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I'm trying to compile a comprehensive list of songs that every jamming or gigging musician should know. Everyone knows that Time, Tone, and Technique (as well as punctuality and a good attitude) are essential requirements for many working musicians; however, one attribute that I think is just as essential is knowing a lot of songs. I figured I would start off with a few examples and then hopefully some helpful goons can make suggestions, which will be added to the OP. Of course, there will be more than 10 songs per genre, but it's a good number to start with. Learning songs also has a few other advantages - if you're learning the songs by ear, then your ear training will vastly improve. It will also help to familiarize you with common chord progressions and structures. Feel free to suggest boring overplayed songs (like The Pina Colada Song!) because unless you do originals all the time, you're probably going to have to play them eventually. If possible, please include the genre and artist - unless it's the kind of song that numerous artists have done, like jazz standards. The genres can also be pretty wide - for example, "rock" can be anything from Bill Haley to AC/DC. Rock 1. Black Magic Woman - Santana 2. Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix 3. Roadhouse Blues - The Doors 4. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 5. Born to be Wild ~ Steppenwolf 6. Just Got Paid ~ ZZ Top 7. Rock and Roll ~ Led Zeppelin 8. 9. 10. Pop 1. Hotel California - The Eagles 2. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond 3. Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers 4. Every Breath You Take - The Police 5. Boys of Summer ~ Don Henley 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Country 1. Crazy - Patsy Cline 2. Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash 3. Hey Good Lookin' - Hank Williams 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Soul/R 'n' B/Funk 1. Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd 2. Stand By Me - Ben E. King 3. Rescue Me - Fontella Bass 4. I Wish - Stevie Wonder 5. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Blues 1. Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf 2. The Thrill Is Gone - B. B. King 3. Born Under A Bad Sign - Albert King 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Jazz 1. Body And Soul 2. On Green Dolphin Street 3. All The Things You Are 4. Round Midnight - Thelonius Monk 5. In The Mood - Glen Miller 6. Blue Bossa 7. The Girl From Ipanema - Antonio Carlos Jobim 8. Autumn Leaves 9. Have You Met Miss Jones 10. Solar 11. Bye Bye Blackbird Seventh Arrow fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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Oct 29, 2014 00:42
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Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
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Oct 30, 2014 01:51
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Good suggestion! There's only a few chords in that one, but it's good to remember where the stops are.
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Oct 30, 2014 02:12
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In the Mood
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Oct 30, 2014 06:27
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Blue Bossa is like, the standard of jazz standards at this point.
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Oct 30, 2014 12:50
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I played Blue Bossa so much in college, it's when I realized you could still hear the melody and chord progression in your head even when people were soloing.
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Oct 30, 2014 13:21
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Girl from Ipanema also fits the bill I think. basically just pick 10 from the real book/fake book.
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Oct 30, 2014 20:25
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For jazz there's also Autumn Leaves HAve You Meet Miss Jones Solar Bye Bye Blackbird Again, all stuff from the real book. For rock I use to be in a cover band that did this version of "Take Me To The River" with a female singer, and then during the solo the bassist would flip into the Talking Heads bassline, and it would morph into that version for the outro. It was pretty slick and definitely got one or two people's attention that were listening.
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Oct 30, 2014 22:59
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This is a really good idea. Here are my recommendations for noise artist to have under their belt before they even think of playing a show! These are pretty much the "freebird" of the noise circuit. Noise 1. Counterpoint- Ryoji Ikeda 2. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Op. 28)- Richard Strauss 3. Minus Zero- Merzbow 4. Amber- 311 5. .^.^%^%^%- [THE USER] 6. Beautiful Day- Doormouse
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Oct 31, 2014 03:52
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Stravinsky posted:This is a really good idea. Thanks! quote:These are pretty much the "freebird" of the noise circuit. 
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Oct 31, 2014 13:31
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Rock:
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Nov 18, 2014 00:01
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On the soul side, "I Will Survive" by Donna Summer seems to come up an awful lot.
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Dec 18, 2014 23:55
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I think it's by Gloria Gaynor, but it is definitely a popular song. I think the chord progression is just cycle of fourths, too.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:57
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Seventh Arrow posted:I think it's by Gloria Gaynor, but it is definitely a popular song. I think the chord progression is just cycle of fourths, too. Oh, yeah. I knew that. 
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Dec 19, 2014 05:38
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