What's your song list

Not a huge list? Are you kidding me?

It takes me around 3 weeks to learn and practice a song until it sounds good. So all in all I don't learn more than 15 songs a year...

Do you learn the solos in addition to the rhythm parts though?

Not a huge list? Are you kidding me?

It takes me around 3 weeks to learn and practice a song until it sounds good. So all in all I don't learn more than 15 songs a year...

Do you learn the solos in addition to the rhythm parts though?
Ditto and that's not even mentioning the ones I learned awhile back and when trying to recall, I have to learn parts all over again! It's funny, I swear the songs keep changing their notes on me.

Well, up till recently, there were three of us jamming a couple of times a week - me, my old mate Stu, and recently acquired friend Darth Ordinary. Unfortunately, Darth's had to put the jamming on the back-burner for the moment - but these were the songs we were working on.

Substitute - The Who
All Right Now - Free
All Or Nothing - Small Faces
I Fought The Law - Clash
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Clash
Cindy Incidentally - Faces
Stay With Me - Faces
Roxanne - Police
Can't Stand Losing You - Police
Up Around The Bend - CCR
Badge - Cream
Hard Day's Night - Beatles
Hey Joe - Hendrix
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple (yes, the whole thing, not just the riff!)

(I know there are others - but I left the damn list round at Stu's a couple of nights ago!)

Last couple of weeks it's been just me and Stu - new songs we've tried have been;

Light My Fire - Doors
Back In The USSR - Beatles
London Calling - Clash

In addition to that, we decided a few nights ago to come up with a few songs each we know well: my list - so far! - reads...

Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Another Saturday Night - John Fogerty
Nantucket Sleighride - Mountain
30 Days In The Hole - Humble Pie
More Than A Feeling - Boston
Still Rock'n'Roll To Me - Billy Joel
Morning Dew - Nazareth (the version I know best)
You Angel You - Manfred Mann (I know, it's a Dylan song - again, the version I know best.)
You Got It - Roy Orbison
Handle Me With Care - Traveling Wilburys
Can't Get Enough - Bad Company
Be Good To Yourself - Frankie Miller
LA Woman - Doors

Plus Stu and I know a whole load of Stones songs we've played, and a couple of T.Rex, some more Rod Stewart, Beatles.....

Enough to be going on with, I think!

:D :D :D

Vic

Excellent idea for a thread, I was just thinking about this today.

Like most people, I tend to go from one song to the next too easily. At least I write them down and when I want to play I go back to the list and pick one...

House of the rising sun - Animals: Can't play at speed yet. Gotta work on the finger picking
Down on the corner - CCR: F chord switching still slow
I shot the sheriff - Marley, or at least the dhodge version. :)
Bad moon rising - CCR: got this down well enough my biggest problem is I play it way too fast
Who'll stop the rain - CCR: have to come back to this one
Wonderwall - Oasis: have to learn to sing to this, because it's easy to play
Folsom prison blues - this would be fun to play do I could sing like Cash
Pawn shop - Sublime: need some more sublime tabs. Who would've thought this doesn't work that well on acoustic
Blue in the Face - Alkaline Trio: found a great powertab for this so I'll be spending a lot of time on it.
Otherside - RHCP: I do a decent easy strummy version
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes: same
Day tripper - Beatles: have all the main riffs down at least
Magic carpet ride- Steppenwolf: when I feel like practicing barres
Mary Jane's last dance - Tom Petty: It's risky to learn a song to impress a girl. I don't even like Tom Petty that much.
Angel's Wings - Social Distortion - great song. I keep coming back to this one, and it's better every time
You've got her in your pocket - White Stripes: almost finished with this one.
Mad World - Gary Jules version: I'll post the link to a great tab of this that sounds amazing if anyone wants it.

Some I know the solo's some I don't . For most I have the solo's but never got to finish them up ifyou know what I mean. I was thinking about the list last night and there are a bunch of songs I can barely remember. It wouldn't take much to get them up to speed maybe a day or two but I can't keep up with palying all of them all the time.

Vic - Thirty Day's in the hole is a great song. I alsways wanted to play it but you really need a good tremelo to get the sound they had.

Most of the songs take about a week to get down fairly well but there's usually one part in every song that's tricky, at least for me anyway. The My Chemical Romance song Teenagers is a very easy song it's just the last little ending that's tricky. That 's my latest song that I've learned.

Vic - Thirty Day's in the hole is a great song. I alsways wanted to play it but you really need a good tremelo to get the sound they had.

Closest I can get - with my limited equipment, ie a Cube 30 - is to put the tremolo setting halfway, and combine it with the delay - on about 8.5. Black Panel setting with scooped mids.

:D :D :D

Vic

Vic,

I can't get anywhere close to it with the equipment I currently have so I haven't played it much. But for some reason that song is Rock n Roll to me. A little raunchy, not sure how to decribe it.

I do have a Johnston J-Station which has a tremelo effect but it doesn't really cut it. I was in Guitar Center a couple months ago messing around with some tremelo pedals and I got what to me sounded really close but I never bought the pedal.

That'll be my next step is to buy/built a pedalboard for the few pedals I have so I can start using them more. I need to get connect them to AC power though because the eat batteries like crazy.

Here's my list then:

Cream - Sunshine of your love (I forgot parts of the solo though)
Free - I'll be creepin'
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Mary had a little lamb (forgot most of the solo)
AC/DC - It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n roll
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Grand Funk Railroad - Sin's a good man's brother
Deep Purple - Burn

Those are the songs that I remember and can play for the most part.

Hi AK! :D

Are you sure that list is correct?
I hear you do a wonderful... 'All Your Love' by The Bluesbreakers 8)

Ken

Hey Ken! Good to hear from you again :)

I only listed the songs I remember how to play. I have unfortunately forgotten All Your Love... I learned it a year ago or so so it's understandable.
I hope you've learned it and still remember it!

I saw one of Mayall's guitarists play last summer... Coco Montoya. The show was pretty awesome. I was hoping he would play All Your Love but he didn't :(

AK,

I know what you mean. Some of the songs on my list I haven't played in awhile and I couldn't just play them on the spot but most I could with a small bit of effort.

I started out wanting to learn all of the solo's but didn't learn them in any type of order so a song I may have learned early on may have had a solo that was a bit over my ability at the time so I have skipped some.

Now I am playing with some guys and there's a much more experienced lead player so I have been cocentrating more on the rhythm parts, although I still try and work on the solo's when I practice.

I was hoping more people would posts their lists or at least partial lists just to get a feel for the type of music everyone is playing.

And I didn't list any of the songs I can't remember ever playing. Ha

I just learned a whole one today. Bow, peasants, bow. Here's the list:

1) Rev. Gary Davis - Death don't have no mercy

I started out wanting to learn all of the solo's but didn't learn them in any type of order so a song I may have learned early on may have had a solo that was a bit over my ability at the time so I have skipped some.

I used to do that too but my teacher convinced me to try and learn the difficult solos still. The only thing is that I play them at a much slower speed. Burn by Deep Purple is the perfect example. There are some really fast passages. I can play most of the solo at 75% of the speed, but some parts I can only play at half the speed! It's useful to learn a solo even if it's too hard to be played at full speed.

AK,

That makes sense although when I say I don't know the solo I mean I can't play the whole thing exactly as it was recorded, like fast passages and such. For alot of them I did know the notes just never got them up to speed.