I am impatient myself, hoping it is as versatile as it appears and secondly, having to pre-order for September, hoping it is not a scam.

Roger

Same as any other guitar. Remove all the strings, clean and oil the fretboard (and the bridge if it is untreated timber). Clean the body and headstock. Fit the new strings and tune up, stretch the strings and retune.

Roger

Nice job, and a good balance between vocals and guitar.

I love the line: "An old familiar ghost he has returned". I have a cat called Ghost who has been missing for four days. I was reading and listening to this just after I had just found her, hungry, thirsty, but safe.   

Roger

Well done, a definite improvement. The lead at the end is a nice touch and the balance for the solo is fine. The overall balance is better but the vocals are still too low. Your guitar is more prominent than your voice; it is a song, so the most important thing is the vocals, the guitar should be an accompaniment to your voice and at the moment it is the other way round. It is often modesty, when you are more confident with your playing than your singing, that leads to this. Don't be shy, we want to hear your voice.

Again it is much better than your first attempt.

Roger

Having been away to the arctic UK for a couple of weeks I have not had chance to listen to this before. It is a very moving song with a great performance from Phill and the images add to the atmosphere of the performance.

Well done to both songwriter and performer.

Roger

** edited to spell my own name right **

If Kim said "Yes" then congratulations, if she said "No" I will have to come and take you out for a pint.

I am sure she said "Yes" so I wish all three of you all the very best.

Roger

Nylon strings are renown for stretching for ages. When I replace strings on a classical I will leave it tuned up two steps overnight i.e.: F#, B, E, A, C# and f# (I tune it normally for use during the day) and after a couple of nights I find most of the stretch has been taken out of them.

Roger

Hi Ark,

Friends of Chordie is still active on MySpace but I have not accessed it for ages and, when I did to put this song up, I found it was a nightmare to use so I abandoned the idea. It took me ages to find 'Wrapped in Happiness' and I gave up trying to find the others on there.

Roger

Thanks guys for your over generous comments about my music and recording. I posted elsewhere that I had not done anything for a while, mainly because I am not good at writing lyrics, so you guys gave an ideal platform to start from.

If anyone else has a different idea of how this song should be please get writing your music, make your own arrangement and recording, I would be more than pleased to hear it. I remember several years ago James McCormick wrote a song which he, Ken (Upyerkilt) and I recorded independently and three very different songs emerged from the same chords and lyrics. So don't be shy .

Thanks again

Roger

OK I had some time on my hands yesterday so I decided to look at this collaboration.

Here then is the result of my time spent and my interpretation of this song. I made some minor changes  for it to fit my music, the biggest change was having to make one verse into two .

The drum and bass are courtesy of Band-in-a-Box but only I can take the blame for the guitar work and vocals .....

My recording is here: https://soundcloud.com/roger-guppy/mini-mized

Roger

You've Been Mini-Mized a Chordie family collaboration

...but if you use the right coding; img not url it works Bill.

I amended your post so you can click 'edit' and see what  did.

Roger

Nice shot by the way.