What song are you learning?

fishfacefour

I thought it would be nice to see what everyone is learning to push their technique.
I've had the time to work through this Ornette Coleman arrangement by Julian Lage this week:

It's definitely stretched my techniques and hands.

What pieces are you learning?

Roland

This one. The notes are easy, but my ageing fingers need some practice to reach tempo:

https://youtu.be/fTgL_Pzyy7o

RocknRollDave

I’m not deliberately learning songs to push my technique, but learning disparate songs for weddings can be a challenge.
For context, I play guitar in a (power?) trio.
Here’s what’s on the go at the moment:

I Was Born To Love You - Freddie Mercury (They specified this over the later Queen version.)
We Are The Champions - Queen 
We Are Young - fun
I Get The Sweetest Feeling - Jackie Wilson
Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles
I’m Your Man - Wham!
What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction (They want the first verse slow for their first dance, then kick it back up to full speed for everyone to join them on the dancefloor,)

flying_pie

I'm not currently learning to push technique persae, but more to get a new set list for a covers band. As I'm both vocals and guitar I have been pushing what I'm doing through more adventurous song choices.

We recently have been going over Stand by R.E.M which is surprisingly tricky to play and sing. I only recently discovered that I've been playing a much more complicated version at both the key changes compared to the original recording but it's more fun to and it looks impressive as far as any guitarists in the audience go.

All the other stuff I've got to learn at the moment is dead easy, such as Sit Down by James (although the triplet strummed chords towards the end of the verse are an awkward polyrhythmic clash with the vocals) and And She Was by Talking Heads

Danny1969

We have 3 new songs in the set tomorrow night 
. 17 going under 
Oliver’s army
secret garden 
so I’ve listened to those today 

joeW

Our Sax player also plays flute so am working on Cisco Pat Martino.  Mostly the technical challenges are getting it up to tempo rather than gymnastic chord voicing seen  On the Lage video.  

tone1

Strat’s down 1/2 step…..SRV 

https://youtu.be/r-j24pE8pOQ

Phil_C

Redoing Mr Brightside, with the correct fingerings 

RocknRollDave

Phil_C said:

Redoing Mr Brightside, with the correct fingerings 

Ouch!

fishfacefour

Really enjoyed that SRV lesson tone1. That's next on my list.

tone1

fishfacefour said:

Really enjoyed that SRV lesson tone1. That's next on my list.

Guitar Pilgrim is a fantastic inspiration. Every video is normally right up my street 

axisus

Dream Theater - Wait for Sleep
PF Comfortably numb

Both on piano. I can't sing so WFS is half from the score (bloody hard!) and half my own arranging to incorporate the melody. CN all my own woeful arrangement.

Guitar: so obscure that probably no-one can find it, but I'm doing an arrangement of Orion by Takiguchi Yasunari. I plan to create the backing track as well.

thecolourbox

I'm currently trying to crack Jeff Buckley's Mojo Pin as a solo voice + guitar, without cheating and playing chords on the verses