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Location: south east Michigan | Tim Chapman started a thread that asked "where" you play. It was very interesting to read the varied responces. I have only been here a couple months so I was able to learn something about the people I am conversing with.
My question is...if you picked up your guitar right now, what are a couple of the most likely tunes that you would play first?
Mine would be:
Here Comes the Sun
Amazing Journey (Tommy/The Who)
Desperado
Behind Blue Eyes
Moonshadow
Brad
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Location: Waurika OK | A lot of it would depend on the mood I was in.
Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground - W. Nelson
Nobody Knows You When Your Down and Out
Desparado
Wonderful Tonight
Heaven - B. Adams
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | I've been working on:
Everbody's Talking (Echoes) - Harry Nilsson
Good Shephard - Jorma Kaukonen
Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James
Far, Far, Away - Wilco
LoveGrove St. - Wagner
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Location: 6 String Ranch | What I play depends on which guitar I pick up. If I grab one of the National tri cones it's a bluze, when you're down and out or the thrill is gone or something like that. A National single cone will get a blooze in E or something Robert Johnsonesque. Then again I might grab the one set for slide and then everyone will leave the room including the dog.
If I grab a Collings it might be a blues or something country like, usually some tune I'm working on, either mine or one I'm trying to learn. If it's one of the wider neck like the OO42 it will be some sort of finger style piece.
I tend to think of a chord or two before I pick up the instrument and then play them and see where it goes. I attended a class with Ed Gerhard this summer and he calls this power noodleing. Some interesting things happen. It does keep me from playing the same old same old all the time.
So to answer the question, what I play depends on what guitar I pick up. It's great to have choices. |
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Location: Canada | Pink Floyd - Mother
Rush - Closer to the Heart
Eric Clapton - Hey Hey |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I guess it depends on my mood and the guitar. I just was replacing the strings on my EA Viper 12 and 6 so this is a timely post. There are a couple of riffs I like to noodle with but tunes I usually end up into are.. These are in no particular order.
If it's an acoustic sound...
- Why should it be
- Simple But True (Acoustic version)
- Running to You
If it's an electric...
- Say What you Will (Fastway)
- Simple But True
- Inside a Dream
- ETI (or some other BOC tune)
- Miss America (Styx) |
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Location: hatzic lake, bc, canada. | tchaickovsky's 1812 overture,(just the guitar part) |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | 6-string:
Baby, Now That I've Found You (AKUS)
It Doesn't Matter (AKUS)
Sweet By and By
Just A Closer Walk....
Into The Woods My Master Went
What Child Is This?
12-string:
The Boxer (Simon)
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Shall We Gather At The River
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Location: SoCal | Mostly on the 12-string...
Lightfoot: Edmund Fitzgerald, Ghosts of Cape Horn, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Early Morning Rain, That's What You Get For Lovin' Me, Home From The Forest, Ribbon of Darkness, A Minor Ballad, Pussy Willows, I'm not saying that I love you, Affair on Eighth Avenue, Bitter Green; Croce: Time in a Bottle, Photgraphs & Memories, Alabama Rain; Dylan: Don't Think Twice; Kingston Trio: Chilly Winds, M.T.A.; Diamond: Solitary Man |
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Location: SoCal | 6 or 12, I tend to play the same stuff.
Gentle On My Mind and Wichita Lineman are the two best songs I've ever heard. But I've been known to bounce into Jimmy Buffet, Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, or any number of other directions. What ever I'm working on at the moment.
If I pick up a nylon string, then look out, I'm going to play bad Jerry Reed tunes (actually, the should read "Jerry Reed tunes, badly").
I've got several electrics, but have never gotten comfortable with them. I keep trying. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Anything of early Neil Young....cuz I'm simple, and lazy. Variations on House of the Rising Sun, also. Went horizontal off my front steps this AM, won't be playing the next few days. Still bounce pretty good for an old fart, though! |
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Location: Waurika OK | Just think how terrible it would have been if you had been carring a precious guitar!
Seriously, hope you get over it soon.
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Lately, I've been trying out some Christmas songs, learning how to play note by note on my 12-string, trying to keep all the notes on the octave string pairs. Sounds great if you can pull it off....I can't always.
I usually play Beatles' songs, "Let It Be", "Norwegian Wood", "Two Of Us"......been working on "House At Pooh Corner", "House Of The Rising Sun", "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald".
Sometimes I just JAM....I have some chord progressions and a rhythm I like that I run through. Or I work on doing rhythms using I-IV-V chord progressions in different keys.
Roger
1976 Applause AA14-4 6-String
2001 Adamas 1598-MERB Melissa Etheridge 12-String
2003 Celebrity CC01 Spruce Top 6-String |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Thanks, Noel. Need to remember to put out the ice melter a bit earlier....and turn on the porch light! No chance of harming my guitars; my wife won't let me play them outside my designated cacophony chamber, anyway!! |
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Location: NJ | Sue says I play the same stuff all the time, I don't seem to agree.
No real tunes come to mind although lately I have been working on screamin jay hawkins "I put a spell on you" fav steely dan tunes are josie and kid charlemagne, sometimes I try to jam along to dave brubeck's take five or coltrane "favorite things" .
I play way too much blues and blues rock so I when I rehearse I try to break out of the mold and practice other stuff. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | 6 or 12 string:
Any Glen Campbell stuff
Worlds Apart-Vince Gill
Husbands & Wives-Roger Miller
Lately been doing alot of basic John R. Cash songs:
I still miss someone
Rock Island Line
Folson Prison Blues
Nylon string:
Classical Gas (of course)
General fingerstyle noodling (Lately alot of Christmas stuff)
Electric:
Ventures:
Walk Don't Run
Pipeline
Redwing
Some rockabilly stuff like Rebel Rouser but mostly I turn the amp up real loud and see what kind of strange distorted sounds & feedback noise I can make until my wife gets feed up and kills the power at the breaker box!! :D
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Location: blkyn usa | The first thing that comes out is something BB Kingish (Though not as good as him!) whether it's electric or acoustic. Right now, in order teach my student, I'm teaching myself a great ovation guitar tune, A Horse with no name, by America. Can we post tabs here? I'd like to share it, when it's done. It'll just be the rhythym and the words, no lead parts, but good for a beginner. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | That is some good stuff from all of you, I would love to jam on most of it.
If I am playing guitar I usually do vocal stuff like:
Til I can Gain Control Again (Love the guitar Bridge)
Come Sundown (Great guitar run in there)
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Little Joe the Wrangler
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Cool Water
Old Five and Dimers
Pancho and Lefty
The Talk of the Town
It Don't Hurt Any More
Born to Lose
Walking the Floor Over You
I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodby
Tennessee Stud (vocal)
I Wonder How the Old Folks are At Home
Love Letters in the Sand
The Great Pretender
The Magic Touch
John Henry
Mandolin:
Arkansas Traveller
Soldier's Joy
Cripple Creek
Red Wing
Blackberry Blossom (When I can remember it)
Half of Rawhide (Can't remember the other half)
Any Louvin Brother's song that I can think of at the time
Tennessee Stud (instrumental)
12th of January
Battle of New Orleans
John Henry
Lorena
Foggy Mountain (just to keep my mandolin break ready)
Long Black Veil (what happened to i before e except after c?)
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
How are Things in Glockamorra (my Mother was Irish)
various and sundry fiddle tunes
I am rambling here almost as bad as I do when I pick up an instrument, but remember, I have a song book with 1000 songs, most of which I have at least heard, and many I know. |
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Location: Central Oregon | I seem to bounce all over the place with my music.
I play a some Beatles stuff as instrumentals- Michelle, Norwegian Wood & so on. Sing a few (badly)- Maxwell's Silver Hammer comes to mind. I like the weird chord progressions the Beatles used in a lot of their work. I find it challenging but fun.
I also play & sing, (again badly) a lot of old C&W- Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Horton sort of stuff.
I like to play a lot of the "old standards" stuff too, like Wildwood Flower, Under the Double Eagle, Red Wing, Buckaroo, Country Gentleman, Black Mountain Rag, Sugarfoot Rag, Bury me beneath the willow. I do most of this stuff with a flat pick & my fingers.
I also play some Jimmy Buffet songs regularly- Pencil Thin Moustache, Grapefruit Juicyfruit & a few others occasionally. He uses some interesting chord progressions, (imo) not as weird as the Beatles, but fun.
I'm getting thru a somewhat abbreviated version of the "Lone Ranger Song" more often than not lately :) Classical Gas sounds really good on my 1612 when I can get through my "somewhat abbreviated" version of that too. I've watched GC do those two songs on that video tape I bought a while back about a dozen times, I'm getting a little more out of it each time. Yakkity Axe is fun. I pretty much only play that sort of stuff on my Epi Riviera (335). I don't have a comparable Ovation, yet.
On my 12 string (1858 Elite) I usually start with Scarborough Fair & Greensleeves, (& lately Silent Night & White Christmas) & end up wandering into things like Ghost Riders in the Sky, plugged in with the reverb cranked up, if my wife isn't home :)
Since I was to lazy to post in the "where do you play" thread, I'll add that I play mostly back here in the computer room alone, although I do go play with the bluegrass gang in Bend every other Thursday. Actually I just got home a while ago. With them I play things all the way from Jambalaya to Salty Dog to Your Cheatin Heart to a whole bunch of stuff I have no idea what it is but I can play the chords. You never know what you'll be playing except when it's your turn to choose. That really makes it kinda fun. I've finally played with them enough that I have some idea what might be coming. However, I try to keep 'em off balance. Last time I went over I had 'em playing "The Cat Got Dead" (Heywood Banks). Tonight I got 'em with "I Lobster But Never Flounder" (Pinkard & Bowden).
Had a great time tonight, btw. We had a good audience & the folks that were there have been playing together enough now that we're actually starting to sound reasonably good every now & then. If nothing else we're hell for loud for an all-acoustic "conglomeration" (couldn't call it a "group"). Tonight we had 3-4 fiddles, 2 mandolins, 2 dobro's, 4 banjo's, 7-8 guitars, a bass fiddle, a guy playing a flat drum thing on his lap with brushes, two harmonicas, a jews harp & a clarinet (yes, a clarinet! don't ask me!)
Had a great time!
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Location: Netherlands | I play lots of things, varying from rock to funk to ballads to country to etc. lately I'm trying to play jazz.
Some of my fav's (electric and acoustic):
Surfing with the Alien - Joe Satriani
Always with me, Always with you - Joe Satriani
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Taillights Fade - Dinosaur Jr.
The Way - Fastball
Michelle - Anouk
Bitch - Meredith Brooks
Jeannie don't you take your love to town - Jon Bon Jovi
Blaze of Glory - Jon Bon Jovi
Hold the Line - Toto
Hate everything about you - Steve Lukather
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Straight to your Heart - Bad English
Time Stood Still - Bad English
Play that Funky Music - ???
Etc. Now that i write this down, i guess i'm still a rockplayer :)
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Just one question
Does anybody do Roy Orbison, I didn't see any of his songs? (Just saw "Black and White" again.) |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Since I sing more than I play, I usually sing some of the following and then try to follow with my fingers.
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Old Tennessee - Dan Fogelberg
Danny's Song - Loggins and Messina
A Love Song - Loggins and Messina
Blackbird - Kenny Rankin style
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Where Will The Children Play - Cat Stevens
Louise - Bonnie Raitt
Willing - Lowell George
Lady - John Denver
Easy - Rick Nelson
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These are some of the ones that I actually remember the lyrics. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Bailey, I worked on "Pretty Woman" for a while a few months back, but it has fallen out of my limited songlist for the time being.
Roger
1976 Applause AA14-4 6-String
2001 Adamas 1598-MERB Melissa Etheridge 12-String
2003 Celebrity CC01 Spruce Top 6-String |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Golly !! Great Thread-Lets Keep this one going! Now Lets See..Where do I start?I've always been just a simple kind of player-Self-Taught-So I've got some original Acoustic Based tunes I Do Here's Some Of The Others..
1)You Can't Do That-Beatles
2)Roller Derby Queen-Jim Croce
3)These Dreams- Jim Croce
4)Lovers Cross-Jim Croce
5)Time In A Bottle-Jim Croce
6) My Sweet Lady-John Denver
7) This Old Guitar-John Denver
8) Old Tennessee- Dan Fogelberg
9) Bluebird--Paul McCartney
10) Carolina In The Pines- Michael Martin Murphy
11) Love The One You're With- Stephen Stills
12) The Bounty Hunter- Mike Cross
And anything else that i can figure out...
Depends on What Mood I'm In. |
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Location: SoCal | Bailey:
Love that you play Cool Clear Water and Tumblin' Tumbleweeds. I grew up hearing my uncle and my mom sing those in harmony. And when we get together, I still play those. |
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WHAT do you play?
