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Good Songs for Beginning Guitarists

sircastick89 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:20:29 GMT

Good Songs for Beginning Guitarists

As a beginning guitarist, I know the excitement when you find a good guitar tab for a song that you can actually play. The fact is, it's rare. Most songs out there are too complicated for novice players, and so at first it's hard to find new songs to learn.

Here are some classic songs that you can learn on your own without much trouble!

The Classics

Mr. Tamborine Man by Bob Dylan

This song couldn't be easier! It's just three basic chords, A, G, and E. Here is the progression:

G A D G
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
D G A

I'm not sleepy and, there is no place I'm going to

G A D G
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
D G A D

in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you

Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison

This song has three chords as well, but it also includes a cool opening riff!

Here is the intro:

e|7----8---10----8----7----12---13---15---13---12----7---8---10---8--7---5--2--3-5
B|8---10---12--10---8----13---15---17---15---13----8--10--12--10--8--3-------
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And here are the chords!

G                     C       G                    D
Hey, where did we go, days when the rain came
G                  C       G            D
Down in the hollow, playing a new game
G                    C                        G                  D
Laughing, and a running, hey, hey Skipping and a jumping
G                C                G                 D                  C
in the misty morning fog, with our hearts a thumpin' and you

D G Em C D G

my brown eyed girl You, my brown-eyed girl

House of the Rising Sun (the best version of this song is by the Animals)

Am       C        D           F
There is a house in New Orleans,
      Am        C      E
They call the "Rising Sun",
      Am       C       D           F
It's been the ruin of many a poor boy
     Am     E        Am    E
And God, I know, I'm one.

You can strum the chords, or, if you want to sound like the Animals do, you can finger-pick it like so:

For the A-minor and the C-major: Hit the A chord, and then slowly strum down to the e chord, then hit the B chord and then the G chord.

For the D-major and the F-major: Same thing except start with the D chord.

For the E-major: Start with the E chord.

Wild Thing by the Troggs

This song is great to practice your bar-chords. Here are the chords with the words (instruction down below)

A         D      E    D
Wild Thing,            you make my

A         D      E     D
heart sing             you make my

A         D      E     D
everything...groovy    yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah

A         D      E
Wild Thing

CHORUS

G A G A
           Wild Thing, I think I love you

G A G A
           but I wanna know for sure

G A G A
          come on hold me tight

G A G A

I love you.

Instruction:

For the A-chord, just play it normally.

For the D-chord, go to the fifth fret and place your index finger on all of the strings except the E. Then, place your ring finger on the seventh fret and cover the D, G, and B strings. Make sure you do not mute the e string or your sound will be way off.

For the E-chord, do the same thing just on the seventh and ninth frets.

For the chorus, I just like to play the power chords, which is just the base note and the fifth above.

So for the G-chord, put your index finger on the E-string at the third fret and your ring finger on the fifth fret of the A-string. Strum it, but make sure you're only hitting the E-string and the A-string.

Same goes for the A-chord, just start on the fifth fret instead of the third.

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones

This is perhaps the most famous guitar riff ever, and luckily for you it's pretty easy to play!

e|---------------------------------------------------------
B|--------------------------------------------------------
G|--------------------------------------------------------
D|--------------------------------------------------------
A|-----2----2----2--4--5----5---5/4---4--------------
E|--------------------------------------------------------

This is obviously just the very beginning of the song, but it still sounds cool on its own!

Photos

Bob Dylan	Van Morrison	Eric Burdon of the Animals	The Rolling Stones
The Troggs

Listen and Learn

Get a good idea of what the songs are supposed to sound like!

The Troggs- Wild Thing	The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction	Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun
Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man	Brown Eyed Girl

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The Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchhikers Trilogy

sircastick89 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:40:09 GMT

The Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchhikers Trilogy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy is a collection of science fiction books that follow the life and travels of an Englishman named Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect, an alien from the vicinity of Betelguese who is a researcher for the famous enclycopedia The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a book that helps hitchhikers "see the wonders of the galaxy on thirty Artrillian dollars a day."

Other main characters include Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, out-to-lunch president of the Galaxy, Trillian, Zaphod's, and later Arthur's, human girlfriend, and Marvin, a chronically depressed robot who, due to frequent time travel, is actually 30 times old than the Universe itself.

The series, which evolved from a 70s BBC radio program, has five books, all of which were penned by the late Douglas Adams:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant At the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe, and Everything
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
Mostly Harmless

The Plot

The series begins with the destruction of the Earth to make way for an inter-stellar bypass by the Vogons, a race of insanely bureaucratic aliens. The humans to survive are Arthur Dent, who hitches a lift from a passing starship with the help of his alien friend Ford Prefect, who was on Earth doing research for the Hitchhiker's Guide, and Trillian, who was whisked off the planet some weeks before by President Zaphod.

All five of the books revolve around the hapless, inter-world wanderings of Arthur Dent and the quest to find the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The Answer to the Ultimate Question is 42, although that doesn't mean much since no one knows what the question was. It is revealed that a giant computer was built to find the Ultimate Question, but it was destroyed by the Vogons moments before the completion of its ten-million year program - the Earth. In one attempt to find the Ultimate Question, Ford delves into Arthur's subconcious and discovers the question to be "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" Eventually, the characters discover that the Universe is controlled by a insane old man who lives alone on a remote planet with his cat.

Though the fifth book, Mostly Harmless, ended with the deaths of every single main character, Douglas Adams had stated that he was intending to write a sixth book, though that possibility was ended with his death at age 49. In his honor, May 25th is known as National Towel Day in the U.K.

The Hitchhiker's Guide

The series often includes quotes from the Hitcherhiker's Guide to the Galaxy itself, whose tone often indicates that its editors were probably slightly tipsy:

"The best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.The effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."

"The Guide is definitive. Reality if often innacurate."

"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."

"Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. You might think it's long way down the road to chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to space."

On the subject of towels:

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

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You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

snoopaloop — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:44:03 GMT

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

Whenever someone picks up a newspaper there is always one page that they have to see. One page that is more important to that person than the entire newspaper, I refering, of course, to the comics. The comics page of the newspaper has funny, dramatic, and satirical cartoons all with the puspose of capturing the reader's imagination. However there is one comic that took it to the next level, one comic that had so many movies, books, and shows about it that there is no way it hasn't touched your life in some way or another. That comic is "Peanuts" by Charles Schulz.

An Overview

"Peanuts" is a comic that follows the lives of a bunch of young children who still have the spark of innocence, a dog that seems to be out of this world, and an eccentric bird. The main character of the series is arguably either the round headed kid named Charlie Brown, who is the bears the brunt of a lack of love, confidence, and a positive image, or Snoopy the imaginative dog , who is a root beer and supper enthusiast, and lives in his own world just as much as the real one.The readers frequently learn lessons of life from Charlie Brown and his hopeless romantic feelings toward the little red haired girl, his questions on life at night, and several religious and social commentaries that one would not expect to come from the mouth of a little kid. Snoopy teaches something different: how to have fun. Through his imagination we get a glimpse of WWI flying aces, the shores of Normandy on D-Day, the dorm of Joe Cool, his hiking trips with a series of little birds, or his supper time happy dances and songs all while providing some sort of tiny lesson spliced into lots of laughs. Other characters such as the blanket carrying Linus offer a more mature character through the irony of carrying a "security blanket," while his sister Lucy provides the angry character of the strip as well as being a devious, football pulling, part of Charlie Brown's psychological relief. Characters like Marcy and Peppermint Patty get into their own shnanigans on their side of town while showing a great love for sports and and problems in school with "D-'s".

The Legacy of Schulz's Creation

Charles created a masterpiece that affected the lives of many people. His comic became the #1 distributed comic in the world being featured in thousands of newspapers world wide is several different languages. Why? Because Schulz had captured the innocence of children while using them for a larger message. His characters had become staples of the cartoon world with Snoopy being the most innovative the world had seen. Schulz had been the first to put an animal on two legs and give it a thought bubble. By giving the dog an imagination and a stylish dance move Schulz had created a timeless classic. Other people realized what he had created. As Peanuts gained popularity, people wanted to do things with the characters. They had been featured on a Ford Motors pamphlet, became toys, and starred in their first movie/tv show that still plays to this day. More shows and movies followed, and more products like toys, coasters, cards, and comic books came soon after. Peanuts became so popular they even got a few video games like "Snoopy Tennis," and eventually a Broadway Musical called "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," became a smash hit. After suffering from health problems Schulz stopped making new comics in 2000, followed quickly by his death in the same year. However there is still much to remember him and his creations for, like a parade of Snoopy statues around the world, and his good friend Tom Everhart who creates Peanuts paintings. Heck, even my screen name is Snoopy related!

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Monterey Pop

sircastick89 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:12:24 GMT

Monterey Pop

In 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the board members of the Monterey Folk Festival, in order to raise interest and awareness, decided to hold a Pop Festival as well, to which the greatest pop acts of the day were to be invited.

Held on a beautiful weekend in mid June, the festival was a smashing success, with nearly all of the big names in music present. Monterey was the first festival of its kind and redefined the term "rock concert" with its bold originality.

All told, 200,000 people over the course of the three day event took in the first and the greatest rock festival the world has ever seen, from the beautiful harmonies of Simon and Garfunkel to the screams and wails of Janis Joplin to Jimi Hendrix's legendary burning guitar.

The Festival

Though there had been many music festivals before Monterey, Monterey is considered to be the first music festival to ever feature pop and rock music, and therefore became the template for all later pop festivals, including Woodstock. And though Monterey is perpetually overshadowed by its younger brother, Monterey holds advantages over Woodstock in two big areas - it is the older, and therefore the most important of the two, and it was, unlike the rainy and mud-drenched Woodstock, an actual success.

Planned primarily by the Mamas and the Papas, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys, the Monterey Festival featured an incredible range of famous musicians and cannily invited several previously unknown bands that would go on to change music history, such as Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who, and Otis Redding (backed by Booker T. and the MGs).

Other groups on the star-studded bill included Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Rivers, the Association, the Animals, Canned Heat, The Butterfield Blues Band, Country Joe and the Fish, the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, and Grateful Dead.

Also noteworty were the list of bands that didn't show. The Beatles and the Beach Boys planned the festival, but didn't play there - the Beatles had stopped touring and the Beach Boys were on the verge of disintegration. Donovan couldn't get a visa, Dylan wasn't invited, the Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian Jones was in attendance while bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards faced drug charges back in England.

The most interesting act on the bill was an Indian sitarist named Ravi Shankar. The organizers wanted something new and exciting to showcase, and an classical sitarist from India seemed to fit the bill! The only act that was paid at the festival (the nominal sum of $3000), Ravi Shankar launched himself into international stardom with his unbelievable four-hour performance.

Monterey was also broadcast far beyond its live audience because of the decision (unheard of at the time) to film the entire concert. Later, footage from this film was used to create documentaries about the festival like Monterey Pop.

The Best Moments

The greatest bits of the festival, right here on video.

Janis Joplin @ Monterey Pop Festival	Ravi Shankar at Monterey Pop 1
Jefferson Airplane Live at Monterey Pop 1967 HQ	A Quick One, The Who @ Monterey Pop
Simon&Garfunkel -Feelin Groovy - Monterey Pop 1967	Country Joe & the Fish Live at the Monterey Pop Festival 67
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Avoid Fruits and Nuts - You are what You Eat

snoopaloop — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:48:55 GMT

Avoid Fruits and Nuts - You are what You Eat

Everyday I hear, and read, and watch, and am scolded, and am reminded to eat healthy. Everyday there is a new diet that comes out and is the next best way to eat healthy. Well guess what - I am sick of it. Here's a new way to eat healthy know what's bad for you. Wow that sounds so much simpler wouldn't you say?

So here's the deal: we all know you want to eat healthy. People have told you to check the labels and Nutrition facts while shopping in your local grocery store. They are asking you to take another few minutes of your precious time to waste reading numbers and figures while you don't even know what those figures are supposed to be. Is X grams of this too much? Is Z kgs of X combined with this sudofroctalisometalicchocolate going to somehow compromise the well earned weight loss of my diet? Is X grams of this without the 32 gams of Y healthy if I ignore the fact that this is made of 30% of something which I don't care about and have never heard of?

Here's a question: does it taste good? Is the food you are about to eat magically delicious? If the answer to that is yes then you should probably avoid eating the thing that you love so much.

Here's another question: how much food do you typically eat? Is it a lot? Is it more than one plate? Typically more than one plate of something means it's just too darn scrumptious and you just gotta keep on stuffing your face with it. More than one plate of something is usually unhealthy so by golly keep on going back to the buffet line and pile it on.

Okay, I just have to ask you one more thing: do you like sugar? Do you get weak at the knees thinking about the heavenly taste it brings to your tongue in the form of a donut, danish, cruller, lollypop, soft drink, or basic snack? Well if so then might I recommend an unhealthy lifestyle for you. Keep sugar in your diet. Not the sugar that comes from fruit that stuff is beneath you, rather keep up with all those processed sugars for tremendous, no pun intended, results.

I'm sorry for this last question but do you enjoy commercials? Do you enjoy sitting watching tv? Do you sit in front of the tv and get enticed by its commercials into buying things like food? Well if yes then keep on doing that. Hopefully you get manipulated into eating junk from fast food places. Who cares if its bad for you? Its cheap and tasty.

There you go, I have given you some examples of unhealthy ways to eat. If you want to engorge yourself on the unhealthy then be my guest. If you want to continue to eat healthy after my humble suggestions then suit yourself. Good luck with your eating habits!!

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