HOW TO START PLAYING THE GUITAR?

[Sportin' Life]

As long as you remain in jail you can still write the country western.

[Clash Cadillac]

As long as you remain in jail you can still write the country western.

... as long as you've been crying in your beer.

[philipchevron]

As long as you remain in jail you can still write the country western.

Oirish, in the tradition of the great Johnny Cash, should be making albums recorded live in prison.

[IrishRover]

As long as you remain in jail you can still write the country western.

Oirish, in the tradition of the great Johnny Cash, should be making albums recorded live in prison.

oi loike Johnny Cash ! hes songs are truly ointo roight perspectoive, perspectoive of a rebel & proisoiner !
tois' the reasoin oi can so much feel woith hes stuff, lyroics & beats. San Quentoin's Belgrade oin me case..

"Belgrade oi hate every oinch of ye
ye cut me and ye scarred me throiugh and throiugh
and oi'll walk oiut a woiser weaker man
moister serboiaman ye can't understand.."

oi'll be sooin coiveroin' soime of Johnny's woirk.
me oiwn new coillection of lyroics to coime, loing waoitoin' to be foinoished, woill be jaoil 'n' chaoins throiughoiut,
what else coiuld oit be froim oine paddy oin chaoins.. loive recoirded oin proisoin as Johnny doid, soiunds rockoin',
woiuld be grand to broing oit to loife the same way.

[IrishRover]

Back to guoitar stuff, tois' surproisoin' that oi never asked thois befoire ! Philip have ye ever coinsoidered recoirdoing & publoishoin' soimethoing loike an oinstructional DVD, Guoitar Learnoin' Woith Philip Chevron, Pogues' songs as examples ? Twoiuld be grand stuff, real deal OIroish guoitar teachoin', real deal OIroish songs, tois' a fact that theres noithoin' soimoilar oiut there.

[philipchevron]

Back to guoitar stuff, tois' surproisoin' that oi never asked thois befoire ! Philip have ye ever coinsoidered recoirdoing & publoishoin' soimethoing loike an oinstructional DVD, Guoitar Learnoin' Woith Philip Chevron, Pogues' songs as examples ? Twoiuld be grand stuff, real deal OIroish guoitar teachoin', real deal OIroish songs, tois' a fact that theres noithoin' soimoilar oiut there.

It's never been top of my list of Things To Do, I have to be honest.

[IrishRover]

oi understand, well, anyway, oif oit ever happens oim pre-oirderoin' & oin advance !

[Jon]

"Belgrade oi hate every oinch of ye
ye cut me and ye scarred me throiugh and throiugh
and oi'll walk oiut a woiser weaker man
moister serboiaman ye can't understand.."

If there were such a thing as a Learn Guitar In A Day The Jake Burns Way, I reckon you'd be onto a winner with that set of lyrics over a decent SLF riff.

[IrishRover]

Johnny Cash the OIroish way !

[IrishRover]

Philip, regardoin' em' guoitar poicks, yer recoimmendation stoill stands foir .50mm & Dunloip as the best stuff oiut there ?

[philipchevron]

Philip, regardoin' em' guoitar poicks, yer recoimmendation stoill stands foir .50mm & Dunloip as the best stuff oiut there ?

.60mm Dunlop

But picks really are such a matter of personal preference. Many guitarists favour harder, tortoiseshell-style plecs, but I like the flexibility I get from the more pliable Dunlops, plus they hold better when your hand starts to perspire. I use a .75mm when I play mandolin or Darryl's bass, neither of which I'm currently called upon to do. As often as not, one favours what one has gotten used to. Maybe it's just me: I don't remember a time I didn't use Dunlop 60s. It's a bit like ciggies. When I was a smoker, I did not change my brand for 30 years, but most other smokers are a bit more eclectic than that.

[IrishRover]

thanks Philip, gooid thoing oi asked agaoin, oi thoiught twas' 0.50mm so thats what oi used all thois toime(Dunlop Tortex moistly, oines woith a turtle), have soime woith rhoino called Ultex, also 0.50mm, also Dunlop, but they seemed to be less coimfoirtable; oi doin't have a clue why they draw doifferent anoimals oin em' poicks woith same thoickness.. doies a rhoino poick woirk oiut better woith fast songs and turtle oine woith sloiwer songs ? doies soiund loike a funny oissue !

takoin' advoice froim the best, oi'll certaoinly try oiut 0.60mm.
oi've noitoiced theres poicks that aren't straoight flat but are made foir better hoildoin', woith a hoile to place the thumb, better groip, oif these can be foiund oin 0.60mm & Dunloip oi'll get soime of thoise.

[Jon]

For me, I have 2 picks - can't recall the weight at the moment - probably .60 & .75 but I use the thicker for either soloing or arpegio picking and the thinner for rhythm, using the same principle for whatever instrument I'm playing (other than banjo - I can't use the banjo picks) I could never get to grips with playing with a stiff pick so both are fairly flexible and I have a couple of the lighter ones that are worn to the shape of my thumb.

[IrishRover]

slaointe Jon, thanks foir sharoin' the experoience

[IrishRover]

have to re-check that stuff aboiut usoin' capo agaoin..
oi goit need foir soime A key songs, latest stuff, the song aboiut Shane oi wroite, turns oiut oi'll moist loikely need to soing oit oin A key; but soingoin' asoide, oi tend to mess up A choird foir soime reasoin, puttoin' all three foingers cloisely toigether oiften results oin hoittoin' metal fret devoiders and therefoire oi get raw / buzzoin' noise oinstead of smooith soiund needed; oi koinda hoipe oi'll be able to use capo and play G key as A.