favorite guitar piece you wish you could play

[rstaight]

Just one, Malaguena. I love the way Roy Clark played it.

[birkenweg42]

Originally Posted by GBS

Get tabs from John Stropes, Tab Pigs or Mark Hanson (not all have everything, but between the three).
Crow River Waltz is pretty approachable by regular humans.
I'm at the point of doing a hack job on about 2/3rds of the album.

I always thought that I will be able to play through the entire album until arthritis hit me. I am still playing four or five pieces of the album but on six strings only.

[MThomson]

Originally Posted by hifivic

I've been working on Leyanda (Asturias) Albeniz for 40 years. This is the best rendition/performance I've heard or seen. Check out the chord crescendos yet his right hand doesn't really move then realize those powerful whacks are simply the weight of his fingers force striking the strings not the weight of your wrist striking the strings. I usually want to shoot my hand after seeing this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY5y4Rp3tU8

I've had a couple of attempts at Leyenda and always come away feeling somewhat lacking - and then you see this. His technique on both hands is flawless.

[antvas1963]

Bumpin on sunset. Wes Montgomery

[Dr356]

If I could play any of This, like any of Them, my life would be complete

.https://youtu.be/EFDFpS9_ZWY

[Gchord]

SRV - Scuttle Buttin'

[Suilven]

Another shout out for Jerry Reed - thought I'd died and gone to heaven the first time I heard Stump Water, and Struttin' is almost as much fun to (attempt to) play as it is to watch.

Airproofing Two/William Powell by Leo K - I'm sure it's been shared on here before, but this is bordering on the ridiculous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ryt5F0lq5w

I can see how it's done - I'm just pretty confident I'll never be able to do it...

And finally, Duck Baker's arrangement of Maple Leaf Rag - never fails to put a smile on my face, despite it taking me nearly three decades to even come close to being able to play it...

Sorry - that's five. There are a lot

Angus

[KevWind]

Such a musical variety here, very interesting (and in that vein)

I'm in the process of learning "You're Lost little Girl" by the Doors, for a new music video I am doing
So far I have tracked a basic strumming acoustic guitar and piano parts (both not actually on the original, just my personal arrangement )
I have also tracked the lead vocal and original bass run (pretty close), now just need to get the lead guitar part down (both of which are very distinctive and pretty much define the song) I will likely add some backing vocal or double it and will likely eschew the drums and organ parts altogether.....

[spock]

I can play this at about 1/20th of the intended speed, and fear that is going to be about it for me.

[OldLefty]

Tony McManus version of Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. It would take me at least another lifetime....

I still can't figure out how to get images to show up here, but here's a link to a youtube version--

https://youtu.be/uqphR8wgWtY

[b1j]

Originally Posted by GBS

But since Leo came up:

Eggtooth.

He's done many differing versions of it, but this one covered by Andrew Lardner is my dream piece. I don't have enough years left in me to even get close....

I’ll never forget my first Eggtooth. I was about fifteen, and at my older brother’s off-campus party on the beach. Someone put this on and I was transfixed. I asked, who are these guys? (It’s one guy)

[dhalbert]

Arthur McBride, done by Paul Brady

and he does hybrid picking, which I have never attempted in any way

EDIT: found the tab: https://paulbrady.com/arthur-mcbride/

[Mr. Jelly]

OCB #3 by Norman Blake. Wow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejGf1Zlexk