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Best Guitar songs?

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  • 17-02-2009 10:08pm
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    Heggy
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    In a similar vein to the piano songs thread, I was just wondering what your suggestions were. I'm thinking things like Babe I'm Gonna Leave You by Led Zeppelin but also stuff like Bourree in E Minor by Bach, and Estudio in E minor by Tarrega. So simple finger picking stuff.

    That estudio is a sort of running spanish sounding thing, http://members.tripod.com/~Braumeister/Music/Tarrega_Estudio.txt

    Any more stuff like that would be brilliant.

    And failing all that, some lively part songs would be good too. :D
    Thanks!


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    nyarlothothep
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    anything by Dragonforce
    anything by Opeth
    Radiohead have some nice guitar songs, Just and My Iron Lung have some pleasant use of jazzy chords and multi layered guitar parts.

    On the classical side Villa Lobos has some good studies
    Bach-Allemande, Tarrega-Capricho Arabe, Fantasia and so forth are cool guitar pieces


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    Dante
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    nyarlothothep wrote: »
    anything by Dragonforce

    NO....JUST NO....


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    cautioner
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    FREEBIRD


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    Heggy
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    I'll probably have to agree with Daaaaaaan on the Dragonforce. :P
    The Classical stuff looks, good, I'm going to try that allemande anyway, and the capricho arabe sounds really good.
    I'd kind of forgotten about Freebird. :D Maybe sometime.


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    niallon
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    Babe I'm Gonna Leave You +1

    Eh...Classical Gas? Eric Johnson's a good un too.

    Also Colin Hay on his post Men At Work solo albums has some nice guitar work goin on.


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    Heggy
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Heggy


    Classical Gas is brilliant, but would take a little but more work than I'm willing to put in at the moment.
    Just listened to bit of Eric Johnson, his sound is a bit too 80s American electric if you know what I mean. I like the echoing acoustic stuff, like Led Zeps acoustics or, say, Fleet Foxes.


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    Kevster
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    Extreme - More Than Words ?


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    Nailz
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    +1 on Dragonforce & Opeth, Dragonforce are just the ultimate in guitar nerdiness! If your looking at pure riffage stuff like Megadeth and alot of other Trash are key. For shreding it's do Pantera! Slayer are awesome, Seasons In The Abyss is one of my favourites. The favourite Exibitionist guitarist of mine is Steve Vai (as he is to alot of others). But the Classics are Smoke On The Water, Purple Haze, Gimme Shelter, Freebird and numerous others from Hendrix, Stones, DP, The Nuge & Zeppelin.


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    Ardent
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    Anything by Rodrigo and Gabriella. Anything by Jimi Hendrix.

    Paradise City by GNR, the outro is amazing.
    Hotel California by the Eagles, includes officially the best guitar solo ever.

    Oh yeah, the film Crossroads - not the greatest take on the Robert Johnson v the devil story but the guitar playing throughout by Ry Cooder and Steve Vai is great.


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    Heggy
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Heggy


    More than words is a nice song, but not really what I'm looking for. :D
    Lot of metal-type stuff there Nailz, not really what I was going for, though there are some classics there I'll definitely look into.
    I've heard of Rodrigo and Gabriella but I've never really listened to anything of theirs, I must look into them too. Hotel Calicornia is absolutely fantastic.

    Wow, I'm starting to look like a bit of a snobbish prick, sorry about that. It's all a matter of taste, keep posting stuff people I'm sure there are others who would take to those songs more than me. :D


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    delbertgrady
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    Genesis (well, Steve Hackett on his own really): Horizons

    2024 Gigs and Events: David Suchet, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Smile, Pixies, Liam Gallagher John Squire/Jake Bugg, Kacey Musgraves (x2), Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, Muireann Bradley, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Eric Clapton, Girls Aloud, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Rewind Festival, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Henry Winkler, P!nk, Pearl Jam/Richard Ashcroft, Taylor Swift/Paramore, Suede/Manic Street Preachers, Muireann Bradley, AC/DC, Deacon Blue/Altered Images, The The, blink-182, Coldplay, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Nick Lowe, David Gilmour, ABBA Voyage, St. Vincent, Public Service Broadcasting, Crash Test Dummies, Cassandra Jenkins.

    2025 Gigs and Events: Billie Eilish (x2)



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    cautioner
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    Clichés (still good though):

    Blackbird - The Beatles
    Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin
    Cannonball - Damien Rice


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    stovelid
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    The Rocker.

    Always have to fight the urge to put the head down and engage air axe.


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    Nailz
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    stovelid wrote: »
    The Rocker.

    Always have to fight the urge to put the head down and engage air axe.
    Don't fight it dude, feed it!


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    NoQuarter
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    Zepp - Bron Yr Aur


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    JokerD
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    Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing(great solo)

    Eric Clapton - Layla( check out the live version, electric guitar not the acoustic, even though thats great too)

    Probably not your thing though but you never know:D


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    MagicMarker
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    Eric Clapton - Hey Hey (as well as the rest of the unplugged album)

    Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

    Mason Williams - Classical Gas

    Cream - Crossroads

    Anything by RATM / Led Zeppelin / Guns n Roses etc etc


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    thebigcheese22
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    Sweet Child O' Mine - GnRs
    Alive - Pearl Jam
    Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson


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    John Titor 2036
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    Get on your Boots, what a pentatonic scale!


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    stovelid
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    Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac
    Needle and the damage done - Neil Young
    Nick Drake - either of Things behind the sun, Road or Parasite.


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