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Location: Vernon CT | I'm not so interested in learning a specific song as I am learning how to Improvise over one.
May not be exact but close. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've been going with fits and starts on Crazy On You. Before that it was Hotel California. I haven't been as diligent lately as I used to be. Close isn't good enough for me, so I need a ton of time and repetition. Then I get distracted by something like Santana's Smooth and spend a whole evening working on that.
Mostly I redo all the stuff I know and don't get around to new stuff. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Stairway to Heaven :rolleyes: |
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Location: Jet City | Mark, you get Hotel down, I have you covered on the lead.
I'm trying to get "Jimi Thing" down, playing and singing. The rhythms of the playing and singing are so different it's been making it difficult for me. |
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Location: GA USA | There are quite a few:
Just One Victory by Todd Rundgren
Get me by Dinosaur Jr
Oddfellows Local 151 by REM
Something by Beatles(on uke)
Magnolia Mountain by Ryan Adams
Jolene by Ray LaMontagne
I Got Mine by The Black Keys
Kinda Like You by Kevn Kinney
Underground Umbrella by Drivin' n Cryin'
I've Just Seen A Face by Beatles
Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy by Paul Simon
About A Girl by Nirvana
I just need more time or a little discipline. |
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Location: Wichita, KS | I'm working on Dave Mason's "We just disagree" and "I'm Your Captain" by Grand Funk. I'm just not finding the practice time to get them down. Maybe after football season... |
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Location: closely held secret | Still working on "Creation Dream", Bruce Cockburn. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Damon, just get over here and teach me the lead to Hotel California, or for that matter, the lead for anything. I'm tired of learning a song until it gets to the lead part and then never getting any further. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I have a plethora ... but since I have to pick one:
Mountain of Love ---- Johnny Rivers
What I do with leads is I either just abandon doing them, or, learn them by rote. Memorize one note, then the second then the third, then the fourth etc, then play it against the record.
I like Johnny Ramone's take on this, when he said, he couldn't be bothered with complicated lead work. Life is too short. Or something like that. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I Love My Guitar, by Brad Davis
I got the chords but need to spend a little more time on the lead parts.
That's the only song that comes to mind. I don't play many cover tunes, most of the time is trying to write stuff for the Frickin LadyFish for Wednesday nights. |
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Location: PDX | For me, i hope this is a list that never gets completed. As i put one under my fingers there is a next one.
Currently working on:
finger style arrangements for Cold Cold Heart
and Waltz for Debbie.
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Location: Omaha, NE | I wish I could play like this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xonMPypUtU4 |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Oh... Omaha, if we are gonna wish...
I ain't to much on fingerpicking...
But this guy uses a pick.... While we are \'wishing\' :D
Yeehaw! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Variations on a Theme by Handel, by Mauro Giuliani. I've got the first movement down, but it is a LONG piece, and with this classical stuff, you need to play it every day, or you forget. (I've forgotten more Bach than I can play.)
And now of course, I am working on Embryonic Journey on the banjo. |
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Location: CA | Among the many:
* Classical Gas
* I'm Going Home
* Anything by Eric Turnbull |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just remembered one that's been on mine for a long time and I can't figure out: Castles in the Air. Maybe I'll try the ASD for that. One of the problems I have with Don McLean's stuff is that I don't think he bothered to tune his guitar, except to itself when he recorded some of it. |
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Location: Jet City | Canterbury, you reminded me, I've also been attempting "Petite Etude" from Rik Emmett.
The second part is killin me.
I'd love to learn his piece called "Fingertalking" too, however I don;t think I have enough years left in my life to master that one.
This guy's got it down though, WOW! (really worth a look) Fingertalking |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Wow, I might be able to do Petite Etude, but I'm afraid I don't have the speed to do Fingertalking. If you noticed in that thread asking for jazz suggestions, most of the songs I named were slow ones. Everyone has their strong points and weak points. Speed is definitly my weakest! |
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| This one:
The Brilliancy Medley by Fairport Convention.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=beATl3QI2X8
I have a version of it that I worked out back in the 70s and I can play fast enough to do it but my version isn't accurate and I'm too lazy to get it right.
Just found the youtube clip a few weeks ago - maybe I'll mess with it some more now.
I saw these same players along with Sandy Denny in Toronto during the early 70s and they did this song.
When I saw them the lead player was using an Ovation and that was pretty much my inspiration to buy one. So in 1974 I sold my electric stuff to buy the ovation guitar that I still have today. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Should be "what tunes!" In no particular order...
Wondering where the Lions are - Bruce Cockburn
Guru Man Blues - Eric Bibb
Lullaby - Shawn Mullins.
and (of course) Classical Gas.
I must be the only person on this board that ISN'T interested in Crazy On You.
I'd also like to get a repertoire of blues riffs under my belt for jammin'.
And, after Damon teaches Mark how to play lead, he's invited downunder to teach all of us, starting with ME! |
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Location: Michigan | I got 3 I'd like to work on over the upcoming winter as my skill level improves.
All acoustic versions of course.
Things Goin On - Skynard
Outside Woman Blues - Clapton
Key to the Highway - Clapton
Wally |
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Location: NJ | ". . I must be the only person on this board that ISN'T interested in Crazy On You . ."
No.
You're Not. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Teaching me to play lead might be harder than me teaching him to play Classical Gas. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Oh sooo many... but "Classical Gas" is at the top of my list.
There are several things that I like to see/do before I go to the 'Big Jam':
TB Lightning/Stanley Cup - done
TB Bucs/Super Bowl - done
TB Rays/finish over .500 - done
Attend an OFC Jam - done
Learn "Classical Gas" to near perfection - oh well...
Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
I just need more time or a little discipline. Jas, in my case that sould read ' lots of discipline'! |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
TB Lightning/Stanley Cup - done
TB Bucs/Super Bowl - done
TB Rays/finish over .500 - done Hey - no politics! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Hey - no politics! Aren't those closer to religions for most folk? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | There was an article in the paper today about exorcising the Devil from the Rays and how the team has improved since. Sorry, Al, for the religious comment. |
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Location: south east Michigan | There has been a plethera of new tunes thrown into the stew pot as of late.
Overkill
Strawberry Fields
Come Together
Tell Her No (Zombies)
Once in the pot they may bubble up and be ready pretty quickly or they might sink back down to the bottom until we are ready to take another run at it.
Nowhere Man & Two of Us have recently come out of the pot and are ready for public consumption. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Nowhere Man & Two of Us have recently come out of the pot and are ready for public consumption. I hope they make it on to your 'ning' page.
I've been looking forward to hearing "2 of us". |
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Location: south east Michigan | Thanks...
Brin & I want to record more. It's just finding the time. |
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What tune is on your 'Wish List'