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Question for you "Freebird" players
I have been revisiting some tunes that I learned years ago...
When you play Freebird on an acoustic guitar- Do you include versions of any of the solo's? The opening piano(?) solo converted to guitar? (I found several lessons on this on youtube) The opening slide solo? Or part or all of the long solo? Thanks! |
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We had Freebird listed as costing $1000 to play it listed on a sign above our tip jar when I played in an acoustic duo one time. No one yelled it out at us.
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We took the time to learn it last year as we were playing our 40th high school reunion bonfire and I just KNEW someone was going to yell it out. They did. But we are just a single acoustic guitar (me) and vocals (her) and I don't have the skills to pull off the solo which would require a looper. But for a bonfire we did it justice. The hardest part is just ending it because it ramps up at the end and so without that 12 minute dueling solo it's just not the same. I like the idea of the $1,000 sign over the tip jar.
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This solo acoustic guitar version didn't attempt the solo, but maybe it was the vampire sneaking in that interrupted that?
I was a big Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan and remember watching it and getting a pleasant shock of recognition when I realized what song the uptight, book-loving, tweedy British character was playing/singing.
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This lesson adds the piano(?) solo in nicely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQu_2qySU1I&t=101s |
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One of the strangest musical events of my life involved Freebird.
I was asked to play music at a good friend's funeral. I brought my classical guitar and was playing some nice soothing pretty stuff. His widow walked up to me while I was playing and said, "He always loved Freebird. Can you please play that?" How could I say no? SO, on a classical guitar - at a funeral - I played Freebird. The first half of the tune wasn't bad, it actually worked out ok on a classical. But then I got to the rocking G - Bb - C second half. I went for it. Rocking power chords, rock licks and riffs, signature riffs from the solo. She told me afterwards how much she loved me playing that. So did many of the other people at the funeral. And it wasn't a trailer park crowd - pretty much suburbanites. Never thought I'd play that song in that setting, and hope I never do it again! |
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Yes, surely did.
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