What're some of the songs you are focusing on learning most right now?

[stevo58]

Hoagy Carmichael - Memphis in June

[joeappel]

Originally Posted by il Pirati

If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell - pretty difficult fingerstyle arrangement, for me at least. Although I notice he doesn't play all the bits when he performs live.

If I Could Only Fly by Blaze Foley - uses an irregular Travis "pattern" that's taking some work.

Still working thorough a couple Fingerstyle Blues books I picked up at Xmas, which is giving me plenty to work on.

Two great songs! I'm going to put them on the list.

Right now I'm working on John Prine's In Spite of Ourselves and Doug Sahm's Give Back the Key to My Heart ala Uncle Tupelo. I can sing the second one but the first one is going to take a lot more practice to sing while I'm playing.

Oh, also Steve Earle's Someday

[Degenerates]

I'm learning (and teaching) alot of Electric Light Orchestra songs at the moment. I have a learner who loves this sort of stuff and we are going back through the archives learning to play the songs. Jeff Lynne is a fantastic songwriter and the chord progressions he comes up with are amazing. I'm really enjoying playing these on my recently acquired D28!

[reeve21]

I'm working on Across the Universe fingerstyle from a Hal Leonard book of Beatles tunes. And Springsteen's Youngstown in drop D, thanks to AGF member Mike Kelly who does video lessons for Guitars for Vets.

[Kyle215]

Taking Bryan Sutton’s advice and learning as many fiddle tunes as I can…

[tkersey]

A flat picked version of Deep River Blues and Life by the Drop as performed by SRV.

[Andromeda]

All these songs by Chris de Burgh. Can you tell I'm a new and big fan of his?

Live Life, Live Well
When I Think of You
Missing You
So Beautiful
The Lady In Red
Say Goodbye To It All
Rose of England
Waiting for a Hurricane
Love of the Heart Divine
Borderline
The Girl With April in Her Eyes
Keeper of the Keys
Go Where Your Heart Believes
My Heart's Surrender
A Spaceman Came Travelling
Hold On (I'm On My Way)
In a Country Churchyard (Let Your Love Shine On)
Don't Pay the Ferryman
High on Emotion
Sailing Away
Leather On My Shoes
The Words I Love You
Where Peaceful Waters Flow
Around And Around
Big City Sundays
There Goes My Heart Again
When The Dream Is Over
Carry Me (Like A Fire In Your Heart)
Watching The World
People of the World
Riding On A Rainbow
Everywhere I Go
Lonely Sky

[gfspencer]

Dougie Maclean - Caledonia

[Horsehockey]

Hello in There" by John Prine
"Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" by John Prine

Fine choices. 67 years old just starting out. I live over in Vermont would happy to invite you over sometime if you come up this way. My young instructor and I are just starting out with Sam stone tomorrow morning. I can’t even play a tune yet. I’m a lefty and fingerpicking.

[kludge]

This week’s project is Eleven Small Roaches, by Michael Hedges (it’s easy Hedges, sort of). Getting my hands to stretch for the tremolo chords has been a challenge! At some point, I realized I had all three of my regular-rotation six strings tuned CGDGBD…

[AndrewG]

'Genesis' from Jorma Kaukonen's 'Quah' record. Lovely tune I only discovered via a movie (The Shape of Water), where a snippet was played in the background of one scene.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVlllUuQWew

[Black-n-Nan]

Fragile by Sting

[JonWer]

Classical Gas by Mason Williams. I am a beginner and this has been on my bucket list for some time.

[birkenweg42]

I’m currently relearning a few Celtic pieces that I haven’t played in ages. Duck Baker’s arrangement of Pretty Girl milking a Cow and El McMeen’s Inisheer Air. After that I have a couple of fingerstyle pieces by Masaaki Kishibe that I like to add to my repertoire.

[birkenweg42]

Originally Posted by AndrewG

'Genesis' from Jorma Kaukonen's 'Quah' record. Lovely tune I only discovered via a movie (The Shape of Water), where a snippet was played in the background of one scene.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVlllUuQWew

This really is a beautiful tune. Fun to play and I love the lyrics.