Fellow Twangers,

I have a couple more questions for you wise gods of wood!!

When you see a chord progression in tab form is it necessary to play it exact as some tab just tells you to play maybe 2 or 3 strings of a particular chord?

Also in most tab form there are no rythym lines and I cant read music anyway so is there any way I can workout a strumming pattern and find whether I should be playing a down stroke or up stroke when this is not indicated on the tab. My ear for music is not the best so I find it difficult to work out from listening to the record (especially when the music is heavily distorted!!)

Is there any way I can improve my musical ear, i.e my mate is in a band and can just listen to a song and then play it back pretty much immediately (he has been playing for 18 yrs or so though and i've only been playing for a year!!)

Thanks Dudes/ Dudettes!!!