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Originally posted by 6guns:

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Originally posted by r0gue:
Very nice my friend. I've poured myself back into guitar after decades of scarcely touching one. It's been very gratifying (and stupid expensive since I've caught the gear bug of course).

r0gue, I remember your thread(s) about guitar and gear. I hardly ever pick up my electric guitars. I just don't play the kinds of songs for electric. But I have plenty of them. I get the expensive part of all this. Being a lefty, guitars have been hard to come by, so when I saw lefties pop up for sale, I did a lot of buying! Guitars, guns, watches....ugh!

For the most part, I play a pretty clean tone. Sometimes just a touch of overdrive, but generally, i like a rich clean Deluxe Reverb scooped tone.

To be a lefty and into watches and guitars is quite the curse. You've managed it well!

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Originally posted by r0gue:

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Originally posted by 6guns:

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Originally posted by r0gue:
Very nice my friend. I've poured myself back into guitar after decades of scarcely touching one. It's been very gratifying (and stupid expensive since I've caught the gear bug of course).

r0gue, I remember your thread(s) about guitar and gear. I hardly ever pick up my electric guitars. I just don't play the kinds of songs for electric. But I have plenty of them. I get the expensive part of all this. Being a lefty, guitars have been hard to come by, so when I saw lefties pop up for sale, I did a lot of buying! Guitars, guns, watches....ugh!

For the most part, I play a pretty clean tone. Sometimes just a touch of overdrive, but generally, i like a rich clean Deluxe Reverb scooped tone.

To be a lefty and into watches and guitars is quite the curse. You've managed it well!

I really ought to plug and play some finger style... ala Jeff Buckley. One more thing to add to my list.

As for lefty, I'm an anomaly. Right eye dominant right handed handgun shooter, but lefty long gun. Play all sport righty, except for shooting pool. Write, eat and guitar lefty. Wear watches on my left wrist.

Hey 6,
do you write any songs?

I've written a grand total of 1 song and that was with help.

Kind of in style of Hank Williams.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
I've written a grand total of 1 song and that was with help.

Kind of in style of Hank Williams.

I encourage you to try again. The hardest part, by far, is for the lyrics not to sound stupid, and that's harder than we think! The progressions can be simple, 1-4-5 is the classic, in both country and rock. There are all sorts of tips in songwriting, I think one that changed my songwriting life is "near rhymes" more than perfect rhymes makes the difference. I use 2 resources for rhyming, b-rhymes and Rhymezone. If you're interested there's a fellow, Kevin Welch, (who my spouse went to high-school with in Oklahoma and who was a Warner Bros. staff songwriter) who is putting up on the web chapters (free) on his theories of songwriting. I've taken a couple of 1 on 1 web lessons from him when I've gotten stuck. I think I'm up to maybe 70 songs now, or close to that. Some are great, some are probably "album filler"....but there is something about playing your own stuff.....and at this point I don't really play covers now, unless my daughter wants to sing with me some of her favorite Nanci Griffith songs. You can play, so I'm sure you have some songs in you! It's just a wonderful feeling to create, and I know that when I'm gone my kids and grandkids will have my voice and art to keep forever. And the bold truth is, for me, that I don't hardly even remember most of my own songs.....because I'm too busy writing the next ones!

Robbie, thanks for your thoughts on this. I appreciate you taking the time to encourage me. Coincidentally, the one song I wrote, the lyrics came fairly easy. It was the chord progression I got help with...not that it was complicated, but this was several years ago and my knowledge of music was far less.

I'll definitely give it some thought and may ask a few questions when the time comes.

Thanks again!