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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    Neil Young - Heart Of Gold

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • rustneversleepsrustneversleeps Frets: 173
    Cortez the Killer......Neil Young.
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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4697
    Wow - I just had a quick run-through of "Tell Me Why" from memory - I'd forgotten what a great song it is!  (In key of G, yes?)

    In standard tuning, for me it's often Blackbird, but more often "A Case Of You", Joni Mitchell, in C.  I play the part she plays with that instrument she plays on her knee - Appalachian zither or something?

    In open D it's my version of Vestapol.

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  • CHRISB50CHRISB50 Frets: 4001

    Quite different tunes, but if in standard Lagrima by Tarrega.


    If in DADGAD which was more often than not, Drifting by Andy McKee.

    I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin

    But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to

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  • proggyproggy Frets: 5721

    Wish You Were Here, my favourite song.

    Acoustic guitar - obviously.

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  • SteveFSteveF Frets: 505
    Here Comes the Sun - George Harrison 
    Taylor - Jack Johnson
    Trading Feedback
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  • dwheeldodwheeldo Frets: 65
    @Nitefly Yep, key of G. It’s got a lovely picking rhythm to it, much like a lot of his other songs from that era, and just suits my acoustic style. You can play it nice and loose just like the man himself, and it feels goooood.

    And I remember drunkenly teaching a busker to play Blackbird many years ago on the streets of Sheffield!
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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4697
    dwheeldo said:
    @Nitefly Yep, key of G. It’s got a lovely picking rhythm to it, much like a lot of his other songs from that era, and just suits my acoustic style. You can play it nice and loose just like the man himself, and it feels goooood.

    And I remember drunkenly teaching a busker to play Blackbird many years ago on the streets of Sheffield!
    It is a good song; I also like Cripple Creek Ferry for the same reason, nice and loose.   :)

    Oh, and the Joni instrument was a dulcimer, not a zither. 

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  • fendergibsonfendergibson Frets: 544
    Nitefly said:
    dwheeldo said:
    @Nitefly Yep, key of G. It’s got a lovely picking rhythm to it, much like a lot of his other songs from that era, and just suits my acoustic style. You can play it nice and loose just like the man himself, and it feels goooood.

    And I remember drunkenly teaching a busker to play Blackbird many years ago on the streets of Sheffield!
    It is a good song; I also like Cripple Creek Ferry for the same reason, nice and loose.   :)

    Oh, and the Joni instrument was a dulcimer, not a zither. 

    Cripple Creek Ferry - an all time favourite of mine !
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30192
    Smelly Cat;

    Friends Season 2 Episode 6.

    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • FuengiFuengi Frets: 2843
    The Boy With The Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian.

    The rhythm pattern just gets me connected.
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  • Alanj84Alanj84 Frets: 2
    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.
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  • martin8708martin8708 Frets: 81
    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.
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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24339
    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.... :)
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  • randellarandella Frets: 3847
    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. 
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  • randellarandella Frets: 3847
    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. 
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30192
    For those who've never heard Smelly Cat, here's the masterpiece itself



    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • fendergibsonfendergibson Frets: 544
    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 :-)
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  • fendergibsonfendergibson Frets: 544
    I’m currently getting 59th Street Bridge song under my useless fingerpicking fingers - a great song and a decent starting point for fingerpicking madness :-)
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  • StanleyAccringtonStanleyAccrington Frets: 264
    On acoustic?   The times they are a changing. (Dylan). I NEVER play it on electric.
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    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.

    ;)

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • GagarynGagaryn Frets: 1553
    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!


    ;-)
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  • Andy79Andy79 Frets: 881
    Pony blues. Charley Patton. What a guy
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    ICBM said:
    Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
    Good song
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
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  • zepp76zepp76 Frets: 2526
    Nice and simple = seagull by Bad Company

     challenging song (for me at least) = Bron y Aur by Led Zeppelin
    Tomorrow will be a good day.
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  • 43rdAnd9th43rdAnd9th Frets: 12
    It depends how I'm feeling...
    Celtic -> Shebeg and Shemore
    Ragtimey -> Dallas Rag or Cincinnati Flow Rag
    Bluesy -> Steve Goodman's Lookin' for Trouble
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  • RolandRoland Frets: 8108
    edited 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.
    Tree recycler, and guitarist with  https://www.undercoversband.com/.
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  • Th4fonzTh4fonz Frets: 182
    Stop this train john mayer
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    Eruption
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30192
    We've been working on a stripped back version of this on two acoustics



    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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