song you learned that made you a better guitarist?

[Bartender16]

for me, id have to go with so much to say, two step, billies, rhyme and reason, the stone, warehouse, and seek up

[PilotC150]

All of them make sense except Seek Up. Overall it's not a very difficult song. MAYBE the rhythm, but the song itself isn't complex at all. At least not near as difficult compared to the other ones you listed. Espeically R&R, Stone and Warehouse.

[jester29]

Agreed - Stone & Warehouse especially. WWYS, Billies, and Typical also helped a great deal on the singing-while-playing.

[timmyt23]

The Stone, Satellite is great for finger strength (I think it started as a finger exercise for Dave). Warehouse. Recently, OSW, Crash is another good one for working out your fingers. Pig is another one that helped me alot.

[PilotC150]

Satellite is great for finger strength (I think it started as a finger exercise for Dave).
I believe you are thinking of the Intro to One Sweet World.

[cj4258]

Isaak Albéniz - Opus 47, Number 3, Suite Española - Sevilla (Sevillanas)
Johan Sebastian Bach - BWV 578, Little Fugue in G Minor
Fernando Sor - Opus 35, Number 1 in C Major

Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five

Recently
Crush

[AggieDMBFan06]

Billies, warehouse, grey street i cant seem to get the stone...shite!

[timmyt23]

I believe you are thinking of the Intro to One Sweet World.
I think I read somwhere that Dave talked about how the After Her/Satellite riff evolved from a more basic finger exercise. I could be wrong.....

[whyibesowhite]

The Stone, Satellite is great for finger strength (I think it started as a finger exercise for Dave). Warehouse. Recently, OSW, Crash is another good one for working out your fingers. Pig is another one that helped me alot.
yeah.. crash helped me with rythym, and finger stretches...

[timmyt23]

yeah.. crash helped me with rythym, and finger stretches...
I'll just bet that you stretched out your fingers and got into a rhythm......:cool:

[dmb6743]

warehouse helped me w/ fast ass struming/picking at the same time. crash helped w/ finger stretching shit and the general by dispatch helped out alot w/ lots of stuff as did the stone.

[CarterBoydBear]

Warehouse for sure, got me familiar with the intense muting/picking Dave style.

[CarterBoydBear]

Satellite is great for finger strength
:thumbsup

[Twevo]

I'm still trying to get Warehouse right >> but actually Stay helped me alot with rhythm

[yin_yang]

Isaak Albéniz - Opus 47, Number 3, Suite Española - Sevilla (Sevillanas)
Johan Sebastian Bach - BWV 578, Little Fugue in G Minor
Fernando Sor - Opus 35, Number 1 in C Major

Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five

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Crush

yo, post a link with the classical music tabs, i'd like to learn some!!!!

[paman]

an awesome song that will make u sound better than u are is if u play spoon in like a classical style...it will teach u alot about plucking a few strings at once and it leaves a ton of room for improvosation...plus it sounds so money

[xerox]

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five



I love playing that song- Ive got the first part figured out (Fm, Cm7) but I can only figure out bits and pieces of the middle section and end- Id like to know if there's a tab for it too...

[Haiku Jimi]

This is a tough question, because I think almost everything you learn makes you better. The more you play, the easier it is to do things later on. But I'll try and stick to the question... :)

First of all, hardly using a pick for my first year or so of playing helped a lot with finger picking....but now, several years later, I'm still a bit uncomfortable with a pick because of that.

A lot of Dave's stuff helped me with speed/chord changes and stretching - Stone, You Never Know, Billies, Captain, Satellite, etc

errr...looking at David Gilmour's (Pink Floyd) solos helped me a bit to figure out what notes sound good at what time. Jimmy Page's solos helped me somewhat with speed 1% of the time, the other 99% of the time, they pissed me off because they were too annoying/tough to learn and didn't even sound good half the time... :) I'm still really working on soloing/improv.

[darbini]

I love playing that song- Ive got the first part figured out (Fm, Cm7) but I can only figure out bits and pieces of the middle section and end- Id like to know if there's a tab for it too...

http://www.guitartabs.cc/fetchurl.php?filename=/b/brubeck_dave/take_five.tab

[CheeseBergr]

Stone, Crush, Warehouse, Billies Verse, The Best of Whats Around, You Never Know(took 4 hours to learn)

[@WarWithTheMoon]

Hmm, since most people named Dave songs I'll think of a few not.. Blackbird - Beatles, helped with fingerpicking, Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin, just a great riff to play.

[Haiku Jimi]

and didn't even sound good half the time...

Just to clarify, I meant Page :D

Hmm, since most people named Dave songs I'll think of a few not.. Blackbird - Beatles, helped with fingerpicking, Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin, just a great riff to play.

Those are really good ones as well, I was honestly going to mention both songs.

[ZosoFlyd]

Learning all of Shine on You Crazy Diamond helped me a lot. A lot of different stuff goes on during the song and it's cool to switch back and forth between more rhythm styles, riffing and soloing.

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You was a great song to improve my fingerpicking.

As for Dave stuff, I think most of their songs are great for improving finger dexterity, especially songs like Satellite and The Stone.

[Sender]

Anything by Phish

[riceboy]

wharehouse, that song recreated the way I play my own rythm. I can play it for hours, and still love spawning different improvs off of that song.

[TripPin BilLie]

the first song i learned to play was what would you say...and honestly i didnt consider that very hard...then i tried going for faster songs like warehouse ...later on i began listening to classic rock and that got me into soloing alot more...thunderstruck is a good finger technique(tiring after a while) learned mostly rolling stones, zeppelin, ac/dc, beatles, deep purple, pretty much anything that had a tune or sounded worthwile playing

[stone4140]

Agreed - Stone & Warehouse especially. WWYS, Billies, and Typical also helped a great deal on the singing-while-playing.

any tips on how to get better at singing and playing at the same time ?

[i like tictacs]

SMTS...

As for singing and playing, the only tip is to practice. I'm sure you've heard it before, but there aren't any videos on it, or any secret techniques the pros use. It isn't easy. Start with a song like Crash for example, which you probably know the words backwards and forwards to, and go from there. Try to play along with D+T or something.

[xerox]

http://www.guitartabs.cc/fetchurl.php?filename=/b/brubeck_dave/take_five.tab


hmm, not in the same key- so ill have to adjust


thanks a lot for the link BTW....

[cj4258]

I used to have a tab in Eb for Take Five, still looking...

This is a lead sheet on OLGA if it'll help:
http://www.olga.net/dynamic/browse.php?local=main/b/brubeck_dave/take_five.crd&printOverride=1

[dmb6743]

captain also helped a shitload w/ finger stretching as well.

[eviltuna7]

grey street is great for people just starting. It took me a while, but after i learned satellite and SMTS i started to be able to play a lot more stuff. Although Neon still escapes me, thats a crazy guitar song

[antgrave]

wareeeeehouse

[WaLtErK123]

the first song i learned to make me a better guitarist was "rodeo clowns" by jack johnson and G.Love becuase prior to that, i couldnt play any barre chords...hey, it was a long time ago! haha...