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Comment by Donna Zitzelberger on July 25, 2009 at 10:48am

This is a pretty good youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tlj8BObkVU

The important thing is to get the tie at the bridge over the corner of the bridge and not on top. That will prevent slippage. Hope this helps ease the worries.

Comment by ebby-the-dreamer on July 25, 2009 at 10:12am

just thinking about changing the strings on my classical makes me antsy..hmmm

Comment by Mark Stewart on July 25, 2009 at 9:31am

Brenden, Try David Hamburger on Truefire. Great songs for blues finger style, challenging but doable.

Comment by ebby-the-dreamer on July 24, 2009 at 3:51am

i'm disappointed & sad at the abrupt departure of a fellow acoustic newb. he was very eager, excited and i quite admired his enthusiasm for learning guitar. wish he could have found a way to hang in here and gotten past whatever it was that troubled and angered him at this forum. i wish him well.

Comment by Brenden on July 21, 2009 at 4:05am

Hi all,
Have been reading your posts and am trying to fast track my guitar education.
Given the type of person I am I would prefer home lessons/schooling. Can anybody suggest a fairly inexpensive way to achieve this
Brend
PS Been reading posts and finding it very educational.

Comment by ebby-the-dreamer on July 19, 2009 at 4:54am

its 6:55 am on sunday mornin and i'm giving a bit of love to my classical hohner. wish i could go back to sleep, but after a 20 minute dog walk and breaking up a predawn cat fight in front of my bedroom door, that might be easier said than done. so i'll strum quietly on the nylons and hope the sandman makes a visit

Comment by Donna Zitzelberger on July 12, 2009 at 4:15pm

I have the sheet music for it also. I have the piano/vocal/guitar music. There are power chords and slash chords that make it more difficult to play than it has to be.

To make it easier - instead of B5 (power chord) - play Bm7 (use the open position - not the bar). Then play Amajor and Emajor instead of A5 and E5.

Replace all the slash chords with regular open chords. Example, play E major instead of E/G#.

Every time you see Bm (the bar chord), replace it with Bm7 (open chord).

Make the song work so that you have your chord changes on the downbeat of every first measure. So in the measures that have D on the downbeat and then switch to Em/D on beat 3 and back to D on beat 4; just play D for the entire measure.

These chordal changes will not change the main sound of the song, and will open the door to you being able to play the song. The reason is that they are ornamental chords that I have changed. IOW - they are not necessary to the basic foundation of the chordal sound of the song.

A little bit on power chords. Power chords are not really chords -- they are intervals. An interval is the space between two notes. Therefore an interval involves two notes only. A power chord involves the 1st and 5th degree of the scale. So a power chord is a 5th. A chord involves 3 notes. For a major chord you have the 1st, 3rd,and 5th degree of the scale. For a minor chord you have the 1st, flatted 3rd, and 5th degree of the scale. So, a power chord can go major or minor. In the song's piano music I can see that the B5 is actually a Bminor and that the A5 and E5 are majors. I can also hear those chordal sounds in the recording.

Practice making the chord changes smoothly and pay attention to the fingering. For example, when you go from G to Bm7 (open position), the first finger is common to both chords, so use it as a pivot and don't lift it up. When you go from Bm7 to Em, you have another common finger going on. Don't lift it - use it as a pivot. This is a very basic classical guitar technique taught by the greats -- Aaron Shearer, Scott Tennant, and all the others. Use it and it will serve you well. Look for common fingers in your chord changes.

Once you have the chords changes in your fingers, add the strum. Strum a whole note and change. Then strum 2 half notes and change. Then strum 4 quarter notes and change. Use a metronome.

When you have a quarter note strum down with the chord changes, start singing.

Let me know when you get there, and we'll start with an 8th note strum pattern.

Now the pressure is on to practice! :)

Comment by ebby-the-dreamer on July 12, 2009 at 3:06pm

yep that's the version of Proud we will be doing sometime in 2010. i've got sheet music with chords...but i'm not ready yet...lol

thanx for that youtube video! i just sent it to my womynfolke group

Comment by Donna Zitzelberger on July 12, 2009 at 11:17am

Ebby -

"Proud" by Heather Small?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0U89nuyEFU&feature=related

Comment by Michael Miller on July 12, 2009 at 9:28am

Absolutely no comparison to me and Sir Paul - he plays left handed!!! The CDs just tell me how bad my playing is (or rather what it could be like if I practiced more and had more musical talent)

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