just wondering what ya'll have been playing lately, looking for something new

4/20/2008 9:36:44 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4

try this one

4/20/2008 9:40:10 PM

that video is amazing, its like slap guitar on crack

4/20/2008 9:50:25 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2y2ovSkCU

4/20/2008 9:53:00 PM

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=344265
'easy songs to play on guitar'

4/20/2008 9:53:40 PM

4/20/2008 10:00:40 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM6hMx7JNhg

4/20/2008 10:15:02 PM

this kid is amazing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS0QjEeNYpM

4/21/2008 9:36:45 AM

andy mckee is great. I almost bought Erik Mongrain's CD a while back after hearing his stuff.

4/21/2008 10:25:54 AM

I like playing Nutshell by Alice In Chains. It is easy and sounds good.

4/21/2008 11:00:46 AM

^^^ that makes me want to put down my guitar forever.

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 11:36 AM. Reason : .]

4/21/2008 11:36:27 AM

i've been playing this song on guitar, because i'm not very good at guitar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QxgKninpSg

4/21/2008 11:43:12 AM

4/21/2008 11:46:05 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tew_fIhz3eY

4/21/2008 12:01:32 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbndgwfG22k

Mongrain

4/21/2008 2:33:46 PM

Dude I thought I was the only one who listened to Eric Mongrain, nice! I frequent his myspace page a lot, love the way his stuff sounds.

4/21/2008 2:45:58 PM

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"this kid is amazing..."

holy shit

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 2:50 PM. Reason : I mean, my god]

4/21/2008 2:48:10 PM

i honestly felt like he's like lots of kids who are proficient at instruments: he seems like a trained monkey. sure he can do that shit well, but he didn't seem to have any feeling in it.

you more frequently see kids like this playing piano or violin, but playing an arrangement of a 40 year old rock song doesn't really make it all that much better.

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 2:54 PM. Reason : .]

4/21/2008 2:51:02 PM

sort of agree.

while it was pretty amazing from a technical standpoint, it seemed a bit soulless.

4/21/2008 4:36:01 PM

or you could be jealous and hating on the kid for no reason

of course he doesn't have the entire soulful "meaning" behind all these yet

but that's because he's a kid, give him a break

I'm sure he'll grow into his talent

4/21/2008 4:52:22 PM

lol.

shitting on an 8 year old asian kid because he doesn't have soul?
haha.

4/21/2008 5:01:45 PM

He doesn't have soul-he has seoul...

4/21/2008 5:10:25 PM

I'm not hating on the kid you silly cunts

If anything, I feel bad for him. watching that video and some of the others, it doesn't appear that this is fun for him.

4/21/2008 5:11:36 PM

the asian kid is pretty amazing, apparently they are his own arrangements. this is from the his you tube page. apparently his parents set it up for him:

Quote :

"Hi, I'm Sungha Jung from South Korea. My dream is to become a professional acoustic fingerstyle guitarist. I had been watching my dad play the guitar for awhile before I finally jumped on it myself two years ago. I just turned eleven in September, 2007. Currently, I am taking weekly classical guitar lessons and teaching myself fingerstyle guitar. I used to not have tabs for the music that I played in my videos. I just listen and pick them up directly from the sound source in videos available on the internet. However, recently, I have started playing with original tabs whenever they are available to me by courtesy of the authors. My guitar is custom made to fit my body size, and on it, Thomas Leeb wrote "Keep on grooving to my friend." I'm very grateful to those prominent guitarists who have had a great influence on my guitar playing. I'll continue to study them and learn more about interpretation of music and various playing techniques. My daily practice routine lasts for one to two hours when school is open, but I play up to three hours a day during the school breaks. It usually takes me two to three days to practice and videotape a new piece but sometimes up to a week for more difficult ones. Last, but certainly not least, I can't thank Ulli Bögershausen enough for being my musical inspiration."

and to contribute something useful to the thread, i taught myself that stupid "hey there delilah" song in about 10 minutes. i assumed the girls would like it, so far that's not been the case. but its super easy.

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 6:09 PM. Reason : .]

4/21/2008 6:06:57 PM

Back to the topic....

I'm working on "santa cruz" by david qualey. modern classical/jazz played with a drop D.

and every once in a while I attempt "Clap" by Steve Howe.

If you are a finger picker it's worth the google. Sorry don't have time to link.

Also, "Silver Wheels" by Nancy Wilson (Heart).

All kind of hard to play, but satisfying if you even come close.

4/21/2008 6:13:24 PM

there was a guy playing my favorite tool song H on youtube

sounded awesome even acoustic

4/21/2008 6:15:03 PM

Quote :

"apparently they are his own arrangements."

it said in the tags for the three videos of his i watched, that they were arrangements by someone else.

Quote :

"or you could be jealous and hating on the kid for no reason of course he doesn't have the entire soulful "meaning" behind all these yet but that's because he's a kid, give him a break I'm sure he'll grow into his talent "

i'm not jealous of the kid. i've just this sort of kid MANY times before. and this sort of talent doesn't necessarily translate into creativity. they're two very different things in my mind.

i'll take the creative mediocre musician over the technically proficient any day of the week.

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 6:30 PM. Reason : .]

4/21/2008 6:27:31 PM

4/21/2008 6:31:41 PM

Quote :

"i'll take the creative mediocre musician over the technically proficient any day of the week. "

I'd say the general public certainly agrees with you

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 7:19 PM. Reason : a good voice definetly helps too]

4/21/2008 7:15:06 PM

i think its always nice to have some decemberists in your repertoire.

also turning your favorite electric songs into an acoustic version is a nice surprise for friends if you do it in an interesting way

4/21/2008 8:20:19 PM

Tool - Disposition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiTtWnx_rjY

It's just an interlude off the Lateralus disc, but it's really amazing.

4/21/2008 10:17:02 PM

^^^^HAHAHA

Try Spatter the Dew, its a traditional celtic jig...........sounds straight outta Braveheart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7fywEr4wjU

4/21/2008 10:46:05 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReW9uUYm-DA

4/21/2008 10:50:27 PM

Quote :

"this kid is amazing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS0QjEeNYpM"

He's featured on break.com today.

5/8/2008 6:41:25 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvTorpjLRxE

5/9/2008 2:44:59 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To09Km0y8ic

5/9/2008 3:00:38 AM

These'll keep you plenty busy:

"Big Love" - Lindsey Buckingham:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HdXbiB354us

"Say Goodbye" - Lindsey Buckingham (with Stevie Nicks)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GXI4KinMOys

"Shut Us Down" - Lindsey Buckingham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLecK7f34WM

5/9/2008 3:28:13 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ohfM_PqYeg

John Prine - Souvenirs

5/9/2008 8:21:32 AM

at Dollywood I saw a bluegrass band with several nationally recognized musicians

the guitarist did this story of how he learned to play guitar. He said at first he tried to play rock songs to impress girls, after saying this he played some of Stairway to Heaven. He said the girls still didn't like him, so he played the songs with feeling. And I have no idea what he did different the second time, but it really felt different ... like Stairway to Heaven, not some kid trying to play it.

5/9/2008 8:47:52 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jySV_Oj6CmU

Townes Van Zandt - Greensboro Woman

5/9/2008 9:09:51 AM

Damn, that kid's version of Livin' on a Prayer is pretty kick ass.

5/9/2008 9:34:06 AM