Songs you enjoy playing

[bjgrifter]

So, what songs are you folks having fun playing/learning?

Right now, I'm on an Amaranthe kick, and winging the bass line, and same with radio rock stuff like Papa Roach.

 

[gnoll]

My own songs are always a million times more fun than anything else.

 

[CerealKiller]

I'm practicing Greg Howe's Button Up. Soooo many cool licks in there, and the swing feel is always a challenge for me to get right, especially his vibrato always throws me off time.

 

[soldierkahn]

Nu-metal lol

 

[CanserDYI]

God I've been having so much fun playing Lateralus and 10000 Days, learned basically both albums and they just are so fucking fun to riff out to.

Only band I learn material from is Tool, and some Polyphia stuff I've been known to ear out...

 

[KnightBrolaire]

Brad Paisley's Ticks.
Black Betty- Ram Jam
Ratt-Wanted Man

They're all just super fun songs to play

 

[Captain Shoggoth]

I enjoy doing full album runs of Hatebreeder by Children of Bodom

 

[wheresthefbomb]

My own songs are always a million times more fun than anything else.

Same. As I became more confident in my playing over the years, the desire to learn covers dropped to basically zero. I think the stuff I write kicks ass and I wouldn't have kept playing this long if I thought otherwise.

Also, to really do a cover song justice is a lot of work, probably more than whoever wrote it put in because they were just doing what came naturally, so to do a good cover you either have to mimic what comes naturally to someone who isn't you, or truly make it your own, neither of which is easy to pull off. I'd rather just feed all that hard work back into developing my own voice/material.

That said, I do have a short set of strumalong favorites I whip out for open mics from time to time.

Anthony Wakeford wrote this song and it's come to light that he's a fucking nazi, but Agalloch are not nazis, and their cover is better anyway. I loved playing this song every year after winter solstice before I found out about Wakeford. I still love playing it but don't really play it outside the house anymore on the off chance that somebody who knows about Wakeford either thinks I'm A) a nazi asshole who needs to be punched in the face or B) down with their nazi shit.