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(7 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Alot of songs using chords EAD or DAE or ADE.
Try differents strumming patterns, make up your own..... slow tempo - up tempo.
Make up your own lyrics too.

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(1 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I have this great idea for Chordie -
How about a section entitled Motion Picture Songs!
Or Film Songs.

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(31 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

David Bowie - Om Khalsoum

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(19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Well my 50 cents worth is that times have changed, peoples ideas about the world they live in has changed.
So kids are growing up in a world that reflects these changes.As a pessamist I can only say that we will be spending more and more money on detention centres.I also think that we should take a closer look at how mass media operates.If I where in control, there would be alot of things I would sensor thats for sure!

Please don't take my opinion too seriously - I too do not want to offend anyone.

Peace Brothers and Sisters.........From da heart....LOL.

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(25 replies, posted in Music theory)

Hey Jerome - you will make a great administator - All the best -

Cold Chisel - Hot Hammer
Iron Maiden - Steel Wench?
Radiohead - CD Bum
Midnight Oil - Daylight Gas

Elo - Living Thing
Bowie - any song
Van Halen - Hot for teacher
Metallica - Enter Sandman and One
Any SOAD
Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
It really depends on your mood at the time......

sacredspirit wrote:

steve kilbey from the church has been very prolific,16 studio albums with the church and at least 8 solo albums,not including collaborative albums with other artists e.g grant mclennan,hex,gilt trip,it just seems endless with kilbey,all this in a 27 year recording career,if hes not the most prolific he may well be someday.

I have to agree - Skins of hearts was one of the best.
I'd also have to say David Bowie....
There's probably more to come.

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(12 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Just teach em Air guitar, they could have these amazing air guitar performances.
Eddie van Halen riffs - alot of finger tapping stuff, pinched harmonics always looks good.
Good luck!

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(3 replies, posted in Electric)

THANKYOU geoaguiar and jerome - you guys Rock!

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(3 replies, posted in Electric)

I gather there is no hard and fast rule when it comes to chord progressions.
For example you could have a I ii iv V (off the top of my head) chord pro.
Basically what I'm saying is you can make up any combination?
As long as it sounds OK?

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(12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I've been playing for about seven years - I'm in a band playing rythym - mostly power chords - I also play at parties and can play over 200 songs - but I need the music charts with me.I can play about 50 odd songs off by heart.I'm so proud - (pat myself on the back) If you learn 12 bar and a couple of turn arounds you will have literaly hundreds of songs at your finger tips.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT

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(9 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Phycology of playing chords:Do it about Three thousand times before your fingers go towhere there supposed to go.....That means alot of chord changes - it really helps when you copy your favourite song or artist.
Example I learn't guitar thanks to David Bowie - it's all his fault.But I just had to play his songs.....Some easy songs to learn would be three chord songs.Go from E to A to D and you have Gloria. Go G Em C D and you have many songs in that chord Pro......Good Luck....

Hey boxer  - thanks for the utube post info -
That kid really rocks!!!!!

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(7 replies, posted in Electric)

ha ha  ha - I had a g string break on me once, my girlfriend was not too impressed.The song was going so well.

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(31 replies, posted in Electric)

I think Rock will be around for a while yet - It will fade......and like fashion will come back and take on a new meaning and direction.It will never die - just when you think it has - some Joe Satriani or Zappa or Page will come along and re-invent the way things are done and sound.I also think there will be a new audience, kids who want to listen to guitar bands,loud and aggressive - we all go through it, its a part of being a teenanger.OOps teenager.
Rock On - Loud!
Turn the up the Marshall full ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that it comes down to what makes us happy as guitarists.
An acoustic guitar is a wooden box with a soundhole - as long as it sounds alright you can get bye until the funds arrive.As long as the the action is good,and there's not too many other big holes in the thing;it's what you do with the thing that makes it count.It's how you play it!Then you can have the taylors and Gibson etc for the look - but far better musicians play with alot less.I tend too think that the early blues players survived on alot less....hell i've seen guitars made from oil cans.....

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(74 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

sydney - australia

I found a guy who sings elvis tunes -
Really good - looks nothing like him but - boy what an impersonator....
We're going to sing at a party in three week - so I'm learning Elvis tunes on my acoustic... as well as the usual practice for the band songs.

Lights cameras action!
Im getting pretty nervous - will I make a mistake, hope I don't start all the songs to fast -
The only way I can justify doing this is by saying to myself that it's only three hours.
(And then three hours seems like such a long time)AAARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!

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(8 replies, posted in Electric)

I need a talent boost SUPPRESSOR.........for the bigheaded lead guitarist in my band.LOL

Cat Empire in Sydney - First gig of a seven day stint at the Metro -
Awsome band - Sorry Chordie but not one guitarist in the band - oops.
They have keys-trumpets-saxaphones-drums - double bass-a dj scratcher thingy majiggie -
The crowd went ooofffffff!!!!!!!!
UNREAL!

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(16 replies, posted in Electric)

Good Question Cyntania - I would have like - air raid sirens sounding - and then gun shots going off -  and then police sirens - and then yelling - and then the bass would start - thumpa thumpa thump and then drums - And then I would come in on my ukele - oops sorry I mean my Gibson SG -Distorted to the max - playing triplets and tapping in succession - that could do it.

Any Fender - Any Gibson - Anything John Lennon played -
Any guitar that Chuck Berry played -
Any acoustic that Bowie ever played.
But nowedays - because of environmental degredation - I'm opting for synthetic materials or recycled materials -
Any guitar that is environmentally sustainable - Hell - give me a solar Marshall - I'll buy it. Sorry Roadies.

Altex the rural village is near Macksville called Bowraville.