re: Give me a song to learn on acoustic during quarantine

Posted by BigOrangeBri

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Posted on 3/16/20 at 8:10 pm to Saint Alfonzo

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Why aim low? Learn Neon by John Mayer. You might need to be quarantined for years.

Difficult song, but so damn fun to play. A shame it's in that funky tuning

Amos Lee “Arms of a woman”

Posted by Pepe Lepew

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Posted on 3/17/20 at 3:39 am to Kvothe

Posted by Mizz-SEC

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Posted on 3/17/20 at 4:17 am to flvelo12

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Dwight Yoakam's "1000 Miles From Nowhere" is a great expample.

Sheesh I would love to try to learn that one, but F chord is a killer for me. Small hands and barres are yikes, hard as hell.

Understood brother. Go HERE and hit the +/- of the Transpose button on the lower right to change the key of the song into chords you'd rather play.

You can also type in any song you want in the searchbox and transpose those. Enjoy!

Posted by tidalmouse

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Posted on 3/17/20 at 5:16 am to Kvothe

Otherside/Red Hot Chile Peppers.

Hurt

Wonderful Tonight/Eric Clapton

It's Been Awhile/Staind

Imagine/John Lennon

Iam a Rock/Simon and Garfunkel

Here's the Lyric/Chord Sheets.

Standard tuning.Basic Chords.

This post was edited on 3/17/20 at 5:41 am

Posted by LanierSpots

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Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:27 am to Kvothe

I want to lean Pigs on the Wing when I slow down from working

Just not sure if I am ready yet.

Posted by LSU alum wannabe

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Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:47 am to Nicky Parrish

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Neil Young

Needle and Damage Done.

Leadbelly/Nirvana "In the Pines" or "Where Did You Sleep last Night" Nirvana is in a simple alt tuning. Half step down.

Posted by Tangineck

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Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:59 am to Kvothe

When I come around by Green Day is very easy and has a fun strumming pattern.

Posted by tidalmouse

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Posted on 3/17/20 at 8:12 am to LSU alum wannabe

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Needle and Damage Done.

That's 1 song that I wanted to learn from the start.I've played it for so long that it's 1 of about 3 songs that I have no idea what chords I'm playing.My fingers just do it from muscle memory."See Me,Feel Me" by The Who is the same.My fingers just go on auto-pilot.

Posted by Kvothe

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Posted on 3/17/20 at 9:15 pm to tidalmouse

Lots of great suggestions

Posted by ChoupiqueSacalait

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Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:24 am to Kvothe

George Jones - She Thinks I Still Care

You can fake the G7, C7, and D7 chords by just playing them straight, or use your quarantine time to learn how to finger the 7ths on those chords

Posted by auggie

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Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:35 am to ChoupiqueSacalait

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You can fake the G7, C7, and D7 chords by just playing them straight, or use your quarantine time to learn how to finger the 7ths on those chords

Those are really easy variants to go ahead and learn. All of the Major 7ths really are easy. Some are easier than the standard.

Posted by Kvothe

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Posted on 3/18/20 at 8:37 pm to auggie

I’m using JustinGuitar and I’ll be moving into the lesson on those this week

Posted by ColdTurkey

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Posted on 3/18/20 at 10:18 pm to Kvothe

Be Quiet and Drive by Deftones. I highly suggest delving into them if you haven’t already. When you have this much free time, listening to their albums front to back, looking up stuff they did with Chi before he passed away that was never released in addition to b-sides and rarities and live performances is really a treat. I remember how it felt delving into Nirvana when I was 12, then RHCP when I was 14, but getting into Deftones, Tool and QOTSA big time at 16 really left it’s mark on me. Very soothing.

Posted by awestruck

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Posted on 3/19/20 at 2:29 am to Kvothe

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Give me a song to learn on acoustic during quarantine
I’m using JustinGuitar and I’ll be moving into the lesson on those this week

Maybe . . .

Stormy Monday (T Bone Walker) - since you mentioned blues. You can do easy in A with just D's and E.

Angel from Montgomery; is a pretty easy G-C-D with some just F in the chorus. (eta: lot of John Prine is easy - it's all in his lyrics )

Redemption Song (B'Marley) gets you some minors, doesn't require barre chords, and rather slow but with great feel (eta: and has that real cool intro that's more like an easy walk)

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Mike Posner - Stuck in the Middle

Posted by bartjovi

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Posted on 3/19/20 at 11:21 am to Kvothe