Thanks, all the best to you and yours, and the rest of the crew on here ...
Cheers
Richard
1,377 2017-12-23 08:19:04
Re: Songs request (7 replies, posted in Song requests)
Doug_Smith wrote:
phishbonz wrote:Looking for Eric Clapton's "Mustang Sally" TIA
On the "Home" page put the title in the search box and you should get a few from several artists and I'm sure one of them will be Clapton's version but likely in a different key.
I seem to remember E7 & B7 being the main chords used for most of the tune..... I may be wrong though, old age and all that.
Look for Wilson Pickett - I think he did the original ...
1,378 2017-12-22 11:58:23
Re: As long as we're on the topic of frets... (9 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Classical Guitar wrote:
For most guitar work and frets included either use a good Luthier or an experienced guitar tech. Just because you can find the the products does not mean most guitar owners would have the same experience doing their work. Guitars of any type are expensive . Why do frets and tech work without using an expert? I
Different people are at different levels of DIY ... you have a valid point, but depends on the value of the guitar to the owner ... and experience, and willingness to expand experience ...
1,379 2017-12-22 11:43:48
Re: the 'add to songbook' feature is broken (12 replies, posted in About Chordie)
ghostgum wrote:
Not sure what's going on now - songbook won't work with Celine Dion (okay, okay - just saying) but does with a Waifs song. Go figure!
Wait ... there's Waif songs on here???
1,380 2017-12-22 11:42:21
Re: Types of Spam (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Doug_Smith wrote:
neophytte wrote:Try the PunBB anti-spam extension listed here:
http://punbb.informer.com/extensions/#1.3
Cheers
Richard
Thanks for the link Richard, I'm not sure if we have tried this earlier, or if it was a problem performing properly with our kind of "customized" Chordie Version. Will check it out though.
Doug
Probably depends on the version your running ... one trick I used in the past was to have a hidden field on the page, named something like "description", robots will automatically fill in a form with "known" details - so if this field has a value, it's a robot, as people viewing the page can't see it ...
1,381 2017-12-22 01:55:01
Re: As long as we're on the topic of frets... (9 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
If you're going to file it, be sure to get one of these (or make something equivilent:
http://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/To … uards.html
I've filed a few fret without this, but if you nick the wood, it's not a nice outcome ... a couple of slivers of aluminum or thin steel will also do the trick, with a thick lacky band to hold it in place (because I can't afford StewMac prices!!) ...
Cheers
Richard
1,382 2017-12-22 01:50:52
Re: Frets wearing out (27 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Whilst we have casually drifted into capo territory ... what are peoples thoughts on the Thalia capo:
https://www.thaliacapos.com/collections/all
Are they as good as they look ... ??
1,383 2017-12-22 01:45:30
Re: Types of Spam (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Try the PunBB anti-spam extension listed here:
http://punbb.informer.com/extensions/#1.3
Cheers
Richard
1,384 2017-12-21 03:11:57
Re: The Beatles (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Peatle Jville wrote:
Thank you Jandle
Neophytte here is one of your music composition's put to a video, Let me know if you don't like it and I will take it down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOPrNZqHEl4
I give it the thumbs up!! 
Funny thing about that song is that we used it on one of our 'home videos' I make for the kids, specifically this one was traveling down south, where I'd sped up the video, so I always associate the visual imagery of going past cars with that tune now - hahaha
BTW: what video editing program are you using? I use iMovie on the Mac, and it's quite good, but I'm finding none of the special effects like you've applied ...
Cheers
Richard
1,385 2017-12-21 02:58:05
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
easybeat wrote:
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/hey-merry-christmas
Just banged this out,as a few days to go & i`m getting in the xmas mood.
Sounds pretty good for "just mucking about" ...
1,386 2017-12-21 01:08:05
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jandle wrote:
neophytte, nice spot to sing such a great song in the park
I would love to have heard more with your wife playing along side and singing with you .... hopefully you will get a chance to do it again with her
Thanks
As you can see from the video, we rarely get the time together to sing, and it's a bit hard to find songs to do together as she likes Jazz and I like rock, but sometimes we find a happy medium ...
1,387 2017-12-21 01:04:22
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jandle wrote:
Here is my last song for this month of Christmas songs .... it was a challenge and i found it hard to find chords that suited my vocals as it is quite low in places and high in other places. Anyway, here is my attempt at it.
That was great - I wouldn't have thought you had struggled with this - it sounds really good ... the low opening vocal notes reminded me of some (famous?) singer, but I can't put my finger on who it was ...
1,388 2017-12-20 07:41:02
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Peatle Jville wrote:
Neo Kings park nice setting. Looks like a plesant area to work close to and you did Hallelujah real good . Nice to catch you and wife and kid on video your a good family man.
Thanks
1,389 2017-12-20 07:39:41
Re: The Beatles (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Peatle Jville wrote:
Good video ... LOL
1,390 2017-12-20 07:36:37
Re: My band "Neon Ceiling", live on the radio (100FM) (2 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Peatle Jville wrote:
You guys did well in that environment
Thanks!!
1,391 2017-12-20 05:55:17
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
My time is running out, Mother-in-law arrives tonight, so went before work to Kings Park (which is about 200 metres from work) and recorded "Hallelujah":
Enjoy!
Richard
P.S. Also tried to do one with the wife the day before, but interrupted by kids: https://youtu.be/geiYRtSa5Qg
1,392 2017-12-20 04:16:33
Topic: My band "Neon Ceiling", live on the radio (100FM) (2 replies, posted in My local band and me)
This is my band playing live on the local Fremantle radio station - it was an interesting experience, normally when you jam you all face each other and have a mic each to do backup vocals, etc, or on a stage situation you'll be facing the crowd with that band interaction, however we were a bit out of practice, and tried to set up in an office at the back of the radio station to get a rehearsal in, but that went pear-shaped when they could hear us in the studio and asked us to stop.
When we got into the studio, which was pretty small, our drummer was sat in the hall with his back to us, there was one microphone to pick us all up, and we had to keep changing positions to have the main vocalist in the right spot (three of us sung in the band), and the only set of headphones so we could hear where we were in the song. I managed to stuff up the intro to the first song, but after that we kept fairly on track.
Here it is, warts and all, I think this was in 1995 or 1996:
http://neophytte.mine.nu/audio/mp3/Neon … t100FM.mp3
Cheers
Richard
1,393 2017-12-20 00:59:16
Re: The Beatles (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
easybeat wrote:
maybe your own music used as backing would be good too.
Or I'm happy for you to use any of my music ... http://neophytte.mine.nu/audio/
Cheers
Richard
1,394 2017-12-19 13:55:10
Re: The Beatles (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I'm guessing it was George ...
1,395 2017-12-19 03:46:48
Re: first public you tube (6 replies, posted in My local band and me)
beamer wrote:
neophytte wrote:Sounds pretty good!! What sort of set up are you using ... I'm trying to get mine as simple as possible ...
But I'm missing being able to add FX to guitar and vocals ....
Hey Neo, thanks for the support!
As far as my set up its pretty much as simple as it gets. There were some rough spots to figure out. so here it is.
[snipped to avoid long post]
Beamer
Cheers for that - at the moment I'm just using a Rode microphone into my iPhone: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ … c_for.html - the iPhone sits on a tripod and I have my iPad on a stand in front of me ... but I'm thinking of making use of the audio interface I have and plugging that into my Mac via Logic, then doing video via the iPhone and putting it altogether in iMovie ... I'd get (arguably) better sound quality, be able to mix it properly, but going froma setup that takes 10 minutes and is *so* portable, to something that would require mic placement, power, etc - I'm not so keen these days to over complicate things ...
But thanks for your set up info - it sounds similar to what I'm contemplating ...
Cheers
Richard
1,396 2017-12-19 01:25:04
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Peatle Jville wrote:
Neo you got a natural way of tackling any song it is nice to listen to.
Thanks for the compliment
1,397 2017-12-19 01:18:56
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jandle wrote:
neophytte..... haha yep couldnt resist the jingle bells mate one!
Yep I've been trying to get the kids to do the actions* to the "Aussie Jingle bells" (which is pretty similar to the one you did!!), but time has been running away from us - seems every weekend is full and this week my Mother-in-law arrives from overseas so probably won't get to it 
Cheers
Richard
*My eldest did this as his "end of year" show in kindergarten with the rest of the class ..
1,398 2017-12-18 12:03:01
Re: first public you tube (6 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Sounds pretty good!! What sort of set up are you using ... I'm trying to get mine as simple as possible ...
But I'm missing being able to add FX to guitar and vocals ....
1,399 2017-12-17 07:33:17
Re: Dear Santa ... (19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Jandle wrote:
I want a 6 string electric ukulele LEFT Handed .................bah tried everywhere, can`t get one! So finally decided to go with a 8 string non electric ukulele which i will use with the 8 strings for a while .................. but may take 2 strings off to get the 6 string effect which is much nicer.
Couldn't you reverse string something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Yamaha-GL1-Guita … 2SSP2QPYWZ
Cheers
Richard
1,400 2017-12-16 11:32:30
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jandle wrote:
Ok, here is my very quick attempt at covering Christmas on the beach.
That was great!!
Jandle wrote:
Ok managed to get another quick one in tonight, Jingle Bells - Mate!
Hahaha Aussie Jingle bells with a NZ twist; I like it!!!