<t>What total nonsense.<br/>
""Backward"' means playing the instrument in a backwards fashion, not, obviously, that the student is backward as in dumb...the left hand fretting, except when learning clessical, requires far more effort than the right in the case of a beginner, again obvious..and if ...

Yeah, because the slide tends to hit the frets. To really set a neck up needs not just the truss rod agjusted, but in many cases the back of the nut and the bridge saddle filed down.

<t>Well, you can look at the key signiture, but a real guitarists way is to run up and down the notes on the bass string until you find the note that matches the first and last chord- if the song starts on another chord, the last chord is the best bet ie: if the song ends on a G, the song is in G ...

It's a pommie anti-convict move !
Good on ya, Mikey

.. what happened?

..me too, or Mr No Name brand works fine- one of the best to bring back a sheen on a neglected guitar is WD40.

Pain? Why make it harder for yourself- drop back two guages in string size to start, and put metho on the tips of your fingers for the first few weeks- and don't ever, unless your plan is to play classical guitar, try to learn on a nylon string guitar.

<t>Yeah,I sure am, Joe- I don't know how people use little tiny floppy picks..the only way I can get really fast stuff going is with large triangle medium or hard picks- I always use Onyx if they are available... they are not available through the wholesalers we use and I don't mind for a minute ...

<t>Well, the stoke on trent reference sails right over my antipodean head, but if the oatcakes are anything like the ones my missus cooked up once, which seemed to be nothing but a lump of rolled oats cooked like a particulary nasy and tasteless piklet, I'm not missing much.<br/>
Floyd Rose set-ups ...

I agree, rnguitar, and a big welcome to you

Yeah, I imagine it would.
The Flloyd Rose connection hadn't occured to me, but it makes sense.

<t>I am due next month to head a composition course for high school students which, while it involves the usual nuts and bolts of notation and song structure, also uses this software. Because it's something I or the kids havn't used before any feedback from anyone who has used it to compose or to ...

<t>I noticed Olly recently stated that his electric has a lockable nut, which set me to wondering if they are possibly more common in some countries rather than others..I remember in the mid 90's they were all the rage here on new models, with most electric brands featuring at least one or two ...

Yeah, congratulations, and have a ball- you both are going to see some changes, I bet.

..that's why sheds were invented- then they can send you down the back garden to jam and avoid a rise a blood pressure all round.
I play mostly accoustic these days, and the new resonator is getting a real workout.

<r>Is there an echo in here?<br/>
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Yep, that's why I headed for the hills twenty years ago, , downsized, Thoreaued, eliminated car payments and mortguage, went off the grid, sourced house water supply from the rain and power from the sun, and got off the radar as well as much as possible. One ...

<r><E>:)</E> I thought all the swings had been removed because a kid falls off once every ten years- and also because they can't be used by people in wheelchairs so they are not ""appropriate""?<br/>
Wow, wouldn't you hate to be a kid today? Fat, fearfull, paranoid about a possible pervert lurking ...

I notice they mention Heartwood Guitar, which has a wealth of great info and the words and chords to hundreds of songs.

Reso Hangout and Blindman's Blues Forum have some links, I seem to remember. I use slide a lot, and prefer brass, mainly for control and for the crisper sound it makes in open tunings like C or D.

<t>Yeah, Arizona has done the right thing- only about twenty years too late, I gather. <br/>
Illegal immigration is a huge problem here, and there is a federal election underway here in which this is the main topic of both major parties. Even legal immigration is under the hammer, because most of ...

Scary stuff, Olly.

I've been looking at the oscommerce option since reading your post above, open source commercial options were something I was not aware of, and this looks like it would do the trick...a great forum, as well.
Also, quite a lot of adverse comment about Paypal.

Old timer? You're in good company. I don't have anything printable, John, sorry, everything gets written by hand on manuscript paper and chord grids during lessons.

Two cats, both male, the oldest is around 14. They sleep on the bed with us, and both have very distinct and different characters, and tastes in food.

<t>On the open Cmaj7 a G,F, E on the 1st, D and open B on the 2nd, same on the Fmaj7, a G on the 1st string for the Fm6, on the two D9 and C9 add a note on the 1st string two frets up with your little finger- don't forget to add a Abmaj7 to the Cmaj7 and Bbmaj7 when you move down the fretboard, John ...