And behold! There before me was a sign reading "Caution"Hanging from the weathered fence, piercing the distortionOf the blazing heat that burned my sk...

You are all wrong! The chord is quite obviously an F#min/maj11 (aug5) (add aug13)! :P

@Ignar: That's right, you heard people talking about cricket....somehow the microphone wire has acted as an antenna and picked up on some random radio...

Hi there Ratcat! You sound like you're a fellow Aussie...anyway welcome to the board and have fun!Saryu

While we are talking about names and patterns for fingerpicking styles, I seem to recall one pattern that has a specific name but I can't for the life...

New strings will detune very quickly, because they haven't reached their elastic point yet. It means that as you play, the strings are stretching out ...

Who cares about the top note. :lol: Right. It's just another A note albeit an octave or two higher. Not needed. Shhhh!!! Stop picking on that poo...

The first complicated song that involved more than just strumming learned was "wanted dead or alive" - the intro was difficult and I learned that firs...

that's the problem. how to do that without getting the high E string to thud. Learn it on a ukulele first. I couldn't do it at all on guitar until af...

F will take a while....then you'll come to Bb (or even B) which will take even longer :-P As others have mentioned, the trick is to practice practice ...

but with the piano you don't need to memorize string names and the lack of sharps to certain notes still throws me off :wink: Any western instrument ...

I wasn't saying that a guitar in open tuning is as easy to figure out as a keyboard. But it is much easier, and much more logically laid out, than "st...

Yes and it is easier. It's laid out much more logically. As is a guitar in an open tuning. :D The thing with a piano is that in theory, anyone can l...