Songs you're learning.

mike_l

Currently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=J3I88wsFKao

And when I get round to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EhGEGIBGLu8

 

Just the lead parts to go.......

 

Clarky

awesome….

one of my students has just learned Holy Diver..

and I thought that it had so many interesting and challenging snippets to offer in a technical sense, I'm about to bung it at two others..

it's a great solo, and in places, far trickier than it sounds..

mike_l

@Clarky there's some  great sounding, fairly simple harmony licks in Flight of Icarus too.

 

DLM

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due.

Properly, no more fudging it.

Clarky

mike_l said:

@Clarky there's some  great sounding, fairly simple harmony licks in Flight of Icarus too.

 

that's actually one of my fave Maiden tracks..

Clarky

Clarky said:

mike_l said:

@Clarky there's some  great sounding, fairly simple harmony licks in Flight of Icarus too.

 

that's actually one of my fave Maiden tracks..

a couple of my students are working on these:

Lamb of God: Walk With Me In Hell [awesome riffing, wonderful solo, really superb bass part too]

Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond [a great big catalogue of great licks that you can re-use in pretty much any setting]

Journey: Dead Or Alive [my bass student nailed this at full speed tonight… awesome stuff.. it's a right handful]

bingefeller

For me Judas Priest - Desert Plains - I can play the solo up to speed but haven't got it memorised perfectly yet.

Andy Timmons - Slips Away - just the second solo.  Pretty much got it down but need to get it memorised and up to speed.  I can play it at 95% tempo.

mike_l

DLM said:

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due.

Properly, no more fudging it.

That's on my list, working on my picking accuracy and speed, then I'll start on it.

nickp

@mike_l - by and large I can play songs that sound difficult when you listen to them but I don't recon my chops are up to those two.. I do luve em both though.

currently finishing a giggable hotel california, tiger feet and about to look at:

mr brightside for the band

and for me:

cause we've ended as lovers

pride n joy (srv) - i started this some time ago and have put it on the back burner - getting the shuffle nailed properly with attitude is something that I@m not finding easy at all

mike_l

nickp said:

@mike_l - by and large I can play songs that sound difficult when you listen to them but I don't recon my chops are up to those two.. I do luve em both though.

The outro harmony in FOI is actually very simple, getting it as tight as Dave and Adrian takes the time and effort.

I'll work on HD once I can get some proper practise in, when my shoulder is fully healed. I got the basic riffs down, the subtlties in each run through is the awkward bit there, and I havent even started looking at the solo yet......

bingefeller

DLM said:

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due.

Properly, no more fudging it.

Just had a look at the tab for this and the rhythm looks ok but the solo.. no way.

bingefeller

Been learning Billy Idol - Speed and Billy Idol - Do Not Stand In the Shadows.  I have both rhythm parts down OK and up to the same speed as the original records.  The solo in Speed has some very tricky licks, and a pinched harmonic lick that just isn't right in the transcription I have so I just improvise around it.  

The transcription I have for Do Not Stand in the Shadows is quite old.  The rhythm parts are basic so I had to work them out by ear.  The solo transcription was OK in some parts but other parts were completely off so I had to spend some time figuring them out also.  Both songs have been a good learning experience.  

Gassage

Been working on 'Times They Are A'Changing' but some hugely complex chord changes there so may need help.

tone1

I'm still trying to nail 'Michael row the boat ashore' that and Shine on you crazy Diamond 

MatthewShreddery

Still working on the second half of Baa Baa Black Sheep...

mike_l

MatthewShreddery said:

Still working on the second half of Baa Baa Black Sheep...

One day, when my technique is up to it............

Drew_TNBD

Currently learning to sing and play Nutshell by Alice In Chains and Disarm by the Smashing Pumpkins.

samzadgan

respect to all of you...

i personally dont have the patience of learning covers...the most i can do a riff or a part of a song that i really like...

EricTheWeary

Quite interested in wether peeps are learning stuff off tab or video or by ear or whatever combination.

I had a go, by ear FWIW, at The Selecter version of Because the Night which is an intro riff plus rhythm parts and that's quite cool and simple, also neat to widdle some minor pentatonics over. I'm rarely motivated to learn a song unless I think it has band use or, like Sam, I might just learn a cool riff. 

mike_l

EricTheWeary said:

Quite interested in wether peeps are learning stuff off tab or video or by ear or whatever combination.

Combination of them for me.

I'm trying to do FOI by ear, but have the tab book for when I get stuck. HD I'm doing the same, but have the Lick Library DVD for when I get stuck.

bingefeller

EricTheWeary said:

Quite interested in wether peeps are learning stuff off tab or video or by ear or whatever combination.

I had a go, by ear FWIW, at The Selecter version of Because the Night which is an intro riff plus rhythm parts and that's quite cool and simple, also neat to widdle some minor pentatonics over. I'm rarely motivated to learn a song unless I think it has band use or, like Sam, I might just learn a cool riff. 

Mostly tab for me.  If I can't get the tab, then I'll try to work it out myself.