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What songs to learn?

  • 23-02-2006 01:00AM
    #1
    frobisher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭


    I've just realised that I've been playing the same songs at parties for too long!

    Time to crack a few new eggs.

    What cover songs are you playing? (one man and his guitar kind of stuff)


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  • #2
    Rustar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Rustar


    Can you sing? Stuff like Sting's 'Message in a Bottle' and Zep's 'Rain Song' come to mind....
    Can't think of anything else because I'm watching BB King right now, just bought his instructional DVD. There's like an hour and a half of him performing, as well as the instructional stuff!

    'Nobody Loves Me But My Mother' and 'The Thrill is Gone' could work solo, heheh! :v:


  • #3
    keyran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭keyran


    "The Wait" by the Band a Classic

    "Dont Think twice its alright" by Bob Dylan


  • #4
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,832 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Check out "Dya wanna play my guitar" by the saw doctors, great for parties


  • #5
    mickymg2003
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    Um...Classical Gas Maybe.


  • #6
    Rustar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Rustar


    Well...if you're good enough for Classical Gas, try Steve Howe's "The Clap". Another tune in that league would be Jorma Kaukonen's/Hot Tuna's "Genesis".


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  • #7
    Giblet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,025 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    The Smiths, This Charming Man


  • #8
    BossArky
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,763 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    Ones I usually play when doing the one man band thing in pubs or parties:

    - Brewing up a storm, .....The Stunning
    - Under the bridge, ......Chilli Peppers
    - 3 little birds, Is this love, Jamming, Buffalo Soldier ..... Marley
    - Dancing in the Moonlight, ... Thin Lizzy
    - Love me 2 Times, Break on thru, light my fire.... Doors
    - Alive, Black, rocking in the free world.... Pearl Jam
    - I'm a believer ....Monkeys
    - Twist and Shout, Ticket to Ride.... Beatles

    etc..


  • #9
    The Agogo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭The Agogo


    where do you start...

    give a list next time!...

    eh how bout either a) writing your own or b)

    #Beatles
    #Jeff Buckley
    #Kate Melue
    #irish trad
    #acoustic and original versions of popular rock songs

    Use your head and do what Rod and Gab did,
    they rewrote many songs in a south-american genre..very smart
    i suggest doin the same thing


  • #10
    pclancy
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    Loads of music shops have acoustic books/tabs with stuff like "100 best acoustic songs" with easy chords and lyrics.


  • #11
    dimerocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭dimerocks


    If I fell, the beatles. Can't go wrong with that. freaking out graham coxon would be interesting.


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  • #12
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    It really depends on your music style...

    For me, i like to play:

    Heartbeats - Jose Gonzales
    Paranoid Android - Radiohead
    Bouree - J S Bach
    Classical Gas - Williams Mason
    Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
    Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Most of the time though, I just play my own stuff or a basic blues improv...Its the most fun thing to do


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