The Fretboard Guitar Songbook - phase 1

soma1975 said:

...Thinking also maybe something from the Meters and possibly something by Freddie King as there's no straight blues on the list yet. Surprised by no Allman suggestions yet too. 

I've played The Stumble (instrumental) in the past, although it was more like the Peter Green version.

Speaking of instrumentals, Chitlins Con Carne by Kenny Burrell is a nice jazzy blues. It's just a 12 bar in C, where the one chord is a C7#9. And the 'head' is just a simple blues melody. 

Stormy Monday (The Allman Brothers) is a blues jam favourite and has some nice chords. 

As for blues instrumentals I did Stepping Out on the first one I attended. Will add the above suggestions. 

Re Freddie King was thinking more Have You Ever Loved a Woman or I'm Tore Down or even his version of Key to the Highway than Hideaway/Stumble but might put them all in and see what gets weeded out. 

Any more for any more?

Added Communication Breakdown because I listened to a great cover of it just now and it's basically a fun rocking 12-bar. 

Samantha Fish - Lay It Down is a fun bluesy one to play.

Cool never heard of it will add it to the list and stick a video of it up once we hit the group stages :)

That’s an amazing song list. 

I'll leave it until Saturday in case anyone wants to add anything else and then will come up with a way of chopping it down to 100 ahead of the first group stage...

soma1975 said:

Will just say though - this is going to end up like 10-15 songs to be a 'if in doubt we can play one of these' foundation tracks as opposed to specific requests to do particular songs at meetups and so it might be a place for the latter to want to do something with piano and mandolin!

Ok, makes sense! Will keep those for specific jam requests.

Songbook suggestions for the vote:

Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man
Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Stevie Wonder - Superstition

soma1975 said:

Is that a roundabout way of nominating Katy Perry -Roar for the songbook? 

Actually, Zombie and Wicked Game from that list might be worth a look.

Nice one will add them all

TeleKinesis said:

If not too complicated, I think it would be good to have some songs that include other instrument sounds as an option e.g. piano, organ, mandolin etc.

That way there's a multitude of 'jobs' available (and also adds variety to the sound!). Personally, I'm a bit of a Swiss-Army knife / Jack of all trades, so if there's already lots of people on guitar, there's a way to join in somewhere else.

I noticed there was a stage piano at Power House the other day. I suppose people might also have pedals that can do the above.

The Doors / Led Zep catalogs might have some ideas :smile: 

I loved the bass synth stuff you were doing at the jam. Could play along with that all day. 

This songbook thingy is meant to be a small set of staples we know, basically for when we won't know what else to play we can fall back on some of those. I will put up tab, lessons and backings of the final selection. 

It's not meant to replace the regular songs people choose to do and learn in advance so hopefully we will still have harder and more interesting stuff being brought to the table for each event. 

Happy to put those 3 Zep songs on this list but to be honest I can't see any of them getting past the first stage as they aren't super well known except to Zep fans and they might be better for suggesting on a per event basis. 

Hello,

Just try and ensure that whatever makes the list its likely to find a singer. As one of the handful of singers at the Western Jams I'll have a go at as much as I can but if its out of my range there's not much you can do about it. I would say this also applies to the drums to some extent.  No point having a room full of Jimmy Pages if Robert Plant doesn't show up.  :#

Updated the OP with the playoff songs and instructions. 

Here's my 15 I'd like to save from the list I put up ahead of the WC

1. The Beatles – Helter Skelter
2. Freddie King – Have You Ever Loved a Woman
3. Kenny Burrell – Chitlins Con Carne
4. Led Zeppelin – Heartbreaker
5. Living Colour – Love Rears Up Its Ugly Head
6. Ocean Colour Scene – The Riverboat Song
7. Paul Weller – Changing Man
8. Primal Scream - Jailbird
9. Queen – Keep Yourself Alive
10. Queens of the Stone Age – Make it Wit Chu
11. Queens of the Stone Age – Little Sister
12. Weezer – Buddy Holly
13. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
14. Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl
15. Stone Temple Pilots – Plush

To be honest not really getting much in the way of engagement on putting this thing together and if it is just one or two people voting then it's not really a forum songbook so not really sure I can be fucked to go through setting it all up if nobody else is fussed about it. 

Will give it a couple of days to see if the forum actually finds merit in this, otherwise I might just leave up the list of 100 tunes and leave it at that. 

Hey, I think there's merit in this, I think it should be given a chance  

Personally I've had a busy weekend, and I wanted to listen to the songs I don't know before voting. 
 Have got 10 I know and am keen on, but the others I haven't heard in a while, or not at all.

Edit: @soma1975 My votes

1. Led Zeppelin – Heartbreaker
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
3. Ocean Colour Scene – The Riverboat Song
4. Paul Weller – Changing Man
5. Therapy - Die Laughing
6. Weezer – Buddy Holly
7. Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl
8. The Velvet Underground - Waiting For My Man
9. Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
10. Golden Earring - Radar Love
11. Freddie King – The Stumble
12. The Cars - Just What I Needed
13. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
14. Metallica - Lux Aeterna
15. Rush - Spirit of Radio

Nice one. But starting to wonder if when it's chopped down to 100 if people are going to be naffed with either 10 groups of 10 or 5 groups of 20 songs to vote on to get to a knockout phase. 

Right scratch this plan for playoffs it is needlessly complicated. I have put every song into groups (some groups have extra songs) and will make a new thread in the main guitar section to commence week 1/Group 1 from today.

I’ve been meaning to get involved in this for a while, what’ve I missed?

On a loosely related note, if required and there’s too many guitarists at the next jam (if I manage to make it) I can deputise as a moderate bassist and absolutely terrible slide or mandolin player…

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/267419/the-fretboard-guitar-songbook-world-cup-group-1-and-2#latest

@soma1975 Cheers