Members Dave Keir Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 I have a song called "Red John" that has become a song that I immediately think of if I pop along to an open mic, or if I'm a bit nervous and I need a "bail-out". It's got all the ingredients I need: up-tempo, cheerful, looks-harder-to-play-than-it-really-is, fluff-friendly and can be stretched out or shrunk depending on audience response.It would be my signature tune except my name's not John and I'm not red. Neither is it Iain Dearg.
Members Jake7 Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 I wrote a song called "sun sets in the west" and it's kinda become the tune everyone locally asks me to play all the time. Here is a vid,but it is really from when I was just writing it...it's developed alot since then.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyGOJuKJwI0
Members kwakatak Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 Chet Atkin's arrangement of "Vincent (Starry Starry Night)" only because it made JasmineTea cry. I don't play it much anymore, but I've adopted that style of playing for a variety of other songs still in my repetoire.
Members knockwood Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 I wrote a song called "sun sets in the west" and it's kinda become the tune everyone locally asks me to play all the time.Here is a vid,but it is really from when I was just writing it...it's developed alot since then.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyGOJuKJwI0 Very, very nice. Good voice. Dig the Gibby.
Members Whalebot Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 Free Bird...on Bass Recorder.
Members knockwood Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 Free Bird...on Bass Recorder. Mad skills...
Members Cldplytkmn Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 probably 'monsters' by ryan adams... much easier to play than it looks...
Members BigRed51 Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 At that moment when it is crucial to win over an audience of any size, age group, or religious affiliation, I will typically fall back on one of my favorite romantic ballads ... "I Just Don't Look Good Naked Any More"
Members Freeman Keller Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 The opening riff of "Walkin' Blues" Just wish I could do it like Rory does
Members STEELSTRINGS Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 Yes , some of my own stuff, usually attracts some attention when trying out guitars. Like " who do you play with?" and " where do you play?"
Members bbarkow Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 When I'm shopping, the first thing I do is just play some chords and scales up and down the neck - listening to see whether I want to explore the guitar any further. When I find one I like, I usually play either Beaumont Rag or a drop D version of Angeline The Baker. Either that, or improvise some bluegrass stuff over top of the rhythm section in my head. I don't usually play open mics, but if somebody says "play something" I'll usually play and sing something along the lines of "Guitar Town" or some JT - depending on who's asking.
Members Cldplytkmn Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 my use of 'monsters' (see above) is on the rare chance that i need to look like i know what i'm doing quick... usually only have to bust it out at GC, but its also one of my wife's favs, so i end up playing it when she's around... as far as my own songs go, the one that people seem to want to hear the most is (as a friend put it two days ago) "old radio"... meaning "radio, but before you messed it up by recording it with a band"...
Members Freeman Keller Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 When I'm shopping, the first thing I do is just play some chords and scales up and down the neck - Whenever I'm in a high end guitar store I always launch into "Stairway to Heaven". I quickly find myself on the sidewalk
Members bbarkow Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 Whenever I'm in a high end guitar store I always launch into "Stairway to Heaven". I quickly find myself on the sidewalk :D Maybe you should try the old chestnut "Smoke on the Water for the E String" next time.
Members Jake7 Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 Very, very nice. Good voice. Dig the Gibby. Thanks Knockwood! It has developed alot as I've gigged it, I have an intro made of harmonics and the lead part has grown up abit too! Thanks for watching and the kind words!
Members Hudman Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 No signature moves. I usually play the latest thing I learned or original riffs. No set formula.
Members Cripes Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 Guitar store: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star works wonders. Religious ambiance: Any instrumental - Funeral For A Friend. Girls: One note, an amp modeler, and throat full of whiskey. Ladies: Your Song.
Members Michael Martin Posted January 25, 2007 Members Posted January 25, 2007 ...a favorite "signature time", perhaps? Yes! I'm becoming known as the 6/8 time guy. Lots of my stuff is 6/8 or 3/4 (I've never been sure which is which). Haven't been doing this long enough to have a signature anything, the song people always tell me thay like is my 6/8 ballad "Thunderstorm Waltz". I can't compete in guitar stores. I don't even try, for the precocious 13-yr-olds would put me to shame. Usually I just play some rollicky tasty fingerstyle things.
Members martingibson70 Posted January 26, 2007 Members Posted January 26, 2007 During my acoustic only period, mine was Blackbird or Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac). I'm about 65% electric now so...Tie Your Mother Down or Black Dog...even if I'm playing acoustic. If anyone cares...I do a couple of interesting things in my own compositions that isn't difficult but sounds cool and my friends/peers seem to appreciate it:http://media.putfile.com/Rhinestone-86 To break up the arrangement or add a bridge or solo, I climb the neck in a fixed open chord shape like an E all the way up the scale letting all of the strings ring. Over the top I put a cool electric unison blend that ascends in the same pattern. This recording has the open E climber at the beginning, middle, and end.
Members KATMAN Posted January 26, 2007 Members Posted January 26, 2007 I do an intrumental that I wrote years ago. I don't use a pick or fingerpick either. I do all by tapping.Pretty cool,about 2 1/2 minutes long. Very Phil Keaggy,Micheal Hedges vein,but not nearly that good!
Members bbarkow Posted January 26, 2007 Members Posted January 26, 2007 Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)That's a great tune that I'd forgotten about. I'm gonna dust it off when I get home.
Members Bitt81 Posted January 26, 2007 Members Posted January 26, 2007 I can't compete in guitar stores. I don't even try, for the precocious 13-yr-olds would put me to shame. Usually I just play some rollicky tasty fingerstyle things. Tell me about it. I hate having to try to fumble around when the kids are in there. That being said, I can usually roll out a nice Norwegian Wood or Here Comes the Sun that doesn't embarrass me. I also have a couple of fingerstyle blues things I learned from old forum contributor Little Brother's lesson CD's that I bought a couple of years ago.
Members guitarist21 Posted January 26, 2007 Members Posted January 26, 2007 Yes! I'm becoming known as the 6/8 time guy. Lots of my stuff is 6/8 or 3/4 (I've never been sure which is which). Haven't been doing this long enough to have a signature anything, the song people always tell me thay like is my 6/8 ballad "Thunderstorm Waltz". I'm the exact opposite. I write very few songs in 6/8 or 3/4. Mostly 4/4 and sometimes I mess around 5/4 and throw in a little cut time for the up-tempo ones. I do this one song I wrote at every show I play. Its called "Song to Myself" and its about me by me. Some of the lyrics are a little cryptic, but I like them that way. Its one of my most intelligent songs, structure-wise, and has a pretty catchy melody, which I like. It really is my "signature" song. Ellen
Members JasmineTea Posted January 27, 2007 Members Posted January 27, 2007 Pennies From Heaven. The Billy Holiday version from 1937. Tioga_Man turned me on to it.
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