What is your "Acoustic Repertoire"?

thomasross20 · April 2014

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!)

noisepolluter · April 2014

I'm not claiming to be able to play all of these, but here are my suggestions:

Blues Run the Game - original by Jackson C Frank, also versions by Bert Jansch and Simon & Garfunkel

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Zep

Street Spirit - Radiohead - can be fingerpicked or flatpicked

High and Dry - Radiohead

Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters

Learning to Fly - Tom Petty

Free Fallin' - Tom Petty

Razor - Foo Fighters

May You Never - John Martyn (think it's drop D)

1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson definitely an altered tuning but if you want a showpiece this is undeniably it!

Loads of other Richard Thompson songs, now I come to think of it… Beeswing, for instance

Anji - Bert Jansch

Pretty much any other Bert Jansch stuff!

Wild Wood - Paul Weller - very simple song but some nice chords

The Rain Song - Zep again

Old Man - Neil Young

Dream On - Aerosmith (intro is great for fingerstyle)

Life By The Drop - SRV

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

Layla Unplugged - Clapton

Basically I could go on for hours...

Teetonetal · April 2014

Off the top of my head all these were in the set of my last acoustic duo...

Time like these - Foo Fighters
The Boxer - Simon and Garkunkel
Never Going back again - Fleetwood Mac
Angie - Rolling stones
Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
Come Up and See Me - Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebel
Big Sur - RHCP
I used to love her - Rolling Stones
I feel fine - the Beatles
Under the bridge - RHCP
Living on a prayer - Bon jovi (they do a really nice acoustic version)
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
Needle and the Damage Done - Niel Young
Knocking on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
Patience - G&R
Californication - RHCP
Mrs Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel
Spider and the Fly - Rolling Stones
Got me wrong - Alice in chains
Love for sale - Bon Jovi
More than words - Extreme
People should smile more - Newton Faulkner
Everybody hurts - REM
Back to the old house - The smiths
There she goes - The Las
Wonderwall - Oasis
Don't look back in Anger - Oasis
Losing my religon - REM
When love and hate collide - Def Leppard
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Proud Mary - Steeler's Wheel
Cat's in the cradle - Ugly kid Joe
Nothing else matters - Metallica

As previous poster I would also highly recommend 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson, such a tune!

richardhomer · April 2014

Teetonetal;223067" said:
As previous poster I would also highly recommend 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson, such a tune!

Did anyone see him play this on Song Writer's Circle a few year ago on BBC4?

I'm a big fan of RT but it was striking watching that just what a brilliant player he is. I left my acoustic alone for quite a few weeks after that was on....

noisepolluter · April 2014

richardhomer said:

Teetonetal;223067" said:
As previous poster I would also highly recommend 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson, such a tune!
Did anyone see him play this on Song Writer's Circle a few year ago on BBC4?

I'm a big fan of RT but it was striking watching that just what a brilliant player he is. I left my acoustic alone for quite a few weeks after that was on....

We were lucky enough to see him play live last year. Absolutely jaw-dropping. One of the two most impressive performances I've seen along with Albert Lee.

thecolourbox · April 2014

I'm a big fan of the Simon & Garfunkel finger style songs, The Boxer as somebody mentioned above, America is also an excellent one and a bit less well known, good mix of broken chords and strumming. Need a reasonable vocal range for the Garfunkel vocals though!

thomasross20 · April 2014

Guys this is great.. I feel my acoustic tunes are very "electric tunes on an acoustic" so I really want to get some proper acoustic feeling going. Keep 'em coming, don't stop!

spark240 · April 2014

Crowded House - weather with you

Squeeze - Up the junction

Tears for fears - Rule the World

Tom Jones - Delila ( Spanish version)

Elbow - One day like this

Beatles - In My life

Bolan - Get it on

U2 - One love

Radiohead - High & dry

Supertramp = Give a little bit

Dakota

The Joker

Hey Ho

Tom Petty- Free Falling

Plus loads I cant remember right now !

Teetonetal · April 2014

Also remembered

One of the pieces I love playing is an Eric Roche transcription of Starry Starry night - It was in Guitar Techniques in the mid 90s - long lost the tab but if you can track it down it'd be well worth it - seem to remember the version was by Chet Atkins - also a fingerstyle version of Cavatina is worth learning.

I have never seen Richard Thompson live, but I must! He is an incredible player!

midlifecrisis · April 2014

i try and pick stuff not usually associated with acoustic guitar, recently doing

time-pink Floyd

don't believe a word-thin lizzy

weak-skunk anansie

milk and alcohol-dr feelgood

Friday im in love-the cure

Monkeybone · April 2014

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...

joneve · April 2014

I mostly try (and fail) to play the following:

Anything by Jason Mraz

Anything by John Mayer

Anything by Vertical Horizon (more success with this! "Man Who Would Be Santa" is my absolute favourite track to play)

And more recently;

Anything by Deaf Havana.

thomasross20 · April 2014

Do you guys sing along as well as play, or is it mainly just the guitar playing?
Do you have videos/recordings?

Monkeybone · April 2014

This is from an open mic night I did back in March - Wicked Game

First time out for the GS Mini too, plus it went down better at the open mic than my first gig!

joneve · April 2014

I've got some (old!) videos uploaded to YouTube here: www.youtube.com/jon1eve

Some of them are pretty bad and youtube has butchered the quality over the years (the oldest ones don't even sync audio and video any more)

Jalapeno · April 2014

Teetonetal said:

Proud Mary - Steeler's Wheel

I believe that was written by John Fogerty / Creedence Clearwater Revival - good tune though

Jalapeno · April 2014

Without a crib sheet I'm pretty useless !

But I can knock out the following (just)

Lady Eleanor - Lindisfarne
Heart of Gold - Neil Young
Tijuana - JJ Cale

thomasross20 · April 2014

Jal, you jazzer!

OK awesome - I will DEFINITELY check out the vids after work (today or tomorrow). Nice one 8)

Teetonetal · April 2014

Jalapeno said:

Teetonetal said:

Proud Mary - Steeler's Wheel

I believe that was written by John Fogerty / Creedence Clearwater Revival - good tune though

Haha very true - I was also thinking of "stuck in the middle with you" and mixed the two!

Jalapeno · April 2014

Also an excellent tune !

(As played on K-Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies Weekend

)

Roland · April 2014

Teetonetal said:
One of the pieces I love playing is an Eric Roche transcription of Starry Starry night - It was in Guitar Techniques in the mid 90s - long lost the tab but if you can track it down it'd be well worth it

I Will have a copy somewhere if anyone needs it

EricTheWeary · April 2014

1952 Vincent came up on my iPod earlier. It is such an amazing song. Even as a strum along it would sound good.

If anyone is wondering what to buy me for my birthday a ticket to an RT guitar camp would be good...

dafuzz · April 2014

The only thing that springs to mind that hasn't already been mentioned is Blackbird - Beatles.

Ianpdq · April 2014

Teetonetal said:

Off the top of my head all these were in the set of my last acoustic duo...
Time like these - Foo Fighters
The Boxer - Simon and Garkunkel
Never Going back again - Fleetwood Mac
Angie - Rolling stones
Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
Come Up and See Me - Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebel
Big Sur - RHCP
I used to love her - Rolling Stones
I feel fine - the Beatles
Under the bridge - RHCP
Living on a prayer - Bon jovi (they do a really nice acoustic version)
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
Needle and the Damage Done - Niel Young
Knocking on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
Patience - G&R
Californication - RHCP
Mrs Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel
Spider and the Fly - Rolling Stones
Got me wrong - Alice in chains
Love for sale - Bon Jovi
More than words - Extreme
People should smile more - Newton Faulkner
Everybody hurts - REM
Back to the old house - The smiths
There she goes - The Las
Wonderwall - Oasis
Don't look back in Anger - Oasis
Losing my religon - REM
When love and hate collide - Def Leppard
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Proud Mary - Steeler's Wheel
Cat's in the cradle - Ugly kid Joe
Nothing else matters - Metallica

As previous poster I would also highly recommend 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson, such a tune!

I used to love her - Rolling Stones I think it's called It's all over now from the High Tide Green Grass Album

noisepolluter · April 2014

thomasross20 said:

Do you guys sing along as well as play, or is it mainly just the guitar playing?
Do you have videos/recordings?

I sing along so it takes some of the focus off my playing.

And I play so that it takes some of the focus off my singing.

Lead work is strictly limited to the odd single-note run between chords - more often than not in the wrong scale.

dafuzz · April 2014

Just remembered I spent weeks learning Love Of My Life by Queen on guitar after seeing Extreme do it at the Freddie Mercury tribute thing (and it was tabbed in GT a million years ago). If only I could sing the fucker. That and Hallelujah as performed by Jeff Buckley.

dafuzz · April 2014

Oh PS: Used To Love Her is a GnR song and a belter!

AuldReekie · April 2014

Not being a singer, my solo set is fingerpicked and using a variety of tunings (CGCGCD/DADGAD/DAAEAE) and as well as my own compositions, includes the following: - Si Beg, Si Mhor (trad) The Dark Island Kes Jig (trad) Home is where the heart is (Wolfstone) After the Goldrush Ramni Ceilidh (Gordon Duncan) Irene Meldrums welcome to Bon Accord (trad) Ghost Town/Song for Eva (Bill Frissell) Hector the Hero (Neil Gow) Going home (Local Hero theme tune) Ashokan Farewell The Seagull (trad) Over the Hillside/Saturday Night/Lets go out tonight (The Blue Nile) A few Irish jigs/reels Currently trying to put together an acoustic version on (the brilliant) Bill Nelson's "Beyond these clouds, the sweetest Dreams"

richardhomer · April 2014

AuldReekie;224430" said:
Over the Hillside/Saturday Night/Lets go out tonight (The Blue Nile)

'Wow' duly awarded! Three of my favourite songs, off one of my favourite albums!

thomasross20 · April 2014

MonkeyBone - nice one with Wicked Game! Love it when people post "live action" videos lol... Regarding singing, did you get lessons?
Teenage Dirtbag was also awesome lol..
Jon - nice! Are you still doing these open mic nights a lot? What guitar is that?

digitalkettle · April 2014

richardhomer said:

AuldReekie;224430" said:
Over the Hillside/Saturday Night/Lets go out tonight (The Blue Nile)
'Wow' duly awarded! Three of my favourite songs, off one of my favourite albums!

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