Easy songs for a few inexperienced musicians

tallaght01

Hi guys,

Just looking for some advice. Myself and a few mates are getting together in a rehearsal studio in a few weeks for a bit of a jam.

Nothing serious at all. We're just doing it for a bit of banter. But we're all pretty inexperienced on our instruments AND the singer is a female, so we need songs with female vocals.

As we're all just starting out, the last time we did it we played "yellow" by coldplay, "live forever" by oasis, "creep" by radiohead and one or 2 other simple tunes that I don't remember.

But we had a male vocalist then.

I'm a bit stuck for ideas this time around. Anyone got any suggestions?

Many thanks.

tallaght01

I'm the drummer, btw, so I have a special interest in there being easy drums :P

Oh, and our guitarist is actually really good.

Wurly

What about -

Alannah Myles - Black Velvet

Rainbow - Since you've been gone

KT Tunstall - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

Am I in the right genre of music here, at all? I hope this helps anyway.

Must Have Music

Teenage Kicks works very well with female vocals!

My Favourite Game - the Cardigans,not too tricky to play n obviously female vocals there too

Last Night by the strokes

baker Street - Gerry rafferty/Foo Fighters

You don't need to stick with songs with female vocals....plenty of Muse stuff sounds great with female vocals! But if u def wanna go for female vocalists, try some regina spektor, martha wainwright or (dare i say it) avril lavigne, who has some pretty decent songs on her albums that were never released as singles.

My band has a female singer and we found these songs all worked very well, so give it a shot!

Alter-Ego

You really got me - The Kinks

Pi$$ easy and always a blast.

DJ_Brady

Anything by Amy MacDonald would be amazing really.
get her chords on www.ultimate-guitar.com
Shes brilliant and would be great for a female vocalist.
Try her song called " Run "

me-skywalker

Thin lizzy - Whiskey in the jar, dancing in the moonlight & dont believe a word

Jimi Hendrix/ van morrison - Gloria

pink floyd - another brick in the wall, wish you were here

Weezer - Hash Pipe, buddy holly,island in the sun

Kings of leon - Any song on the albums

BostonB

Pat Benatar, Heartbreaker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcSBurP8yLs&feature=related

Or Blondie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74xiXRxkKxc&feature=related

Or...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-NNitijboI

tallaght01

Cheers guys. I really appreciate the ideas. I'll bring them tot he others, and we'll have a chat about them.

Thanks again for taking the time to reply. Some really interesting ideas. Hopefully we'll be able to put something together that doesn't sound too disastrous :P