What songs are you working on right now?
 

What songs (or technique) are you working on right now?

I’m working on Randall Collins by Norman Blake (the YouTube version where he capos on the third fret) and finishing up arranging Brilliancy for the guitar (the Sam Bush song), that’s a good exercise.

Norman Blake is deceptively difficult, all the little nuances; his picking sounds so good and like it should be easy as pie, it just flows.

I just finished a cover of one of Remy Le Fer's tunes (its in Show and Tell).

I'm revisiting a few Celtic arrangements and looking for new ones.

I’m just working on Old Man. Even this is difficult for me but,hey, as long as i’m spending time on the guitar it’s all good.

I suppose it's deceptively difficult in the sense that he makes it seem so easy, but nothing about his playing on that version seems easy to me.

I've watched it dozens of times... and was literally lying in bed just last night musing that: a) it's a flatpicking tour de force in which the musicality really sets him head and shoulders above the other members of the flatpicking pantheon (others might best him in speed and technique, but the musicality and lyricism in his playing here is brilliant), and b) though i'll never come anywhere near it, that's what I should aim for in my playing, rather than faster single note runs.

Good luck!

P.S. The reason I was thinking about it is that i had looked at some of my old threads trying to find something, and I re-read a couple of threads I posted about it a decade or so ago... wow, that makes me feel old: https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=201247
https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=204607

Trying to clean up JT's Mexico and a nice fingerstyle version of Pachelbel's Canon.

Oh... and the thing I'm mostly working on at the minute is Jerusalem Ridge. I have a bear of a time playing it cleanly with any consistency.

I'm working on some N.Y. myself, After the Goldrush.

I am making yet another attempt of getting the hang of using a flatpick to do some hybrid/chicken picking so I have been working on something fairly easy - the Stones "Factory Girl."

James Taylor - You Can Close Your Eyes

I just started working on "Song For a Rainy Morning" by Tommy Emmanuel. Seems fairly straightforward for a TE instrumental, but I just started on it today.

Reynardine - Bert Jansch

a real challenge, for me

Been working on
10cc's I'm Not In Love
Boz Skaggs Harbor Lights
I like figuring out how to make piano songs work with solo performance.
Also
Alice Cooper's Only Women Bleed

A few songs by Chris de Burgh

Sailing Away
Say Goodbye To It All
Love of the Heart Divine
Big City Sunday’s

Three songs by Albert Hammond

It Never Rains In Southern California
I’m A Train
Down By The River

Squares Suspended and Woven World (Andrew York), Cavatina, Take Five (Douglas Niedt arrangement), Un Dia de Noviembre (Leo Brouwer). Squares Suspended is essentially done, just need to polish. Woven World is tough to memorize for me. The others are in varying stages of memorized and forgotten.

Since I rejoined the electric field, my first new song effort is a rendition of "Jessica."