interpretation.  Try playing Stairway to Heaven, but do it in a Reggae style.  Try Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground with shredding or as Flamenco.  Break out of the mold and get your head wrapped around interpretation.  Plus, if you're good enough to know that it's "wrong", fix it and give us all the benefit of your prowess.

- Zurf