What Song are You Playing?

[Winemule]

I'm learning to play this and sing it at the same time. I believe this is doable. Really.

 

[FunkHead]

Don't know if there is a thread for this topic, but here we go.

I'm not in a serious band or anything, I mainly play for the fun of playing. I like to create my own songs, but like most of us I'm sure, I like to play songs by the bands I like. So my question is, what song can you not get enough of playing right now?

My current obession is The Anarchist by Rush off of Clockwork Angels. Basically got it down, but it is so much fun to play. Singing while playing this line is tough though.

Awesome to hear you are learning some new Rush. Great CD. I'm learning 38 new songs for a new band. Some I used to know. Whiskey Rock a Roller(Skynrd), One Way Out(Allman Bros), Movin' on(Bad Co.), Born Under a Bad Sign, South Bound, Get over it(Eagles), Melissa, Sweet Home Chicago, Fool for your Stockings. These are pretty fun to learn/re-learn

Driven - Rush.

Tricky....

Cool tune, I love Vital Signs, Pretty easy but sounds hard.

FREE BIRD!!!!!

I will always Love Free Bird. Leon Wilkeson will forever be one of my Bass heroes.

 

[hdracer]

I was listening to some blues today at work and heard a great Tommy Shannon bass line on Help Me from Johnny Winter's The Progressive Blues Experiment.
After work I sat down and figured out the key and the riff he was playing.
It's a fun driving blues riff, sort of a hot rodded Green Onions

 

[nancyr]

New bassist here. I started with Walking On the Moon (Police, oft-recommended for beginners in these forums) and now am playing Alison (Elvis Costello), as well as a handful of folk and rock originals to play with my band when I'm not playing keyboards.

 

[Bluelephant4]

American life by primus.. It's really fun!

 

[fmoore200]

"Mood Indigo" by Ellington on upright. Working on playing the melody first, then singing the melody while playing a two feel bass line. I love Ellington writing. Next I tackle "Chealsea Bridge" by Billy Strayhorn

 

[HaMMerHeD]

Arranging and learning this:



Ludwig Van Beethoven Sonata no. 8 - Pathetique, 2. Adagio Cantible

 

[jazz41]

Leave That Thing Alone -Rush

Heartbreaker -joe Bonamassa

41 - Dave Matthews Band

 

[ChessTiger]

"I Can't Tell You Why" - Eagles
"Sunshine of Your Love" - Cream
"Smooth Operator" - Sade
"Comfortably Numb" - The Pink Floyd

These are the songs that I'm currently working on.....

 

[Drunk Heffalump]

FREE BIRD!!!!!

Terminators have been dispatched, please stand by....

 

[Drunk Heffalump]

Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden

The SECOND I think "Yup got this" further study proves me wrong, I'm very close, and I am, however, at the point of realigning the physical requirements in order to hit transitions on time. Sometimes it pays to start elsewhere, note wise, rather than at the obvious....

 

[fraublugher]

Steppin' Out -Joe Jackson

On a P-bass , thumb and first finger plucking and right hand palm mute , a really cool sounding version of the studio version keyboard bass part.

 

[5 Wire]

This for the big band - singing it too

 

[phillybass101]

Friends by Shalamar
Turn me out by the Whspers

Both produced and bass playing by Leon Sylvers.....A Ric and a Pic.

 

[Deechord]

Newbie:

"Badge" Cream
"White Room" Cream
"Hollow" Alice in Chains

 

[CauliColin]

Resistance by Muse. That bass part between the verse and chorus is great fun to play.
On piano, United States of Eurasia (same artist and album). That piano part is fairly okay to learn, but catches you out at full speed

 

[earlofmar11]

Out of my Ipod playlist of some 350 songs I play along with, here are my current favourites:

"Fragezeichen" by Purple Schulz (bass by Paul Harriman)
"The Sky is the Limit" of Nik Kershaw's latest album
"Rosanna" by Toto

 

[Astreaux]

I'm Your Captain - Grand Funk Railroad
Inside Looking Out - Grand Funk Railroad
Soul Man - Sam and Dave
Hotel California - Eagles
Breathe - Pink Floyd
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
Get Ready - Rare Earth
Tell it Like it Is - Heart
Bennie and the Jets - Elton John
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls