Last song learnt ?

IceCreamMan

The roof is on fire - bloodhound gang

easy enough , lyrics are hilarious

Squonk

I am busy learning "We used to know" by Jethro Tull.

The song does have the same chords the whole way through, so the secret is to add something to each verse or else it does sound a tad boring.
It's amazing how sometimes the easier songs are quite difficult to get?

I have decided to do a cover at TJ's on Thursday, and this will be it.

Conrad

That Carulli waltz I uploaded also simple but hard to play "right" (if that is what Squonk meant).

Squonk

"We used to know" is almost like Hey Joe in that it has the same chord progression throughout the whole song.

What I am trying to do is to add something extra into each verse without saying too much. The song is pretty easy if you just strum away.

I am forced to pull out my plectrum to add some lead bits and bassy bits. That's more or less what I mean about a simple song being quite hard to adapt to your own style without killing it.

@ Conrad I get what you mean about the Classical songs, Viccy did some seemimgly easy Tarrega pieces "lagrima" and 'Adelita", but to get the right feel and rhythm is quite a task. But you pull it off with ease ?

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote I am busy learning "We used to know" by Jethro Tull.

The song does have the same chords the whole way through, so the secret is to add something to each verse or else it does sound a tad boring.
It's amazing how sometimes the easier songs are quite difficult to get?

Because it's a song (IE music and lyrics) you can also use variations in the vocal part. You can experiment with timing and phrasing.

And remember that Ian Anderson had it easy - he had a band playing with him, which gave him a lot more shades of light and dark. Make the most of the lyric. If a song has a good story in it, paints pictures in the mind, then that can also hook the listener.