What songs are you learning?

RocknRollDave

There are a few fretboarders in covers bands, so, what are you currently learning?

I get a lot of requests (wedding band), plus I play in a couple of line-ups, and so usually have at least one ‘new’ song to learn - or one or two “played it once, five years ago” songs to re-learn.

This week:

New =
Riverboat Song - OCS
One Call Away - Charlie Puth

Revision =

Hooked On a Feeling - Blue Swede
Treasure - Bruno Mars
Freedom - Wham!
Gay Bar - ElectrIc Six

ESBlonde

See my thread below about Bandokie, today among others I’ve been tackling:-
thinking out loud - Sheeran
Delila - Tom Jones
Dont throw your love away - Searchers
Dont go breaking my heart - Elton/ Kiki Dee
Waterloo - Abba
Material girl - Madge
Mamma Mia - Abba
Hallelujah - Cohen/Burke
Dancing Queen -Abba
Dont Stop Believing- Journey
Sweet dreams are made of this - Eurythmics
and a few easy peasy things I can recall from my past.
All these are with guitar being the only melodic instrument, so fills lead and such are having to be covered.
Tomorrow I will tackle:-
Purple rain
i wanna dance with somebody
Love Shack
I want it that way
Crazy
As it was
Dont you want me baby
Girls just wanna have fun
plus lots more.
My bass player gets about 4 hours in and his head shuts down, I don’t blame him for going home but this time next week we need a big set available to host singers live! We have another band session all day Monday.

Rowby1

One band working on Ballroom Blitz - Sweet, another on Hourglass - Squeeze.

Two very different songs but both great in their own way!

Roland

Easy Lover - Phil Collins. I need to work out a second half to the solo which sounds interesting, rather than a pastiche of the record. 

Kebabkid

Mainly, perfecting Steely Dan's 'Peg', especially the solo and 'Carry On Wayward Son' but I've also a bunch of classic rock stuff but most are revisits.

fastonebaz

Next up will most likely be

Enter Sandman - Metallica 
Monkey  Business - Skid Row
So What -  Pink

maltingsaudio

As it happens Neville the Happy Goth for a mates wedding ( same wedding I’ve learnt Hazy Shade of Winter for see https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/242480/note-for-note-or-not/p1 )

Keefy

A 2-hour set for a tribute band I’m depping with, on both guitar and bass!

RocknRollDave

Keefy said:

A 2-hour set for a tribute band I’m depping with, on both guitar and bass!

Tribute to who?

Keefy

RocknRollDave said:

Keefy said:

A 2-hour set for a tribute band I’m depping with, on both guitar and bass!

Tribute to who?

No, not the Who, Dire Straits.

Danny1969

Got a new eighties project on the go now so learning a lot of songs for that. We are doing songs from Talk Talk, Japan, Furniture, XTC, The associates and that kinda stuff rather than the more mainstream eighties hits. 

I've also taken over guitar in a popular Portsmouth party band so learning their back catalog as well as new stuff from bands like Black Keys, Artic Monkeys, Blur

Also got sucked in to a Britpop tribute band so just learned a lot of songs from Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, Stereophonics, Shed 7, Bluetones etc

robinbowes

Danny1969 said:

Got a new eighties project on the go now so learning a lot of songs for that. We are doing songs from Talk Talk, Japan, Furniture, XTC, The associates and that kinda stuff rather than the more mainstream eighties hits. 

I've also taken over guitar in a popular Portsmouth party band so learning their back catalog as well as new stuff from bands like Black Keys, Artic Monkeys, Blur

Also got sucked in to a Britpop tribute band so just learned a lot of songs from Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, Stereophonics, Shed 7, Bluetones etc

That 80s project sounds interesting.

I'm between bands so not playing much. I'm trying to make myself learn a few acoustic covers so I can lead a singalong on a weekend away in September, but nothing much is happening at the moment.

Might try this next:

RocknRollDave

Danny1969 said:

Got a new eighties project on the go now so learning a lot of songs for that. We are doing songs from Talk Talk, Japan, Furniture, XTC, The associates and that kinda stuff rather than the more mainstream eighties hits. 

I've also taken over guitar in a popular Portsmouth party band so learning their back catalog as well as new stuff from bands like Black Keys, Artic Monkeys, Blur

Also got sucked in to a Britpop tribute band so just learned a lot of songs from Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, Stereophonics, Shed 7, Bluetones etc

Played a birthday party earlier this year where the client had asked for Britpop stuff. Good fun to play and sing - mostly quite straightforward chords and big choruses, so fun to sing and no stress to play.

midiman1962

Mansun - wide open space ( I play 1 little known song per gig) then blue Monday which is more complicated than it looks trying to sing a couple of verses then rip i5 up on the micro korg xl

bobeffect

midiman1962 said:

Mansun - wide open space ( I play 1 little known song per gig) then blue Monday which is more complicated than it looks trying to sing a couple of verses then rip i5 up on the micro korg xl

Mansun~ Wide Open Space - What a great song - I miss doing this. 

Neilybob

Current set list -
Jumpin Jack Flash 
Born to be Wild
All Right Now
Valerie
Hard to Handle
Heroes
Bohemian Like You
American idiot
Holiday

Learning -
Bad Moon Rising
Open Your Eyes 

EricTheWeary

Neilybob said:

Current set list -
Jumpin Jack Flash 
Born to be Wild
All Right Now
Valerie
Hard to Handle
Heroes
Bohemian Like You
American idiot
Holiday

Learning -
Bad Moon Rising
Open Your Eyes 

Out of curiosity @Neilybob which Holiday? I’m presuming Green Day but there are quite a lot of songs called Holiday! 

Garold86

On the learning stack, ready for first run out tomorrow at rehearsal:

Babies - Pulp

Golden Retriever - Super Furry Animals

Will We Talk - Sam Fender

Helicopter - Bloc Party

Do I Wanna Know - Arctic Monkeys

Mountains - Biffy Clyro

Lights Out - Royal Blood
Not Nineteen Forever - Courteeners 

All These Things I've Done - Killers

Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks

KDS

Danny1969 said:

Got a new eighties project on the go now so learning a lot of songs for that. We are doing songs from Talk Talk, Japan, Furniture, XTC, The associates and that kinda stuff rather than the more mainstream eighties hits. 

I've also taken over guitar in a popular Portsmouth party band so learning their back catalog as well as new stuff from bands like Black Keys, Artic Monkeys, Blur

Also got sucked in to a Britpop tribute band so just learned a lot of songs from Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, Stereophonics, Shed 7, Bluetones etc

Daughter recently played guitar and sang I Ran, Flock of Seagulls for her music GCSE performance. Her choice, helped learn it beforehand. Great 80s track that people know but don't commonly hear. Might be worth thinking about trying it out and adding it to the set.

chrisj1602

Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears.

EricTheWeary

KDS said:

Danny1969 said:

Got a new eighties project on the go now so learning a lot of songs for that. We are doing songs from Talk Talk, Japan, Furniture, XTC, The associates and that kinda stuff rather than the more mainstream eighties hits. 

I've also taken over guitar in a popular Portsmouth party band so learning their back catalog as well as new stuff from bands like Black Keys, Artic Monkeys, Blur

Also got sucked in to a Britpop tribute band so just learned a lot of songs from Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, Stereophonics, Shed 7, Bluetones etc

Daughter recently played guitar and sang I Ran, Flock of Seagulls for her music GCSE performance. Her choice, helped learn it beforehand. Great 80s track that people know but don't commonly hear. Might be worth thinking about trying it out and adding it to the set.

I still rank Furniture as probably the worst live band I ever saw. 

For the sake of playing something when I get five minutes I’ve been learning Happy Birthday by Altered Images which has a humongous two chords but is a joyous bit of eighties jangle. Must be a bugger to sing though.