Hi All,

I am a new member to this forum and have reintroduced myself to the Guitar after a long time away.  My instrument is an Epiphone that I bought new in 1975.  It is in excellent shape except for the nut was broken and had to be replaced.  Initially I thought this was an omen telling me that I would never be destined to play again, but after the repair all seems as it once was.

Computers and the Internet have been a huge assistance in my return.  I have used the basic guitar lessons on my Mac as well as this website to help me remember old routines.  The scales here are fabulous, and even though I understood the theories ages ago, I never had the resources that the internet is providing.  The reason I gave up music was that I was bored.  I couldn't find a break through to keep me challenged.  I was never good at learning by ear, so I always needed a musical crutch to help me with songs.

So any sage advice would be greatly appreciated.  Judging from previous posts I guess I need to work on scales obviously, but are there any other web services that offer lessons?

Also, I travel a lot, which restricts my practice time at home.  Any one have a lead on travel guitars?  I was thinking of an electric travel guitar because it would be smaller than an acoustic, but I don't know anything about electric.

welcome, the martin backpacker is a popular travel guitar but it is an acoustic. or what about a cigar box guitar? one electric that i know of is the aria brand travel guitar but it does not look to be of any great quality but i don't know what level of instrument you are looking at buying. i am sure it would serve fine as a kind of beater guitar.

Hello Corden.

Welcome to Chord Book. I to am in SE Pa.  Guess that makes us neighbors..
Would you happen to be a flight attendant by chance?
You'll find alot good, and helpful folks here at CB.
Stop in the chat room sometime..

Jim

69 jaguar wrote:

Hello Corden.

Welcome to Chord Book. I to am in SE Pa.  Guess that makes us neighbors..
Would you happen to be a flight attendant by chance?
You'll find alot good, and helpful folks here at CB.
Stop in the chat room sometime.

Thanks Jag,

I really like the resources on this site and hope it can improve my playing and music theory.
It's good to see someone close by also on the site, and BTW I flunked peanut service so they stuck
me in the pointed end of the tube!  :-)

See ya in the chat room

Hello Corden and welcome . I havent posted in a while but i noticed you play mandolin and i just recently took up the instrunent maybe you could share pointers.....

Actually I used to play the Mandolin.  Like my guitar it has been sitting in it's case preparing for it's awakening.  I was trying to get a handle on the guitar again before cluttering my aging brain with more data.  There are some music books somewhere in this house but I have yet to get my fingers on them.  Included is at least one book on mandolin.

I actually have two mandolins.  The first one was my grandfather's and it was found the attic of his old house.  Since I was the only musically inclined person in my family it was given to me and that's when I started playing.  That instrument has to close to 70 years old if not older.  My other mandolin I got while in college since I didn't want to expose the antique to the wild and crazy college life.  It too is an Epiphone, just looks like a "Minnie Me" to the guitar.