What Y'all learning?

not_the_dj · September 2013

EricTheWeary said:

I did start on I Fought the Law But the Law Won but the Clash version has about 4 guitar lines so it sounds a bit pathetic on the solo parts when I do it. They are composed little bits so I can't do my usual make a bluesy noise with some double stop bends. So I either need to find a way to do them at least as double stops or just invest in a fuzz pedal or something!

I do that that one in a single guitar line-up @erictheweary, tricky one to avoid sounding empty so I just go for maximum filth. We've never recorded us playing it so I've no idea how it actually sounds in the band context...might well be rubbish!

benvall · September 2013

ftumch said:

I've been asked to learn 'devil went down to Georgia' for next week. I've only heard it a couple of times so don't really know the song that well, better give it a listen me thinks.

@ftumch check out Keith Urban's version Devil Went Down To Nashville, it's got crazy train and a bunch of other riffs in the middle. That guy can play

I've got to learn John Legend

close2u · September 2013

Grunfeld said:

We started playing the Journey song a couple of months ago and it's a bit Marmite with the audience but when it works it works really well so I've got into it on that basis. We have only one guitar in the band so we've split the keyboards with the bass taking the left hand line and I do the right hand. And the easiest way I found with that lick is to leave it out! (tapping it was the other cheat way too, quite easy like that.)

Never noticed the Only Ones similarity though so I'll have a listen to that! :-)

I've never really liked it myself ... so have never even contemplated bothering to learn it ... now that I am I can appreciate smoe of the riffs n stuff ... though it's still not exactly amongst my favourites.

The band I'm having a try out with has a keyboard player and he has gigged this song so I'll have to see what he plays and figure out what I will play / leave out.

I'm not sure I understand what you wrote ... you have no keys so you and the bassist play the parts between the two of you?

Enjoy The Only Ones ... imho it knocks the socks off Don't Stop Believing.

EricTheWeary · September 2013

not_the_dj said:

EricTheWeary said:

I did start on I Fought the Law But the Law Won but the Clash version has about 4 guitar lines so it sounds a bit pathetic on the solo parts when I do it. They are composed little bits so I can't do my usual make a bluesy noise with some double stop bends. So I either need to find a way to do them at least as double stops or just invest in a fuzz pedal or something!

I do that that one in a single guitar line-up @erictheweary, tricky one to avoid sounding empty so I just go for maximum filth. We've never recorded us playing it so I've no idea how it actually sounds in the band context...might well be rubbish!

I've tried making it double stops with a fifth above or below the note and it just doesn't sound right, nor do thirds even though there is some kind of harmony thing going on on the original.Based on playing it at home a bit of slapback seems to help.
Also doing Should I Stay by them which is great for one guitar and couldn't be much easier except I haven't got the timing on the outro section right once yet! I played it in my first ever band and don't recall having this problem, so I appear to have regressed.
X_X

ftumch · September 2013

benvall said:

ftumch said:

I've been asked to learn 'devil went down to Georgia' for next week. I've only heard it a couple of times so don't really know the song that well, better give it a listen me thinks.

@ftumch check out Keith Urban's version Devil Went Down To Nashville, it's got crazy train and a bunch of other riffs in the middle. That guy can play

I've got to learn John Legend

That's great, I love how he's just having fun with it. after listening to it I'd written it off as beyond my abilities but I think I might just give it a go and make it mine rather than trying to learn it to the original. Cheers for that.

EricTheWeary · September 2013

I have fond memories of seeing The Levellers play Devil Went Down to Georgia, although the fiddle parts were done by, err, a fiddle.

ftumch · September 2013

I've got a bee in my wotsit about 'the devil went down' now and I'm gonna learn it even if it does take me a year. I'm at about 190bpm on the intro so 15 mins a day trying to get my speed up, it's probably the kick up the arse I need tbh, I've gotten so lazy with practising its no wonder I never get any better but I'm gonna do this.

jaygtr · September 2013

Is that a 6 saddle bridge on Keith urbans tele?

He obviously doesn't spend enough time on Internet forums!

EricTheWeary · September 2013

I had half an hour and thought I should look at something, so been learning to strum through Nelly the Elephant by the Toy Dolls. There are several chords!

mike_l · September 2013

Just for S'n'G I did learn Ac/DC's The Jack this evening.

Nothing particularly hard

DulcetJones · September 2013

I'm working on getting a new scale down so I can add a guitar solo to the outro of a song I'm writing. I don't want it to sound like my usual pattern based pentatonic so I found this "Persian" scale that has a flat 5th: E - F - G# - A - Bflat - C - Eflat . It's taking me right out of my comfort zone but the more I work on it the more I like how exotic it sounds. I miss the natural 5th something awful, but I know that's one of my fall back touchstones and I need to break away from it.

failed_astronaut · September 2013

Well seeing as I'm broke, single and have a lot of Breaking Bad to watch, my evenings are spent with the real book and a list of scales. I'm also teaching myself to sight read so last night I learned "Take the A train". I figure I'll become a jazz musician and cook up my own crystal, don't want to be getting ripped off by no harlem street hustler!

TPReggie · September 2013

I am working my way through AC/DC's Back in Black and Highway to Hell at the moment - yeah I know, these are staples and I should have known them a long time ago.

Truth is, I knew the basic riffs but this is the first time I am trying to learn the whole song all the way through note for note. I am finding the finger stretches on the bridge frustratingly difficult for me to pull off, lol. Other than that they are pretty darn simple, but extremely cool sounding with decent backing tracks

Grunfeld · September 2013

close2u said:

The band I'm having a try out with has a keyboard player and he has gigged this song so I'll have to see what he plays and figure out what I will play / leave out.
I'm not sure I understand what you wrote ... you have no keys so you and the bassist play the parts between the two of you?

This only applies to the intro: If you've got a keys player he will handle all the piano parts of the intro, and you get to do the quick guitar lick. I don't get to do that. I play the two note figures that the keys are doing with the right hand, and the bass player does that melodic bass line that the keys are doing with the left hand. The little guitar flourish in the intro I leave and the drummer hits a cymbal at that point. It's amazing how, if you're familiar with the song already, you just fill in the missing detail. It's not perfect but it works, and it saves having to feed a keyboard player. :-)

mike_l · September 2013

I've started (for about the 100th time) to learn the solo's from Comfortably Numb.... :-O

Still working on Little Wing too....:)

Can I learn one before I go on holibobs?

Odds @ Mikes bookies say no

ddlooping · September 2013

jaygtr said:

Is that a 6 saddle bridge on Keith urbans tele?

He obviously doesn't spend enough time on Internet forums!

Your guitar sounded perfectly fine with 6 saddles.

close2u;26835" said:
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (any tips on the fade in / out fx he gets on that one for some of those little melodic fills?)The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

Volume knob on the guitar or volume pedal.

Edit: it looks like he's using a pedal...

David5150 · September 2013

Learning Mr Brightside on guitar at the moment. Great song but a total bugger to play

daveww · September 2013

@David5150 agreed. I find that alternate picking on the 16th fret a bugger as well. I never quite learnt to play those types of riff. I tend to finger-pick them when I can. I guess lots of repetition is the key. The rest is quite easy.

I'm having a go at Tommy Emanuelles version of Amazing Grace now. Great song to play.

Blueingreen · September 2013

Head and solo on George Benson's version of Billies Bounce. After a fair bit of work I can play it through without too much risk of clams at around 10% slower than the recording, just need repetition to get it up to speed. Great solo by my current favourite player.

snakemanStoo · September 2013

Capricho Arabe, pretending to be a classical guitarist again, kind of difficult when my fretting hand keeps freaking out and i'm lazy.

benvall · September 2013

@David5150 I've learnt brightside two ways, the stand tuning and my lazy way for playing it live. Tune the guitar to Eb Ab Db Ab Db Eb, low to high, then bar the 3 highest 12th fret with your 3rd finger and move the bass note using your first and second fingers. It doesn't have the open string but live it sounds ok.

David5150 · September 2013

benvall said:

@David5150 I've learnt brightside two ways, the stand tuning and my lazy way for playing it live. Tune the guitar to Eb Ab Db Ab Db Eb, low to high, then bar the 3 highest 12th fret with your 3rd finger and move the bass note using your first and second fingers. It doesn't have the open string but live it sounds ok.

Good skills - will give it a go.

failed_astronaut · September 2013

Blueingreen said:

Head and solo on George Benson's version of Billies Bounce. After a fair bit of work I can play it through without too much risk of clams at around 10% slower than the recording, just need repetition to get it up to speed. Great solo by my current favourite player.

I've learned the head as it's an audition requirement for a course I'm interested in but I've not heard Benson's version yet. If it's anything like his "So what" it'll be insane! I "learned" Cantaloupe Islands last night as in I can play the right notes with almost the right feel but any solos I tried were a bag of sh*te! Hopefully I just need to get all the band notes out before I find some good ones. Next on my list is Horace Silver's "Song for my father".

Blueingreen · September 2013

The Benson version is quite a bit zippier than the Parker version, although by Benson's standards it's certainly not blistering. It's worth checking out if it's an audition piece for you, because if whoever's auditioning is a guitar player it's odds on he'll know the Benson version and there's maybe a Brownie point or two in showing you do as well. I love Benson's version of So What but never really attempted to get to grips with it although I do have a transcription. Maybe someday.

Incidentally, there's a good book by Mike Di LIddo (Maiden Voyage) that has some nice basic comping ideas for "Song for my father".

mike_l · September 2013

mike_l;35567" said:
I've started (for about the 100th time) to learn the solo's from Comfortably Numb.... :-O

got the first phrase learned, more tomorrow

Bellycaster · September 2013

I can now put Bob Marley "Waiting in Vain" in the "Out Tray", beautiful tune.

Oh, and "Car Wash" by Rose Royce, what's wrong with a bit of Disco anyway?

close2u · September 2013

I met with some new musicians yesterday with a view to beginning something band-like ...

so over the next few weeks I'm learning

Long Train Running
Superstition
Play That Funky Music
Valerie
We Are Family
You Can't Hurry Love

yup - it's funky r&b time folks

jd0272 · September 2013

Beating Around The Bush. Not that there's much to it. Psycho Killer, again, not much to that either. A common theme in our band it seems

Bellycaster · September 2013

close2u said:

I met with some new musicians yesterday with a view to beginning something band-like ...
so over the next few weeks I'm learning
Long Train Running
Superstition
Play That Funky Music
Valerie
We Are Family
You Can't Hurry Love
yup - it's funky r&b time folks

Nice one, exactly the direction I'd like to go with a Cover Band.

HAL9000 · September 2013

Currently working through Floyd's Learning to Fly - easy enough to play the chords but having trouble getting my head (and fingers for that matter) round the fills.

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