Author Topic: Whats your favorite acoustic guitar music? (Read 3051 times)

Sephroth57 · « **on:** July 20, 2005, 09:39:56 am »

i need some new songs to learn for my coffee house endevours.. give me some ideas

ChadTower · « **Reply #1 on:** July 20, 2005, 09:42:52 am »

You must blast forth with a three part harmony, guh guh gow guh guh guh guh guh gow!

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 20, 2005, 09:45:27 am »

lol i saw you replied and i knew it would be something about the D

ChadTower · « **Reply #3 on:** July 20, 2005, 09:49:38 am »

Hrm, let me think about some recognizable yet kickass acoustic stuff. Some of this stuff has some electric in but is mostly acoustic, anyway.

Finish What Ya Started - Van Halen
Patience - GNR
Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi

Yeah yeah, Bon Jovi, but that song rocks in a small venue.

Hrm... maybe Van Halen isn't a good choice... seeing as how few people can reproduce any of Eddie Van Halen's stuff.

Minwah · « **Reply #4 on:** July 20, 2005, 09:50:13 am »

Almost anything by Bob Dylan in the sixties (I like the early sixties stuff best). His fingerpicking is really cool. I'm trying to learn it but I struggle to get anywhere near as good at the speed he does it. Listen to 'The Freewheeling Bob Dylan', that's one of my fave albums.

Simon & Garfunkel also have some great fingerpicking, see Bleeker Street, Wednesday Morning 3AM, Kathy's Song, The Boxer etc...

John Lennon's 'Acoustic' album. It even gives you the chords to all songs in the inlay. Many of these sound really raw, home recordings and such. 'Watching the Wheels' is a good 'un.

ChadTower · « **Reply #5 on:** July 20, 2005, 09:55:45 am »

If you write the greatest song in the world, be smart enough to write it down.

Shape D. · « **Reply #6 on:** July 20, 2005, 10:23:28 am »

this bands pretty cool. The New Mountain Kickers

If your looking for something acoustic that rocks you should try some violent femmes stuff.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #7 on:** July 20, 2005, 10:29:50 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on July 20, 2005, 09:55:45 am

If you write the greatest song in the world, be smart enough to write it down.

Heh, Tribute - Tenacious D

You know what works well for coffee house type stuff if you just want ambient music, practicing. Sounds funny but I picked up Victor Wooten at Bass Day 98 dvd. In an interview where he explains his past he played his bass at a coffee cafe. All he would do is practice his finger tapping and stuff, but make it melodolic. Like he'd tap out chords in progressions of a scale. It fit the mood of creating ambient music. So he got to practice his finger tapping technique along with making something that sounded good.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2005, 02:15:16 pm »

you guys arent helping =p

Minwah · « **Reply #9 on:** July 20, 2005, 02:17:27 pm »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on July 20, 2005, 02:15:16 pm

you guys arent helping =p

What sort of stuff are you thinking?

missioncontrol · « **Reply #10 on:** July 20, 2005, 02:21:20 pm »

pick up

Tesla--Five Man Acoustical Jam (1990)

it rocks

edit link added

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 20, 2005, 02:23:02 pm »

you guys got any suggestions for newer music =P

basicly it needs to be not overly complicated cause im not THAT good yet, like fast fingerpicking and stuff i cant really do yet. and i need to be able to sing it, as long as they dont have an overly deep or overly high voice i can probably do it im right about in the middle.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #12 on:** July 20, 2005, 02:30:31 pm »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on July 20, 2005, 02:23:02 pm

you guys got any suggestions for newer music =P

why newer music sucks...............

well except for The New Mountain Kickers

how about Nirvana--Unplugged

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 20, 2005, 02:48:47 pm »

ooh i forgot about unplugged... ::pulls out his nirvana cd collection::

ChadTower · « **Reply #14 on:** July 20, 2005, 03:12:05 pm »

Yeah, like every jerkwad to hit a coffee house or club doesn't already do Nirvana.

Be 3l33t, hit up some Limp Bizkit, yawl.

rampy · « **Reply #15 on:** July 20, 2005, 03:19:32 pm »

Gn'R: Used to Love her D - A - G - A
Knocking on Heaven's door (dylan/gnr) G-D-C

How about that song in animal house right before Bluto smashes the acoustic "if my love was a cherry..." *smash*!

I think radiohead's creep makes a good lounge/acoustic song because it's jazzy type chords...

How about some puddle of mud... she hates me probably translates to acoustic pretty well, lol... or those Jet songs...

*shrug*

rampy

ChadTower · « **Reply #16 on:** July 20, 2005, 03:28:19 pm »

You know you want to bust out some Ugly Kid Joe.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #17 on:** July 20, 2005, 03:36:26 pm »

learn to play 80's power ballads

moster ballads

CCM · « **Reply #18 on:** July 20, 2005, 03:55:59 pm »

What about the acoustic stuff that Alice in Chains did? Although Layne had a pretty distinctive voice...

shmokes · « **Reply #19 on:** July 20, 2005, 04:17:10 pm »

You should check out The Honorary Title. Nobody knows them (but will a year or two from now, mark my words) but they are fantastic. Lots of good balads and stuff. Check out the songs Revealing Too Much and Everything I Once Had and Frame By Frame. If you have a GMail account or something I can send you a couple of examples. Or check out their website...there's probably something there.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #20 on:** July 20, 2005, 04:45:26 pm »

Quote from: rampy on July 20, 2005, 03:19:32 pm

Gn'R: Used to Love her D - A - G - A
Knocking on Heaven's door (dylan/gnr) G-D-C

A lot of songs are just chord progressions like that, playing out the arpeggios or pentatonics of those chords. Like Rock in the USA is all open chords, E-A-D, and can be played well acoustically. A lot of folk rock and southern rock follow those three chords. So as long as you play those chords just put the lyrics on top and it is recognizable.
More open chords, well, can be played with open chords, A-D-G of Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London (good karaoke song)
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/w/warren_zevon/werewolves_of_london_tab.htm

BTW, anything alternative and possibly punk translates well to acoustic because all you are doing is pounding out chords. Like Blink 182's "All the Small Things" is like C-G-F power chords progressions pounded out in eighth notes. Green Day's "American Idiot" is the same three chords repeated over and over and over (and throw in a D chord)
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/g/green_day/american_idiot_ver9_tab.htm
Even the slower alternative and punk songs follow this.
Ok, those were punk examples, onto alternative, hmmm. Weezer's "My Name is Jonas"
C-G-F-A power chords with a little bit of finger picking (remember to tune down a half step)
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/w/weezer/my_name_is_jonas_tab.htm

If you are into playing blues just pick up any blues player cds and find the 12 bar blues songs. Then it doesn't matter what you play as long as you stay withing the 12 bar blues chord progression (I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-IV-[two bar turn around usually either I-I or I-V]).
Heck, alot of rock songs follow that progression or simple variation of it.

FYI, no matter what skill level want something cool to practice with? http://www.fivefeathers.com

Minwah · « **Reply #21 on:** July 21, 2005, 06:23:45 am »

Ocean Colour Scene
Willy Mason

danny_galaga · « **Reply #22 on:** July 21, 2005, 06:47:39 am »

anything by Manitas De Plata. and if you can pull THAT off you'll impress the chicks no end! Brigette Bardot wasn't shagging him for his looks

jhanson · « **Reply #23 on:** July 21, 2005, 07:19:50 am »

Days of the New have a bunch of good songs. They're not all totally acoustic on the CDs, but they usually are in concert.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #24 on:** July 21, 2005, 10:50:50 pm »

Quote from: jhanson on July 21, 2005, 07:19:50 am

Days of the New have a bunch of good songs.

Trenchbroom · « **Reply #25 on:** July 21, 2005, 11:18:53 pm »

Iron and Wine

Jandek (heh)

jhanson · « **Reply #26 on:** July 22, 2005, 07:58:37 am »

Do you have a drum machine? If so, how about Music Man by Paranoid Social Club? You'll have to fight the ladies away with a stick.

You can hear it (and three other songs) on their website at http://www.pscmusic.com in the Audio section. They're an awesome band that's about to make it big.

---

How could I love you?
You know the words to all my serenades.
How could I love you?
And see you pressed up on my barricades.
How could you love me,
you only see my face under those pretty lights.
How could you love me,
when I need you, to pay my ticket price, and I leave you, when they dim the lights?

Front row girl, you're cute as can be,
you've got to understand that there's no you and me.
Front row girl, don't get the wrong idea,
though the band is playin' loud, your voice is all I hear.
Girl in the front row, I gotta make you understand,
I just want to be your music man,

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #27 on:** July 22, 2005, 12:55:21 pm »

radio station called WBCN boston put a CD nationally called the Usual Suspects.
Had some good unplugged performances on it.

ChadTower · « **Reply #28 on:** July 22, 2005, 12:59:01 pm »

WBCN, 104.1 Boston

I listen to it a lot. It used to be a lot better, but now they play too much standard radio crap. When you tune in to your favorite edgy rock station and they are playing REM, it ruins your day.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #29 on:** July 22, 2005, 01:14:02 pm »

give up the guitars..........

you could be a RunDMC cover band...............

ChadTower · « **Reply #30 on:** July 22, 2005, 01:20:10 pm »

Hell, they need a DJ now, you could be a real member!

missioncontrol · « **Reply #31 on:** July 22, 2005, 01:26:02 pm »

No I'm holding out till I gain enough weight to join The Fat Boys

He He He He........Wipeout....

Edit: Spelling

ChadTower · « **Reply #32 on:** July 22, 2005, 01:27:04 pm »

Disorderlies is an awesome movie.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #33 on:** July 22, 2005, 01:31:29 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on July 22, 2005, 01:27:04 pm

Disorderlies is an awesome movie.

Ha, I forgot all about that movie...............

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #34 on:** July 22, 2005, 02:02:38 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on July 22, 2005, 12:59:01 pm

WBCN, 104.1 Boston

I listen to it a lot. It used to be a lot better, but now they play too much standard radio crap. When you tune in to your favorite edgy rock station and they are playing REM, it ruins your day.

now that i think about it, it was WAAF, cause it was opie and anthony back on the album,

ChadTower · « **Reply #35 on:** July 22, 2005, 02:35:43 pm »

WAAF, 107.3, Boston... though when Opie and Anthony were on, it was out of Worcester I think... a good radio station, plays good stuff, DJs are good. The best station in Boston. They only got much better when they ditched those idiots. O+A got fired for announcing on the radio that some major Boston politician (mayor, maybe) had been killed in a plane crash, when in fact he was not. It was a 'joke'.

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #36 on:** July 22, 2005, 02:52:23 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on July 22, 2005, 02:35:43 pm

WAAF, 107.3, Boston... though when Opie and Anthony were on, it was out of Worcester I think... a good radio station, plays good stuff, DJs are good. The best station in Boston. They only got much better when they ditched those idiots. O+A got fired for announcing on the radio that some major Boston politician (mayor, maybe) had been killed in a plane crash, when in fact he was not. It was a 'joke'.

yea, it was menino, and whip em out wednesday's didnt help matters either

ChadTower · « **Reply #37 on:** July 22, 2005, 03:05:26 pm »

Seriously, no one ever whipped 'em out.

Okay, fine, one time I had the misfortune of seeing dude whip out his nuts.

Luxury · « **Reply #38 on:** July 22, 2005, 07:57:35 pm »

Nothing beats acoustic portuguese Davie Bowie. Nothing.

ChadTower · « **Reply #39 on:** July 22, 2005, 09:34:55 pm »

I think that's what we called our waiter at the deli last year.


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