Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

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kwhelan wrote:some of the STP songs have some weird stretchy chords,
They had some cool jazzy voicings, check this out: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/st ... rds_881060

Bit of a change from the usual grungey stuff

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Paranoid Android. That picking pattern messes with me. La Grange also - can't always nail all those squealies.
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I liked the Mark & Lard version of the Oasis classic: Don't look at me wanger
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I nominate April Sun in Cuba.

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hamo wrote:
Molly wrote:
Basket Case wrote:If you guys are struggling with Message in a Bottle (or Massage in a Brothel as I used to sing it), don't go near Every Breath You Take.
I liked the Mark & Lard version of the Oasis classic: Don't look at me wanger
It's a long way to the shop if you wanna sausage roll.
I wrote a sausage roll top ten and got it published in Sounds when I was about 18. We Built This City On Sausage Roll was, I think, number 1.

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Basket Case wrote:If you guys are struggling with Message in a Bottle (or Massage in a Brothel as I used to sing it), don't go near Every Breath You Take.
Dead easy. Play it in G. Absolutely nobody listening can tell the difference.
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sirvill wrote:
kwhelan wrote:some of the STP songs have some weird stretchy chords,
They had some cool jazzy voicings, check this out: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/st ... rds_881060

Bit of a change from the usual grungey stuff
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/st ... ds_1987851
this is the way I learnt it , think it sounds better with the descending bass line through the verse
saw a live vid once and it looked like the way they were playing it

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Slowy wrote:
Basket Case wrote:If you guys are struggling with Message in a Bottle (or Massage in a Brothel as I used to sing it), don't go near Every Breath You Take.
Dead easy. Play it in G. Absolutely nobody listening can tell the difference.
hah makes you laugh when you see a busker or pub band playing and you see how they've simplified songs to make it easier to play and sing, only a guitarist even notices
you can fudge message bottle with a few open and string swops but its cheating.
because its not my default thing I can't do a whole song of downstroke chugging without serious cramping,

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kwhelan wrote:
Slowy wrote:
Basket Case wrote:If you guys are struggling with Message in a Bottle (or Massage in a Brothel as I used to sing it), don't go near Every Breath You Take.
Dead easy. Play it in G. Absolutely nobody listening can tell the difference.
hah makes you laugh when you see a busker or pub band playing and you see how they've simplified songs to make it easier to play and sing, only a guitarist even notices
you can fudge message bottle with a few open and string swops but its cheating.
because its not my default thing I can't do a whole song of downstroke chugging without serious cramping,
I'll cheat all day if required. :D
Don't know about downstrokes for 'Every Breath'. I palm mute the strings and fingerpick it.
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no was meaning the more metallica type stuff, I find that hard to play because Ive never spent the hours required to just chug away

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Hah fast punk is just as tiring. Earlier Blink, Green Day gets tiring fast. Basket Case I’ve usually had enough of by the halfway mark and resort to down AND upstrokes..

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null_pointer wrote:Hah fast punk is just as tiring. Earlier Blink, Green Day gets tiring fast. Basket Case I’ve usually had enough of by the halfway mark and resort to down AND upstrokes..
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null_pointer wrote:Hah fast punk is just as tiring. Earlier Blink, Green Day gets tiring fast. Basket Case I’ve usually had enough of by the halfway mark and resort to down AND upstrokes..
isn't it amazing how much more relaxed adding upstrokes makes it, often do the same and I can't really hear any difference but I bet they would.

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I can. Used to brass me off.
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kwhelan wrote:
null_pointer wrote:Hah fast punk is just as tiring. Earlier Blink, Green Day gets tiring fast. Basket Case I’ve usually had enough of by the halfway mark and resort to down AND upstrokes..
isn't it amazing how much more relaxed adding upstrokes makes it, often do the same and I can't really hear any difference but I bet they would.
Upstrokes are for Reggae
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