Easy learning PJ song for a rookie?

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  • SEACIDE
    SEACIDE Posts: 410
    Last Kiss...originally written by Wayne Cochran. Even if they're not PJ fans they still may recognize.
    Love is all you need.....
  • Whywhyzed
    Whywhyzed Posts: 270
    bazzer said:

    Whywhyzed said:

    Vitalogensia said:

    I'll have to give Drifting a try. Agree about the tricky-ness of Elderly Woman...just can't get the timing down no matter how many times I watch "how to" videos or listen to the song (as if the past 20 years wasn't enough).

    Yeah I would not have gotten Small Town if my teacher hadn't showed me. But once he did it really was pretty easy. It's in 6 / 8 time, so theres 6 8th notes per measure, with emphasis on the 1st and 4th ones.
    1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3...
    Exactly.
  • papa_pearls_jam.pj20
    papa_pearls_jam.pj20 Chicago USA Posts: 2,142
    Footsteps. Great campfire song and easy to play.
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,066
    You guys are rattling off the entire PJ acoustic catalogue.
    Putting aside guitar solos, what are the hardest PJ songs to play?
  • CharlieP
    CharlieP Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 1,035
    mookeywrench said:

    You guys are rattling off the entire PJ acoustic catalogue.
    Putting aside guitar solos, what are the hardest PJ songs to play?

    Stone songs tend to have some tricky parts. Here's a couple of PJ songs which I find harder to play:
    Leash
    In hiding
    Sleight of hand
    You are
    Let the records play
    Hail, hail

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  • CharlieP
    CharlieP Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 1,035
    While I do agree that the 'Ed on guitar' songs are a bit more straightforward, I must say that he also amazes me on some songs where he has to play a part which is tough to sing on top of. The Sad main riff comes to mind. And also his playing in RVM is impressive. That's a tough one to nail folks!

    But to get back to the OP, I would choose Long road as well. Plenty of time to do the chord changes. I never thought Small town was THAT easy. Fast chord changes and the melody line keeps evolving throughout the song from low notes to pretty high notes. You need quite a range to sing this

    Roskilde 2000, Berlin 2006, Athens 2006, Dusseldorf 2007, Copenhagen 2007, New York NY 1 + 2 2008, Berlin 2009, London 2009, London 2010, Berlin 2010, Manchester 2 2012, Berlin 1 2012, Stockholm 2012, Oslo 2012, Copenhagen 2012, Amsterdam 1 + 2 (EV solo) 2012, Amsterdam 1 + 2 2014, Stockholm 2014, Oslo 2014, Leeds 2014, Milton Keynes 2014, Heartland Festival DK (EV solo) 2017, Berlin 2018, Barcelona 2018, Copenhagen 2022, Prague 2022 (Cancelled)



  • PJammer4life
    PJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,669
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  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,057
    edited July 2014
    Good shout for Long Road, just played it for the first time and its nice and easy. That constant D chord is probably not making me popular with the neighbours tho :D

    Check this out too...

    http://youtu.be/7Nu1Paxf6WA
    Post edited by Spags on
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