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Where to start?

Started by Stogie Guitars (Dave). Last reply by Slowpaw Steve T Apr 5, 2014. 7 Replies

Ok, I've been building a while but never really took the time to write a song or music for it. Just wondering where to start and if anyone can guide me along the way. I don't expect anything less…Continue

Everybody wants to go to Heaven

Started by Gumbo Blues Guitars. Last reply by Gumbo Blues Guitars Feb 11, 2014. 3 Replies

Everybody want to laugh, nobody wants to cryEverybody want to laugh, nobody wants to cryEverybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to dieEverybody want to know the truth but everybody tells a…Continue

Song projects

Started by smilingdog1. Last reply by ShadowChancer Nov 28, 2013. 5 Replies

Anybody working on songs together? I know there are ways to do this I just haven't tried but I'm sure I could get my head around it. Got a computer, got a loop pedal etc.Continue

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Comment by smilingdog1 on November 28, 2013 at 9:20pm

Blues Under A Clear Sky

woke me

this morning

thoughts scrambling in my head

As I stammered

into position

with feet over the bed

whats the use of praying

My soul's nothing to say

Too worn out to listen

to reason today

How can I have the blues

Under a clear sky

Sun shinning hot

While I'm so cold inside

Everything I ever love

has been walked out the door

Everybody's wearing black

She ain't coming back no more

I've let the years go by

with no reason to cry

living in a ghost town

till the day I die

So How can I have the blues

Under a clear sky

With the Sun shinning hot

While I'm so cold inside

Comment by Uncle John on November 28, 2013 at 3:31pm

Wow, SmilingDog,  that is some good and powerful stuff.   Good poem.    I don't hear the song for it right now.  It stands tall on its own. 

 

Kind of like yours too, Merle.  I don't even text!

Comment by ShadowChancer on November 28, 2013 at 12:22pm

Howdy , heres my first build (The Tung-Sol Terror) on its first outing on You Tube , http://youtu.be/kG5CO9ydNB4

Comment by c# merle on November 4, 2013 at 3:08am

came up with a song while jamming at the weekend. it's in the key of A, feel free to join in.

well i aint on twitter
 im not on facebook
dont have any followers
 not an open book

so dont push my button
 dont try to add me
dont care if i like
 i just wanna be free
-----------------------------
i got the social media blues
i swear
the freaks are after me
-----------------------------
now i dont speak geek
 never sent a tweet
just play guitar
 never gonna be a star

so dont tag me
 i gotta be free
so much to share
 but i dont care
----------------------------
i got the social media blues
i swear
the freaks are after me
----------------------------

now they got your dna
 digital profile too
gonna rebrand you
 and sell it on to me

but if i fight back
 and not let it be
you gonna set your
 virtual friends on me
----------------------------
i got the social media blues
i swear
the freaks are after me
----------------------------

Comment by Careless John on April 13, 2013 at 12:30am

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Comment by Cris Portillo Jr. on January 20, 2013 at 9:16pm

Nice! I'll try to do one of these and post a video

Comment by smilingdog1 on January 20, 2013 at 8:38am

Poison Pillow

I keep Walking in these shoes                                                                                    

Where I’m headin I can’t tell                                                                                   

It’s been so long sense I felt good                                                                                        

Do you feel pain as well                                                                                   

 

I lost what is left of me                                                     

It’s a hole you cannot fill

A bottle full of liquor

And a bottle full of pills

 

 

I met a lover long ago

What her name is

I can’t  guess

She was poison for my pillow

To this day I cannot rest

 

 

So I keep Walking

Walking in these shoes

Where I’m headin

Can only mean the blues

 

Some say that there’s a heaven

Some say that there’s a hell

To tell the truth my friend

My brain so cloudy

I can’t  tell

 

And I keep walking

Walking in these shoes

I keep walking

Till I no longer have the blues

 

My pants are torn

My feet are worn

These rotten teeth

Still smile

My eyes are clouded

The skin is padded

Like an ancient

Crocodile

 

Thoughts fade upon memory

Of a face

I can not see

I’m walking

Wondering who I used to be

 

So I keep walking

I keep walking in these shoes

I keep walking

Till I no longer have the blues

 

 

Here's a fun blues song that I wrote. It can be done so many different ways.

Without the music, you'll just have to hear it in your head and go for it.

I'm interested to hear others do their version of my lyrics. I usually write with a tune in my head so that's kinda cheating but I think this can be done. I'm sharing them with all of you. FYI I hold the copy rights to all my songs. Just please enjoy them and I hope you like them.

Comment by smilingdog1 on January 20, 2013 at 8:28am

I Must Have Something To Do

 

 

The way it begins

In the early morning

I'd like to sleep in

It's the same old story

 

Had to rock myself

To the edge of the bed

Head is cloudy

Might as well be dead

 

I stumble in search

Of something to wear

I gaze in the mirror

For a moment I stare

 

 

Through the fog and the haze

I must have something to do

 

My cup of coffee

Taste like shoes

I thank the Lord

Baby I got you

 

A honey do list

Sits on the table

I once knew a gal once

Her name was Mabel

 

Now come to think of it

I must have something to do

 

OK: Here's a song I wrote up just minutes ago to share with everyone. As lyrics go, they are subjective to your own interpretation and so please take the liberty to play with these lines and adjust accordingly. What I'd like to see is anybody meaning everybody, do their rendition of the song. I record mine and post it. It would be interesting to hear other players mess around with this.

Comment by NightOwl on September 10, 2012 at 3:45am

Frank, check out my videos. Most are 3 string. I have 2 tutorials on Amazing Grace and one on a finger style version of One Black rat.

Comment by frank tennyson on September 10, 2012 at 3:36am

Would like to fret my 3-string. Cannot find free video or instructions on finger picking and/or using freets. Usually tuned EBE but videos, tabs, instructions for any tuning would be appreciated!

 

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Where to start?

Started by Stogie Guitars (Dave). Last reply by Slowpaw Steve T Apr 5, 2014. 7 Replies

Everybody wants to go to Heaven

Started by Gumbo Blues Guitars. Last reply by Gumbo Blues Guitars Feb 11, 2014. 3 Replies

Song projects

Started by smilingdog1. Last reply by ShadowChancer Nov 28, 2013. 5 Replies

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