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I'll be buying a 12 string electro - acoustic.

Any suggestions for good Rock, folk rock, etc songs which can be played on a 12 string.

Thanks.
    Hotel California
    Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
    Give a little bit - Supertramp

    That is the first three that comes to mind, but there should be loads of great songs.
      Whole Hearted - Extreme
      Rosemary - Lenny Kravitz
      Stairway to Heaven (but yeah)

      Really a 12 string is not different enough from a 6 to say you can't play non-12 songs on it.
        More than a feeling - Boston
        Free Falling - Tom Petty

        But like Gearhead said, songs that was played on a 6 string will work as well. I don't know why but some of Oasis' songs comes to mind.
          Thankyou to all for your suggestions.
            Most things you can play on a guitar that don't require screaming distortion or super-fast picking. Kif. You have hundreds of thousands of options. ?
              Good suggestions so far and very true that you can do a lot of the stuff you would usually do on a six string. It's a bit more work, but do-able (if the guitar's set up properly).

              Early Bowie, most Tom Petty, REM - a lot of more rhythmic song stuff works well.

              But yeah, practice and you can do most stuff:

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                SRV plays that thing as if the strings were made of butter... damn, what a player
                  kansas - dust in the wind. sounds incroyable on a 12 if you can get the rhythm going, and very similar to the dual six-string thing in the original recording.

                  there are loads of tunes you can play on a 12. but to get the most out of a 12, try some open tunings. man, now i'm lusting.

                  damn you, gas...
                  dh
                    Thankyou to all for your suggestions. I do appreciate it.
                      I had a beautiful Epiphone 12 string for about 10 years.
                      My favourites were...
                      Dust In The Wind - Kansas
                      Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
                      Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac (Lindsay Buckingham plays open tunings - I just played normal tunings with a capo)
                      Wond'ring Aloud - Jethro Tull (hammerons sound awesome on the 12 string)
                      Busted Down Around O'Connelly Corners - Doobey Brothers
                      Leaf & Stream - Wishbone Ash (for the life of me I cannot even play this decently on a six string today :-[_
                        ooh! ooh! ooh! if you can get it under your fingers, anji sounds great on a 12. but for the life of me, i can't even get it down on a 6...
                          Thanks for the suggestions, folks.
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