Musicians... Any songs you're trying to learn right now???

Any good songs you're working on right now?

Post a link to it, if you can. Tell us which instrument you play, how long you've been playing it, and how and why you think learning this song will improve your skills.

Since I started the thread, I think it'd only be fair for me to follow my own directions!

I've been playing the guitar for about 5 years, now. I'm currently making some modifications to my Jackson RR3 (new pickups [EMG '81 Bridge, '85 Neck], upgrading the tremolo system to a Floyd Rose and adjusting the action), so I've been using my friend's old Jackson entry-level King V. It's definitely not as good as my RR3, but it's something, and it's been making me concentrate a lot harder on my accuracy and it's been giving my fingers a better workout due to the lower quality neck. So, I should be playing my RR3 even better once it's finished.

I'm currently working on "Welcome Home" by King Diamond. I've really been getting into King Diamond over the past few months. He's an excellent composer, and has always had accomplished musicians behind him - including his right hand man, lead guitarist Andy LaRocque, once of the most accomplished guitarists in the entire heavy metal genre. He's also one of the best storytellers I've heard in a while!

What I'm hoping to get out of learning this song is improved chops, a better grasp on key, tempo and time signature changes, due to the plethora of them used in this song. I've also been focusing a bit more on baroque-influenced lead playing, and breaking out of the blues and pentatonic scales.



Song: Welcome Home
Artist: King Diamond
Album: "Them" (1988)

Line-up
Vocals: King Diamond
Lead Guitar: Andy LaRocque
Lead Guitar: Pete Blakk
Bass: Hal Patino
Drums: Mikkey Dee

Guitar Leads

Pete Blakk: 1:22-1:48
Andy LaRocque: 3:01-3:39

Warning: Extreme male falsettos - prepare yourself.

Roadrunner Records apparently doesn't like embedding, so here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJH0eBtnbcs&feature=fvw

Fullscreen's the way to go!

I am writing music right now. I am done learning for now but I learned this a while ago on piano


And this on guitar

I've been playing a lot of easy Indie and Blues stuff on my electric guitar, which i recently started learning after some minimal beginner lessons on an acoustic guitar. House of the Rising Sun is my favourite one to play.

I play bass, I'm not learning songs at the moment -I'm making stuff of my own- but the first song i learned was Orion by Metallica.

I've had a bit of a lapse, but I was figuring out "Little Wing" by Jimi the other day, I may get back on that.

Black Magic by Slayer, on zee guitar.



IN' SSSLAAAYYYYEEEERRRRRR!

I can't be bothered to learn the exact notes for songs these days.

If I like a song I usually look up the chords and play by ear, approximately. Plus most of the ones I look up aren't originally arranged for classical guitar, so need to be reworked a little anyway.