Ever had a simple song give you so much trouble

[bassbully]

Some of the walking simple root /fifths country tunes cuz you have to be so tight with the kick right on every time is tuff.Im getting it finally. Some say its easy but coming from a rock background....nope it aint

[Khatur]

Originally Posted by the_fonz

i can't play smoke on the water

i think this is God telling you to give up music in general

[Hoover]

I don't consider Remembering The Changes in the same category as Giving You Trouble...because I can never remember the changes to any tunes!

But (talk about embarassing) a tune that gave me trouble many years ago when I was working in a cruise ship show band was John Denver's "Thank God I'm A Country Boy". Something about the occasional odd phrase lengths in this thing that on the surface is just a clichèd two-beat C&W feel -- plus the fact that it's notated in 2/2, which means you're scanning about 8 bars every 2.5 seconds -- turned into a giant brainfart for me every time we played it.

[SC Bassboy]

The country 5ths stuff can give me fits just because it is easy to fret with one hand so I can use my picking hand to drink beer. Sometimes I spill beer on myself while I'm playing and I miss a note or a change. Damn country 5ths. But I always remember what my jazz teacher told me; "If you hit a wrong note, play it again next time around and everyone will think the guitarist messed up".

But the song that always comes to mind when asked about "the one" is Cult of Personality by Living Colour. That song has kicked my a$$ for 10 years. Still can't play it right. Something about the fingering trips me up.

[neurotictim]

I play Rush all the time, and my g/f's gotten to the point where she can hear me doubling Geddy, right down to how hard he's hitting the strings... Except on "The Trees," I have trouble scaling up the fretboard at the end of the 2nd verse. I know where I'm supposed to be, but I can't seem to get the timing just right.

I used to have a really hard time with "Leave That Thing Alone" too.

[rustinstrings]

.02: Faith No More "Easy", is not Easy.
Havn't practiced it for quite some time, but unless I tap my foot in double time and focus very hard on counting, I can't get those syncopation right.
Same for Sabbath's War Pigs - counting the hihat, never feels natural.

[Flabby1]

i can't play easy or hard songs, it sucks being sucky

no sticktuitiveness to learning songs makes my library tiny

[bassmodder]

Winds of Change by the Scorpions.

I think I had problems because I started it by reading it. Took forever to get it engraved in the brain.

I think of easy being 3 chord jams. So this one might have been a little harder than normal.

[TJBass]

Tempted by the fruit of another - Squeeze

I'm so pathetic

I just don't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dogbertday]

Originally Posted by BassChuck

In college we did Cage's 4'33". I had my part down, but was sharp the whole time. I should have used fretted.

Yeah I played it once... i was happy with my performance except i couldn't get my sound to cut through for the life of me...

[chuck stardust]

SRV House is a rockin'. For some reason, EVERYBODY holds the G to long or cuts it short! And now, I can't get right! The band I am in now SUCKS at that song. EVERYONE switches at leisure! Nobody is tight! Whew,....you oughta hear it. And guess what? We aint teenagers.....we are all over 40!

Chuck (Cant go to G on time)

[Thangfish]

ZZ Top Nationwide... there is one part, just before coming out of the lead into the last verse that gets me. I nail it when I'm not paying attention, and when playing with the cd, but if people are sitting in, they watch me for the change and I f--- it up every single damn time. It's totally ridiculous and embarrassing. And I really don't know why it is.

[Valerus]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who screws up boring songs.

It's just so...ahh! My mind really does wander. I end up thinking about other songs.

[FrigginChris]

hard songs, simple songs, just about any song gives me trouble now. i'm so out of practice.

[bassphreak]

no....no A simple song.....but all simple songs....

of course all hard songs too.......

I need help.

[pyrohr]

Originally Posted by the_fonz

i can't play smoke on the water

Dude you're soo FIRED!