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Location: Michigan | one song that has always impressed me was classical gas by mason williams. after learning just a little bit of guitar in my teenage era i always wanted to learn this song before i get planted into my next life. it was classical gas and after trying to learn for 30 years i keep going back to it and still cant even get it started.
i am a average player and this song seems to always evade me playing it. i think it is to many chord changes to different keys that throws me.
oh well do you have a song that has evaded you after many years of wanting to play it ???
it would really be cool to hear it from some of our gig playing members who play in public often.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I know the first eight bars or so to Classical Gas. That's it!
Just like I know the intro to Stairway for Dummies. 
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I learned it from a Powertab. It was pretty accurate, except for the main melody. The tab had some screwy fingerings, but I saw Mason do it on YouTube and realized he stayed pretty much around the 5th fret. Start with A minor and G and go from there. It only took me about a year, a little bit almost every night. But I still skip a lot of the notes.
The one that I've had on the list the longest is Castles In the Air. I just don't have the patience for anything in drop D tuning. |
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Location: Muenster/Germany | I started with the guitar at the age of 9, and now I´m 57 and I played all the time.
But still when I was a young man and tried to play classical guitar for a while I found out that in nearly every piece of guitar music was at least one §%&? part that was UNPLAYBLE so I first decided to quit classical playing.
Later I found out that if I played the same piece MY WAY it worked -more or less.
Today I can play EVERYTHING I want, but I do not claim to play it NOTE for NOTE, some movements on the fretboard will NEVER be playable for me, but I don´t care. I can easily play the Villa-Lobos Nr.1 or Zawinul´s Birdland on the 12string guitar, but... I leave some notes out, that´s it. Who cares?
But in fact there is one song that I have been playing every now and then since the 1970´s and it §$%?= does not work properly and I LOVE IT: The "busted bicycle" by the great Leo Kottke. Ok I can play it and it sounds like it but I definetely would need one more thumb on the right hand for it. (Leo has two, or not?) |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I have a few... I just can't grasp the styles so what comes to the original artists naturally, just doesn't happen for me. It's not so much the notes, I could probably learn those, it's what happens between the notes. TAB and YouTube can help now, so I may revisit some of these. - Sultans Of Swing
- Classical Gas
- Intro to Crazy On You
- Europa
In all cases, it's more about the style that I can't seem to grasp than the notes. |
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Location: Pueblo West, CO | Classical Gas. Here's a youtube instructor who breaks it down really well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=146PjhfLMwE |
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| Classical Gas is out of my reach.
So is Embryonic Journey but I give a try every so often. I get a little piece of it every time I try, so eventually... |
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Location: SoCal | Jerry's Breakdown |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Louie Louie |
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Location: Jet City | La Villa Strangiato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1hmDpa8bo
Fingertalkin' (I'm oh so close though) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6YkvGl8C2g
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Location: Pueblo West, CO | Beal - 2016-12-16 3:46 PM
Louie Louie
Not Smoke on the Water? |
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What is the one song that you have been trying to learn all your life of and still cant get it?