What is your "Acoustic Repertoire"?

richardhomer · April 2014

digitalkettle;224483" said:
+1

And a 'Wow' for you also Mr Kettle for being a fellow Blue Nile fan....

viz · April 2014

This is my fave acoustic number to play, proving yet again that take that are fab. I just haven't managed to integrate the solo with the rhythm yet.

Monkeybone · April 2014

thomasross20 said:

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?

Nope, no lessons had. Teenage Dirtbag was kind of a necessity at the open mic night, mainly because I had a complete head fog on and couldn't rememeber what else I could play! I also played it at my solo gig purely for an upbeat song to play.

joneve · April 2014

thomasross20 said:

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?

Unfortunately not mate. Would like to get back into doing some if I can. That's my Taylor Big Baby, which I'm now selling because I have the GS Mini and can't afford to keep both

thomasross20 · April 2014

So you prefer the GS Mini, huh?
I need to get OUT there and do what you guys are doing. Started a band but it looks like it's already falling apart - why are musicians so flaky!?

Monkeybone, one of the things I find hardest is getting the timing right between vocals and what's happening on guitar - just practice, I guess!

viz - I've never seen that video - actually pretty cool!!

ESBlonde · April 2014

50 Ways to leave your lover - Paul Simon
Angie - Rolling Stones
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
For You Blue - Beatles
Girl - Beatles
And I love Her - Beatles
Across the Universe - Beatles
Till there was you - (Beatles version)
If Love was a train - Michelle Shocked
More than Words - Extreem
Dance with me - Orleans
Better be home soon - Crowded house
Fall at your feet - Crowded house
Breaking us in two - Joe Jackson
Party Girl - U2
Nothing Ever happens - Del Amitri
All Cried Out - Alison Moyet
Stuck in the middle - Steelers wheel
One horse town - Rembrandts

RocknRollDave · April 2014

dafuzz said:

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

When he said Rolling Stones, he may have meant It's All Over Now - lyric being: "I used to love her...but it's all over now".

RocknRollDave · April 2014

Two songs I've been asked to learn for weddings this year that we ended up not playing (at their request, I should add...we didn't just NOT play them!)

Lianne La Havas - Age. LOVELY jazzy guitar on this, played by La Havas herself. (You might want to change the lyrics/ gender ...unless you're into older men, in which case you won't need to!)

and

Jamiroquai - You Give Me Something. Yes, I know it's NOT an acoustic tune, and it's very production heavy, but researching it on YouTube for arrangement ideas, I found some lovely acoustic/ almost bossa nova versions, and it lends itself nicely to acoustic. Chords Dmaj7 - Bm7 - Gmaj7 - Bm7...that's all there is to it, but it sounds quite impressive.
Good luck fitting all those words in, mind...

thomasross20 · April 2014

Again - to those with these massive song lists - do you sing them , too... at open mic nights?
More Than Words - the main voice part for that is pretty tricky.. (for a guy to sing!)

Teetonetal · April 2014

thomasross20 said:

Again - to those with these massive song lists - do you sing them , too... at open mic nights?
More Than Words - the main voice part for that is pretty tricky.. (for a guy to sing!)

Yup, play and sing - more then words undergoes a detuneing by a whole step for me to sing it. I played in a duo where we both played and sung, trying to get a full as sound as possible.

Teetonetal · April 2014

RocknRollDave said:

dafuzz said:

Oh PS: Used To Love Her is a GnR song and a belter!
When he said Rolling Stones, he may have meant It's All Over Now - lyric being: "I used to love her...but it's all over now".

Yeah I meant the Rolling stones song - however the guns and roses song is also a cracker

I'm just rubbish at song titles

BigLicks67 · April 2014

As a warm up I start with Bach Cello Suite in G major (transposed to D major) I play this fingerstyle and flatpicked and it's good practice.

After that it will be stuff like :

Blackbird/Norwegian Wood - Beatles

Black Waterside/Anji - Bert Jansch style

Georgia on my Mind/Summertime - Martin Taylor style

Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young

Variations on Blues in E (eg Good Morning Blues or Lonesome Couch Blues)

If I'm Strumming it will be songs by Bob Dylan, Wilco & The Waterboys.

Various classical stuff generally on the easy side.

Otherwise it's stuff I make up myself.

joneve · April 2014

Added "22" by Deaf Havana to my repetoire last night. Needs a bit of practice, but sounds ace with just an acoustic and is properly easy to play. (Not so easy to sing though

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thomasross20 · May 2014

Does anybody know any good spanish-themed pieces that sound impressive and tuneful?

noisepolluter · May 2014

thomasross20 said:

Does anybody know any good spanish-themed pieces that sound impressive and tuneful?

If you only want flatpicking - difficult. You're really looking at jazz or bluegrassy type stuff for fast plectrum work

If you fancy a crack at some fingerpicking - Anji by Bert Jansch (possibly arguably a TINY BIT Spanish sounding at a stretch, but certainly impressive).

If you want to hear some pretty mind-blowing stuff running the gamut of styles, get the album "Friday Night in San Francisco" by John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia and Al di Meola. It looks like there are some tabs and video lessons on youtube if you're feeling brave enough, I can't vouch for their accuracy as the idea of even attempting them is so far beyond my capabilities as to be laughable.

spark240 · May 2014

We do this....wicked !

thomasross20 · May 2014

NP I have that album and it is amazing!
Maybe not the stand alone sort of music I'm looking for. I do plectrum work and finger style. Looking for more of both and less "chords".

Paul_C · May 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....

thomasross20 · May 2014

viz - get up a recording of you doing that song - it's awesome.
Delilah!? Lol...

Paul_C - that was awesome - never heard of the guy!! Sure you could do that!!

I'm definitely wanting to do something more dark and mysterious, a little flashy... maybe I'm better off just writing my own songs again lol!

Just listening to Bert Jansch just now - great stuff! Must listen to some more.

Obviously I've heard (and seen!) loads of Tommy Emmanuel. Great stuff he does - the best! Just wondering what other acoustic/fingerstyle artists I'm missing out on. Must admit I do prefer if there are vocals..

richardhomer · May 2014

thomasross20;238113" said:
Just wondering what other acoustic/fingerstyle artists I'm missing out on. Must admit I do prefer if there are vocals..

John Martyn:

He didn't play like a granny!

wrinkleygit · May 2014

a few of my favourites-

may you never- john martyn

can't find my way home- steve winwood ( bonnie raittes version)

dancin in the moonlight - thin lizzy

tracks of my tears

little wing

they are the ones that I always play first when I pick up a guitar, mike b.

tonyrath · May 2014

I am working on a set or two for tapas and wine bars at present

Tico Tico

Granadinas

Tarantas

Sevillanas

Rumbas of various sorts

Feelings

La Cumparsita

Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps

Besame Mucho

La Cocuracha

La Bamba

About 2 hours of music in my head and fingers using flamenco techniques I am 69 you know

thomasross20 · May 2014

Would love to see vids or hear clips of those (and taht goes for everybody else, too!)

stimpsonslostson · May 2014

My current list-
Hallelujah- Buckley/Cohen
The weight- the band
Redemption song- Marley
Times like these / learn to fly- foos
Californication/bridge- chilis
Over the hills- led zep
Radio / blue in the face- alkaline trio
Plus LOTS of Chuck Ragan (do you pray/the trench/ole diesel to name but three), Frank Turner is also good.

Songsterr is a great app for chord patterns, lyrics & tab- I get loads of inspiration there.

BigLicks67 · June 2014

For Spanish Style try - Alla Cubana from William Walton's 5 Bagatelles.

Here's a jazz style rendition by a Korean band - for the definitive version listen to Julian Bream.

thomasross20 · November 2015

BUMP for my own info as I'm playing acoustic a bit more now.

thomasross20 · November 2015

What pickup do you think Richard Thompson is using in the linked video?

IanSavage · November 2015

Holy thread necro Batman! alright, I'll play - current acoustic set looks something like:

45 - The Gaslight Anthem

Long Day - Matchbox 20

Check Your Armour (original)

Before I Even Had You - Dave McPhearson

Bound For Glory - Blackstar Riders

The Flame Still Burns - Strange Fruit (:) )

Run To The Water - Live

Downtown Train - Tom Waits

Woodeson - The Gaslight Anthem

When I Come Around - Green Day

Then on resonator in open tuning:

I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters

Me and Bobby McGee - Kris Kristopherson

She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes

Come On Up To The House - Tom Waits

(with Jeff Buckley's 'Hallelujah' in the canon for encores)

Need to get a few more in there really, that lasts about an hour...and apparently I'm breaking some sort of rule by not doing an 'ironic' acoustic cover of a hip-hop / modern pop/R&B tune as well

EDIT: A few more I've remembered used to be in the set that I haven't done for ages...

Mr Jones - Counting Crows

Atlantic City / Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Outgunned - Rancid

Top Of The World - The Wildhearts

Wanted (Dead Or Alive) - Bon Jovi

thomasross20 · November 2015

My list (off the top of my head):

- La Bamba

- Women in Love (Van Halen)

- More than Words

- Big Love

- Dust in the Wind

- Rebel Yell

- White Wedding

- Hole Hearted

- More than Words

And a bunch of others that I play on electric anyway. Probably some I forgot. Want to learn more. MUCH prefer songs like Big Love (fingerstyle + vox) as opposed to this acoustic tapping bollox.

Many lols to "HOLY THREAD NECRO, BATMAN"

fob · November 2015

I've always liked this cover of VBL 1952 (actually prefer it to the original - sacrilege I know!). I think it works very well as a two man piece and the banjo 'fits' in with the story of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQK2xFOAxrI

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