What is one song are you currently learning to play/sing?

[dreadnut]

I'll start: "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You," Tom Waits

 

[walrus]

"Further On Up the Road", a Springsteen song, but I'm working on the Johnny Cash version. Learned "Hurts So Good" by John Mellencamp a few weeks ago - he has some great songs!

walrus

 

[AugustWest]

I feel like I’m working on 5-10 new songs at a time. We are always looking to expand our catalog. We just like playing great songs that were written and performed by great musicians and great artists
Right now my playin partner and I are working on:

A Woman In Love - Petty
Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress - The Hollies
Band On The Run - McCartney
Honky Toni Woman - Stones
Under The Bridge - Chili Peppers
Whatever Gets You Through The Night - Lennon
Trust Somebody - Jackie Greene
Mona Lisa’s And Mad Hatters - Elton John
Coffee In Bed - Squeeze

That’s the short list..

 

[Rich Cohen]

Autumn Leaves.

 

[Nuuska]

Borsalino

 

[crank]

One song is Help On the Way/Slipknot by the Grateful Dead (Help/Slip for you Deadheads). Took a bit to learn it and then took a bit longer to get up to speed. It is fast and complex with many moving parts. Problem is I will never get my bassist to bother with it.

I have been revisiting and working on a solo 12-string version of Little Wing, a song I first learned probably 45 or so years ago.

Mostly working on bluegrassy licks.

 

[Brad Little]

Patrick Sky's Mahogany Row.

 

[GGJaguar]

"Brandy" - Looking Glass. Lots of chord changes, lots of words. Good skills for anti-aging.

 

[Stuball48]

"Old Country Church" by Hank Williams.
Easy but I love that song - lots of wonderful memories.

 

[dreadnut]

"Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaiian," John Prine. Tough lyrics and hard to get through it without laughing out loud.

 

[F312]

All good choices here. I use to figure out the songs myself years ago, but now I look on line for the best site. What site do you guys look at? There are so many. I currently go to Betty Lou's. http://www.bettyloumusic.com/ You have to be accurate in your spelling. It's not 100%, but it does have a good format (larger letters). I don't pay for any sites I use, but can someone tell me what you do get when you pay.

Ralph

 

[dreadnut]

Being a play by ear kinda guy, I need to learn the melody and picking / chord patterns by listening to the song repeatedly, then playing along with it.

I just download the lyrics on line. Most of my portfolio is just lyrics because I have the music already memorized.

My piano teacher hated me; I didn't understand how to read music, but I played my pieces at the recitals with great enthusiasm, LOL, She finally told my Mom: "You're wasting your money on piano lessons for this one, he won't learn to read music, he just memorizes everything."

Thankfully, Mom bought me my first guitar a few years later...now you know the rest of the story.

 

[crank]

All good choices here. I use to figure out the songs myself years ago, but now I look on line for the best site. What site do you guys look at? There are so many. I currently go to Betty Lou's. http://www.bettyloumusic.com/ You have to be accurate in your spelling. It's not 100%, but it does have a good format (larger letters). I don't pay for any sites I use, but can someone tell me what you do get when you pay.

Ralph

I've had to learn a lot of songs for various bands and over the past decade I have developed my own little method.

First I just try to play it by ear and often that is all I need. If that fails I look for a youtube lesson/ tutorial. Some are good some not so good some just wrong. For chords, I and most of the people I play with go to ultimate guitar. Generally if one site has it wrong they all have the same mistakes...all originating from the same flawed data. I like chordie.com as well because I can easily transpose if I want to try it in different keys without thinking too hard. Finally, although sometimes this is an earlier step, I look for a video of the original artist playing their song so I can at least see what part of the guitar's neck they are playing a lick or a chord voicing at. I also look for covers so I can see what others are doing with a tune. Then I forget all that and play it wrong anyway.

 

[JHJ]

T Bone Walker, Two Bones and a Pick

 

[MLBob]

I'll start: "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You," Tom Waits

Good Choice. One of the more "singable" Tom Waits songs. Has been on our set list for a few years now.\:

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