Your acoustic repertoire

[NytestrykerZ]

Alright, I found my old list. It made me realize I really need to get back into solo acoustic stuff. Some are no doubt rustier than others.

Under The Lighthouse (Big Wreck) Capo 3rd Gm
Lost Together (Blue Rodeo) Standard G
Oceans (The Tea Party) Capo 1st A#m
With Or Without You (U2) Standard Am
Mr. Brightside (Killers) Standard Am
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) Stan/Open D C/D
Wagon Wheel (Bob Dylan) Standard G
You Or Somebody Like You (Gordie Sampson) Capo 1st Cm
Somebody Like You (Keith Urban) Standard C#m
You’ll Think Of Me (Keith Urban) Capo 2nd F#m
Stupid Boy (Keith Urban) Capo 1st D Cm
Making Memories Of Us (Keith Urban) Standard E
The Messenger (The Tea Party) Capo 2nd /Open D D
I Love You (Jeff Martin) Open D D
My Hero (Foo Fighters) Standard
Everlong (Foo Fighters) Drop D D
The Unforgiven III (Metallica) Standard Em
It’s Been A While (Staind) Standard Am
Epiphany (Staind) DADGAD Bm
Umbrella (Rihanna) Standard Am
Warmness On The Soul (Avenged Sevenfold) Standard Em
Innocent (Fuel) Standard Em
I Should Have Told You (Fuel) Standard Em
Hemorrhage (Fuel) Standard Bm
Falls On Me (Fuel) Standard Am
Into The Mystic (Van Morrison) Open D Bm
I’ll Miss You (Cory Tetford) Standard Am
Bad Day (Fuel) Standard ?
Torn (Creed) Drop D Dm
With Arms Wide Open (Creed) Standard Am
Hurt (NIN) Standard Am
The Freshman (The Verve Pipe) Capo 2nd E
Don’t Call Me Baby (Kreesha Turner) Open D Capo 1st D#
Broken (Scott Stapp) Standard ?
Surround Me (Scott Stapp) Standard C#m
Broken (The Armada) Capo 4th Ebm
A Line In The Sand (The Armada) Standard G
Slow Dancing In A Burning Room (John Mayer) Standard C#m
Man On The Side (John Mayer) Standard E
Make Believe (Thornley) Capo 3rd ?
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Bros) Standard G
‘Til Summer Comes Around (Keith Urban) Standard Am
All I Want (Staind) Capo 2nd G#m
Cocaine Cowgirl (Matt Mays) Standard Em
The Truth (David Cook) Standard G
Genuine (Paul Lamb) Capo 2nd C#m
I Know It’s Over (The Smiths) Standard Am
Falling Slowly (Glen Hansard/Marketa Irglova) Standard Am
Strange Days (Matt Good) Standard Am
Come Back to Me (David Cook) Standard Em
Eternal Life (Jeff Buckley) Standard Am
Use Somebody (Kings Of Leon) Standard Am
Back To You (Brian Adams) Standard A/F#m
Poker Face (Lady GaGa) Standard Em
Glycerine (Bush) Standard Dm
Machinehead (Bush) Standard C#m
Wires Across The Sky (Something To Burn) Capo 4th G#m
White Flag (The Mayfield Four) Open D D
Ladylike (Big Wreck) Open D D
Die Like This (Fuel) Standard Am
Soulbreaking (The Tea Party) Standard Am
Kite (U2) Standard Bm
In These Arms (Swell Season) Capo 2nd F#m
Red Chord (The Frames) Capo 3rd Cm
Last Goodbye (Jeff Buckley)/All I Want Is You (U2) Capo 2nd Bm
The Travelling Kind (The Trews) Capo 3rd Cm
Say It To Me Now (The Frames) Open D Bm
Sing Your Heart Out (The Trews) Open D/3rd G
Feeling The Pull (Swell Season) Standard Am
The Unforgiven II (Metallica) Standard Am
Dust Down A Country Road (John Hiatt) Capo 4
Meet Virginia (Train) Standard Em
All Fall Down (Thornley) Standard Em
Hot N` Cold (Katy Perry) [Break in ‘Rise’] Standard C#m
Everytime (Britney Spears) [Break in ‘Rise’] Standard C#m
Live (Crush) Standard A
Angel At My Table (The Frames) Standard Am
I Shall Be Released (The Band) Standard A
Snuff (Slipknot) Capo 2 F#m
Wonderful Life (Alter Bridge) Open F F
Hesitate (Stone Sour) Capo 1 Gm
Soulshine (Allman Bros/Gov‘t Mule) Standard/Capo 2 Gm
California Dreamin’ (JMT) Standard C#m
Hope & Ruin (The Trews) Capo 4th A#m
All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan) Standard Am
No Alibis (Eric Clapton) Standard A
Old Love (Eric Clapton) Standard Am
Bell Bottom Blues (D&tD) Standard Am
Bad Things (Jace Everett) Standard Em
The Weary Kind (Jeff Bridges) Standard D
The Cave (Mumford & Sons) Open D/Capo 3 F
Little Lion Man (Mumford & Sons) Capo 5 Dm
Sigh No More (Mumford & Sons) Standard C
Fragile Bird (Dallas Green) Capo 5
He Doesn’t Know Why (Fleet Foxes) Capo 1 C#
Beautifully Broken (Gov’t Mule) Standard Am
Below My Feet (Mumford & Sons) Capo 4
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) Standard Am
It Makes No Difference (The Band) Standard A
The Weight (The Band) Standard G/A
High Hope (Glen Hansard) Standard C
Sleeping Sickness (Dallas Green) Standard Em

[Rosenblaetter]

Playing 'Ladylike' and 'All Fall Down' must be hell of a fun!

[Macca]

zomg nyte upload a vid of yourself doing "He Doesn't Know Why" and I'll love you forever

[TenaciousBe]

So I had a thought the other day. One of my favorite songs back in my high school days was Jewel's "You Were Meant For Me." Fun song, plays great on an acoustic (especially if you can get the finger picking down - I'm just learning it by strumming chords in the rhythm of the original picking). But I'm wondering how that would come across in a live setting? Would it be weird for a dude to sing that song? Or would people take it as a joke or anything?

[One Drew Remains]

I'm still learning to play but here are the first few I'm attempting...


Staind - Reply
Hal Ketchum - Small Town Saturday Night
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel


I'd like to get good enough to play Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. But between two kids and a full time job I'm taking it one step at a time.

[mitch103]

some of these songs have caused panty-droppage in the past:

red jumpsuit - guardian angel
saving abel - addicted
three days grace - wake up, never too late
daughtry - home, over you
hinder - lips of an angel, better than me
seether - broken
skillet - yours to hold
12 stones - lie to me
linkin park - the little things give you away

[NytestrykerZ]

Playing 'Ladylike' and 'All Fall Down' must be hell of a fun!

I'll admit that the picking in the verses of 'All Fall Down' is a bitch to play while singing. I've got a bit of a different arrangement on 'Ladylike' too where I use an Open D with a slide that's a blast to play. I'll have to practice those up and bring em back.

zomg nyte upload a vid of yourself doing "He Doesn't Know Why" and I'll love you forever

Hahha, I had a pretty decent arrangement for that one, too. If I had a better webcam I'd pull it off. Maybe I'll play with a recording program or something and work up a take of it.

[QwikSand]

I'm still learning to play but here are the first few I'm attempting...


Staind - Reply
Hal Ketchum - Small Town Saturday Night
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel


I'd like to get good enough to play Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. But between two kids and a full time job I'm taking it one step at a time.

If you're just staring out I would recommend Everything Changes by Staind. Super easy to play, nice sounding chords and for me always gets a good response.

[NytestrykerZ]

^ Great song. I always enjoyed playing lead in that when my buddy and I used to play it.

[QwikSand]

It's the first song I ever played live at my first show so it's always going to have a kinda special place in the set. It's simple but has a cool vibe to it.

[TenaciousBe]

Found my capo, so I've been playing around with a couple new ones. Mad World, the Gary Jules cover of the Tears For Fears song (though, energy-wise, I'm somewhere in the middle between the two versions). And Free Fallin, which is fun and super easy but does feel like it's missing something not having the full band behind it.

[BennyWhatever]

Into The Mystic (Van Morrison) Open D Bm

<3 this song. I'm so rusty I don't think I can play any of my old songs all the way through anymore, but I definitely remember this one.

[Jim]

AB
- Watch Over You
- Wonderful Life
- Brand New Start

Shinedown
- 45.
- Amaryllis
- Burning Bright

Black Stone Cherry
- Stay

3 Doors Down
- Be Like That

[BennyWhatever]

Jim - How is Amaryllis? It's my favorite song on the new album, and it sounds like it's pretty fun to play.

[TenaciousBe]

3 Doors Down
- Be Like That

Side note - when that song was first released, I had a friend who was legit convinced he was singing "fuck me like that" and was flabbergasted that it was on the radio.

[Andy92]

Jim - How is Amaryllis? It's my favorite song on the new album, and it sounds like it's pretty fun to play.

Is it played on a 12 string on the album? I'm not completely sure, but the tone sounds kind of thick to me.

[zazthespaz]

Jim - How is Amaryllis? It's my favorite song on the new album, and it sounds like it's pretty fun to play.

Is it played on a 12 string on the album? I'm not completely sure, but the tone sounds kind of thick to me.

why didn't i try that when i played it?!
it is a fun song to play, hard to sing though, i might've been sort of screaming when i was doing it...

[NytestrykerZ]

Into The Mystic (Van Morrison) Open D Bm

<3 this song. I'm so rusty I don't think I can play any of my old songs all the way through anymore, but I definitely remember this one.

Hahaha, just noticed that. Yeah, I started the list in 2008 for open mics and have just been adding songs since I've learned them.. which is why you see a lot more folky/bluesy stuff towards the end. Alphabetizing would totally tidy things up a bit, hah.

[Jaded Rescue]

If You Only Knew by Shinedown is a lot of fun to play if you're nice and warmed up vocally.

[QwikSand]

Yeah definitely, that's one of my openers. Any Shinedown song is fun to do.