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Tom Petty's Learning to Fly - every other chord change happens on the 'and' before the beat.
I learnt it while doing Justin's beginner course, and it was the cause of much frustration!
Sounds great at any speed (I'm nowhere near playing the whole thing at tempo), & Songsterr have a great tab for giving you the gist of it (it's not 100%, but it's still great): https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/paul-gilbert-bach-partita-in-dm-tab-s77148t0
The second version of CPEB's "Solfeggio in CM" on Classtab is one I've been playing the intro to for years as a picking exercise, but I never learned the whole thing. Still, sounds great, covers every string (and fret) on the guitar, & really helps me warm up: http://www.classtab.org/bach_cpe_solfeggio_in_cm.txt
Why Don’t You Do It? - Little Barrie — Jazz chords, great melody, lots of mixing harmony and melody.
Lenny - SRV — a masterclass.
Wait Until Tomorrow — Jimi — Great rhythm lesson, like most Hendrix.
Fracture - King Crimson — Good luck!
Poor Black Mattie — RL Burnside — it’ll seem impossible, and then it’ll seem easy.
Meet Me in the City — Black Keys — This one can be tricky. You have to play fingerstyle, but also stray off the groove with some really beautiful vocal lines.
Andy McKee - Drifting, for two handed tapping.
As it's played on acoustic your technique has to be spot on. I learned a lot.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
But it "bounces", it'll push your timing and picking, if you're off at all you feel like you've fallen off something moving fast
The intro has some awkward position shifts, but it's the main 'verse' with singing melody over the repeated figure that I really got a lot out of (and that bit isn't that hard), from about 1 min 30 onwards.
Troy Stetina did have songs you could practise up for while learning how it works in his books. Flight of the bumble bee in Speed Mechanics book. Lead and Rhytm guitar books.
I used to spend ages practising various thumb independence "exercises", making very little progress. The exercises were fine, but applying them to actual songs just didn't work, as soon as I started to play any melody my thumb stopped moving.
I started playing Baby Please don't Go (lightning Hopkins et al). It's got a driving monotonic bass and very simple melody lines. Played it over and over and over. Something "clicked". My thumb kept moving while my fingers did somthing else. I was soon able to apply it to more complex songs.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay