What songs are you working on?

[Johnny M]

There was a thread like this going 'round about a year ago, and I thought I'd start a new one to see what you are all working on these days.

Me, I just finished memorizing "The Water is Wide" and have OCMS's "Wagon Wheel" under my fingers (I learned it because my 5 year old son loves the song and doesn't care if I can't sing to save his life).

I just started Tony McManus' version of "Shalom Aleichem".  It's a very beautiful piece that sounds a lot easier than it actually is.  This should keep me busy for a while.

Looking forward to hearing what you are working on.

Regards
John

[jcbuggs]

Well it may sound early, but given my slow learning pace, I am beginning to work on a couple of fingerstyle Christmas songs. That way I will have them down pat by the holidays. I am resurrecting a Chet Atkins version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, which is a bit of a challenge for me. I tried it out a couple of years ago but never quite mastered it to my satisfaction. That's why I'm giving it plenty of time this year. I am also learning a simple but pretty version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

Wish I had more time to learn new stuff. It goes pretty slow for me, but is fun noetheless.

Cheers,

Joe

[jeremy3220]

I'm actually not working on any songs right now! I've been hitting the ear training hard. Well, I was trying to come up with my own arrangement of 'Handsome Molly' but that may have to wait till I develop more flatpicking skills.

[Caleb]

I've been working on O'Carolan tunes for the mandolin mostly with some Renaissance music thrown in from time to time.

[bhika]

I've just starting working on the Beaumont Rag, which is a little advanced for me, but I am bouncing back and forth between that and a couple of songs off of Dave Van Ronk's instructional DVD. Green, Green Rocky Road and Kanas City Blues. They are both fairly straight forward to play but I'm also trying to sing them as well, which throws me all off.

Also on my list are a few MJH tunes
Candy Man
Cocaine Blues
Spike Driver Blues
Pallet on the Floor
PayDay

[jimmy buffett]

Stephen Stills' "4 + 20". 

Now why did it take so long?  I have always regarded this as a favourite acoustic piece.

jimmy

[pigtown]

The Mary Ellen Carter - Stan Rogers

Northbound 35 - Jeffrey Foucault, Richard Shindell

[jandrew]

My most recent tunes, the first three I have down pretty well, the last two
still need some work to try to make them my own:

  -Jealous of the Moon (NickelCreek)
  -Sheebeg agus Sheemore (a simple fingerstyle version of this O'Carolan tune)
  -Mad World (Tears for Fears; recently repopularized by Gary Jules)
  -Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Greenday)
  -Sympathy (Goo Goo Dolls)

cheers,
andrew

[Caleb]

  -Sheebeg agus Sheemore (a simple fingerstyle version of this O'Carolan tune)
 

Do you happen to have Butch Baldassari and John Mock's "Songs of O'Carolan"?  It's got a great version of this song on it.   Highly recommend that CD.

[jandrew]

Do you happen to have Butch Baldassari and John Mock's "Songs of O'Carolan"?  It's got a great version of this song on it.   Highly recommend that CD.

I don't have that CD, but thanks for the recommendation -- I'm just doing a variation of the version in Ken
Perlman's "Fingerpicking Fiddle Tunes" (which I just rediscovered in a box in my basement).

[Jeff]

Well, per my post a couple of posts below, i'm not working on anything until my finger heals.  Probably another week.  But before my run in with the chef's knife, I was working on:

Ry Cooder's version of Great Dream from Heaven in dropped D
Al Petteway's Sligo Creek in DADGAD (learning it from an instructional DVD)
John Martyn's May You Never in dropped D

Jeff

[saffron_boots]

Petite Etude by Rik Emmett/Triumph is the only "new" thing I'm working on because I've been playing the classical guitar almost exclusively.

[jimmyp]

Due to my classical kick, I'm working on" Ipanema" and "Asturias". With the band, we're working on 2 Corine Bailey Rae songs, "I'd Like to", and "Till it Happens to you", John Mayer,"Waiting on the World to Change", Boz Skaggs "Lowdown", and Johnny guitar Watson, "Ain't that a -CENSORED-". Diversity is cool. Asturias is way difficult, check out Ana Vidovic's version  on the Tube. JP

[tbman]

Over at the APM forum a bunch of us did our versions of Shenandoah - here's mine:

http://boomp3.com/m/b0257c7fc4b1

And I just finished this  song  composed by me the other day:

"The One"
http://www.fingerstyle-guitar.com/barry_iozia/audio.php

Other than those two I have the "Pete Huttlinger Collection" which has a bunch of great songs in it and I started messing around with some Andy McKee and Don Ross stuff.

[GA-ME]

"Me, I just finished memorizing "The Water is Wide" and have OCMS's "Wagon Wheel" under my fingers....." John I also love that tune my friend and I did a version of that together a couple of weeks ago. She is a pretty good fiddler. Here is the link


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDaNZ1oe7dk

[Captain_Morgan]

Antoine Dufour's "Development", "Spiritual Groove"
Andy Mckee "Rylyyn"
Anything i can from Shane & Shane
A few Christmas tunes

-Drew

Larrivee l-03 SP

[flaggerphil]

"Hotel California".

[Johnny M]

On the 6 string, still working on Tony McManus' version of "Shalom Aleichem".  I pretty much have it memorized and now working on the more detailed aspects of the song. Very beautiful piece.

On the 12 string that I keep in DADGAD, I have Al Petteway's "Sligo Creek" under my fingers and am working on Robin Bullock's version of "Lost Hollow Lament"  Not too difficult but it sounds nice and is fun to play.

Keep playing and let us know what you're working on!!!

John

[Chacho]

I'm always working on original songs, but right now I'm working on perfecting the Jeff Buckley arrangement of "Hallelujah;" it's just such a beautiful song.

[Caleb]

Right now I'm working on Carolan's Concerto on mandolin. 

Haven't been playing much guitar.