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TD, sounds like we worked for the same AH (back when I had a job) I could have the site (construction) running smooth and here he would come wanting to change everything. It would take me day's to everything straightened out. Anyway, good luck with the new job - and see if you can find something for me.
Nela
I have been properly chastized concerning my comment about new guitar strings and beg everyone forgiveness.
Nela
Selso, being unemployeed after working all my life has really opened up my eyes. I didn't think I was prepared but I discovered I may have been better off than I thought. My wife has her job and that'a a big help. I also get to draw my unemployment check. Going from about $100,00 yr (w/ bonus) to $284 wk unemployment checks doesn't make for a happy camper. We have really made some changes in our lifestyle. Here's my advise to you.
1. Sit down and go over the bills with your wife.
2. Make 2 piles - one for necessities and one for feel good items.
3. Necessities are house (or rent), food, utilities and some insurances - these come before anything else.
4. Feel goods are things like cable tv, clothing, magazine subscriptions, booze, cigarettes, high priced foods, new guitar strings, 2nd car, ect. Anything that you can do without.
5. Take care of your household needs 1st as you gotta live. Everything that you don't need, cancel or dispose of.
6. And most important - DON'T LIVE OFF CREDIT CARDS!!!! Remember this - if you call and cancel your credit cards they can demand immediate payment. Just pay them the minimum. Whatta they gonna do? I know this goes against the principles we were raised with but who cares. Right now the credit card companies are the reason most people have poor credit scores.
7. hit the job market. Start sending out the resumes. Check on grants to start your own busuness.
8. Keep looking on the bright side. There are jobs out there but the compitition for those jobs is high. Sell yourself.
9. After you sit down and analize your bills you'll begin to see a whole lotta things that you never needed. Take care of home and hearth 1st.
Nela
Selso, sorry to hear about your problems. I too just lost my job after nearly 40 years of service. Mine was sopposedly due to downsizing and I was the 1st to go since I was the highest paid salaried employ. Now back to your problem.
Nothing can be done about your wife's situation as she had the responsibility to not let her license expire. But on your case NOTHING can take away from you being hurt on the job. The day they terminated you you should have left and went directly to a lawers office. This won't get resolved "overnight" so make sure your personal life gets back in order. Get your wife "up to date" with her license and back to work. Depending on the degree of your injury you need to do whatever it takes to get yourself healed and back employed. Of your injury won't allow that then that is where the MEAN lawyer comes in. Most lawyers will take the case on a precentage, usually about 30 - 40% of whatever they get. This money is usually "tax free".
Anyway, hurry up and get well, fight for what's right.
Nela
If 2 of more guitars are playing together what should you do?
1. Does each playier tune independently from each other?
2. Do you tune each guitar to be exactly the same?
3. Do you tune by electronic tuner?
4. Do you tune each guitar by ear?
5. Do you call each other a dirty name and pack up your toy's and go home?
Nela
If you want a place to play and sing why don't you start your own? We did. There is a building in our community that is set up to where you can reserve it for parties, family reunions, wedding receptions or a little "pickin' n grinnin'. Since I knew the people who were in charge of the building I went to them and asked if we could put a group together to play there twice a month. They jumped on it. We play the 1st and 3rd Saturday night of each month. We got a local band with drums, keyboard, bass, lead guitar, rythem guitar that kinda serves as a house band ( and I get to set in with them on rythem guitar all night long). We all get out turns at the mike and get to do 4 to 8 songs each. We do allow anyone who wants to sing and play time at the mike and if asked we will play for them. We have had crowds of between 30 and 50 people since we been doing this. The key to doing this is to find out what type of music the local people like and be sure to add that to your program. Since the people in this community are older, church folk we started out doing old country and some light gospel music. As these people got to knowing us and we got to know them a little better we started getting some requests. These requests were for blues, '60s rock n roll and some straight out "honky-tonk" music. Now we got them up on their feet, hollering and clapping and really enjoying themselves.
Getting this set up is easy. Find out what the community people want to hear and play that. Set up a house band BUT offer time for anyone who to perform to do so. Make sure the everyone knows it is LIVE MUSIC and not a sing-a-long to a CD. Get the community people involved, set up for snack foods and cold drinks and don't be afraid to ask people to bring something = chips, dip, sandwiches, drinks. Come early, set up the sound system, meet and greet the people as they come in and stay late and make sure everything is clean when you leave. And SING / PLAY WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR!
We played for 4 hours last night, had a good crowd and everyong was coming up and telling us how much they liked the music as they left. We also got a whole lotta " do you know...............?
Nela
I read an article in one of the many music books I have that said ole time musicans would remove their strings, boil them and then put them back on their instruments.
Nela
N orth E ast L ouisian A. NELA. Male, 57 years old, playing guitar a little over 4 years, started playing with girls at a early age but my wife put a stop to that a long, long time ago. She's a mean ole woman.
Nela
Everybody to their own notion. I personally don't use coated strings such as elixers or the silk n steel. Not saying they are not good strings just that I don't care for them. I prefer the D'aridario (sp) lights or extra lites Phorpos Bronze (sp). But thats just me.
Nela
crevs.1972, minor and "7" barre chords are very simple with the "E chord" formation. Make a E-shape barre chord on the 1st fret, this is a barre "F" chord. Now, while holding your fingers in position lift your middle finger up off of the string. This barre "F" chord is now a minor chord. For a "7" chord. same principle, hold all fingers in position for a barre "F" chord, then simply raise your pinky up off the string - you are now making a F7 chord. This holds true with all e-shaped barre chord formations across the neck.
nela
What Paulbrady is typing about is a very common fix for the nut and saddle on guitars. But, I do agree that this work is best left to the experts. If I were going to do this to my guitar I would replace the nut, saddle and bridge pins with bone, ivory (if you can legally get some) or some other similar material. After this is done, replace all strings and have a complete "set-up" done. I just priced this at our local shop and the cost is about $60.00 plus the cost of the new strings. Having this work done will make a decent guitar sound WAAAAAAAY better.
Nela
A "cheat barre" chord is is just as important to know as a "full barre" chord. It just depends on the song. One song I play - I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried by Rodney Carrington is in the key of "C". The chords go from open C to barre G to barre F throught the song (except for the chorus) until the end then change to open C to a "cheat barre G to a cheat barre F. If played any other way it just does not sound correct. There are many way to make the same chords and they all will have their place. Let the song tell you what is correct. Also, always remember that when you are playing for a crowd. 999 out of a 1000 people will not be able to hear the difference in a cheat barre chord and a full barre chord. Don't take the "shortcuts" as the only option but if that is the best way for you to get to that chord - do it.
Nela
Russell, got 10 acres here in NE La. Just about everyday we see deer, turkeys and other critters. My garden space, this year, is about 100' x 120'. Lotta work but well worth it when you set down to the dinner table.
Charlotte, nice place for a cat.
Nela
Well, I got me a little garden, going. Got me some peppers, 'maters, okra, straight neck yellow squash, white acorn squash, pole butter beans, Texas cream peas, G90 sweet corn. Everything is up and growing. Got my bean poles up for the butterbeans, got my 'maters stuck, and just as soon as I can get the radiator back in my tractor I'm going to put the amonia to my corn and lay it by.
Nela
Tab basically gives you the finger + fret placement for the chords / notes played. To understand better, start with a simple chord diagram, say open "G" and compare that to the open "G" tab. Do the same for all open chords. You will begin to see the relationship more clearly. Stay with the simple open chords until things become more clear then start looking at barre chords, scales, etc. Hope this helps.
nela
When a man goes up against ovarian logic he WILL NEVER win. Just hang your head, say yes'um, then sneak the guitars in the vechile when she ain't lookin'. If ya got a day or 2 before ya leave, and don't want to take the wifie's dogs, just slip'em a worm pill. They won't hurt the dogs but she won't want to take'em if'n they gots the "squirts". You gotta be real sneaky when dealin' with the wimmen folks.
Nela
Hunting, fishing, camping, working in the garden, bow legged wemmin, friends and family.
Nela
Getfiddle, you can come over to my house and play. From Plano take 75 south to 635 south. 635 south (towards Garland) to I-20. Take I-20 east for 350 miles - West Monroe, La. then get off at the Thomas Road exit, south. After you exit on Thomas Road heading south, stop and give me a call as the directions get kinda tricky from there.
Sorry I can't help you there in Plano.
Nela
KajiMa, I bowhunt but instead of using a finger tab (hurts too much) I use a release that fastens around my wrist. This takes all the pressure from the fingers allowing for extended holding time in a hunting situation. The release has a trigger just like a rifle and make for extreme accuracy. I shoot a compound bow with the draw weight set at 62 pounds. The bow cam's allow for an 80% let off so at full draw I am only holding about 14 pounds. My bow is equiped with a peepsite placesd in the bowstring and I have 4 sight pins set for range from 20 yards out to 40 yards. With this set-up I can get 5 shot groups at any of the ranges listed within a 2" bullseye. I know this is completely different than your sport but we both need to be accurate.
Nela
Zurf, kinda sounds like "trigger finger". Anyone who is active and works with their hand runs the risk of damaging the tendons. Think of the tendons in your hand (or in other parts) as ropes. Think of your knuckles as pulleys. Over the years, while we abuse our hands trying to provide a better way of life for the fairer sex, we injure ourselves. The tendons have a "sheath" covering them. When we bruise of injure them a bulge or rupture will occur. When the bulge passes thru the knuckle you will feel a "snap" as it goes all the way through. Now that the bulge has passed thru the knuckle your finger is now "locked" in place. The longer it goes the more difficult it becomes to open your finger(s) and the more pain you will have. At this time I'm trying everything I can just to not have any more sugury on my hands. But, so far nothing has helped. I am taking a "hot wax" (heat treatment) 3 times a week on both hands along with stretching all fingers. Time will tell.
Nela
Well, after 1 surgury on my left hand and 2 surguries on my right hand for "trigger finger" I find myself back with hand problems. I now have a mass of scar tissue in my left hand pressing on a nerve causing extreme pain. I have been taking physical therapy for the last 3 weeks for this condition. If the therapy does not help I may be facing surgury to remove some scar tissie. I also have a finger "locking up" due to the "trigger finger", again, on my right hand and maybe facing another surgury, on that hand. My hands are all right as long as I am using them but everything (tendons) tighten up as I sleep, or am inactive. I can't sleep well at night as my hands just hurt too damn bad. The 1st thing I do in the mornings is to get me a good cup of hot coffee and just hold it. Most mornings my hands are so stiff it's all I can do just to close them enough to hold the coffee cup. After a while things loosen up and I'll be ok. As long as I keep doing things with my hands I'm ok, only minor pain in my left hand (chord hand) but when I stop being active - here come the problems.
Nela
Anything in the key of "C" will be easy.
Play open C
E Shape Barre Chord in "F" position
E Shape Barre Chord in "G" position
A pretty song to play in this pattern is Skeeter Davis' version of "My Last Date". It's nice and slow in 3/4 time.
Strum pattern is;
Down..Down..up..Down..Down (repeat).
1.........2.....&......3........1
Nela
Zurf, take it from someone who has been married nearly 40 years, when you wife comes across all nice concerning something YOU want to buy for yourself - SOMETHING IS GONNA HAPPEN! You will not know when this will happen but happen it will. It might be tomorrow, next week or 10 years down the road - BUT she WILL get even. When the time is right the subject WILL come up as ;
"Well, you got a new guitar when you didn't need one. I just don't understand why I can't get what I want, sometimes. You're always getting what you want. It's just not fair. If I can't go and get me, insert whatever, then you better plan on spending a lotta time in the kitchen 'cause the only drawers you gonna be getting into will be in the cabinets".
At least that's how my wife does me.
Nela
johnoconner59, try this. Find something that's in a 12 bar blues to listen to. This is a simple down...up...down...up...down...up...down...up.... The count (beat) will be 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & , then repeat.
This can be played in any key and uses only a 3 chord progression. I will us the key of "E" as an example.
E chord
down...up...down...up...down...up...down...up - this repeats 4 times.
A chord
down...up...down...up...down...up...down---up - this repeats 2 times.
E chord
down...up...down...up...down...up...down...up - this repeats 2 times.
B chord (I prefer to use a 7th chord here so play B7)
down...up...down...up...down...up...down...up - play one time.
A chord
down..up...down...up...down...up...down...up - play one time.
E chord
down...up...down...up...down...up...down...up - play one time.
B chord (see comments above)
down...up...down...up...down...up...down...up - play one time.
Then repeat everything, again.
You can play this to Memphis, Mountain of Love, Hotrod Lincoln and many more blues songs.
I promise you that if you will learn this you can go anywhere musicans are playing and call out "12 bar blues in E" (or any key) and they can play it.
Again, this is a very simple strum pattern that is easy to play and if you will listen you can even feel the pattern developing. If you will learn this, I believe other strum patterns will come much easier.
Nela
My grandson always wants to play guitar with me whenever he see's me playing. I have bought him a guitar that matches his size. He's been playing, or trying, for about a year now. He turned 3 in Feburary! Were are going out tonight to play music with friends (regular Friday night group, and at the end when everyone stands to play "I'll Fly Away" he has to have his guitar, get's up on stage, strums as fast as he can and sings with everyone else. He cannot manage any chords but he doies have purty good timing.
Nela
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