Thanks for the corrections Brian. I'm glad to see I was at least in the right ballpark with it.

Sooo... we should have....

Oh.. garde donc qua t'as fait
Tu m'as quitté avec les chevaux
t'apres m'quitter dans les miseres
a la 'tit maison

Oh.. garde donc, J'suis moi tout seul
J'ai p'us d'argent et les chevaux est creve de la faim
J'ai p'us d'amitie et mon ame est affamé
tu criminelle

I came up with a tune for this on my bike ride home yesterday. Hopefully soon I'll record it. Ned and I will be famous.

John in Oregon

Hello, David, nice to hear from you. Glad my "baby" is still doing ok. Man, I'd sure take once a month, I get 2 or 3 times a year when I go back to the motherland.

John, I think there may be a few more corrections on that to make it complete, John, but I don't think I'm the best for that job. Here's how I'd do it, for what that's worth, maybe Marc can correct it.

Oh.. garde donc quoi t'as fait
Tu m'as quitté avec les chevaux
t'apres m'quitter dans les miseres
a la 'tite maison

Oh.. garde donc, J'suis moi tout seul
J'ai p'us d'argent et les chevaux sont crever de la faim
J'ai p'us d'amitie et mon ame est affamé
toi criminelle

David Holt,
Hey bud. I've found Big Nick's DVD 1 to be helpful in getting the bass side going. He runs thru things several times nice and slowly. Cowboy waltz.
The second thing was, thanks to Jim Pettijohn videos on youtube, doing scales while doing bass, chord, chord. Hold down the scale notes while playing the bass side.
The third was playing only the bass side in every push pull combo there is, i.e., bass/push chord/push chord/push is "normal." Sometimes I do only this just to cement that waltz rhythm into my left hand muscle memory.
Push, pull, push
pull, push, push.
You get the idea. That side of the box has to become second nature, subconscious.
Stick with it a bit. The better I get, the more encouraged I am to play more. Some of my crap is even starting to sound like music!
Well, it's Sunday morning, 7:00am, I think I'll pull my MARTIN out of the case and wake the whole house up.

Thanks Tim - I'll give it a go.

Same boat different sea.

Hi Bryan, "No 18" here, a delighted customer of yours. My mahogany "L'Anse Grise" is much admired, drooled over even, wherever it goes. I'm trying to learn from DVDs and CDs, but the instructors have a nasty habit of completely glossing over the bass, having laboured (sorry, labored, ha ha) over the treble ad infinitum - then they say "and now we'll add the bass" and - wallop, they add it, played fast, no explanation, no going over it more than once, nothing. It's all right for them, they do it without thinking, but not for someone like me who's struggling from zero. So what I do is to enter the treble notes on Finale Songwriter, then add the bass notes, which Finale puts in the right places rhythmically, then print out the result and learn to synchronise the bass from that. Slow and laborious, but it "clicks" eventually, and then I can do it without thinking. Strange but true. Here in Manchester (UK) there's the friendly and helpful Cajun Specials once a month to jam along with, but once a month isn't really often enough, but better than complete isolation.