Song Learning:

[Mordant]

Here is a question for anyone with the time and interest to answer it:

If you had to (or were only allowed to, depending on how you feel about playing acoustic) play 5 songs on an acoustic guitar, but they could be any kind of songs at all from Paganini to Pantera to the Partridge Family, as long as they were arranged or re-arranged for an acoustic guitar, what would they be?

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Sharp, Flat, I'm the one with the axe.

[Daniel]

Hmm, toughy. I'd probably say:
1. Bron y Aur Stomp Led Zeppelin
2. Blackbird Beatles
3. Moonlight Sonata Beethoven
4. Fugue in D Minor Bach (easier to play in E minor on guitar)
5. Crossroad Blues Robert Johnson

Granted it might take some time and effort to learn these (well not blackbird, and not really fugue in D minor) but they all sound really nice on acoustic guitar. Blackbird's a real crowd pleaser, and its easier as can be.

[Kevin Taylor]

Only 5 huh?
1) Classical Gas
2) Michelle-Beatles
3) The Alegro Section of Procopius' Concerto in E Flat Minor for Bass, Oboe and Flute; Opus 98
4) How Can I Be Sure - David Cassidy
5) La Villa Strangiato - Rush

tough choice....

[zepo]

1. Stairway to heaven - Zeppelin
2. Friends - Zeppelin
3. Hotel California - Eagles
4. Dust in the Wind - Kansas
5. Tears in Heaven - Clapton

[guitarist101]

1. La Villa Strangiato: RUSH
2. Moonlight Sonata: L.V. Beethoven
3. Sisters: Steve Vai
4. More than Words: Extreme
5. One: U2

[Johan]

1.Blinded By Fear(Campfire Version) - At The Gates
2.AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH - Pagan
3.Red River Valley - ?
4.Stairway to heaven(Intro) - Led Zepplin
5.Smash it!!(Doesn´t sound very good but what da heck.) - Me


[This message has been edited by Johan (edited 04-12-2000).]

[tous]

1. Patience - Guns 'n' Roses
2. Layla - Eric Clapton
3. Nothing else matters - Metallica
4. Sunday bloody Sunday (as performed in Mexico in the Popmart-tour) - U2
5. When the lady smiles (as on Naked Truth II) - Golden Earring

Hard question though.

[robert]

1.Tuesday's Gone Lynyrd Skynyrd
2.Refugee Tom Petty
3.Jet Airliner Steve Miller
4.Fire In the Sky OZZY
5.Texas Flood SRV

[rico909]

1)Ordinary World - Duran Duran
2)Blackbird - Beatles
3)Going to California - Led Zeppelin
4)Shape of My Heart- Sting
5)Tracy Chapman - Fast Car


honorable mention: Dave Matthews - Christmas Song