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What are your favourite songs to play on the guitar?

  • I'm trying to expand the repertoire of songs I can play by myself, just me and a guitar and I'd like to know, what are your best songs to play without any accompaniment. Obviously there's a huge amount of guitar music out there, and most singer songwriter stuff can be covered pretty well, but I really want to know what are the gems that you've found: anything you keep coming back to playing again and again, songs that you wouldn't expect to work well but do or music that you think really suits a guitar sound. I'm at a reasonable level at guitar (can play any normalish chord, can play a solo, can strum, pick or fingerpick) and I'm happy to challenge myself if the finished piece is worthwhile. Thanks in advance.

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    I come back to Van Ronk's Cocaine Blues whenever I get cocky and start to forget how intricacy informs the fingers and disengages the rational part of the brain. Right now I'm working on the subtle melody embedded in Ashokan Farewell (see the Jay Unger/Molly Mason rendition for insight): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZASM8OX7s I also like to work on any of Clapton's several Broomsy tunes, just to stay humble. Walking Blues, for one example, is simple, and elegant, but powerful. Keys to the Highway keeps my feet moving, as well as my fingers. The Boxer is something I like to do because of its beauty, and any version of The Last Thing on My Mind, for its harmony. Hot Tuna's "Keep on Truckin'" is a great exercise, and fun. So is "Hesitation Blues" although I just sit in slack-jawed wonder when Cassidy's bass riffs begin to fall off his fingers and onto his fingerboard. When I'm in the mood to just let my fingers roll in accompaniment, I like any of several Gospels. "Uncloudy Day" is one that's tight and fun. "When the Roll is Called up Yonder" also comes to mind. I liked Cooders version best--his slower tempo brings out the nice structure, lets the riffs flow. I play with an old-time fiddler's group here in Southern Oregon. Being a guitarist, I don't fiddle, but they challenge me all the time with stuff that's been carried forward from a century or so ago: You can sometimes hear the echos, ghosts I guess, of bagpipes and penny-whistles trying to rise up over the fiddlers.

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The crowd goes wild when I play this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bEbJj3PXvo (I tend to play it a little faster than Josh does) A little man walked up and down, he found an eating place in town. He read the menu through and through to see what fifteen cents could do: One meatball, one meatball, he couldn't bought but one meatball. He told the waiter near at hand the simple dinner he had planned. The guests were startled, one and all, to hear that waiter oddly call: "One meatball, one meatball, This here gent wants one meatball." The little man felt ill at ease, "Some bread, Son, if you please." The waiter hollered down the hall "Ya gets no bread with one meatball!" One meatball, one meatball, "Ya gets no bread with one meatball!" The little man felt very bad, one meatball was all he had, And in his dreams he hears the call, "Ya gets no bread with one meatball!" One meatball, one meatball, "Ya gets no bread with one meatball!"

DMelanogaster

Here are just a few of mine, ones I come back to time and time again because they're fun to play. They're pretty Beatles-centric, as you'll see. These are all songs I love to play, but they reflect my own tastes, so, you know. Most are finger-picky but some strumming too. http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/beatles/blackbird_ver5_tab.htm (Beatles) http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/beatles/because_tab.htm (Beatles) http://www.guitaretab.com/b/beatles/1079.html (Beatles) http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/beatles/norwegian_wood_tab.htm (Beatles) http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/s/simon_and_garfunkel/59th_street_bridge_song_feelin_groovy_tab.htm (Simon & Garfunkel) http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/s/simon_and_garfunkel/bookends_theme_tab.htm (Simon & Garfunkel) http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/w/wilco/jesus_etc_crd.htm (Wilco) http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/counting_crows/omaha_crd.htm (Counting Crows) http://www.guitaretab.com/n/nirvana/13405.html (Nirvana cover of Meat Puppets)

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I don't play guitar, but my friend Scary Harry always gets requests for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7KnP3Lnq2M. Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6giiYDlqRQs by Hot Tuna.

workerant

I'm a better guitarist than singer, so like a song that has some fun guitar riffs as well as being playable solo. Looking through my list, here are some fun ones: Ziggy Stardust Here Comes the Sun The Wind - Cat Stevens Working at the Car Wash Blues - Jim Croce (I love a lot of JC songs - really fun stories) Sunny Afternoon - the kinks Redemption song - Bob Marley I Love You - G. Love and Special Sauce I've got chord/lyric charts for all of these if you PM me. I heard someone do a nice arrangement of Lucy in the Sky with diamonds recently - that would be a fun one to work out.

ianhattwick

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/j/johnny_rivers/secret_agent_man_crd.htm is a fun one that sounds good unplugged as well as amped up.

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mannequito

If by "just me and guitar", you mean singing and guitar, I've found that Nick Lowe's song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwZkq-LMqcg is always well received.

bonobothegreat

If you learn Arlo Guthrie's http://youtu.be/LjKF7aQthcQ, you'll have your pick of Thanksgiving dinner invitations for years, for saving everyone attending from at least 23 minutes of awkward holiday conversation. If you learn Don Mclean's http://youtu.be/Y0Y_XRiJsCI, you'll be welcomed into lots of other kinds of gatherings, with many gray haired people. If you learn Wes Montgomery's http://youtu.be/dqn3PF_DcSg, you'll gather small groups of quiet, rapt listeners at will. If you learn anything by either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX0cKNiwPFs, you'll gather angels at will. If you master some https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWa6aChSf1w or http://youtu.be/FMcjPZgK9GM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Buchanan#Technique of the Telecaster "http://youtu.be/lpCvgfFSopE") tunes, perhaps some child of a greater God will sign up with you for lessons.

paulsc

Here Comes The Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PYKmvx-Lms by John Hiatt No Surprises by Radiohead works surprisingly well on solo guitar Angel by Sarah Maclachlan Besamé Mucho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ESuW9siMLQ (Ricky Skaggs version) Jamaica Say You Will by Jackson Browne John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic Six O'Clock News by John Prine

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