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Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 10:50 pm
by Bg
Didn't Andy use an open tuning though,?

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 11:05 pm
by werdna
null_pointer wrote:Yeah message in a bottle is a mission. Actually lots of Andy Summers is hard, I reckon he did it deliberately to humble cover bands.

Dick.
Three minutes of index and pinky agony. And that's just the prostate exam I had before attempting Message in a Bottle.

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 7:16 am
by griff
Sultans of swing I can never get perfect all the way through. All the nuances of those fills are hard to replicate, for me anyway.

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 7:26 am
by Terexgeek
Bg wrote:Didn't Andy use an open tuning though,?
No.

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 7:30 am
by Single coil
I pick up the bass when my old mate comes round to play shit like green day and police
Man, he can make the right chord shapes for message in a bottle, but they are fucked.

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 8:46 am
by Bg
Terexgeek wrote:
Bg wrote:Didn't Andy use an open tuning though,?
No.
Damn.

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 8:56 am
by Dharmajester
null_pointer wrote:Yeah message in a bottle is a mission. Actually lots of Andy Summers is hard, I reckon he did it deliberately to humble cover bands.

Dick.
Berkeley student. Practising all those big stretch jazz chords paid off in the end.

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 9:52 am
by jeremyb
In my old band we had a song with some crazy stretches in it, I ended up making up a weird tuning for another guitar so I could play it :lol:

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 12:14 pm
by rickenbackerkid
Message in a Bottle is killing me. The guitar is hard enough on it's own and then singing the damn thing as well? crazy. Another surprisingly hard song to play/sing is Mr Brightside by the Killers. Specific and odd chord shapes the whole way, and it's all riff - you never once strum a chord, Great song though.

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 4:49 pm
by kwhelan
some of the STP songs have some weird stretchy chords, Incubus also seem to like unusual jazz chords
Its amazing how some things just trip you up for years, I still can't play the opening clean guitar into to paradise city and get it sound as fluid and timed correctly, I think my nervousness makes me rush it or something,

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 5:15 pm
by Slowy
Tried Message in a Bottle with my recently-removed -from-cast fretting arm.

Have you ever heard a wrist scream?

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 5:22 pm
by Single coil
Unfortunately, yes.

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 6:06 pm
by Basket Case
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.

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 6:14 pm
by Molly
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

Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 7:01 pm
by kwhelan
Andy is only the add 9 so once you can stretch that your sweet, he did it on fender scale but you can't sling your guitar round your nut sack to look badass ,you need your wrist straight under the neck