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Greg Ham. He was 58 years old.

Funny reading from across the pond. Basically all western european culture (exept maybe parts of the spanish one) is based on and heavily defined by christan ideas, concepts and values.

It's not by chance that the ten commandments are found more or less in all laws pretty much anywhere.

And sorry to say so but: culturally you Americans are pretty western european. However: IF there is a version of the Pledge without the reference to god, in my humble opinion it should be reverted to this.

Because it is good to remember that our rules, motifs, ethics, culture, music etc. is heavily based upon and influenced by christian belief, there are very good reasons to keep church and state seperate.

Here in Germany religious education is mandatory in schools and the church(es) have the right to decide what does and doesn't belong there. Bugs me like that place below (the h*ll word may be unsuitable, I sometimes have a hard time knowing what is and isn't).

Ok, enough incoherent rambling from afar...

Cheers,

Tom

Then lemme break the trend... If you are a beginner you need emotional rewards. And songs give you these. Sooo: yes practice chords, but look for songs to play with them. I propably never would have gotten the very fast Am - G change without Oasis looking back over my shoulder in Anger...

Cheers, Tom

This year it's easy... I go for the team with the German guy... *g*

A Radio station here in Germany calls it "Oma fiel ins Klo" Songs (roughly translates as: Granny fell into the toilet)... the original was of course "Oh my fellings grow"...

Sometimes it's not only hard, but next to impossible to hear the lyrics right (and on occasion that's the case in German for me as well). I finally found chords for a song I was searching for for ages and now I can't figure out parts if the lyrics... Sooo... if you Kyle or someone else wan'ts to give it a shot: When Justice Came by The Black Velvet Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yHKMU4uY1o

Some words are impossible to make out for me... So I guess sometimes it's next to impossible...

Cheers,

Tom

Just want to point out:

just because you buy sheet music, there is no guarantee that the songs will be anything like "official". With a lot of compilations it tends to be pretty much like here on the web...

I have a lot of "official" songbooks that are miles away from the real thing as well...

There is a three piece set of books here in Germany called "Das Ding" (The Thing). Together they offer about 4 inces of mostly well playable stuff (only few German titles in there) but they don't have patterns as well...

Cheers,

Tom

Hey Joe (sorry, couldn't resist that one...),

I just try to let my right hand find the pattern... sometimes a song has a notable characteristic that you absolutely have to include in your strumming (Viva la Vida or First we take Manhattan spring to mind) but mostly you can and should try to make the song your own. Same with the chords: for someone (usually the guy who wrote them down in the first place) these chords work ok. For someone else (usually me) they might not. So it's back to your own version of song and chords and pattern and maybe even lyrics...

Cheers,

Tom

Good Luck... I wan't a band as well...

Ok... maybe I am too much punkrock here... make the song your own... screw what the artist did with it... it's yours now. There is no right or wrong, there is just you and your guitar... (which may on occasion weep gently...).

What I mean to say: let your hand do the work, try and try until you reach someting good, which will in turn evolve into something brilliant...

And THEN try to play country roads in less than one minute with all the chords...

sometimes it looks as if she actually is...

*g*

At least she likes me playing and singing..

Cheers,

Tom

Tiggers like bouncing... and so do I... usually... but sometimes its: Song A, B, A, C, A, D, A, E, F, A, A...

just do what makes you happy... and remember to play "Let me entertain you"... always gives me fun, and it's perfect to rise alll spirits...

Cheers,

Tom

Funny how different we all work...

Usually I have the song zinging around in my head first... after all thats the reason I want to play it... as I am both lucky and cursed in the way that I can reproduce melodies quite good and my head is a jukebox at the best of times that part is easy...

Then I find the chords... then I transpose the song until I feel that my inept playing suits the chords and the whole thing suits my vocal range...

But from then on lyrics and melody rule supreme. I once tried jamming with a friend of mine... he would ask me: "How many beats am I supposed to play C"... and I could only answer "How the f*** should I know... until you have to play someting else".

So in the end it's singing and adding chords then. Later both will change. Delete a flourish here, add another one there, get rid of a chord I don't need, maybe change some, add some...

After all, I (but that is just MHO) don't want to copy but to create.

Cheers,

Tom