Favorite song to play?

[Lister]

If I'm grabbing an acoustic, I'll usually warm up with Randy Rhoads' Dee or the Allmans' Melissa. On electric, it just depends on my mood. Gary Moore's Parisienne Walkways is a fun song, and no I can't play it exactly like Gary, but I still like to try.

 

[WA Paul]

The other voices in my head say I’m quite good at butchering (not playing) several Rush songs - Limelight, Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, Red Sector A and parts of La Villa Strangiato

Acoustic tends to be a lot of my own stuff but Stairway, Silent Lucidity, and parts of Hole Hearted typically come out. Rain Song if I feel like an open tuning. I really need to work on my finger picking...

Looking forward to getting past this chronic vertigo so I can dig in to a bunch of lessons from TrueFire I bought nearly 2 years ago!

 

[CandidPicker]

Today it was VH's "Panama" & AC/DCs "Highway to Limbo."

Would like to try some Dishwalla, and the dishes need doing.

May try some "Land Down Under," but don't own a flute or didgeridoo.

 

[aphantomvaper]

Blackbird - the Beatles one...and All of Me - Marks and Simmons

 

[C&M Music - Lafayette]

Santana - Love is You, and/or Europa.

 

[pac90]

I do anything, Baroness

&

You csn't kill rock & roll, Ozzy

 

[tiboy]

I guess if it’s a go to song it has to be Aqualung by Jethro Tull. Still love hearing and playing it after all these years.

 

[Tosca]

For me it depends on how much gain I’m using.

Acoustic: Blackbird or Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
Clean: Under the Bridge or Lenny
Mild OD: I’ve Got a Feeling or All Right Now
More OD to medium Crunch: Anything AC/DC or Aerosmith
More Saturated: Santana or ZZ Top

 

[CandidPicker]

If in a chilling mood, "The Girl from Ipanema." This was a regular song at our Thursday jazz/blues open-mic jam.

The host could do "St. Thomas," but that was beyond my ability...

 

[alantig]

There are several for me. “Behind Blue Eyes”, Tori Amos’ “Winter”, “Beth”, “Goodbye To Romance”, “Black Diamond”.

And if I’m in a store trying out guitars, one of my favorite things to play is the solo from Ozzy’s “I Don’t Know”. But not as a metal solo - as a blues or country thing. One time I had a kid doing that dog’s-head-to-the-side thing trying to figure out what I was playing. I could see he thought it was familiar but couldn’t quite figure out what it was.

 

[Iceman101]

For the last couple of years this:

 

[Black-Viper75]

On acoustic Wish You Were Here. On electric it always changes but lately it's Still of the Night if I'm playing with distortion and if I'm doing clean tones Little Wing.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Acoustic -

3am - Matchbox 20

Electric - Bryan May solos (Hammer to Fall and Crazy Little Thing called Love)

and a segue of riff from Hey Joe and I Wish.

(rambling answer as usual)

 

[Herr Squid]

If the brain is switched off and the fingers are moving, when I'm playing an actual song it's usually something from Hemispheres. That album is stamped into my DNA at this point.

 

[Maxime Bousquet]

I like to compose my melodies, so I often start by warming up a few scales and let myself be guided by the music that comes to me spontaneously, a song that I love, I call it my guitar hymn, I never get tired , is that of Steve Vai for the love of god
A real happiness for my fingers!

 

[Birdsofprey]

Xanadu or YYZ seem to be the two that starts it all when picking up my guitar.

 

[dmatthews]

 

[dmatthews]

Since many of you might not have heard of Carulli, here is one of my favourites by him. PRS guitars are in the middle.

Love the comparisons, and really nice playing mate!

 

[László]

If you start with a 12 bar blues just about every time, and you don't even remember where all the bits and pieces came from, does it even qualify as a song, despite its familiar structure?

Or is it just noodling?

Asking for a friend.

 

[dmatthews]

If you start with a 12 bar blues just about every time, and you don't even remember where all the bits and pieces came from, does it even qualify as a song, despite its familiar structure?

Or is it just noodling?

Asking for a friend.

The answer is yes.