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Inspired by this thread, I have started re-reading Rhinos and it’s still good this time around too.

Yeah that's a fair shout also! Practice is priority. Though at the moment I'm physically restricted to about half hour a day anyway to ensure I evade blisters. Looking forward to being able to put in hours at a time! I wouldn't be on here right now for a start if 3 fingertips weren't ringing

I don't know I you're a Man fan or not, I assume you are. I was lucky to see them a couple of times and the most surreal was to see them headlining at a far from full Royal Albert Hall.

Sorry about this, but try chrome browser?.. I uploaded it via phone on chrome browser. I'm not really a wiz on computers much lol Is there no option to download the video?.. Because i uploaded it without editing it. Or try Firefox, because i can see it on my firefox browser on my windows 11 laptop

I believe it’s been out of print for quite a while and the current costs are high because of the scarcity. However, it is available in a Kindle version for £6.

Thanks @Dad3353 This looks like i will have to spend more time on than usual on it, Really apreciate your time and help here, really means alot!

Thanks a bunch for taking the time with all of this help, Douglas!! Massively appreciate it! My fingertips were sore after just 20 seconds in the vid due to the 40-odd minutes I'd been fretting prior to recording... For these first few days/weeks I'm still finding that balance between practicing & giving the fingers enough time to recover a bit (two or three 10 minute sessions spread across the day seems best for now)... it does usually take a lot longer than 20 seconds to feel the soreness though haha! I do have a strap as well so will put that on to ease the burden of holding it in place. The one minute timed chord changes are part of the first lessons I've been following - I think the idea is to just get the hand used to the motion of switching before tidying it up as the hand/finger strength improves (along with reduced soreness) after the first couple of weeks. However, I 100% see merit in taking the time to do exactly as you say by ensuring the fingers get used to the correct placement from the outset. I'll definitely incorporate a lot of that into these early days. Thanks again!!

That's excellent, and well filmed, for this purpose, so well done. There is, however, a problem with the tuning. The low 'E' (the sixth string...) is OK, but all the other strings are tuned too low. It may be easy to fix, if you do the following... Play the 6th string (the low 'E'...) at the fifth fret. This note will be 'A', and the 5th string should be tuned to that note. Tune up the 5th string, then, until the 6th string/5th fret and the 5th string 'open' sound the same note ('A'...). Once that is done, play the 5th string at the 5th fret (the note is 'D'...), and tune up the 4th string, open, until it is that same note. Once that's done, you can check you're on track by playing the 6th string 'open', followed by the 4th string, 2nd fret ('E', an octave higher in pitch...). Assuming it's all good, we continue by playing the 4th string at the 5th fret ('G'...), and tune up the 3rd string to that same pitch. Once again, we can check that the 'open' 5th string and the 3rd string, 2nd fret sound the same note ('A'...) an octave apart. Now for the tricky one (not really, but it changes slightly here...). Play the 3rd string at the 4th fret ('B'...) and tune up the second string to match that note. Now for the last one : play the 2nd string, 5th fret ('E'...) and tune up the 1st string to that same pitch (the high 'E'...). If you now play the 6th string 'open', followed by the 4th string, 2nd fret, then the 1st string 'open', you should hear a low 'E', and 'E' an octave higher, then the high 'E'. Read this through again carefully, and try it out; reply here once it's done, or if you have questions or issues. From there, once successful, we can start looking to chord shapes and how to finger them. Firstly, though, the guitar must be tuned as described above. Over to you, and well done, again. Douglas

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