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Nickle(silver) strings last longer than bronze or phosphor strings. Nickle is a more durable element and holds up stronger and longer to friction and weathering. Your hearing is just fine........

My two favorite things to do in life is;1) spend time with my family and,2)play music , in that order. I'm fortunate enough to play music professionally and support my family. Granted I'm as small time as it gets in this business but that means no traveling too far away from home. Which equates to more quality time spent with my family. My children think I'm some hot shot guitarist who sings pretty good and plays lots of different instruments. Many people say the ultimate compliment is to have the respect  and admiration of one's peers. I disagree, the ultimate compliment to me is to have the respect  and admiration of my family. So in this sense of the word I've attained fame in the here and now.

Welcome to Chordie Pat. A few helpful tips for you;

When your strings don't sound as nice as  you're acustom to, change them.
When you're having more than the normal amount of difficulty tuning your guitar, change your strings.
Wipe your strings down with a lint free cloth after each session. Wipe the face and underside of the strings. This will greatly expand the life of your strings.

Also, with a finely sharpened pencil, coat the nut and bridge with pencil lead. Do this when you're changing your strings. This creates a smoother gliding surface and reduces "pinging" or strings sticking to the nut.

Finally, buy yourself some extra strings to keep in reserve. Nothing sucks worse than getting a good jam going and breaking a string for which you don't have a replacement. You can buy individual strings or simply but several full packs. Most music stores will give discounts for 3 or more packs of strings purchased together. Hope this was helpful.

Boogie on Down Pat Brown...........

Devo is exempt from any barriers of time. They're just cool like that....

In our home we do Bluegrass and Biscuits-n-Gravy on Sunday mornings. We sometimes try to other meal to music themes like heavy metal meatloaf night, jam band bran cereal mornin', americana pasta night, soft rock pork chop time, etc.....

Yes, I'm familiar with these guys. It's nice to see/hear a new twist some a sometimes previously mundane musical existance and the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes for shure do this, in a kick butt way! I especially like their cover of Jerry Reed's 'East Down and Bound' and Willie Nelson's 'On The Road Again'. Something about a country song sped up and punked out I really seem to like, and so do audiences.(mostly)

Just added Air Supply's "All Out Of Love" to my line up. I play the intro and first two verses all pretty and sweet and then I BUST into a triple tempo punk rock version for the remainder of the song. It's fun, real fun!!!

Hello SS,
Welcome to chordie, here's what you're looking for. Buddy Holly did it originally, then the Rolling Stones, then the Grateful Dead.

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The Dead went into "Not Fade Away' after the song I sent you. Good luck, happy jammin'.

SouthPaw41L

This sounds like a question for, doo,doo-doo-doo, ba-da-dip-dipity-doop, the all knowing about guitar fixin', BOOTLEGER

Good suggestions from previous posters, I, for what it's worth, agree.(nut)

Establish a tempo count to the reggae tune you're working on in your mind. Count it off, 1,2,3,4,////1,2,3,4////etc... One way to get a cool reggae strumming pattern is to strum, pluck, or pick, on the 2 and the 4.

"There was a posting here yesterday (can't remember from whom,  and I don't see it here now?) suggesting that I learn some harmonica to further accompany my songs - it is an excellent suggestion and I shall give it a go!  Thanks for the great idea!"

Hi James,
This was my suggestion and I removed it because I didn't get a reply and thought I may have offended you. Sorry?!?! I play harmonica on many of my tunes and it's very helpful in adding variety to my sound. When I first started playing harmonica many years ago a music buddy of mine who was helping me to understand this little 'comb of sound' gave me some helpful words. He told me,"the harmonica is probably one of the easiest instruments to play but one the hardest to play well."

The only useful tips I can give to you are freshen up on your major/relative minor associations. (G=Em ,C=Am, E=C#m, A=F#m,D=Bm) You can use a G harp for songs in the key of G major and E minor, if you're playing straight harp.(i.e. Bob Dylan, Neil Young type stuff) The cross harp, or blues style is more drawing(sucking air in) and I find a bit harder than straight. With the cross harp you'd use a D harp for a song in A, a C harp for a song in G, A harp for E.(get the picture) You can e-mail me if you like and I'll try to give a better explanation.

Sorry for Rushing to Judgement,
SouthPaw41L(Toney)