I know people aren't saying "you are doomed" if you don't know standard notation. :) That was just a little friendly exaggeration. But they are sayi...

I don't know how to read standard notation. I would love to be able to, but I have limited amount of time to put towards guitar and right now I don't...

Here are 5 ESD songs that I play almost everyday so I guess they gotta be my favorites... as dogsbody calls them, "pub songs"!Cat's in the cradle (rod...

I'm kinda shy about playing the guitar around other people (other than immediate family - making them suffer is part of being a family). I've been p...

Sorry, I'm a physics major aside from a guitar player...Jason - that explanation on harmonics is the best I've gotten so far - I think I finally under...

Thanks for the options, guys!Don

<snip>I know I'm always going to be my worst critic, but the music I play just doesn't feel like "Me". I'm playing pop because it's easy, or oth...

Luckily we can always buy a second child if we want... uh, I mean adopt, did I really say buy? :)

Oh, yeah, one more thing. Recently I was fishing for some support from my wife. I had been struggling with a few songs for 30 minutes and then final...

Dave - just to echo your sentiments... if you check out my "evaluating my teacher and myself" post from a month back, I also expressed frustration at ...

Thank to everyone for all the feedback. Most of it fits with what I wasalready thinking... but you know when you are a newbie, you don't know ifwhat ...

I just did this song a couple of weeks ago with my teacher, in response to me asking for some songs which you can use a varying strum pattern. The wa...