Listen to the song with your guitar handy...mostly in D not too tough to figure it out.

Hey Phill - I enjoyed it. Is that you on the piano? Pretty nice playing.

Thanks Phill - glad you liked it.

Hehehe....looks and sounds like ya'll are having one heck of a time.

Shoot, I'm not the best at videoing myself, but in the audio I will put out I believe you'll be able to hear it, and I just use standard finger placement on the chords so there will be no guess work there. I might be able to show you on skype if you let me know when's good, but I think you'll get it once you hear it, and I will get that scratch up today.

Thanks guys.

Music catalogs are standard bathroom reading in my house today but not so much growing up.

I guess I'm pretty set in my ways now on how I write songs. Here is what I do. Sometimes I will get an idea for a song, specifically the lyrics or story of the song. The song idea could come from anywhere so I try and stay wide open to song or story ideas. I will usually start writing right a way if possible (near a computer or pen & paper and of course a guitar), and I try to at least get a good shell of the song out, or sometimes finish it all the way then and there. If I only get the song part of the way done I will set it on a shelf for a while to get back to, which could be soon or could take a while. Somewhere in my lyric/song writing process I will start to put it to music and I will just write the music to fit the lyrics, again it could take a while or not depending on how I'm thinking at the time. That is about it for when I come up with the story or lyrics first. On occasion I will get some music that comes to me that I think will be good for a song. When I do that I usually try and think of what story or lyrics would fit the music...this sometimes takes quite a while for me unless the idea for the music spontaneously makes me think of the story, sort of at the same time.  Lately I have been doing clean up on some of my older songs that I wrote a while back, but for the most part I let what I have written in the past remain as I originally intended. I am fine with taking someone's criticism about my songs and music. I don't always agree with them, but I try and see the individual critic's point of view to help improve my perspective, and make me a better writer. I have to really like a song to give them any comments or share criticism, and if the authors don't agree with my comments I am perfectly okay. If a song doesn't catch me or interest me, I will not try to help fix it so that it does. I don't like to give criticism on songs I don't enjoy reading, playing or listening to so I usually refrain from commenting on those songs. I also have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to new music so I sometimes I don't comment, read, or listen to new posts right a way out here in chordie land other than to do moderator checks, but I will come back and read, listen to, and/or play most forum songwriting posts when I am more open to new music.

Here is a link to Big White Gate chords. Not sure how accurate they are since I don't know the song, but I'm sure you can give it a test drive to find out.  http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/g/grace … te_crd.htm

Updated the link so if will be selectable.

Nice Graham - good performance too.