What’s your go-to song?

Fuengi · October 2018

The Boy With The Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian.

The rhythm pattern just gets me connected.

Alanj84 · October 2018

Hm, maybe I'm weird but I don't have any to-go songs. Whenever I randomly grab a guitar or when I warm up, I just run through the scales, and maybe play some chord sequences from major scale, like 1 4 5 6 chord mixed up.

In fact, there are tons of songs that actually are played with those 4 chords, so I guess technically I am playing some songs, I just don't know about it;)

If I want to play a song, I just use a list of popular songs like here or go to 911 tabs and search through top 100 tabs and playing something from that list.

martin8708 · October 2018

Redemption Song , by Bob Marley

Crucify your mind by Rodregez or Suzanne by Leonard Cohen if I'm feeling a little more sombre.

All the old Neil Diamond tunes off Hot August Night are great for acoustic too.

richardhomer · October 2018

In standard tuning, Easy Blues by John Martyn (written by Jelly Roll Morton), in drop D May You Never by John Martyn and in DADGAD John Martyn's arrangement of Spencer the Rover. I like John Martyn....

randella · October 2018

soma1975 said:

Babe I'm Gonna leave You

I was playing this in the house once, and my wife sauntered by remarking that it was pretty and she liked it. She asked what it was called and, when I told her, she walked away again chuckling and muttering ‘charming’ under her breath.

randella · October 2018

Without exception, the first acoustic song I’ll play is Joe Satriani’s “The Feeling”. He plays it on a Nashville-tuned guitar but it sounds fine on a set of regular strings. Drop the low E to D.

https://youtu.be/P1Tn2JR8cWs

Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” is very similar I found, if you drop to D and capo back up to E. I never found out if that’s the way they did it mind.

Gassage · October 2018

For those who've never heard Smelly Cat, here's the masterpiece itself

fendergibson · October 2018

Gassage said:

For those who've never heard Smelly Cat, here's the masterpiece itself

Let’s be fair, it is, was, and always will be the shittest of shitness ever created.

If if she had of done it on a nice J45 however, who knows :-)

fendergibson · October 2018

I’m currently getting 59th Street Bridge song under my useless fingerpicking fingers - a great song and a decent starting point for fingerpicking madness :-)

StanleyAccrington · October 2018

On acoustic? The times they are a changing. (Dylan). I NEVER play it on electric.

ICBM · October 2018

StanleyAccrington said:

On acoustic? The times they are a changing. (Dylan). I NEVER play it on electric.

That's a good thing... or someone will need to shout Judas! at you.

Gagaryn · October 2018

ICBM said:

StanleyAccrington said:

On acoustic? The times they are a changing. (Dylan). I NEVER play it on electric.

That's a good thing... or someone will need to shout Judas! at you.

I don't believe you... you're a liar!

;-)

Andy79 · November 2018

Pony blues. Charley Patton. What a guy

Phil_aka_Pip · November 2018

ICBM said:

Neil Young - Heart Of Gold

Good song

zepp76 · November 2018

Nice and simple = seagull by Bad Company

challenging song (for me at least) = Bron y Aur by Led Zeppelin

43rdAnd9th · November 2018

It depends how I'm feeling...

Celtic -> Shebeg and Shemore

Ragtimey -> Dallas Rag or Cincinnati Flow Rag

Bluesy -> Steve Goodman's Lookin' for Trouble

Roland · November 2018

Kitsune said:

Anji - Davey Graham version

xbrooom said:

Davy Graham's Angi...

Anji is a great rhythmic song for checking the attack on bass and mid range sounds. You can put in your own variations to check the higher frets on the higher strings. I also use Sur Vesdre by Jacques Stotzem for something more resonant.

Th4fonz · December 2018

Stop this train john mayer

viz · December 2018

Eruption

Gassage · December 2018

We've been working on a stripped back version of this on two acoustics

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