Intermediate Guitarist bored of playing Same Old Stuff!
 

Anybody got any good Songs for me to look at learning?? Im at a average level i guess :confused: ranging from "Under The Bridge" (not all tho lol) to "Black Balloon" Love the Goo's :thumbsup: ! Need something new maybe something i dont know!

Try "Tears In Heaven" by Eric Clapton. That and "Wonderful Tonight" are both fun to play and a great way to pick up chicks if you can sing. "Scuttle Buttin'" by Stevie Ray Vaughan is a great way to impress people, and it's not too hard if you start out learning it slow and speed it up gradually.

Try learning some Pink Floyd songs like Comfortably Numb. Or blues music....I hear traditional blues riffs are not only easy to play..but fun and completely relevant as well.

Asta!!

Learn some June of '44 if you want to go the indie route and get acquainted with different time signatures.

Pearl Jam - Thumbing My Way

Every Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and Judas Priest song. Both chords.

Just kidding. Try challenging yourself with something like Bouree in E minor or Classical Gas. Both are a bitch, but really cool to hear someone play live.

Another idea: Try slowing down Iron Maiden's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner and play it to a reggae beat.

Well I'll be the first to mention the Mighty Zeppelin.

My advise would be to try and understand each song for what it is. First off you have to listen and,......sorry, this is where I start getting paid. Find a good teacher, private, and pay the price. If you know what you are doing, then you can tell pretty fast if you should stay or go. Private instructors have more to lose and generally care more how their students are progressing. It's their business.

Jazz, Blues, Rock, Calipso, Flamenco,...doesn't matter . Do what you gotta do.

OFKU0 has a good point. I teach as well and i get a lot of students coming through my door. Some never played before, some are probably capable of recording albums in shred metal.

The ticket to breaking out of the slump is go out and listen to music... find something that you want to learn how to play but know you're not able to play technically and then get to learning it. Not just the chords, learn the riffs, solos, words, the rhtymn, learn the bass line on your guitar etc.

Also, get a teacher. No matter where you are ussually there is a guitarist within driving distance that can break you into a new level of your playing. If you can find a good honest teacher the two of you can work out a good relationship musically and you'll be thanking him for his wisdom.

A lot of Dave Matthews stuff is fun to play and fairly easy. Check out the Crash and Under the Table and Dreaming song books. You'll pick it up in no time. Oh yeah, chicks dig this stuff so learn how to sing too :thumbsup:

Let me be the first to state the obvious: Beatles. None of their songs are standard three-chord rock tunes, and several have some surprising chord changes.

Also, try learning every song you know in each of the twelve major or minor keys (depending on what the original key is).

Anything by the Cars, Bob Seger, CCR, James Taylor... If you're feeling Hard Rockish, learn
one AC/DC song, then you know them all! (Same with Chuck Berry, although not as hard
rockish by any means)
The Eagles are good to learn (especially Joe Walsh stuff if you're using an electric.)
The Rolling Stones if you like to play riffs.
Steve Miller Band if you happen to be smoking pot at the same time you're practicing.
And Stevie Ray Vaughan if you want to brag to everyone you've ever met or will meet.

I'm going to second the Beatles. Their stuff is great to play for girls. Hell, a leper can get a piece of ass if he knows how to play 'Here, There and Everywhere'.

Thanks Guys got a lot to work on now :o)

That happened to me.. playing rhythym in a rock guitar setting gets boring real quick, especially becuase I came from a classical piano background, comparatively you could learn 10 rock songs in the time it would take you to learn a piano piece so I was like.. something's not right.

Try working on blues, and learn to improvise blues. Once you start creating your own music it takes a whole new meaning. And anything you learn from blues will make your rock playing better.

When you got the handle on blues(you will never master blues) learn jazz. now improvising jazz is a lengthy journey.

Try some Elliot Smith dude. He's got great fingerpicking tunes like "Angeles" that should keep you busy.

go for Alice in Chains stuff off their Unplugged album. great guitar stuff