Just had the dubious pleasure of being kinda pushed to play something for a small audience (less than 10 people, all family to some degree) this weekend, and, having no real experience with playing for others, I was very reluctant and anxious about it. So I chose to start off with a nice little wrist-warm-up/Fretting-hand-warm-up, called "I Used To Love Her" (GNR). Left the Solos out, since I can't play them yet, and it went pretty good (then again, having played for a year and a half, I'd be ashamed if a song using only Amaj, Dmaj and Gmaj would be a hindrance. It's also a nice, happy song with some less nice and happy lyrics :) ). After that, I went straight into the first half of "Sweet Child O' Mine" (GNR) (up until right after the third chorus). Then, I went straight into "Whole Lotta Rosie" (AC/DC), only tuned down a half-step compared to the original version, followed by "Without You" (Mötley Crüe), "Smoke On The Water" (Deep Purple), and almost finally "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan/GNR). After "Knockin'", I decided to try out something completely different against my "audience". They seemed to like the covers I had selected, so no worries there, once I got started on them.

After that, I tried playing one of my own, but the covers went better. Even though the song I tried playing only had 6 chords (Cmaj, Emin, Gmaj and their respective Power Chords for the Chorus), it was still a challenge, since nobody else had ever heard it. I'll have to work a bit more on that, and a few others before next time I get a chance.

Originally Posted by: haghj500Kasperow,

Hold the Line

Verse
6th fret
Am7 to Cm7 to Fm7
Build to the chorus
Am7, Cm7, C#, D#, walk back down

Chorus
8th fret
Fm7, C, C#, C#, D#, repeat

Walk back down
D#, C#M7, BM7, A#M7

Back to the verse. With that you should be able to figure out the song.

Hm... Should be possible to figure out how to play it based on that. If not, I'll just see if I can find any accurate tabs for it somewhere.