Foo - Fun songs to play on Guitar

Seek and Destroy- Metallica
Hell Bent for Leather- Judas Priest (the tapping solo is so ace, especially on my acoustic :D)
Blackbird- The Beatles
Last 1.5min of Seabeast, by Mastodon is bliss. I feel like Erwin Rommel riding a T-rex when I play this.

Fellow guitarofiles, what say you?

Superstition

Caught Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden
Crazy Train - 0zzy

stairway to heaven

smoke on the water

Baby Got Back!

Couch

Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones

Easy as all get-out to do the basics. Much more difficult to nail that loose rhythm and get all the tasty fills that are running around it. Great tune to jam with and play with the rhythms. Works electric/acoustic/slow/fast. Lot of fun when you've got a good bassist and drummer who listen to what's going on and will change things up.

And I'm not even that much of a Stones fan.

Freebird

Jailhouse Rock

stairway to heaven

smoke on the water

please leave now!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ahuvxRitU74/RpDFKsIkCHI/AAAAAAAADJQ/eVaauR_sANA/s400/guitarras.jpg

please leave now!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ahuvxRitU74/RpDFKsIkCHI/AAAAAAAADJQ/eVaauR_sANA/s400/guitarras.jpg

they forgot "dream On"


wait, did I just date myself?

Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain

ok, i'm done for now :)

they forgot "dream On"


wait, did I just date myself?

only you know that I hope.

Anything SRV.

Couch

If only I had the skill necessary to play SRV!

only you know that I hope.

I was fun, but a little on the easy side.

If only I had the skill necessary to play SRV!

Start with Jimmie, build up a lot of callouses and work your way up:D

I worked for a long time to nail Cream-era Clapton...I finally got it, more or less, at one point many years ago, but now i can barely play that stuff....sooooo rusty.:cry:

"Never Going Back Again" - Fleetwood Mac

"Dun Ringill" - Jethro Tull

"Blackbird" - The Beatles

"Hot For Teacher" - Van Halen

"Black Water" - Doobie Brothers

"Play With Fire" - Rolling Stones

"Never Going Back Again" - Fleetwood Mac

"Play With Fire" - Rolling Stones

I can sorta do Play with Fire - love those chords.

I would love to be able to fingerpick like on the FM tune.

YouTube - Norwegian Wood Cover (This bird has flown)

YouTube - Hispaniola

BTW, in guitar shops, "Blackbird" is considered the acoustic equivalent of "Stairway To Heaven"...i.e. the song most played by people who pick up a non-amplified guitar. Honorary mention goes to "Dust In The Wind" by Kansas.

I forgot to put the latter on my list too. :lol:

BTW, in guitar shops, "Blackbird" is considered the acoustic equivalent of "Stairway To Heaven"...i.e. the song most played by people who pick up a non-amplified guitar. Honorary mention goes to "Dust In The Wind" by Kansas.

I forgot to put the latter on my list too. :lol:

Gah!!! Don't do it Suzie!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:

I heart playing this 'un (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s78nEIkFCAQ&feature=related)

and stuff like this here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YwU48QJ1Gw)

und dis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlBip8CV1P8&feature=fvst)

or dat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8oGyGo1q-k)

or the other thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etzBXz30LQU)

stairway to heaven

smoke on the water

Burn him.

Little Feat's Dixie Chicken.

I like the cool little guitar hook lead in.

Metallica - Am I Evil
The Cars - Just What I Needed
The Police - Sending Out An SOS
Anything by Slayer

Little Feat's Dixie Chicken.

I like the cool little guitar hook lead in.

CK Dexter Haven, you have unsuspected depth!:lol:

Good choice. That's a great tune.:thumb:

Good choice. That's a great tune.:thumb:

I can play the living **** out of that song too.

Many Beatles tunes are great fun to play - Rain, 8 Days a Week, Two Of Us are some of my favs.
Classic Stones like Brown Sugar and Angie.
Heaps of Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl, Tell Me Why, Down By The River...
Early Who like Substitute, Kids Are Alright.
When electric, few things beat playing AC/DC tunes like Highway To Hell, Back In Black and Shook Me All Night long.

I guess you could say mostly white Anglo's playing R&B influenced music.

The Asturias, by Albeniz is really fun to play. :D

YouTube - John Williams - Isaac Albeniz - Asturias (Leyenda) (1975)

Louis Louis
Wild Thing :innocent:
Southern Cross
Wish You Were Here

I like Norwegian Wood, Mother Nature's Son and Blackbird too, all on acoustic guitar.

I had to add a few more acoustic fingerpicking tunes...mainly because I don't own an electric!

1. Currently I am learning (but struggling with) "Little Martha" by Duane Allman
2. "Ventura Highway" by America (I love the intro riff)
3. "Dead Or Alive" by BonJovi
4. "4 + 20" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young. EBEEBE tuning...I can play this one really well!
5. "Hotel California" by The Eagles
6. "From The Beginning" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
7. "Mother Goose" by Jethro Tull
8. "End Of The Line" by Traveling Wilburys

I can play the living **** out of that song too.

Is there slide on that one? I am hearing that part where they sing along with the guitar line....

Lowell was a terrible loss...so young!

[QUOTE=Suzie Green;9210835]I had to add a few more acoustic fingerpicking tunes...mainly because I don't own an electric!


"4 + 20" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young. EBEEBE tuning...I can play this one really well!


Stephen Stills' finest moment, imo.:thumb: I love "Find the Cost of Freedom" as well....

I went on a massive Byrds kick some months ago...David Crosby, once upon a time, had one of the finest voices on God's Green Earth.:love:

The Asturias, by Albeniz is really fun to play. :D

YouTube - John Williams - Isaac Albeniz - Asturias (Leyenda) (1975) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8l4KijBA0)

that piece is one of the most technical pieces I ever played... on the piano :innocent:
seriously- I played plenty of Chopin & Mozart pieces that were not that technically demanding.

/piano tangent

BTW, in guitar shops, "Blackbird" is considered the acoustic equivalent of "Stairway To Heaven"...i.e. the song most played by people who pick up a non-amplified guitar. Honorary mention goes to "Dust In The Wind" by Kansas.

I forgot to put the latter on my list too. :lol:

Heh, blackbird was the first song I learned how to play.

black dog was #2.

stairway was #3.

The Asturias, by Albeniz is really fun to play. :D

YouTube - John Williams - Isaac Albeniz - Asturias (Leyenda) (1975) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8l4KijBA0)

:eek: And I thought I was badass for getting bouree down...

that piece is one of the most technical pieces I ever played... on the piano :innocent:
seriously- I played plenty of Chopin & Mozart pieces that were not that technically demanding.

/piano tangent


:eek: And I thought I was badass for getting bouree down...

You'll notice I didn't post ME playing it, I posted John Williams doing it. I can barely work through the first half. I will eventually master this piece, though and post a vid of me playing it. :p

And I just can't resist! My short interpretation:


http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/TomStormcrowe/th_StairwaytoHeaven.jpg (http://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/TomStormcrowe/?action=view&current=StairwaytoHeaven.flv)

Heh, blackbird was the first song I learned how to play.

black dog was #2.

stairway was #3.

4 real? That's not exactly an easy tune to play!

And I just can't resist! My short interpretation:


http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/TomStormcrowe/th_StairwaytoHeaven.jpg (http://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/TomStormcrowe/?action=view&current=StairwaytoHeaven.flv)

That was nice Tom. I don't mind hearing people play StH, esp. if it is done well...

Fun electric song in E:

me frontin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8rlUO3Cis)

the real McCoy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByzA90gpyzE)

4 real? That's not exactly an easy tune to play!

I didn't say I played it well!

What made matters worse is that I didn't start using a pick until september, so I fingerpicked everything (I started playing february '08). Do you have any idea how ridiculous master of puppets is when fingerpicked? :eek:

I didn't say I played it well!

What made matters worse is that I didn't start using a pick until september, so I fingerpicked everything (I started playing february '08). Do you have any idea how ridiculous master of puppets is when fingerpicked? :eek:

:lol: that sounds interesting.....

Beck went from pick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATu5ZVUO0KI&feature=related) to no pick around '84. Didn't hurt him any.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfL6ATX1i4&feature=related)

20+ years later (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msPiKYuuRiQ&feature=related), he's only gotten more amazing!

Is there slide on that one? I am hearing that part where they sing along with the guitar line....

Lowell was a terrible loss...so young!

Doesn't sound like it on the lead in, but there's always slide in those Little Feat songs, both from the L. George and the post Lowell era. I play it without a slide, figured it out by ear, so for all I know they play it completely different. But my version sounds pretty close to the recording.

Baroque guitar pieces like La Pavanas by Gaspar Sans.

That and the Violent Femmes Blister In the Sun

You'll notice I didn't post ME playing it, I posted John Williams doing it. I can barely work through the first half. I will eventually master this piece, though and post a vid of me playing it. :p

keep after it! There are a few pieces that kept me motivated because I was so determined that I'd play them some day... yeah, keep after it, I'd love to see a vid when you get there!

These are decent easy songs (Standard A440 tuning):

Warren Zevon, Exciteable boy E,A,B, F#

Warren Zevon, Poor poor pitiful me C,G,D

Beatles, Get back A,D,G

CCR, Bad moon Rising D,A,G

CCR, Down on the corner, C, G, F

Jimmy Buffet, Margariettaville A,D,G

Alice Cooper, Escape E,B,A (with C,D,B in the bridge)

Dave Edmunds, Almost saturday night D,G,A

Judas Priest, Livin' after midnight C,D,A,G

Roger Miller, England Swings D,A,G

Scorpions, No one like you A,F,G,C

BTO, You ain't seen nothing yet, A,G,D - A,E,D in chorus.

Gordon Lightfoot, Sundown, F#, B,E,C#

Paul Simon, Me & Julio down by the school yard, A,D,E

ELO, DoYa, D,A,G

Foghat, Third time lucky, C, F, G

Sweet, Little Willy, E, A, B (go one step up at the end, F#, B, C#)

Sweet, Fox on the run, B, A, E

The Who, Can't explain, E, D, A, B

Albert Hammond, It never rains in So. Calif. , B, E, A, F#

Johnathan Edwards, Sunshine, Bb, F, Eb, G#

B.W. Stevenson, My Maria, E, B, A

BTO, Ain't seen nothing yet, A,G, D, E

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Those are the most used chords in those songs.Based on what *I* hear.

I am not a pro so Corrections welcomed!

Surprised no one mentioned these:
Tull: Sossity
CSN: Wooden Ships (the Airplane version is pretty good too, but it works better acoustic, IMO)
Santana: Europa

The Asturias, by Albeniz is really fun to play. :D


I've only ever tried the first 16 bars of that -- but tried to learn it WAY before I was ready so it didn't go too well. I've recently been working on John Dowland's Fantasia. Just beautiful, beautiful music, and immensely rewarding to play.

I know it's come up before, but I loves me some John Dowland.:love:

I can't begin to imagine playing that stuff myself but i sure have fun listening to it!