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Location: North Carolina | Continuing with the "favorites" theme, what is your favorite acoustic guitar riff? Mine is the 12-string intro to "Ventura Highway" by America. I also like the 12-string intro by Jimmy Page in "Over the hills and far away"?
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Location: Upper Left USA | Recently found a way to do "Grand Canyon" with a cut capo and down tuned low E to A. Just loving it. Haunting.
When I pick up a 12 string it is hard not to do "Over the Hill", Turn, Turn, Turn, or Wish you were here.
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Location: Kirkland, WA | So many riffs...so little time. Mine is Europa by Carlos Santana. I always picture a beautiful ice skater perfoming to this one. |
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Location: NJ | Good one, Wask!
"Sister Moonshine" is another one . . . |
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| It's the newest song I have learned! It's fairly simple but it has a real "Hook" for me...I fell right in love with it after not hearing it for 20 years. It's a Live version of Led Zep's "That's the Way"
Bob happens to be right exactly in the center of my vocal range, on this song, so I am doing this one solo right now until our Guitarist learns the mandolin parts.
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Location: closely held secret | !! Right, Cliff - I forgot about that one. I spent a lot of time in the 70's listening to ST and Fogelberg. "These Days" and "Old Tennesee" are great, too. |
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Location: NJ | Randy;
Are y'doing that one using a "G" tuning?? |
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| Yeah Cliff; I have been tuning then using a capo on the "G" this is easy enough for now but I want that sound you get when the strings have the full intonation. So I will have to buy another Ovation and set the neck to take the tension so I can use it in between other songs and leave it tuned like this from time to time on stage. You have to crank the strings pretty hard to get the "G" out of it Ya know?
I am seriously considering a nice older Custom Legend or perhaps another an Adamas that is cheap enough for this.
I am having a blast working on Jimmy's stuff right now. I am respecting this guy, more than I already did, as I try and learn his stuff!
Some of it is just plain "FUN" I find myself grinnin from ear to ear while playing his music. And JP Jones was no slouch either! Bass lines are easy but add so much to "No Quarter" etc. etc. etc.
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Location: south east Michigan | Here Comes the Sun was already mentioned so I'll take "Treetop Flier" by Stephen Stills. |
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Location: SoCal | Opening riff to The Claw by Jerry Reed. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | "Needle and the Damage Done" - SS
"Tuesday's Dead" - CS |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by ChatMan:
"Needle and the Damage Done" - SS Chat, that's NY, not SS. ;) |
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Location: NJ | ". . You have to crank the strings pretty hard to get the "G" out of it Ya know? . ."
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Location: Cicero, NY | Stevie Ray Vaughan - Life By The Drop |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Originally posted by Waskel:
Originally posted by ChatMan:
"Needle and the Damage Done" - SS Chat, that's NY, not SS. ;) |
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Location: NJ | acoustic . . . acoustic. |
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| Aghhhh I guess it's not a "G" I am after then Cliff???
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Location: Cicero, NY | Uh...whud he say? :D |
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Location: NJ | I dunno.
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| I'll just play this for you all at next years Factory Tour. By the way I would love to find someone who can play the Mandolin parts for this song?? You have a Year or so... Anyone game to learn this song. Sounds great through a PA. Perhaps we should all start putting together a loose song list so we can all be ready for the stage!
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| Cliff how do you tune a Guitar to an "E" chord????Seriously?
If you do that.... then put the capo on the third fret you'll have what I am talking about.
This is how high Jimmy has his strings tuned.
Try it
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Location: NJ | http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/warrenallen/tunings.htm |
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| Wow I don't need web sites..... although this is a good one...... thanks Cliff Nice talking with ya. I got way off topic on this one. look forward to jamin with ya in Conn someday.
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Location: NJ | The intro to Yes' "And You and I"
and ELP's "From the Beginning". |
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Location: Snellville, GA | The intro to Heart's "Crazy on You" |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | 1)Guitar Intro/motif to "Cats in the Cradle"
2)Intro to "Pinball Wizard"/The Who
3)Intro to "Wanted Dead or Alive"/Jovi
4)Intro to "Bring Me Some Water" & "Like the Way I Do"/Etheridge
5)Intro to "Sister Golden Hair" and "Horse With no Name"/America
6)"Pride and Joy" (unplugged version)/Stevie Ray Vaughan
7)intro to "The Question"/Moody Blues
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Hey, Johnny,
Is the intro to Sister Golden Hair on a 12 string. I threw away all my America albums after I started listening to the lyrics. Actually, my wife got rid of all our albums and I never replaced America with CDs.
I need an excuse to play my 12 string and that might be a good one. |
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| Anji - Davy Graham
The whole of the 1st album by Hot Tuna
Here, There and Everywhere - Martin Taylor and Chet Atkins
Anything from the last 5 years of Al Di Meola. |
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Location: Orlando, Florida | So many of them...
OK, I'll do two. The guitar break in "Guitar Man" by Jerry Reed. And more recently, the opening lick to "Let Us Pray" by Steven Curtis Chapman. Simple, but effective.
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | "Is the intro to Sister Golden Hair on a 12 string...I need an excuse to play my 12 string and that might be a good one."
-Mark, if I say 'yes' will you just go ahead and play that guitar?!
"I threw away all my America albums after I started listening to the lyrics"
-Their lyrics are very bizzarre. I find it funny when people say they love 'Horse with no Name' and start singing along with it, but stop singing about 3 or 4 lines into the first verse. They don't know the words past that, and are pretty much done with the song by then. Guitar-wise, I think the whole thing is 2 chords...more or less. |
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Location: closely held secret | Cliff, thanks for the alternate tunings link. Spent an hour reading before I remembered I was at work...
... and everyone on the Tour knows that "From the Beginning" is one of your favorites... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Does the work by Willie Nelson on Shotgun Willie count?
Also, I'm thinking about something by David Bromberg, it's on the tip of my toungue, just can't spit it out... oh well, must be a senior moment. |
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Location: closely held secret | don't growl at me Schroed. It makes your cheeks all purplish. |
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Location: NJ | "... and everyone on the Tour knows that "From the Beginning" is one of your favorites..."
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I usually use it when "trying out" a guitar . . .
. . . sorry if it got a bit annoying . . . |
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Location: NJ | ". . Nothing by Willie Nelson counts. ."
That's just "NotRight", Waskel!!
You should really leave his audience's MathSkills OUTTA' this . . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | Not annoying at all, Cliff. Just noticed that it's your 'test riff'. And we 'tested' a lot of guitars!
I have one I find I play almost every time I'm trying a guitar. |
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Location: Snellville, GA | "Roundabout" by Yes.
And I find nothing wrong with testing guitars with "From the Beginning". Can someone send me a tab on the little run before the electric guitar solo. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Jerry Douglas, "From Ankara to Izmir"
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Location: closely held secret | Of course Dobro counts.
Unless Willie's playiing it... |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Oh Atlanta, Ron Block, AKUS, Live |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | My favorite acoustic lick is a favorite because of the memories attached. Doc Watson had an appearance at San Diego State that I and some of my pickin' buddies went to see. He did a great version of "Tennesee Stud" that impressed us all. A few days later I, with my mandolin, and Steve, a great guitar player, found ourselves on a city bus going somewhere with our instruments. (I think we were looking for a party that Steve had been invited to, the whole thing is rather foggy). Anyhow, we spent an hour on that bus perfecting "Tennesee Stud" with the Doc Watson licks (same as Jimmy Driftwood's only squared in difficulty). It froze in my mind and I have played it hundreds of times since with various other pickers. It is still a great favorite of mind, both the song and the licks.
Long about 1845
I left Tennesee very much alive
I couldn't have forded that Arkansas flood
If I hadn't been riding that Tennesee Stud
The Tennesee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun, and his eyes were green
He had the heart and he had the blood
There never was a horse like the Tennesee Stud
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Dust in the Wind-Kansas
She Talks to Angels-Black Crowes
Tears in Heaven-Clapton |
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Location: Snellville, GA | "Wish You Were Here" Pink Floyd
"The Boxer" Simon and Garfunkle |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | "Amy" Pure Praire Legue. Key of A.
"Ill be Alright: Jorma Kakaukoen, Quah album.
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Location: Snellville, GA | "Love Alive" Heart (live acoustic version). |
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Location: Orlando, Florida | "At Seventeen" Janis Ian
"Mother Nature's Son" Beatles
"I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song" Jim Croce
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Location: Massachusetts | Wish You Were Here
That Zeppelin tune..Hey lady you really got the love I need..
Dust in the Wind
Blackbird
Roundabout
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Just a question about the use of "Dust in the Wind" in a Suburu SUV ad, I always liked the song and to me the ad sounds better than it looks. The song gives it some class, I hope they are paying for it. Good or Bad???? |
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Location: Indiana | By the way, FWIW, Rich Williams used an Ovation Classic on "Dust in the Wind", and the guitar solo during the tour when they recorded "Two for the Show".
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Location: NJ | ". . I hope they are paying for it. Good or Bad???? . . . "
Y'betcher ASS they're payin' for it!
. . . and LOTS, too!!
G/B?
I dunno, . . one hand, it's "exposing" to a lot of (ahem) "yonger" people t'some great rock tunes whereby they might "search" and find out more, or else they might not get exposed to . . .
on the other foot . . .
. . . not sure if I can get used to the Zep/Cadillac, Who/Nissan, and so on . . .
. . . the worst for me EVER was when Ian Anderson sold that little fute melody from "ThickAsaBrick" to . . . KIA(?????)
Anderson later said about it in an interview that Kia approched HIM (and offered an INSANE amount of $) . . . . he figured "WTF??"
the album's not exactly "flying" off the shelves (although it does get an annoying lot of airplay on ClassRock stations . . . & y'can only put out SOmany "GreatistHits" compilations . . . . :rolleyes: |
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Location: south east Michigan | Everyone needs a paycheck. Especially ageing rockers.
And it is getting this music to the ears of a new generation. When Brian and I play "The Weight" at the youthful Now & Zen Cafe it's recognized at that "song from the cell phone commercial". |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | One the best ads featuring an acoustic guitar was a Volkswagon Cab ad, with these kids riding in a car on summer night, song was Pink Moon by Nick Drake. Stange tuning. Made me go out and buy his album. Poor guy went bonkers. He should stayed around because the song made the commercial. |
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Location: Tennessee | I always enjoyed the Nissan Z-car ad set to "You've Really Got Me" by Van Halen ... the one where G.I. Joe picks up Barbie and leaves Ken in the dust. |
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Location: Mt Clemens, MI USA | Originally posted by northcountry:
It's the newest song I have learned! It's fairly simple but it has a real "Hook" for me...I fell right in love with it after not hearing it for 20 years. It's a Live version of Led Zep's "That's the Way"
Randy I just learned this tune the other day, it is kind of addicting. I've been learning a lot of Zep tunes on acoustic. Rain Song is very, very cool and easy too. I just learned Stairway for the first time (no solo though). That is fun to play. I’ve been puytting on Led Zep DVD, and playing that one with the band! I play When the Levee Breaks on acoustic, that's cool, as is Four Sticks (great mood to those two). Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is cool too. I've always liked Jimmy Page's acoustic stuff, well all his stuff, but me being a solely acoustic player, I appreciate those tunes. Zep definitely has some fun acoustic (or acoustic friendly) stuff.
Other stuff that I like to play would be Beatles tunes because they are my very fav band. Blackbird, Mother Natures Son is fun; Here Comes the Sun, of course is great for acoustic. I like Dear Prudence a lot. All things Must Pass is fun, as is the anthology acoustic version of something (similar to Rain Song). But I've really been getting into the Zeppelin stuff (my second fav band). The Zep tunes are a bit hypnotic which is cool.
Sorry I get carried away with the tunes I like (and can play!!). If I have to choose one from each band, I’ll say Here Comes the Sun and Stairway. I know they’re a bit thread bear, but there is a reason for that. Honorable Mention goes to Babe I’m Gonna Leave You. |
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| Yep Zeppelin has me hooked again. I am working on some songs no one plays anymore. And it looks like the Band project I have going will be kind of different as well. I am primarily the Bassist for the band but our Guitarist and I have a real nice Acoustic set worked out now and it is impressive. (10 good songs) We both switch from 6 and 12 string acoustics as well as my Acoustic Bass and his mandolin now. He's a great flutist and we have two Jethro Tull songs mixed in. Keyboard player does some work as well. We have fairly good voices and the harmonies are surprising at times.
What I would not give to have someone else sing the Robert Plant & Jon Anderson stuff though the three of us all have the ability to come close and with a little help we can fake it pretty good but if we had an actual suprano singer we'd have it all sewn up!
Anyway Look deep in the Zeppelin stuff there's a lot of great acoustic music in there. Stairway is a fantastic song, no doubt, perhaps one of the masterpieces of our time! But it was played so so much on the radio it has been ruined as a band song for me.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Stairways was one of the first, if not the first fingerpicking song I learned, back when it was new. I wrote down all the lyrics of songs I was learning then and had all this nonsense for Stairway. I figured I wasn't hearing them correctly on the lousy recording, probably off a scratchy record.
Recently I got the tab with the lyrics and I have both exactly correct. The lyrics are nonsense. Another one of those where the writer or the listener had to be on acid. Still fun to play, but I never got the solo down. |
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Location: Denmark | Hmm riffs ...
Al DiMeola did it a few times - probably using an Ovation :) . What about "Mediterranean Sundance" from Elegant Gypsy (1977).
Several heavy rock tunes owes it to a well played acoustic guitar Osbournes "Mama, I'm coming Home" is one. |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | I tend to like the following:
1) "Plush" (acoustic version) by Stone Temple Pilots -- unfortunately, I only managed to be able to play the intro, but not the song :(
2) "Bittersweet" by Big Head Todd and the Monsters -- I like the simpleness of this song ... nothing too complex, yet nice to hear.
3) "More To This Life" by Stephen Curtis Chapman -- another simple riff, and the entire song is just inspirational ... 'nuff said. :)
4) "Closer To The Heart" by Rush -- after all these years, I still like this song, but just like #1, I could only play the intro to it :(
5) "My My Hey Hey" (from Rust Never Sleeps) by Neil Young -- such a fun song to play, and I learned early on that any acoustic-wielding axeman with the feel for rock and roll can really rock! ;)
That's it for now ... I might add more later.
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Location: Converse, Texas | Fave acoustic guitar riffs... Hmmmm... In no particular order:
1) Needle and the Damage Done -- Neil Young
2) Norwegian Wood -- The Beatles
3) Monkberry Moon Delight -- Paul McCartney (from Ram)
4) Over The Hills and Far Away -- Zep
5) Aqualung -- Jethro Tull
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Location: Malden, Massachusetts | For me, outside of the most recent Lindsy Buckingham live version ( the Dance ) of Big, big love, I think it's gotta be Jorma on "The Water Song" by Hot Tuna. It just rings and rings - and sounds much deeper on the album than the CD.
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