Tom, Still off topic but could you suggest the books available to get
started. Been playing about same length of time as you but sure would be
wonderful to have some type of chord book. no easy way to do it in braille
but if it was written out would be killer. maybe a project for someone and
could make some money out of it. Sighted even have chord computers now which
are great but totally inaccessable. Dave
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> Steve, I've played guitar for about 36 years.  There is no system out
there for
> learning fretting for chords.  All the charts used by sighted folks are
pretty
> much useless for blind folks.  The state library system has a few books
> available for beginning guitar players but I've found the best way to
learn
> chords for me is knowing the notes of the strings (ebgdae) and figuring
out
> where notes are located from there.  This requires a little music theory
so may
> not work for you.  If you're looking for specific chords drop me a note
and I'd
> be glad to help.  Remember that there are no absolutely correct fingerings
but
> some will make chord changes easier than others and you will want to use
one
> fingering for a specific chord in some situations and another in others.
>
> The guitar is what my students call "good fun" once you've got the chords
and
> can work on learning right hand techniques without having to think about
where
> your left fingrs go so often.  With restringing your guitar could be a
right
> handed guitar if you want to play backward -- well probably more correctly
its
> called a left handed because its what left handed folks play <g>.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html