What is your "Acoustic Repertoire"?

Sambostar

Absolutely everything from the first two Warren Zevon albums

Vast Indifference of Heaven - Zevon or David Lindley version

Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

Take on Me - A Ha

Springsteen - Racing in the streets

Make you Feel my Love - Dylan

19 - Redgum

Love Gun - Kiss

Brother - Morton Harket

Since U been Gone -Kelly Clarkson

My Island Home - Warumpi Band

Khe Sahn - Cold Chisel

Snow - RHCP

Rhinestone Cowboy - Larry Weiss

The Gael - Dougie Maclean

She loves Me - Dougie Maclean

Caledonia - Dougie Maclean 

Who will Sing my Lullabies - By someone

Some other shyte and non singing stuff as well as The Gael, but that is the stuff above that I sing and play

Used to enjoy playing GNR's One in a Million or Want You Back for Good by Take That to various ex's.  Especially the line in One in a Million. Didn't like that one bit.

thomasross20

Any of you got vids of your acoustic set?

richardhomer

I like having a pop at this from time to time:

thomasross20

Quite a lot of the main travis picking or fingerstyle stuff is with the main chords down near the nut. 

I'd be very interested to hear tunes playing different kinds of chord higher up the register (but still with conventional tuning)

Nitefly

Amazing that by page 3 we only have one Eagles song (Tequila Sunrise was mentioned).  Do people just find them too passe now?  

You will ALWAYS get people to foot-tap and/or sing-along to stuff like Lyin' Eyes, Take It Easy, Peaceful Easy Feelin', New Kid in Town, etc.

Also no James Taylor?  Fire and Rain was the first one I learned.  I used to go into a music shop on Portland St in Manchester in about 1973, and read the Happy Traum tab transcriptions, then go straight home and try it on the guitar (couldn't afford to buy the book!).  

I also learned Sweet Baby James and You've Got a Friend the same way... then I got the hang of his finger-picking and chord style and started working them out for myself.

And Big Yellow Taxi (Joni MItchell) is a corker but in Open E tuning (or possibly Open D).

God, I could go on for ages...

thomasross20

Big Yellow Taxi could be cool. 

Honestly, I've never heard many Eagles tunes!

Nitefly

I'm sure you will have heard them, Thomas, but maybe not recognised them as The Eagles.  

They are usually quite simple-sounding strummers but with some nice chord voicings.  

I used to play a lot of them in a duo - the other guy sang the main melody and I sang harmonies as appropriate.

Lots of their early stuff was written by Jackson  Browne.

thomasross20

I got one of their double-CD best-ofs a while back - will have to dig it out!

Nitefly

Good plan! 

thomasross20

Oh man...!! 

I've GOT to learn some Justin Timberlake songs on acoustic lol... my secret pleasure

Nitefly

I've never knowingly heard one!

musicman100

Atkins/travis style tunes

Rocker

Monkeybone said:

This is the set list I tried a couple of weeks ago (not necessarily in this order):

Free Fallin' - Tom Petty

Be My Downfall - Del Amitri

Just Like A Man - Del Amitri

Driving With The Brakes On - Del Amitri

Sleep Instead Of Teardrops - Del Amitri (are you seeing a theme here?)

If I Ever Loved You - Justin Currie (see, theme still going...)

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

Home - Daughtry

Poker Face - Lady Gaga (but Daughtry cover)

Between Heaven And Hell - Zakk Wylde

Sleeping Sickness - City And Colour

Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi

The Space Between - Dave Matthews Band

Outside - Staind

A Little Respect - Erasure

Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden

Watch Over You - Alter Bridge - Open G

Open Your Eyes - Alter Bridge - DADGAD

Norwegian Wood - The Beatles - DADGAD

Write It On Your Skin - Newton Faulkner - DADAGAD + loop pedal for vocals

Teardrop - Massive Attack/Newton Faulkner - DADGAD + loop pedal for guitar (yes, I'm a cheat)

Gone In The Morning - Newton Faulkner - DADGAD

Everlong - Foo Fighters - DADGAD

Ticket To Ride - The Beatles

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

Where Everybody Knows Your Name - Adapted from the Foy Vance cover

Hey Ya! - Outkast (The Blanks cover)

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Tribute - Tenacious D

Sweet Home Alabama - Lynryrd Skynyrd

Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus

As you can probably tell, a lot of my set is quite downbeat/depressing, needless to say it didn't go down well in a pub where they wanted singalong classics...

You are not cheating because you use a loop pedal to get your sound my friend.  A loop pedal is not the same as using a backing track.  IMHO of course.

BigLicks67

thomasross20 said:

Quite a lot of the main travis picking or fingerstyle stuff is with the main chords down near the nut. 

I'd be very interested to hear tunes playing different kinds of chord higher up the register (but still with conventional tuning)

There's Blackbird for starters : ignore the dodgy singing

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Map of the World - Pat Metheny :

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John McClaughlin's arrangement of Blue in Green by Miles Davis :

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thomasross20

Thanks!

samldr1984

I've been working on John Mayer's 'Queen of California' today, finger style it's quite tricky to get down.

OnTheRopes

What a great thread, I have just picked up the guitar again after many years in the wilderness and looking to stick with acoustic for a while. Started with 'Babe I'm gonna leave you by LZ and 'Dead Man' by Neil Young. Neither which I am finding easy.

This thread will serve to give me some good ideas of what to work on.

raphaelsamad

thomasross20 said:

As per title... I'm looking for ideas (strum alongs, fingerstyle, anything). Tunes I currently play on my acoustic:

500 miles

Crazy (Aerosmith)

Fingerstyle version of White Wedding

The odd 'Guns tune

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Big Love ('Mac)

Used to play Tommy's Day Tripper/Lady Madonna but haven't tried that for some time

More Than Words

Hole Hearted

Spanish Fly

Beautiful Girls

Probably some others I can't remember... 

Would like to try and incorporate a cool slide tune. I don't usually do non-standard tunings. 

I'm trying to sing along to half of these but it can be tricky (for me, anyway). 

Anyway... looking for some good suggestions. Maybe a good acoustic showpiece with a hook. Be good to hear what your acoustic repertoire is! (Just remembered I'd love to play some Newton Faulkner - will have to look into that!)

If you play "More Than Words' and sing, I am mightily impressed! - I have tried it but my vocal range cannot handle it which is very annoying as it is a lovely song.

thomasross20

Unfortunately I can't sing it well

Col_Decker

If you're at a party and somebody hands you an acoustic there is only one song imo that should be your go to or fall back position.

the theme to Only Fools and Horses.

3 chords + everyone sings along = laid