I'm taking my own challenge (in "Creating Inspiring Threads vs. Inertia) and trying to rejuvenate a thread I participated in a long time ago.

Rick's posts above about the G chord is an example of advice I have found here on Mudcat, followed, and benefitted from. Although I'm not doing lead work with my index finger yet, I've found that it is possible to retrain yourself to do chords differently from how you learned.

Also, when I first tried this fingering and wondered what "inner leads" meant, I randomly put my index finger down on the E on the D string and was startled to discover that it sounded like blues (which I had absolutely no experience of). I did the math and discovered that it was the alternation between a chord and the add6 version of the same chord that creates that classic blues sound.

I'm sure this is obvious and basic to most of you, but I was so enchanted to have discovered it on my own that I proceeded to apply it to other chords and wrote a song, which turned out to be my best original song so far, just to go with it. I'm also now thinking that when I get my steel string I'd like to learn some blues.

So this thread changed my life. Really, it did.

Marion