I can never motivate myself to learn someone else's song from beginning to end. I tend to learn the bit I like most, get bored and move on ?

It's WAY more fun to play improv, IMO

I spent the last 3 years doing covers with various bands the result is that I can't stand to even listen too let alone play some of my favorite guitar solos - practice makes perfect repitition of the perfect leads to cultural suicide. ??? I am now writing my own stuff, mainly in a Blues/Rock/Fusion style. I hope to have enough material together to do some sort of show next year. :-\ If we get storage space on this site I will post some of my works in progress on this site. ;D

@ Alan: Ha ha..thank you..like my old used to say,"Nothing beats the real thing"..so the best i can hope for is to be influenced by the likes of Mr. Morse, Mr. Holdsworth et al.
By the way, gimme a shout sometime when you're in town. I've finally got my own wheels. Lookin forward to meetin up. Keep well.

Cheers.

I've got my mind set on doing Lifehouse's Everything within the next month. Does anyone know where I can get the sheet music for this song. There's some strings in it which I'm gonna have to get one of my friends to play on keyboard or record for me to use as a backing track.

here u go boet
http://search.musicnotes.com/?hl=y&q=Lifehouse

can never motivate myself to learn someone else's song from beginning to end. I tend to learn the bit I like most, get bored and move on

Im with you there Norio, I play a couple bars then fiddle around with the notes and tempo to see what I can get, nothing textbook but I've ended up with some cool riffs.

Songs I practice bars from:

Rise Against "Life less frightening" Most of the song
Rise Against "Blood to bleed" Solo
Trapt "These walls" Intro and chorus
Trivium "Dying in your arms" Till the solo
Deftones "Shove it/My own summer" All parts of the song
Limp Bizkit "Behind blue eyes" Intro
As I lay dying "Darkest night" Intro

The only song Im really trying to get through is "Fear the Dark" and thats cause Rally showed it to me and I thought the intro was sweet.

Still haven't made it passed the intro yet though :-[

I'd want to learn some Judas Priest from beginning to end. They're probably my fave band right now (for the past year or so)

I'm glad to see there are so many in the same boat as me. ? I also loose interest very quickly. in learning covers. In the 80's when I played in bands a guitarist could only get the gig if you knew lots of songs and you had to play it exactly like the original.

I still do the odd cover now, but never try to do it exactly. I want to put my own style into it. The ratio is still about 50:1 my own stuff against covers. The latest I am working on is Eine Kleine Nachtmuzik. I started it about 3 months ago on the classical guitar, but each time I get distracted and rather work on my own stuff. Eventually I'll finish it. I aim for a sound very similar to my latest tracks I've posted here (Winter long & Left in the dark). The classical purists may hate me for it, but what the heck!. If the RPO could do Pink Floyd with a symphony then I can do Mozart in a Pink FLoyd style. ;D

I am learning Leyenda (Asturias) by the composer Isaac Albeniz. I posted an youtube video of John Wiliams playing it a while back. The next song I am going to learn is Turkish march by mozart

Gray wrote:
Rise Against "Life less frightening" Most of the song
Rise Against "Blood to bleed" Solo
Trapt "These walls" Intro and chorus
Trivium "Dying in your arms" Till the solo
Deftones "Shove it/My own summer" All parts of the song
Limp Bizkit "Behind blue eyes" Intro
As I lay dying "Darkest night" Intro

Good taste in music there, I also enjoy my Rise Against...

Lately i have been trying my hand at the more classical stuff, Pagannini, Pachebel, Bach.

I also get bored learning other people's stuuf, although i have to being a guitar teacher and all. I just find the classical stuff more inspiring in my work