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Help me out, guys. (Performance advice.)
Kai:
Play 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'.
I'm completely serious.
Spinless:
Y'know how I said 'don't play Elliott Smith'?
Similarly, don't play Neutral Milk Hotel.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: imapiratearg on 18 Dec 2007, 17:03 ---I want to do an acoustic cover of "Aside" by The Weakerthans too, but I can't figure out a way to make it work with open chords. I personally think power chords sound like shit on acoustic guitars. Especially mine.
--- End quote ---
Capo it!
Darryl are you even thinking of the same "Holland, 1945" the rest of us are? It's an absolute blast. However, if I were you, I'd look for some people to help me on that one - if you know one to three people who can bellow the horn parts, that would be ideal.
Bright Eyes, play something with a bit more motion to it. "Bowl Of Oranges" is probably your best bet, though something off of Cassadaga might be pretty rad.
Play "Cinnamon" by The Long Winters.
"Black" by Okkervil River is definitely my suggestion from that band.
Spinless:
It's great to play those Smith/Mangum songs alone, in your room. But it's taboo to incorporate them into your set. Mostly, it's because it's never been done successfully, but I'm sure that most people find it somewhat cringe inducing to hear their songs played by other people.
And as for Okkervil River, I am definitely recommending 'For the Captain'. I basically lose my voice every time I decide to play that one to myself. I guess 'No Key/No Plan' would be the easiest of their loud songs to play/sing/learn/enjoy if you're not familiar with them. Whenever I try to play 'Black', I get far too into it, lose all timing and stop trying to sing and just scream out the whole song. Is that perhaps why it is the song he SHOULD be playing?
I did a youtube search, JUST for you!
http://youtube.com/profile?user=Cougarman7
And it brought me to this guy. He plays songs on his acoustic guitar and teaches you how to play them. Popular and accessible stuff! I found myself watching his videos and I very much enjoyed those Wolf Parade songs particularly. I think that if you learn those, but growl them instead of singing, because I didn't really care for his singing, you could have a hit on your hands!
Addition: Do you have a capo? They're pretty important. You should learn how to tune down too. They're both useful things to be able to use, especially if you can't really sing.
Hey guys, how do you pronounce that anyway? I've heard it pronounced either 'cap-oh' and 'kay-po' from all kinds of people.
Edit: That guy is now teaching me how to play Will Oldham songs!
imapiratearg:
Yeah, I had that guy's videos bookmarked already. I was looking through them last night, trying to learn "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" and "Sodom, South Georgia."
"Black" would be a lot of fun to play. As for Bright Eyes, I think I'm going to do "At the Bottom of Everything." Even the narrative in the beginning.
I do have a capo (I pronounce it 'kay-po'), and I know some basic tunings.
I kind of want to play some Wilco. But I don't know which song. I might do "War On War," since it's my favorite Wilco song so far, and it's pretty easy-sounding.
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