THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

  • 13 Jul 2025, 10:24
  • Welcome, Guest
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Fun songs to play (guitarists)  (Read 8864 times)

Music_of_Roots

  • Guest
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« on: 31 Oct 2005, 13:42 »
Well I often find myself sitting there wanting to play a new song but really tired of old songs.  So anyone know of any good really fun songs to play?  I just found one that is really simple (if you get the beat) but its oddly fun to play.  Shiver by Coldplay.
Logged

youbelongtothecity

  • Guest
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #1 on: 31 Oct 2005, 13:46 »
Modest Mouse - Lives
Logged

starrydagger

  • Not quite a lurker
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 13
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #2 on: 31 Oct 2005, 18:58 »
black dog, living loving meter maid -ledzeppelin
I also really like paying king of carrot flowers part1-neutral milk hotel
Logged
why do ants hide behind trees?

to trip elephants of course!

La Creme

  • Guest
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #3 on: 31 Oct 2005, 19:08 »
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean

Liquid Tension Experiment - Biaxident

Small Tribe - All The Things

Johnny Cash - Thirteen

Eels - Restraining Order Blues

*and*

Devo - Gut Feeling / Slap Your Momma
Logged

Valrus

  • I'm Randy! I'm eternal!
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 654
  • moo hoo ha ha
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #4 on: 31 Oct 2005, 19:25 »
Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
Pixies - Debaser, Here Comes Your Man
Iron and Wine - Each Coming Night
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Logged
Quote from: Johnny C
Whatever you give up for Lent, it better not be your day job.

Johnny C

  • Mentat
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 9,483
  • i wanna be yr slide dog
    • I AM A WHORE FOR MY OWN MUSIC
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #5 on: 31 Oct 2005, 20:16 »
Figure out how to play any of the Arcade Fire's faster songs, or Wolf Parade's "I'll Believe In Anything," or The Futureheads' "Decent Days And Nights." Then you'll have some fun guitar songs.
Logged
[02:12] yuniorpocalypse: let's talk about girls
[02:12] Thug In Kitchen: nooo

Freezey

  • Guest
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #6 on: 01 Nov 2005, 00:05 »
"Foreman's Dog" by Fugazi is pretty fun- probably the song I play most often for fun nowadays.
Logged

KharBevNor

  • Awakened
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 10,456
  • broadly tolerated
    • http://mirkgard.blogspot.com/
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #7 on: 01 Nov 2005, 01:02 »
Depends what I'm on. Electric it'd be Acid Bath - Cassie Eats Cockroaches, funnest song I can play. Acoustic I just like to strum out folksy stuff. My favourite couple of acoustic songs I wrote myself ('The Loving Hand of Time' and 'Ian in Nifelheim')
Logged
[22:25] Dovey: i don't get sigquoted much
[22:26] Dovey: like, maybe, 4 or 5 times that i know of?
[22:26] Dovey: and at least one of those was a blatant ploy at getting sigquoted

http://panzerdivisio

Rizzo

  • Bling blang blong blung
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,192
  • R'lyeh City Hardcore
    • Riding the failboat
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #8 on: 01 Nov 2005, 01:51 »
I'm a big fan on simple metalcore. It's a lot of fun to play cause it's not too shreddy but it still sounds cool.
It Dies Today
Funeral for a Friend

Also, Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth are stupid fun to play.

And AFI.

And RATM.
Logged
Quote from: Jimmy the Squid
Sometimes I feel like everyone around me is some sort of statistical/mathematical genuis and I'm hitting a gazelle in the head with a rock and screaming at the sky when there's a storm.

Kossie

  • Guest
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #9 on: 01 Nov 2005, 19:31 »
Want something easy, play some Iron Maiden or Iced Earth, solos are pretty straight forward, and rhythm patterns are distinct, but some can't do em, I don't know why!?
Want something a bit more challenging, learn some sweep picking stuff and some arpeggios, or you can always figure out your own. Its pretty tricky, but impressive. It took me about a week to get, but Ive only been playing a year so Im not the best, so others should get it quicker. Check out some Dream Theater, Children of Bodom, and bands like that solos. Also that Opeth song "The Drapery Falls" is good fun to play. And Iron Maidens Transylvania, an easy solo song.

Have fun
Logged

Signum_Tenebrae

  • Guest
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #10 on: 01 Nov 2005, 23:45 »
I just learned Raining Blood by Slayer recently myself.  It's quite a lot of fun.
Logged

sleepsymphonic

  • Guest
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #11 on: 01 Nov 2005, 23:51 »
I second Fugazi's "Foreman's Dog"... fun to rock out with.

Lately I've been a sucker for learning Slayer songs because I've never learned any...
Stray Cats because its pretty difficult

I also enjoy a good Elliott Smith tune to learn and sing to (Alamea and Between the Bars are my favorites to play)


-Bard
Logged

Thrillho

  • Global Moderator
  • Awakened
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 13,130
  • Tall. Beets.
Fun songs to play (guitarists)
« Reply #12 on: 02 Nov 2005, 06:44 »
Isn't Shiver in one Coldplay's crazy-bastard tunings?

As far as songs that are fun to play on guitar - Just by Radiohead is fantastic. A good three guitars all doing great things.

"Heroes" by David Bowie if you have an e-bow, because you can basically do what the hell you want.

At Least That's What You Said by Wilco. Learn the chords Am, G and C and you've got the first bit - then just solo for three and a half minutes and you're done.
Logged
In the end, the thing people will remember is kindness.
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »