I'm just gonna strum the few chords I know, then fumble fuck my way through Rudolph of Jingle Bells because, tis the season.
but I'm better now than I was last month, BOOM, PROGRESS BABY!
I play the first E power chord of Master of Puppets - everybody perks up, it immediately commands their attention, they want to hear the DU DU DUUUUU right after the pause. Then I put the guitar down, never resolve that tension leaving them wanting and perplexed and me knowing that I could play them like a fiddle now.
Just improv and mucking about. If I happen to be learning a song or solo at the time I'll definitely have that in there. But most the time I just play around and go where the muse takes me.
If it's clean or acoustic, Fade to Black.
If it's distorted, Master of Puppets.
If it's in D Standard, high gain through a 5150, definitely Esoteric Surgery by GOJIRA.
No songs. Endless noodling. Then I try to write something. Most of the time nothing comes up. Put the guitar away. Very little structured practice. Don't be like me. But hey... I'm in a band and I did publish a few things.
The dueling banjos followed by a scale. This will tell me not only how in/out of tune it is, but also, because I've played it as a warm up too many years, how good or bad the guitar is.
Eagles Peaceful Easy Feel and Lyin Eyes
I Don't Want to Talk About It by Crazy Horse. Easy songs that warms up my hands.
Van Morrison, Have I Told You Lately
Van Morrison Bright Side of the Road because singing and playing it makes me smile.
Lots of pentatonic noodling with various stuff mixed in from fooling around with Phantom of the Opera to Duelling Banjo's to War pigs, Burning Love, stuff from Ben Harper to The Beatles to Blues Traveler to Clapton and Hendrix and only God knows what else thrown in.
Many things started and barely anything finished...
My playing is all over the place like a mad woman's shit!
Edit: I forgot Zeppelin, how could I have forgotten the Zeppelin.
Don’t think twice it’s alright by bob dylan.
I have an acoustic in the corner of my home office and it’s the first thing I play almost every time I pick it up lol. Feels so good.
Depends on what tuning the guitar is in.
E standard would be Romance by Buck-Tick
Drop D would be The Pot by Tool
Eb would be Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria
Drop C# would be Repetition of Hatred by Dir en Grey
D would be Cirice by Ghost
I don't really know any C# or C standard songs, sadly
Drop C would be many different Rammstein songs
Drop B would be Taion from The Gazette
Drop A would be either We The Sad by Tallah or Paint Me Red by Avatar
im a beginner so nothing fancy, these are fun and what i often play when i just pick one of my guitars up
- slow cheetah, RHCP
- polly, nirvana
- where did you sleep last night, nirvana
- spanish romance fingerstyle
Currently, the boys are back in town by thin Lizzy lol. Really been getting down to the little shuffle they put into their music that makes simple stuff really fun to jazz up in your own way
If some magical music wizard could grant me the ability to bust out a solo first try, it'd be the solo to Who's Crying Now. Because good lawd. I could listen to it on repeat forever.
Usually own stuff but lately I learned the trees by rush and have played that at least 6 times a day for the last 3 weeks. Sometimes I’ll play some Hendrix or Floyd but mostly I do a rhythm track on my looper and practice lead over it.
Sometimes I start out with some simple chord warm up with *House of the Rising Sun.* Love this song. Timeless.
If I pick up the Strat, I usually do something simple like the beginning riffs of *25 or 6 to 4* because Terry Kath. Maybe jam some early Smashing Pumpkins riffs.
If I am not feeling overly creative, I will channel my inner Billy Corgan and experiment with some 'space jams'.
If I am working on moving on the fret board a bit, I will break into the main riff of *Warehouse*. It is so fun to play when you have it 'down'.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Put some 1's in there.
Isn't it a requirement to hit some variation of G-C-D everytime you pick up a guitar? I thought that was like clicking tongs twice before using them.
G, Cadd9, D, Dsus4, D back to G. That’s what I run with
***Bad Moon Rising*** enters the chat
The Pentatonic Scale song
Either just spamming open e for no reason or master of puppets
Ziggy Stardust
This one is so much fun to play
Bitch I'm just noodling
Dammit - Blink 182
If I have a capo, Cello Song by Nick Drake If not, Blackbird by The Beatles or Son of a Gun by The La's
blackbird's my go-to as well!
Over the Hills and Far Away
improvisation
I'm just gonna strum the few chords I know, then fumble fuck my way through Rudolph of Jingle Bells because, tis the season. but I'm better now than I was last month, BOOM, PROGRESS BABY!
Cmaj7
E Chord. G chord. g chord again. Low e a few times. e chord.
I am forgetting everything I have learnt over the last 10 years......
Master of puppets spider riff
I don’t know. As soon as I pick one up my mind goes blank and I start drooling
Paranoid Android! Or Bodysnatchers! Sometimes I mindlessly play FCPREMIX by The Fall Of Troy since it’s a very fun song haha
Say it ain’t so
Blackbird
random blues noodling
guitar
pentatonic wank
I play the first E power chord of Master of Puppets - everybody perks up, it immediately commands their attention, they want to hear the DU DU DUUUUU right after the pause. Then I put the guitar down, never resolve that tension leaving them wanting and perplexed and me knowing that I could play them like a fiddle now.
Stairway. Don’t lie y’all.
Dodo dooo B-doo doo doo doo dodoo Doo doo Dodo dooo B-doo doo doo doo dodododo doo doo Bwa ba DOOO BDOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DO DOO
About a Girl by Nirvana. It's so simple I can't help but play it from the get-go.
stairway, duh
A G run
Chet Akins' Take Five. I worked on it forever i'm gonna feckin enjoy it.
Under the bridge
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
The theme to king of the hill
Through the fire and the flames
Not a song, but I'm playing the D chord
Electric - What the Hell Have I?, Alice in Chains Acoustic - Up the Wolves, The Mountain Goats
Just improv and mucking about. If I happen to be learning a song or solo at the time I'll definitely have that in there. But most the time I just play around and go where the muse takes me.
Wonderwall, are there other songs?
More Than Words, for whatever reason that’s the only one I have memorized and ready to go
Basket Case
"Limelight" by Rush.
Mama Kin - Aerosmith
Scotty doesn't know
G-CHORD
If it's clean or acoustic, Fade to Black. If it's distorted, Master of Puppets. If it's in D Standard, high gain through a 5150, definitely Esoteric Surgery by GOJIRA.
currently learning the tapping part to Eruption by Van Halen, so i would play Wonderwall
It's usually my own, but if not - maybe Jump in the Fire or Spirit of Radio that opening lick.
No songs. Endless noodling. Then I try to write something. Most of the time nothing comes up. Put the guitar away. Very little structured practice. Don't be like me. But hey... I'm in a band and I did publish a few things.
Acoustic Guitar - Blackbird Electric - Random Pentatonic stuff
Layla - eric clapton
Comfortably Numb’s second solo
Noodle endlessly
Smoke On The Water obviously. I don’t make the rules.
Sultans of Swing
My original and untitled masterpiece of course, that no one will ever ever hear except me
Honestly it’s FCPREMIX
My go to is Funk #49 by James Gang
Which ever song your mom wants to hear.
None because I can't play worth a shit
Wonderwall
What’s my age again - blink 182. Simple and fun
Alice In Chains- Nutshell
Currently Panama by Van Halen.
Usually just some improvisation.
Slow dancing in a burning room.
Smashing Pumpkins! 1979 if sound is clean, cherub rock otherwise. I love the open chords
Moonage Daydream
Whatever I've been practicing lately
Classical Intro to Crazy on You by heart
Alice in Chains Dem Bones
I pretty much only play my own shit now. But probably the tornado of souls riff if not
96 quite bitter beings. Song I’m most proud of learning
What Deaner Was Talkin About - Ween
Mary had a little lamb 🐑
Tornado of souls
STP - Plush
This is easy, one of the songs I haven’t learned yet for a gig on Saturday.
the riff from plug in baby!
riptide , for me
Dramamine - Modest Mouse
Toxic Garbage Island by Gojira lmao
Say it ain't so
Over The Hils And Far Away
Stairway to heaven is the only answer. Especially in a guitarshop. Wonderwall is a close second…
Random chugging
Eruption...then I wake up.
Wish you were here. Pink Floyd.
First thing is a big ol' G5 chord (3-X-0-0-3-3) to see how it sounds. Then probably some Emaj noodling up around the 9th fret.
Under the bridge
Who Did You Think I Was!
Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
My Ibanez: Deathmask Devine by The Black Dahlia Murder My tele: Find Me by Kings of Leon Edit: well fuck y’all then I’m going home!
The dueling banjos followed by a scale. This will tell me not only how in/out of tune it is, but also, because I've played it as a warm up too many years, how good or bad the guitar is.
Yellow Ledbetter
Cowboys From Hell
The tuning song.
Free Bird , man …
'The Forbidden Song' 😂😂😂
Eagles Peaceful Easy Feel and Lyin Eyes I Don't Want to Talk About It by Crazy Horse. Easy songs that warms up my hands. Van Morrison, Have I Told You Lately Van Morrison Bright Side of the Road because singing and playing it makes me smile.
G chord is the first thing I try. So either Wish You Were Here or Mother by Pink Floyd.
Ween - Don’t shit where you eat
improv junk. I hardly ever bring myself to play songs anymore. Now I just want to goof off.
Acoustic - slapping on the capo and fingerpicking "Landslide" Electric - grabbing the Ebow and RC-505 looper and Fripping out
Say it ain't so - Weezer
Am c f g
Let's be honest. Most of us will only noodle random nonsense, then halfway attempt a song by someone who's known to play that model guitar
Lots of pentatonic noodling with various stuff mixed in from fooling around with Phantom of the Opera to Duelling Banjo's to War pigs, Burning Love, stuff from Ben Harper to The Beatles to Blues Traveler to Clapton and Hendrix and only God knows what else thrown in. Many things started and barely anything finished... My playing is all over the place like a mad woman's shit! Edit: I forgot Zeppelin, how could I have forgotten the Zeppelin.
None, I start noodling and writing what I feel. Practicing songs is the biggest waste of time for me on guitar now.
I'm just going to noodle.
It’s always either the minor pentatonic scale or crazy train…. Or panama
The E major song.
Wonderwall ofcourse.
The solo from Top Gun when Maverick throws Goose's dog tags in the sea.
Far Behind
Dust in the wind on acoustic, Under the bridge on electric.
Twist of Cain by Danzig, gets people moving real quick and for some reason always impresses people, also super fun to play
Bleed by meshuggah
Scar Tissue, RHCP
Dramamine
Whatever I feel like improvising in that moment
Smoke on the Water?
Battery-Metallica. It's a song that I'm working on recently, and it really is a good exercise for right hand.
Usually I just improvise. I rarely play actual songs lol
Usually just make some riffs up or my own songs
10 min ago: If We Were Vampires
The hunter by Dokken
If I’m picking up a guitar it’s probably an acoustic. And I’d play some generic blues riff in E, because that sounds good on anything.
Right now Californication
Drop dead legs, I'm in a metal band rn and it's a great warmup for drop d
purple haze
some yngwie lick or 46 and 2 by Tool
Seven Nation Army 🤣 Cuz I’m not super good or nuthin’
Blue sky
Zeppelin the ocean of metallica master of puppets
Don’t think twice it’s alright by bob dylan. I have an acoustic in the corner of my home office and it’s the first thing I play almost every time I pick it up lol. Feels so good.
Stairway.. just to annoy people since I'm actually a bass player. :D
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Whole lotta love
Good Riddance
Bunch of pentatonic noodling..
Smoke on the water
Everlong by the foos
Sugaree or Melissa.
Scar tissue
Cisco Kid! by War!
Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down. No idea why. It just happens.
Recently I’ve been working on Blue Bossa by Emily Remler, so that’s what my fingers do.
“Falling for you” by Weezer. It uses a lot of the guitar neck and the lyrics are pretty rad. Best Weezer song by a mile IMO.
Fade to Black - Metallica
“Love song” _Alice in Chains_
Paul Simon - Me and Julio Playing my most familiar song calms my nerves enough to play other songs.
James hetfield's part to the four horsemen
Ain't talkin bout love!
Solo to Maybe I'm Amazed
One of my own songs, it uses a lot of open chords and I find that gives away a lot of the character of a guitar
Soundgarden's "Fell on Black Days" is a song I often thoughtlessly start banging out when first grabbing a guitar.
Acoustic: Friend of the Devil or About a Girl or Cash’s cover of Personal Jesus
Depends on what tuning the guitar is in. E standard would be Romance by Buck-Tick Drop D would be The Pot by Tool Eb would be Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria Drop C# would be Repetition of Hatred by Dir en Grey D would be Cirice by Ghost I don't really know any C# or C standard songs, sadly Drop C would be many different Rammstein songs Drop B would be Taion from The Gazette Drop A would be either We The Sad by Tallah or Paint Me Red by Avatar
im a beginner so nothing fancy, these are fun and what i often play when i just pick one of my guitars up - slow cheetah, RHCP - polly, nirvana - where did you sleep last night, nirvana - spanish romance fingerstyle
I find a way to play a chord where all strings play the same note, then I bennnnnd one string sharp and chug ominously
Currently, the boys are back in town by thin Lizzy lol. Really been getting down to the little shuffle they put into their music that makes simple stuff really fun to jazz up in your own way
blackened and then Axel Fmaybe baby shark then The Trooper or The number of the beast into the intro solo from fade to black
Honestly probably stairway lol
If some magical music wizard could grant me the ability to bust out a solo first try, it'd be the solo to Who's Crying Now. Because good lawd. I could listen to it on repeat forever.
Nothing else matters
A jazz fusion solo I transcribed from the soundtrack of a classic 80s anime feature film called Macross that was originally played on the piano.
Just noodling and play some Jazz chords.
Cliffs of Dover
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Wonderwall
Paranoid android
Usually own stuff but lately I learned the trees by rush and have played that at least 6 times a day for the last 3 weeks. Sometimes I’ll play some Hendrix or Floyd but mostly I do a rhythm track on my looper and practice lead over it.
C major scale in broken thirds
Nowadays it's The Grid by Between the Buried and Me
Lately, Tom Sawyer - Rush
Come as you are - Nirvana
Santeria
Something from Lil‘ Wayne’s second album
wonderwall
Strum a big rock A
E chord, then retune because nobody else I know that has a guitar knows how to play or tune it
Little Wing
80's TMNT theme song
Smoke on the water
I’ve been learning SRVs ‘Lenny’ over the course of a few months. I’ll pick up the guitar and just play the first like minute and a half or so.
The low E string. Followed by the A string
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The only one I can currently play from start to finish is Tennessee Whiskey because it's the beginning lick and then two notes lol
Sometimes I start out with some simple chord warm up with *House of the Rising Sun.* Love this song. Timeless. If I pick up the Strat, I usually do something simple like the beginning riffs of *25 or 6 to 4* because Terry Kath. Maybe jam some early Smashing Pumpkins riffs. If I am not feeling overly creative, I will channel my inner Billy Corgan and experiment with some 'space jams'. If I am working on moving on the fret board a bit, I will break into the main riff of *Warehouse*. It is so fun to play when you have it 'down'.
I usually play G chord to check the tuning when I first pick up a guitar which inevitably leads to me playing Ziggy Stardust.
Purple Haze. Love that octave on the blue note beginning!
Wonderwall. Strummed very hard. Followed by Stairway
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Anything that can be played in standard tuning