Songs that are satisfying to play

Clarky

axisus said:

Anything with slap bass. Great fun!

Clarky said:

Dream Theater: Erotomania

not played it in years... but I recall a certain "fk yeah!!" feeling if I made it all the way through without too many scuffs

I'm impressed, that's one fast mother when the speed kicks in!

haaa.. yeah it kinda redlines your technique.. lmao

Clarky

satisfying in a sort of "totally fall into the song" sort of way

Thin Lizzy: Still In Love With You from the Live and Dangerous album

another really fun one from that album is Don't Believe a Word

mike_l

Clarky said:

another really fun one from that album is Don't Believe a Word

Fantastic riff.

Danny1969

Clarky said:

satisfying in a sort of "totally fall into the song" sort of way

Thin Lizzy: Still In Love With You from the Live and Dangerous album

another really fun one from that album is Don't Believe a Word

I'm in a Lizzy tribute and we pretty much play that whole album .... first solo on Still in love with you is great

Clarky

haa... just thought of another that  love playing....

UFO: This Kids from the Strangers in the Night album

it has a wonderful riff.. and the solo section is such a blast.. just cock the wah and go mental...

slacker

cruxiform;656536" said:

slacker said:

Into the Valley By the Skids-took me a while to get the chords/melody and right hand damping going.





Kudos mate. I love The Skids. Masquerade being my favourite.

 

 

 

It's my complacent song. I work away from home a lot and dont play for a week. That song kicks my ass and makes me tighten up technique. I might try working for the yankee dollar

viz

For the Love of God, by Steve Vai, just because it's like putting on a pair of comfy slippers. But most enjoyable of all for me is jamming to something I don't know at all, like, I don't know, some Keith Jarrett, and adapting my tune on the fly to fit with what he's playing. I love that.

ChrisCox1994

wolfmother - joker and the thief. all the classic rock tones, some phaser, and big fat fuzz.

Clarky

viz said:

For the Love of God, by Steve Vai, just because it's like putting on a pair of comfy slippers. But most enjoyable of all for me is jamming to something I don't know at all, like, I don't know, some Keith Jarrett, and adapting my tune on the fly to fit with what he's playing. I love that.

ah yes... nice choice

Clarky

for a nice riff fest, Judas Priest: Genocide [the version from Unleashed in the East]

andyoz

I'll have to try those Billy Idol tunes.

frank1985

Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan. The basic 12 bar blues mean you can take off in different directions compared to the studio recording, but maintain the overall structure, which is pretty much how he played live. I hope to one day play half as well....

Bellycaster

I love playing God Save the Queen by Sex Pistols, so much energy in those Guitar parts . My band wont play it though, Bastards ;-)

A few from the Rock(Multi-Genre) side of things.

Cult - Fire Woman

Ratt - Round and Round

Journey - Girl Can't Help It

Def Leppard - Love Bites and Armageddon It

Pink Floyd - A.B.I.T.W Part 2

Any Queen track.

A few from the Groovier side of things.

Anything played or written by Nile Rodgers

Bee Gees - Night Fever

Booker T - Green Onions

Ian Dury - Reasons to be Cheerful pt3

EWF - Shining Star

Any 80's R&B that contained natty Guitar work, think Luther Vandross or Grace Jones etc

Any great 80's bands like Tears for Fears, Scritti Politti etc.

Anything Soulful, think "My Cherie Amour" by Stevie Wonder.

I spend too much practice time learning songs.

Teetonetal

The songs I love playing:

Muse: Hysteria

Deep Purple: Highway Star

Focus: Hocus Pocus

Van Helen: Panama

Bert Jansch: Angie

Pink Floyd: Time

Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall

Micheal Schenker: Into the Arena

Hendirx: Manic Depression

Don't really listen to any of those, but so much fun to play!

underdog

Rocket Queen - GnR. Don't know why exactly but when I'm feeling shitty about my playing or at a loss what to play I switch to playing it start to finish and it always makes me smile.

ThePrettyDamned

I *love* playing funky monks by the chilli peppers. It's instant grin factor - cool riff, a comedic sounding chorus and a couple of jazzy sounding jams. Lovely!

Also, I could have lied from the same album.

Also, power of equality from the same album.

Anything from that album really...

Hysteria by Muse is another. I'm just learning the bass again, and want to get my fingers good enough to play that smoothly but I love the guitar, too. Cracking song.

thomasross20

Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy Suite

*hahahahaha*

Clarky

thomasross20 said:

Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy Suite

*hahahahaha*

have you ever actually had a crack at it??

thomasross20

Actually yes! I've two of his tab books (to save my sanity). Not undo-able but hand on heart, I've never played one from start to finish. You?

Actually it was a goal of mine to work through a whole Yngwie song properly as my picking is good but the weak aspect of my playing. However!! The MOST important aspect needs even more development - I want to play the changes in a rock context swiftly without thought at any point on the fretboard and to be able to use parallel modal interchange more easily than I can now in order to create interesting sounding arpeggiated lines rather than boring pentatonics and scale shapes all the time. Then over and above that I want to develop other styles - so for ONCE I'm going to leave off trying to attain the lightning speed

I just signed up to Jamplay and I wish I'd done it years ago!

Clarky

quite a few years ago I learned to play pretty much all of the Marching Out, Trilogy and Odyssey albums..

that said, I didn't have the ability to slow the audio down, so some of the more difficult passages to hear I approximated.. so I have no doubt that I wasn't playing 100% exactly the same as what Malmsteen did..

the other thing is that when I learnt all that, I was using alternate picking throughout [apart from the sweeps].. I didn't realise at the time that Malmsteen doesn't alt pick everything.. this makes a bigger difference than you'd expect, especially to note selection.. knowing this, I'm now even more convinced that I didn't quite nail all of it 100%.. don't matter though.. I still learned a great deal from it.. including how not to write lyrics..