Zaphod B
Raccoons-Be-Gone, Inc.
What are you talking about - CaptAssHat is 38!
What are your greatest songs (covers) to play on acoustic guitars for your own fun ?
What are you talking about - CaptAssHat is 38!
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
muttley600
Banned
You can never tell on the intenetz. I'm only 7..
legionserial
New member
I like to play Megadeth's Holy Wars on acoustic guitar.
Seriuously. I do. It sounds like ass and it hurts like hell but I feel it helps me build finger stength. Either that or destroy my hands. All I know is, practicing that sort of shit on an acoustic makes an electric feel like butter.
Otherwise, I like to fuck around with a little Nothing Else Matters, aswell as Manic Street Preachers' "everything must go" and "small black flowers that grow in the sky". Those tunes come up a lot when I'm noodling around.
Seriuously. I do. It sounds like ass and it hurts like hell but I feel it helps me build finger stength. Either that or destroy my hands. All I know is, practicing that sort of shit on an acoustic makes an electric feel like butter.
Otherwise, I like to fuck around with a little Nothing Else Matters, aswell as Manic Street Preachers' "everything must go" and "small black flowers that grow in the sky". Those tunes come up a lot when I'm noodling around.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
With out a doubt Roundabout by Yes
Then of course Going to California by Zep
Have to add Don't let me down by the Beatles
Then of course Going to California by Zep
Have to add Don't let me down by the Beatles
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Guitarfreak585
New member
Oh were we talking acoustic? I missed that part reading through it, lol. Both of my faves are Zeppelin tunes. The Rain Song off Houses of the Holy, and the pretty part on Stairway to Heaven.
muttley600
Banned
I bet you're a real hit down the local music store..
acidrock
GO PACKERS!
Well I play solo on acoustic so I'd have to say all of them.
I think they should kill the acoustic guitar forum,one guitar forum is enough.
I think they should kill the acoustic guitar forum,one guitar forum is enough.
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Greg_L
Banned
Yes, they should.
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Guitarfreak585
New member
I get the Wayne's World treatment every time. Pre signing bonus of course.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Dear Mr. Fantasy by Traffic
Though it ranks fight up there with stairway ~ Neil Young – The Needle and the Damage Done.
Though it ranks fight up there with stairway ~ Neil Young – The Needle and the Damage Done.
Armistice
Son of Yoda
au contraire.... I assure you I can tear it up on acoustic as I play in an acoustic band.... it's completely stuffed my electric playing, however, as the strings seem too small and too loosely strung and the guitars too small, physically... as I'm reminded every time I get an electric out to record some incidental stuff on an acoustic tune...
At some stage I think I'll have to go back and do some serious electricking to get my chops back.... so, if you want to be good at both, play both regularly is my tip...
I'm also appalled by how crap the acoustic playing often is by electric rock bands who chuck in one acoustic ballad per album. Seriously sucky sometimes...
And my fave tune is "Leaving On A Jet Plane" preferably by a roaring fire with lots of people waving glowsticks and sparklers and promising that love will change the world... and embers flying everywhere... and when I've done that one I like to launch into "Puff the Magic Dragon", and then, of course, "Kumbaya"... and perhaps a few Justin Bieber tunes to finish - after which I throw myself onto the bonfire, with guitar, as an act of self-immolation to purge myself of the shame....
About once a year I pull out the song book and do the acoustic covers thing at some party or other... fun, but as long as it's only once a year...
Tadpui
Well-known member
And a good tip it is!
miroslav,
I saw the sticky in the acoustic forum today that they're supposed to kill it tonight. Unless I'm imagining things, or misread the post date.
CaptGoldenEars
New member
au contraire.... I assure you I can tear it up on acoustic as I play in an acoustic band.... it's completely stuffed my electric playing, however, as the strings seem too small and too loosely strung and the guitars too small, physically... as I'm reminded every time I get an electric out to record some incidental stuff on an acoustic tune...
At some stage I think I'll have to go back and do some serious electricking to get my chops back.... so, if you want to be good at both, play both regularly is my tip...
I'm also appalled by how crap the acoustic playing often is by electric rock bands who chuck in one acoustic ballad per album. Seriously sucky sometimes...
And my fave tune is "Leaving On A Jet Plane" preferably by a roaring fire with lots of people waving glowsticks and sparklers and promising that love will change the world... and embers flying everywhere... and when I've done that one I like to launch into "Puff the Magic Dragon", and then, of course, "Kumbaya"... and perhaps a few Justin Bieber tunes to finish - after which I throw myself onto the bonfire, with guitar, as an act of self-immolation to purge myself of the shame....
About once a year I pull out the song book and do the acoustic covers thing at some party or other... fun, but as long as it's only once a year...
I get what you're saying. Electric and acoustic are very different dynamically speaking however, playing acoustic keeps my hands strong and my calluses hard. Whether or not a person is good at either is a different matter. And the whole campfire thing is only part of the charm of acoustic playing. Don't forget the beach, backyard parties and picnics.
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scaron
New member
Last night, I was at a friends place and there was here deceased son's old "Degas" cheap acoustic guitar in the corner. Funnily enough I remembered CaptGoldenEars comment where he says "it keeps my calluses hard" and right afiter I had read it in the afternoon, I had checked my own calluses to realize they were sort of softening. So, back to my friend's place, last nite, I ask my friend if I can play her son's guitar and seconds later, I'm there trying to tune the old cheap guitar. Dam...must have been something with the neck, but that old axe couldn't tune properly. Anyway, I started jammin the heck out of it, to re-condition my calluses, and for my everlasting own fun of playin guitar. Among all the things I jammed, there was that Pink Flod song that I play a lot, regularly simply because it's beautiful and fun to play : "Goodbye Blue Sky".
That's when I thought "Hey, I must bring that one on the forum of the songs we like to play/cover. Those of you who play it or who'll try it.....note how close the beginning of that song is of Def Leppard's "Hysteria".
Other songs I used to love to play were "Master of Puppets" (Metallica) and "Die by the sword" (Slayer)....
P.S: Yeah....I'm that kind of guy to play Simon & Garfunkel as well as Slayer and everything in between !
That's when I thought "Hey, I must bring that one on the forum of the songs we like to play/cover. Those of you who play it or who'll try it.....note how close the beginning of that song is of Def Leppard's "Hysteria".
Other songs I used to love to play were "Master of Puppets" (Metallica) and "Die by the sword" (Slayer)....
P.S: Yeah....I'm that kind of guy to play Simon & Garfunkel as well as Slayer and everything in between !
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scaron
New member
Oh, one heck of a good song also that I'd love to play, but I'm not enough classically trained for that is that fantastic song from Rick Emmet of the Canadian rock trio "Triumph", the song is "Midsummer's daydream"...take a look at Rick Emmet playing it live, on Youtube, put aside the spandex, the fun he seems to have playing that song....wow !!
Anecdote: when I was young and living at my parent's, my father heard that song and said to my younger brother who was learning classical guitar : "if you learn that song and can play it within this month, I give you a 100 $". After a month, he had to spit out the 100$ !
;-)
Anecdote: when I was young and living at my parent's, my father heard that song and said to my younger brother who was learning classical guitar : "if you learn that song and can play it within this month, I give you a 100 $". After a month, he had to spit out the 100$ !
;-)
Bubba po
Tiny Stonehenge Moment
Pyramid Song - Radiohead.
Hallelujah - written by Cohen obviously but based on later versions.
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Prettiest Eyes - The Beautiful South.
Hallelujah - written by Cohen obviously but based on later versions.
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Prettiest Eyes - The Beautiful South.
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scaron
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Tadpui
Well-known member
Great! yeah I like that song a lot, I just hate getting into and out of that tuning. That whole album is good, just him and his guitar.