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I have a new guitar-related thing:

a Vox AC15C1! It is plenty loud First guitar I tried was Shona, the Epi SG, I was most worried how she’d sound but it was great, especially when things got crunchy! Much relieved. Then onto Siobhan the G&L Ascari. At this stage I was getting into the tremolo and reverb effects and they are both really good, much better than expected, the reverb actually has some drip, and the tremolo is beautiful. I dialed the crunch back to bluesy and things got funky for a while. Then I pulled out Surfy the Fallout and things got really out of hand and I cranked the main volume up to 4 o’clock and wow is that loud. Reggae chops on the top boost circuit sound just wonderful, and you can dial in a nice fat midrange tone that still sounds clean fresh and toppy. Tomorrow I’m going to test pedals out on it. I will have to buy a loadbox/attenuator sometime or my neighbours will lynch me

Recently I’ve been learning the Ukulele, and of course, I want to play my favorite Beatles songs.  I have been using the site Ultimate Guitar to look up chords for songs I want to play, and I have noticed that many Ringo Starr songs are missing from the site.  I have taken it upon myself to begin attempting to tab Ringo’s songs as well as other songs that I want to play but are not there, and put them up.  I have done a few so far, let me know if you have any improvements or corrections for these, and enjoy.

There’s a few more I have that just need to get approved.  I’ll update this post when they do.

I’ll post more as I upload them.

ewe2 said
@William Shears Campbell Great work on the Ringo uke chords but I do have a quibble on Please Don’t Bring Your Banjo Back. In the lines:

[Bunch of suggested changes that were cut from the quote to save space and scrolling fingers]

I’ve made the suggested changes!
  

I got the changes, and they’ve been applied.  Thank you!  They do sound a lot better.

I made that one back in high school, and I’m not super positive how I came up with the chords.  I do remember trying to see the fingerings this guy was using on a cover of the song, and I also remember running the song through a software I had on my computer at the time.  However, it would make the song into sheet music, not chords, thus it doesn’t surprise me that it is inaccurate.

That sounds great. I’m paying off a groovebox called a maschine mk3 so i have something like a drum machine/sampler/sequencer to plug into everything else which can do things the synth can’t do. And then I will probably buy bass pedals because I need bass pedals! I need a good envelope filter and a octaver at the very least.

Vera Chuck and Dave said

jeez, sounds like quite the setup you got going on!

Yeah it’s nowhere near complete, I’m no gearhead but there’s a bunch of things to kit out a setup where I have good basic sounds to work from. The problem is competing priorities for low resources. Paying off one thing means other things have to wait and probably get more expensive as the economy gets worse. Do I put everything on hold to get a guitar/bass before it becomes impossible to acquire within 3-6 months of saving/paying off (and thus holding everything else up)? Or do I put all resources into kitting out a bass pedalboard with pedals I may not be able to afford/pay off either soon? Or getting that expensive but great mike package? Or the mixing desk which I do need? I’m sure it’s the same for all of you, its a frustrating time when you have ideas and aspirations.

The Hole Got Fixed said

Surely you’d go the guitar/bass first @ewe2, they’ll be the first to increase in price due to the recession.

Yeah that’s what I’m agonizing over right now. I was thinking about guitars because there are beautiful Casino Coupes and Gretches and cute Gretsch short-scale basses, but in the end I think I will probably try for a Yamaha BB435 which isn’t too dear but I haven’t played a Yamaha bass since the 80’s and they are solid basses, they have their own tone and the 5ers are good 5ers and I need a better 5er than the one I currently have and the BB is a passive model so that’s a win for me. They’re a PJ bass but the J works better than most PJ’s cos its not too close to the bridge. I did consider a soapbar pickup bass  like the TRBX line or the Ibanez SR line but there’s something about the sound of those pickups that doesn’t grab me. I guess like the traditional sounds!