[pimp_vince]

i'm lookin for a list of songs to play with just me singing and playing.
i'd prefer easier ones in terms of voice but go nuts on the guitar.
i'm just getting bored of playing songs that require two guitars, like tears in heaven.

[dorio]

(one man voice he)? Let see...

Neil Young: sail away (easy stuff)
Lennon: imagine (the easiest stuff)
Simon & garfunkel: the boxer (finger style)
Bod Dylan: desolation row (you can ramble on it)
george Harrison: while my guitar gently weeps (so many ways to play it)



You'll find those 5 oldies goldies at tablatures. Enjoy.

[capo2nd]

Basically anything by Christy Moore. Though, your voice needs to fit his songs, mind you.

[grzegorz_panek]

Loads of folk and country blues tunes. Like Robert Johnson, the guy in my avatar. Tracy Chapman, stuff like Talking about the Revolution.

[rasav]

It takes forever to to get it right but extreme's 'more than words ' gets great reactions. It's not at all difficult chordwise but getting the timing down and then singing on top of that makes this a very hard but rewarding song to add to your catalog.
Ben Folds Five 'Superman' is very easy to do on guitar while it sounds better doing a two or three finger picking pattern, it comes almost as wonderfully if you just flat pick it.

TLC's "unpretty" comes off great on a classical or a steel with light delay.

This post has been edited by rasav: 10 November 2003 - 01:09 PM

[pimp_vince]

would you be nice and name some of those robert johnson songs.

[dadfad]

He recorded a total of twenty-nine songs (with several relatively recently found alternate takes of several of them).

I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom
Sweet Home Chicago
Rambling On My Mind
Kind Hearted Woman
When You Got A Good Friend
Come On In My Kitchen
Terraplane Blues
Phonograph Blues
They ‘re Red Hot
32-20 Blues
Dead Shrimp Blues
Cross Road Blues
Walking Blues
Last Fair Deal Gone Down
If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
Stones In My Passway
Preaching Blues
I’m a Steady Rollin’ Man
Me And The Devil Blues
From Four Till Late
Hellhound On My Trail
Little Queen of Spades
Malted Milk
Drunken Hearted Man
Stop Breakin' Down Blues
Travelling Riverside Blues
Honeymoon Blues
Love In Vain

Is that twenty-nine.................Nope. One more.......sh!t........okay:

Milkcow's Calf Blues

That makes twenty-nine. Like I said, some have alternate takes now available (which I thought was like striking gold when those old masters were found in the vaults in the late 1980's). I'd only had the original twenty-nine for twenty years (which most bluesicologists thought was all that had ever existed). Anyway, there are his tunes.

[dadfad]

As far as playing his stuff. There are several ways to approach it. His open-tuned stuff and his standard tuned stuff. A pretty decent one maybe to start might be Kind Hearted Woman or 32-20. They're done in A (I forget if either was capoed, if it sounds like key of B for example, it was capoed on the second fret. He was big on capoing. It gave some of his stuff a real frenetic, on-the-edge kind of sound. Anyway................ well there's a place to start if you want.

(Pick a tune, any tune! )

[tzara]

Anything at all by Hayden.

The girls'll love you for it too.

Between Us To Hold
Middle of July
Stem
We Don't Mind
Skates
Tragedy
Dynamite Walls
Steps Into Miles
The Hazards of Sitting Beneath Palm Trees
I'm To Blame

etc.

[pimp_vince]

how bout some good instrumentals, i already know some good ones like Classical Gas, Bron-Y-Aur, Black Mountain Side.


also could someone recommend some good acoustic neil young stuff?

i'm really trying to open up my repertoire on acoustic here.

[dadfad]

A nice instrumental..."Ebryonic Journey" (Dropped-D) by Jefferson Airplane (written by Jorma Kaukonan, it's NOT a typical Airplane tune).

Neil Young acoustics...."After the Gold Rush", "The Needle and the Damage Done", "Old Man" (on a CSNY album)....he's done a number of decent ones.

[fallenseraph]

If you take the vocals down an octave, you could do Fade Out by Radiohead.

[haggis]

I'm duty-bound to recommend some easy Steve Earle stuff.....

"Billy Austin", "Ellis Unit One"... both in "drop D" !!!

"My Old Friend The Blues", "Goodbye", "Over Yonder"

..and, probably my favourite song of all-time, "Christmas In Washington"

[pimp_vince]

wow thanks so much, i love the feedback you get in this forum. everyone's a lot more easy going here, i guess it's the lack of ###### polls.


(and thanks again dadfad for fixing that 'problem' in guitar q&a)

i've already worked out needle and the damaga done, singing and everything. way easier than i expected.

[Cortez The Killer]

A nice instrumental..."Ebryonic Journey" (Dropped-D) by Jefferson Airplane (written by Jorma Kaukonan, it's NOT a typical Airplane tune).

Neil Young acoustics...."After the Gold Rush", "The Needle and the Damage Done", "Old Man" (on a CSNY album)....he's done a number of decent ones.

im lovin the neil young suggestions dadfad. Also here ar emy recomendations...

Mellisa - Allman Brothers
No Expectations - Rolling Stones
Old Love - Eric Clapton
Almost Cut My Hair - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

[pimp_vince]

looks like i'd better get to downloading.

the reason i started this thread was because my band kinda quit on me and no longer want to jam, so i was thinking of going into battle of the bands as a one man act this year. I've also never seen an acoustic at one ever and this'll be my third one attending/playing in.

these are my ideas for my set (it's gonna be 20 minutes), so if you guys could pick some good ones out of this list it'd be much appreciated.
-Needle and the damage done
-classical gas
-sweet baby james
-bron-yr-aur
-black mountain side (maybe)
-little martha (maybe)
-tears in heaven
-redemption song
-Ohio
-f*ck her gently
-blackbird
-let it be (on piano, i'm thinking about this one too.)
-under the bridge
-more than words

also if you guys have any better suggestions... pass em on.

[Cravia]

I'll just pop in an give a few suggestions:

A lot of great songs on you list btw, like
Needle and the damage done - great song
Sweet baby James
Redemption song
Under the bridge
More than words

and also
From Hank to Hendrix, Neil Young
Heart of Gold, Neil Y.
Van Diemans land, U2
Oh Well, Fleetwood Mac
This years love, David Gray
Fire and Rain, James Taylor
Pride and Joy, Stevie Ray Vaughan

And dozen more..... Some up - tempo songs is always good for the crowd...

Good luck to ya!

Cravia

[lowden]

i'm lookin for a list of songs to play with just me singing and playing.
i'd prefer easier ones in terms of voice but go nuts on the guitar.
i'm just getting bored of playing songs that require two guitars, like tears in heaven.

'Tears in heaven' can easily be done on one guitar, but if you want a real challenge try something by John Martyn like 'Solid Air' or 'May you Never' , or anything by him, but be prepared to change you tunings every now and then.

Or James Taylors, 'Frozen Man' or 'Like Everyone She Knows' from the 'New Moonshine' album. They're easier than they sound and will always impress. And btw people will know me for belting on about how good Olson Guitars are (as well as Lowdens), but if you want to hear the best Olsen ever made, it 's being played on those two tracks.

This post has been edited by lowden: 21 November 2003 - 07:44 PM

[randomorwhat]

i'm lookin for a list of songs to play with just me singing and playing.
i'd prefer easier ones in terms of voice but go nuts on the guitar.
i'm just getting bored of playing songs that require two guitars, like tears in heaven.

So many. All songs (within reason) can be played acoustic if you make up your own picking pattern around the chords

[_brad_]

good australian rock bands rock


like powderfinger, and their song these days, he played it at the Bali Bombings concert just him and his guitar and it sounded beautiful