Guitar Players/Researchers in need of your help!

Hey guys, We've created a more qualitative (open ended questioning) survey for those who found the previous one had answers too restricted and didn't necessarily apply to them, any of you who are interested in filling this one out it gives you ample space to really fully explain your particular stance on things. Thanks again for all of your help! Keep on rocking!
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=ckdud3RlXzZFcjdUMUtvRVJBSmstMmc6MA ..

(thanks for the inspiration and awesome feedback Chris!)

(thanks for the inspiration and awesome feedback Chris!)

You're most welcome. Sorry it was so wordy... :oops:

Thanks very much to you too for the opportunity to think it all through (even if it was out loud, and a bit too long.... :wink: ). Your interest in music as a language, with similarities to any other, has really helped me put it into perspective. It's always puzzled me why my approach to learning guitar seemed at odds with what the books seemed to be suggesting, but when I compare it to how I learn(ed) to use the English language it now seems to make perfect sense. That's been a very exciting and motivating thing to find out. In a funny way, it may even make it easier for me to put in some more formal practice time, because I now have a somewhat different way of seeing it. :)

Cheers,

Chris

PS I did the new survey this morning, and only managed to stuff it up once.. :roll: (hit the wrong button while taking a detour to play some piano for a bit, half way through filling it out. So you may have got one and a half answers from me.... blame senility...)

lol actually it submitted itself 7 times, however only one was fully completed. Also Chris we were wondering, if would be ok with you, if we could use excerpts and quotes from your discussion board postings to help supplement our data once the final paper is written?

lol actually it submitted itself 7 times, however only one was fully completed.

Nooooo! :oops: :oops: :oops:

Sorry about that.

I was part way through completing it (with lengthy interuptions to play keyboard and guitar while I was thinking it through....) when I realised that I had run out of time. So I was attempting to copy a couple of the replies into a word processor, to save doing the whole thing again later. The Mac keyboard has a particular arrangement of buttons to press for those sort of tasks and I must have accidentally knocked an extra neighbouring one.... because it suddenly flipped onto the screen saying that it had been submitted. Not sure why it decided to do that six times though. Perhaps that's how many times it can repeat an action in the nano second before the accidental button tap was released? I hope it wasn't too hard to undo. :(

Dangerous combination - computers, clumsiness, and deteriorating eyesight, not to mention senility.... :o
Also Chris we were wondering, if would be ok with you, if we could use excerpts and quotes from your discussion board postings to help supplement our data once the final paper is written?

Of course, but thanks for asking. Once something is put up on the net you don't expect to have any real control over how people either understand it, or use it. If you're lucky, somebody will quote you as an example of something they agree with, but your words just as likely to be used to illustrate an attitude that's seen as wrong, confused, needing to be corrected, or whatever. That's fair enough too. So please feel free to use whatever you think fits what you're saying.

Cheers,

Chris

Wow Chris your endless ramblings have made you a bit more famous in the world. :D I say it in the good way, I always read your ramblings xD, I find them enlightening ( sp ? ) :P.