What song are you learning to play?

[Superhero 8827]

Don’t know how this Jimmy Page / Robert Plant album ever slipped by, but I finally listened to Walking into Clarksdale from beginning to end. I love the song While The World Was Young. Real catchy, and it doesn’t have a solo. I found the tablature online, but some parts are transcribed pretty poorly, so fiddled around until I found a way to play it easier.

 

Now onto the Comfortable Numb second solo...

[TexasEd 8066]

Waiting until I have something interesting to add.  Right now I'm learning my scales, transferring the notes on the staff to my fingers (Old violin player learning that I have to skip a finger when playing the next natural note is tripping me up a little), and working on techniques like chord transitions, hammer-ons, slurs, and pull-offs.

I've pretty much nailed Ode to Joy though.

Edited July 4, 2018 by TexasEd

[Celery Man 20931]

I was briefly trying to do a song a week.  Not anything crazy, just spend half an hour picking up the changes of a new song every week to gradually expand the library of songs I noodle around on.  I did Townes' version of Dead Flowers, April (Simon and Garfunkel), New York (Ryan Adams).  I was thinking about starting a thread to keep myself accountable.  Maybe I'll do that here, could be fun.  Here's April from a few weeks back, I'll have to think of something for this week

 

[Mojo Hand 4580]

I made a list of about 85 Grateful Dead songs that I'm trying to nail down.   I'm working my way through them now for the third time. 

[BrickHorn 18216]

Was working on the solo to “You Shook Me” this afternoon.  I haven’t been learning a lot of songs lately.  Mostly focused on soloing, and making up licks.

[NoRagrets 1125]

On 7/4/2018 at 1:00 PM, Celery Man said:

I was briefly trying to do a song a week.  Not anything crazy, just spend half an hour picking up the changes of a new song every week to gradually expand the library of songs I noodle around on.  I did Townes' version of Dead Flowers, April (Simon and Garfunkel), New York (Ryan Adams).  I was thinking about starting a thread to keep myself accountable.  Maybe I'll do that here, could be fun.  Here's April from a few weeks back, I'll have to think of something for this week

 

Chords are easy but you did a great job on the nuance of the picking. Sounded really clean.

[NoRagrets 1125]

Solo to running down a dream.

i consider myself a pretty good lead, but that shit where he's bending two strings at once is hard as F.

[noharleyyet 2838]

Fooled Again....

[Celery Man 20931]

Trying to something different - roughly Baby Please Don't Go (Lightning Hopkins), but really just trying to get that thumb on the steady bassline, picking the melody with the other digits thing going.  It's tough.

 

[Mojo Hand 4580]

On 7/6/2018 at 11:48 PM, NoRagrets said:

Solo to running down a dream.

i consider myself a pretty good lead, but that shit where he's bending two strings at once is hard as F.

Which part is that?   I used to do that solo in my band and don't remember bending two strings at once.   But maybe I was doing it wrong. 

[TexasEd 8066]

Been working on the chord progression for Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams for a few days.  Getting pretty decent at it and 3/4 speed.  Seems like an easy way to learn that chord dexterity.

 

[BrickHorn 18216]

I decided to finally learn the guitar part to the Good, Bad, and the Ugly theme.  Pretty fun little walk-down at the end.  

[NBMisha 224]

Been also doing TVZ version of Dead Flowers, having fun with the double base line rambling picking version of Freight Train.  Then the Fleetwood Mac thread had me trying out some acoustic version of Tusk.  (!)  The singing part is damn fun, but irritates the hell out of the wife.

 

From the posts above, I think Baby Please Don't Go is next.

[Hamttx 419]

Strangely Gary Rossington’s rhythm part to Sweet Home Alabama. Though simply in theory, extremely difficult to get exactly right.

Word is Ed King wouldn’t even let it be filmed when they produced the latest Documentary on Skynyrd. When he told His version of the songs birth, he quickly strums Gary’s part off camera before dropping his own iconical opening lick.

[tbone_ 14110]

Lately mostly 3 chords and the truth solo acoustic type stuff. Today was “Last of My Kind”.

 

[Celery Man 20931]

Been fiddling around with a lot of Ryan Adams stuff lately.  His songs are often that nice mix of cowboy chords with a little bit of nuance (walk up here, hold the G on this chord and then go to this version of the G chord, pick it out in this order, etc) to make interesting.  Lucky Now was playing in the background of something or other on TV the other day so I picked that one out.

This is a Townes song that has been fun to learn, and I think a good one for doing the melodic chord thing (moving between chords and picking a melody as you strum).  Song kicks off at 1 minute after the corny joke that Jerry Jeff Walker told him.  capo 2nd fret, starts on Am, C, Dm, Em, Em/G).  Unfortunately I don't think I will ever be able to sing along.

 

Edited November 18, 2018 by Celery Man

[Buzzrock 14902]

Currently in rotation is the opening riff to Money For Nothing. One of those that isn't too hard to play "OK", damn hard to nail.

[tbone_ 14110]

Currently in rotation is the opening riff to Money For Nothing. One of those that isn't too hard to play "OK", damn hard to nail.

My current attempts at dance the night away also fall in this category.

[Buzzrock 14902]

My current attempts at dance the night away also fall in this category.

Oh man I bet. Just thinking of that riff in my head...sounds hard to do smoothly.

[noharleyyet 2838]

Started learning Wes Montgomery's Sundown Friday....gonna be a long haul

[tbone_ 14110]

Oh man I bet. Just thinking of that riff in my head...sounds hard to do smoothly.

The Bogner LaGrange pedal is a big help. Gnarliest Marshall I’ve ever played.

[Celery Man 20931]

This is some low hanging fruit.  Sounds nice, takes not even the length of the tutorial video to "get" it (spoiler - chorus is C D G E C D E)

 

[Buzzrock 14902]

Finding myself somewhat re-obsessed with Ghost after seeing them a couple weeks ago. Been working on this righteous 70s-esque riffage. Lotsa reverb helps. 

 

[NBMisha 224]

Longish trip back Thursday from HOU via ATL to MLB.  Riding south on US1 about midnight listening to Deep Tracks, up came Neil Young's Sugar Mountain, the live version from the live Rust album circa 1978.  The combination of his voice, for once in fine form, and the superbly gently embellished simple acoustic guitar was near perfect.  I'd heard this song a million times but was never entranced like this.  Two days later I have the instrumental down ok but a bad cold prevents any singing for now.

[NBMisha 224]

On 11/18/2018 at 11:40 AM, Celery Man said:

Been fiddling around with a lot of Ryan Adams stuff lately.  His songs are often that nice mix of cowboy chords with a little bit of nuance (walk up here, hold the G on this chord and then go to this version of the G chord, pick it out in this order, etc) to make interesting.  Lucky Now was playing in the background of something or other on TV the other day so I picked that one out.

This is a Townes song that has been fun to learn, and I think a good one for doing the melodic chord thing (moving between chords and picking a melody as you strum).  Song kicks off at 1 minute after the corny joke that Jerry Jeff Walker told him.  capo 2nd fret, starts on Am, C, Dm, Em, Em/G).  Unfortunately I don't think I will ever be able to sing along.

 

Had this double LP way back when, in the first incarnation of learning.  Loved doing this song.  Pancho and Lefty, Tecumseh Valley, and who can forget the Golden Ships of Andilar?

[noharleyyet 2838]

Acoustic Pretzal Logic...

[tantric superman 4667]

Using a shell thumb and finger pick to do Steve Earle's version of TVZ's Colorado Girl.  Open D.  Fun.

[Buzzrock 14902]

Longish trip back Thursday from HOU via ATL to MLB.  Riding south on US1 about midnight listening to Deep Tracks, up came Neil Young's Sugar Mountain, the live version from the live Rust album circa 1978.  The combination of his voice, for once in fine form, and the superbly gently embellished simple acoustic guitar was near perfect.  I'd heard this song a million times but was never entranced like this.  Two days later I have the instrumental down ok but a bad cold prevents any singing for now.

I love that Deep Tracks station as well as Classic Vinyl.

[Buzzrock 14902]

I’ve been trying for years to play this even somewhat smoothly:

https://youtu.be/-vW9sEHekD

Deceptive little track. Here’s the studio version

[Buzzrock 14902]

I’ve been trying for years to play this even somewhat smoothly:

https://youtu.be/-vW9sEHekD

Deceptive little track. Here’s the studio version

[Chad Fuck 17659]

Drummer (old college buddy) is throwing a 50th bday party for his wife and 18th for the daughter (no pics).  We're going to be one of two bands playing.  He picked a bunch of Dead songs to learn, because these two particular ladies love them some Dead.  Trying to learn this bass line.  Goddam, Phil Lesh bass lines are busy.

 

[Chad Fuck 17659]

This guy isn't playing exactly the same lines as Phil, but it's a pretty good approximation.  His patterns are a little easier to follow:

Learning this one as well.  Lots of fun:

 

[Mojo Hand 4580]

5 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Drummer (old college buddy) is throwing a 50th bday party for his wife and 18th for the daughter (no pics).  We're going to be one of two bands playing.  He picked a bunch of Dead songs to learn, because these two particular ladies love them some Dead.  Trying to learn this bass line.  Goddam, Phil Lesh bass lines are busy.

 

Which songs are y'all doing?  Let me know if any questions come up for guitar or about key, etc.   I've been doing nothing but learning 60+ Dead songs for the past year, so I might be able to help.   If you need guitar tabs, jdarks is by far the best, though I haven't looked for bass stuff:   http://jdarks.com/GDTab.html

Edited January 4, 2019 by Mojo Hand

[Chad Fuck 17659]

I'm playing bass on this gig.  Here's the GD set list:

Cold Rain and Snow (2/78) - I have the groove pretty good, but some of the changes strike me as a little odd timing wise

They Love Each Other 

Standing on the Moon (this may be the easiest song on bass ever.  Unless I can think of one with just two notes instead of three.)

Tennessee Jed (solo structure is a little weird, but okay).

Touch of Grey as mentioned.

Thanks for the link!

 

[BrickHorn 18216]

Watched “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” recently and have been playing this all day:

 

[Dolemite 143]

J/K

 

[noharleyyet 2838]

Sara Smiles....