suggest some songs

cantdecide

i'm a guitarist but i know i don't much like playing alone at home. can anyone suggest any instrumental guitar music that might be fun for me to learn and help sharpen my skills. i've learnt a few by clapton and fleetwood mac but i can't think of anything........

McPedro

Atm I am tryin to get a handle on Steve Howe, hes a legend.
Try get your hands on some of his live tours, its really nice music to play:)

cantdecide

good call:)

Rigsby

Depending on your skill level you could experiment with some jazz-rock fusion. Mike Stern and John Mc Laughlin are two that spring to mind. As you like Eric Clapton you might also like Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter and Gary Moore.

shatners basoon

Theres sheet music (and legal tab) for 2 steve howe songs on the steve morse's website http://www.stevemorse.com/ which i highly recommend learning called the clap and mood for a day. They were the first fingerstyle songs i learned and are really great fun. They're probably on youtube if you need to hear them

Other guitarists i'd recommend are Leo Kottke- http://youtube.com/watch?v=wQKbwLqKEOI&mode=related&search=

Michael Hedges
http://youtube.com/watch?v=29CMRsWlDt0

Pierre Bensusan (also tours Ireland alot and is REALLY worth seeing) Intuite is probably his best album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEbeHavDDDc&mode=related&search=
http://www.pierrebensusan.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=291
Oh and cavatina from the deer hunter (john williams guitar) is a nice easy song to learn too that most ppl know and will go ooooo when you play it:p

cantdecide

bensusan and hedges, i can remenber that:p

stevejazzx

shatners basoon wrote:

Theres sheet music (and legal tab) for 2 steve howe songs on the steve morse's website http://www.stevemorse.com/ which i highly recommend learning called the clap and mood for a day. They were the first fingerstyle songs i learned and are really great fun. They're probably on youtube if you need to hear them

Other guitarists i'd recommend are Leo Kottke- http://youtube.com/watch?v=wQKbwLqKEOI&mode=related&search=

Michael Hedges
http://youtube.com/watch?v=29CMRsWlDt0

Pierre Bensusan (also tours Ireland alot and is REALLY worth seeing) Intuite is probably his best album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEbeHavDDDc&mode=related&search=
http://www.pierrebensusan.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=291
Oh and cavatina from the deer hunter (john williams guitar) is a nice easy song to learn too that most ppl know and will go ooooo when you play it:p

Shanters you think cavantina is easy?
It's a grade six/seven guitar piece.
Now I've been playin it years but I seldom recommend it to students unless they're pretty accomplished.
The solo guitar by Williams is excellent and well worth it though.

Mr. Green Genes

You can't really go wrong with anything by Django Reinhardt or Trace Bundy.

Although my favourite ones would be:
Jeff Beck - You know what I mean / Constipated Duck
Bumblefoot - Don Pardo Pimpwagon
Frank Zappa - Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus / Peaches en Regalia
Captain Beefheart - anything off Trout Mask Replica!

Any Frank Gambale or Shawn Lane would keep you on your toes too.

Blackhorse Slim

cantdecide wrote:

i'm a guitarist but i know i don't much like playing alone at home. can anyone suggest any instrumental guitar music that might be fun for me to learn and help sharpen my skills. i've learnt a few by clapton and fleetwood mac but i can't think of anything........

A nice piece along those lines is In Memory of Elizabeth Reed by the Allman Brothers Band. They are a jam band, so most performances are pretty loose and improvised, but there's plenty in the core melody/progression to keep you interested.

shatners basoon

stevejazzx wrote:

Shanters you think cavantina is easy?
It's a grade six/seven guitar piece.
Now I've been playin it years but I seldom recommend it to students unless they're pretty accomplished.
The solo guitar by Williams is excellent and well worth it though.

Always felt it was one of those introductory fingerstyle pieces like classical gas, so in comparison to most hedges or bensusan stuff yeah i do think its really easy ,however, if one is not used to fingerstyle though its probably a different story- so its all relative!

Mr Green Genes wrote:

ou can't really go wrong with anything by Django Reinhardt or Trace Bundy.

Although my favourite ones would be:
Jeff Beck - You know what I mean / Constipated Duck
Bumblefoot - Don Pardo Pimpwagon
Frank Zappa - Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus / Peaches en Regalia
Captain Beefheart - anything off Trout Mask Replica!

Now thats the **** right there! Though i never though about learning any Beefheart guess it requires a different kind of skill than standard guitar playing!:p
I most definately second Jeff Beck though, Blow by Blow is imo probably the best instrumental rock album along with Hot Rats by Frank Zappa. They're the sort of albums that make you wanna play lots and lots of guitar!

Oh and should you ever see to venture out to find the best guitarists in the world you'll have to start listening to jazz !

stevejazzx

shatners basoon wrote:

Always felt it was one of those introductory fingerstyle pieces like classical gas, so in comparison to most hedges or bensusan stuff yeah i do think its really easy ,however, if one is not used to fingerstyle though its probably a different story- so its all relative!

So you're a maestro then?
It's certainly easy enough if one is a master of the guitar. What transcripion do you use? I know some professors of classical guitar who use as a concert piece. Don't get get me wrong it's playable but only if one is already a quite accomplised guitarist as i said before it is a grade 6 rated piece. theres only 1 further grade, maybe 2 depending on the curriculum (in guitar theory anyway). So indeed you're correct it is all relative and pieicies like are easy for experts. Can you play any Rodrgio, Albeniz?

shanters wrote:

Oh and should you ever see to venture out to find the best guitarists in the world you'll have to start listening to jazz !

Hold on i'll take a stab at it:

Paco De Lucia -
Plays the whole classical guitar repretoire, Jazz with Mclaughlin and even concertos with orchestras. However his flamenco discipline is probably the greatest of all time and flamenco in the words of Julian Bream (one the greatest classical guitarists of the 20th century) is the hardest music of all on the guitar.

John Mclaughlin
His work with shakti and his continual ability to cross the boundaries of genre coupled with his phenomenal technique rate JM as one the best players ever to pick up a plec. He is astoundingly fast and one of the most accomplished musicians in any genre.

Alirion Diaz
Check out Alirio Diaz here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XQ-XifFZL0
An absolute mosnter of a guitarist.
Invocation y danza is probably the most difficult pieice ever written for guitar. No one plays it in concert, well except Diaz. Check out his Rodrgio stuff the best around.

Now you put some of the modern percussionists in there if you want but honestly I don't theink they stand up. the 3 above are what I would describe as masters of the instrument.