What genre do you like to play

[SantaCruzOMGuy]

I started a project a year ago to lean melody and harmony in unison using my ear on classic hymns. An example would be "it is well with my soul". Process was brutally slow at first, but I've gotten up to 30 I my head now and think it made me a better musician.


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[SantaCruzOMGuy]

Originally Posted by BluesyRob

In no particular order:



Blues

Ragtime

Fingerstyle songs



And I'm starting to explore open tunings such as open D, open G, DADGAD, and Double-Drop-D.

You have to check out maneli Jamal's "us against them" double drop d song. Gorgeous


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[Mr. Paul]

Singer songwriter stuff, when I started playing it was more to be able to deliver the songs than be a "guitar player."

Guy Clark The Cape
Greg Brown Going Going Gone

[SFCRetired]

I don't know if I have a genre, but one would probably say I'm closer to country and folk. I play traditional country to Red Dirt the most. When I get finished with a traditional country song it probably sounds closer to Red Dirt. I just play songs I like without much thought to where it originated from. The songs I write are all over the place from blue grassy stuff to pop.

[crwheat@sbcglob]

Blues. Key to the Highway, Crossroads Blues, If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day

But, I like to play the Girl From Ipanema too

[Muddslide]

Originally Posted by The Bard Rocks

I like all sorts of old stuff (and some that I wrote as well as a very select few newer ones):

Blues (Sporting Life, Stealin', Trouble in Mind...)
Old Time (John Henry, If I Lose, Let me Lose, Milwaukee Blues...)
Irish (Kilgarrah Mtn, Black Velvet band, Mountains of Mourne...)
Sea Songs (Haul Away Joe, Blood Red Roses, Go to Sea Once More...)
American Instrumental, mostly fiddle (Fisher's Hornpipe, Liberty, Battle of New Orleans...)
Old Country (Peach Picking Time in Georgia, Hey, Good Looking, Walk on By...)
Humor (Ah Woe, Ah Me, I'm My Own grandpa, The Scotsman...)
Child Ballads (Queen Jane, The Cruel Mother, Young Behan...)
Gospel (Angel band, Paul & Silas, Rock of Ages...)
Irish Instrumentals (Planxty George Brabazon, Star of Munster, Boys of Blue Hill...)


The list goes on and on. So many great songs, so little time.

Ah, a kindred spirit!

I try to get around these styles, with varying degrees of success.

Only other thing I attempt is rockabilly and some 50s-60s rock like Runaway, I Fought The Law, some Motown and a lot of surf (which makes me miss my Fender electrics.)

But there are specific rock songs I play...mostly more oddball material like Bowie, Big Star, Pixies, Shins, Velvet Underground...

I actually do some passable acoustic versions of the old punk rock I grew up on-- Black Flag, Misfits, and so on.

[Pitar]

Whatever stokes the muse at the time but mostly I just goof around.

[zaskar1]

all
mine is real simple, whatever sounds good to me!
i can do classical, acoustic folk from the 69s, 79s
70s rock, popular now
i dont do heavy metal or rap music

z

[jpbat]

My own finger style instrumental swing affair, which can go from ragtimish to perfectly french java (baguette and beret included), with some caribbean-bossa-calypso dashes.

But lately I'm exploring some non swing folkish medievalo modal things in open D tuning, really different.

And I try to create my own voice on banjo and weissenborn, too, but that's for other forums...

[shekie]

These days mostly bluegrass, "Honey You Don't Know My Mind", "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane", "I'll Fly Away".

For a change of pace, folk'ish, "Pack Up Your Sorrows", "Harvest Moon", "Ripple".

[ocmcook]

Originally Posted by Ditch

Old country, 50-60 oldies.

thats what i like. sounds great and generally easy to play, whether chording, flat picking or combination of both.

[piper_guitarist]

I play a little bit of everything, from Folk, soft rock, 80s New Wave, classic rock, alternative, country, bluegrass, Celtic, you name it!

Of course, no matter what I get my hands on I tend to put my own spin on it, which is usually more Celtic/folk. Hey, I used to play in a Scottish/Irish folk band so that must be the influence.

[Scootch]

Folk/Country

Townes/Guy/Woody/BOB