What song are you currently learning?

Currently working on Sweet child of mine, hunting high and low and Happy Xmas(war is over).

I’m also learning how to blues improv using the minor pentatonic.

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Working on ā€˜Dignity’ by Deacon Blue. Although it may end up being too big a song for one guitar, though however it turns out, love it.

Currently trying to push my limit a bit by learning crash into me by The Dave Mathew’s band. If nothing else that c7 (nearly sure) shape he uses will stretch my fingers!

i’m working on a few songs:

Circus Maximus - Last Goodbye I can play the intro solo at 95% of the speed, but i still make some mistakes. The rest of the song is to complicated to put in all the time.

sabaton - Hearts Of Iron pretty ā€˜simple’ song, chorus part is the most difficult part

Nightwish - Swanheart solo it has nice melody and is pretty ā€˜easy’ to learn when i want to do some less technical stuff

Nightwish - She’s my sin Those intro powerchords are fluid, still hard work on the rest. If i can play the first 20 measures or so up to speed, i can play the rest of the song(except solo) to :slight_smile: .

For the rest i’m still consolidating grade 1, especially the chord switches between A,G,E,C,D Ab,Db, Eb.

Currently I am working on a Branle Englese a renaissance dance tune suitable for early classical players.

Also, another classical arpeggio piece called Autumn Stream, and several simple practice pieces.

On the steel string, I am working on Ziggy Stardust, Norwegian Wood (seems like forever with this one), Wonderful Tonight (fingerstyle) and soon I will start We Wish You A Merry Christmas.

The list of want to plays is too long!

I can see clearly now, What’s up, we are gonna be friends

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Currently I am working on 2 more original songs I wrote. I have the lyrics and melodies down for both and am now trying to figure out a key that works for each song. It might take a while :roll_eyes: but it’s a lot of fun.

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Little Talks by Of Monsters And Men | JustinGuitar.com

I’m really struggling to keep in time with the metronome at that speed.
I can manage straight quarter strumming, but whenever I try the recommended strumming I very quickly get ahead of the beat :confused:

Great tune Moray.

Have found that learning project songs has helped with with motivation to play more. Currently learning:
-she talks to angels (black crowes)
-jingle bell rock (carried over from trying to learn for holidays)
-hard luck woman (kiss)
-stay (black pink)

So enjoyable didn’t realize just how good it would feel to be able to play these. Did not mean to have 4 songs working on it happened by accident. Its maybe too many to work on at once and find that my lessons aren’t progressing as fast.

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I’m working on some songs at the moment just to keep the variety and keep me from being bored.

Black Magic - Slayer
Almost there with that. It’s a bit faster so I have to work a bit more to keep it clean. And that’s only the rhythm guitars, I’m not even going to think attempting the solos. Besides I don’t have a floyd rose and don’t care much about it either!

I died for you - Iced Earth
It’s not particularly difficult but on one hand I’m not particularly sure the tab has the write notes for the clean part and on the other hand the dirty part’s fingering I don’t get 100% right 100% of the time. I certainly love playing the aolo though!

Melancholy - Iced Earth
Another easy one on the rhythm part.
Solo is way out of my league though. I have managed it almost at the right speed up to where the sweep pickong begins but that’s where I’m totally stuck and in the dark as to how to go about it.

Dust in the Wind - Kansas
That’s to get going with my fingerstyle playing.
I have to work more on this as at tempo, some chord changes aren’t particularly clean.

I’m also thinking about starting learning the solos for Enter Sandman and Seek and Destroy but I already have a lot going I think…