FUTURE SONGS FOR THE SONGBOOK!!!!

Band	Title :	Rating :	Type :
Cardigans	Lovefool (ver 3)	*[5]	chords	x
Coolio	Gangsters Paradise	*[3]	chords	x
Country Joe And The Fish	Fixin To Die Rag	*[2]	chords	x
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Down On The Corner	*[23]	chords	x
	Proud Mary	*[10]	chords	x
Cutting Crew	I Just Died In Your Arms	*[6]	chords	x
Cyndi Lauper	Time After Time (ver 2)	*[8]	chords	x
Def Leppard	Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad	*[3]	chords	x
Don Mclean	American Pie (ver 2)	*[309]	chords	x
Doors	Love Me Two Times	*[12]	chords	x
Duncan Sheik	Barely Breathing Acoustic	*[27]	chords	x
Eagles	Tequila Sunrise (ver 2)	*[25]	chords	x
Edwin Mccain	Ill Be (ver 7)	*[7]	chords	x
Elvis Presley	Cant Help Falling In Love With You (ver 3)	*[60]	chords	x
Enrique Iglesias	Hero	*[39]	chords	x
Everclear	Santa Monica	*[5]	chords	x
Fleetwood Mac	Dreams	*[6]	chords	x
Foreigner	Cold As Ice		chords	x
	I Want Know What Love Is	*[2]	chords	x
	Juke Box Hero	*[20]	tab	x
Frank Sinatra	Love And Marriage (ver 2)	*[1]	chords	x
Fuel	Shimmer (ver 3)	*[17]	chords	x
Garth Brooks	Friends In Low Places	*[13]	chords	x
Gary Jules	Mad World (ver 2)	*[146]	chords	x
George Jones	Whos Gonna Fill Their Shoes		chords	x
George Strait	All My Exs Live In Texas (ver 2)	*[3]	chords	x
Grand Funk Railroad	Locomotive	*[1]	chords	x
	Some Kind Of Wonderful	*[3]	chords	x
Green Day	21 Guns Acoustic (ver 2)	*[11]	chords	x
	When I Come Around Acoustic	*[30]	chords	x
Haddaway	What Is Love	*[1]	chords	x
Hall And Oates	Sarah Smile (ver 3)	*[1]	chords	x
Harry Chapin	Cats In The Cradle (ver 3)	*[4]	chords	x
James Blunt	Youre Beautiful	*[470]	chords	x
James Taylor	Youve Got A Friend	*[23]	chords	x
Jet	Look What Youve Done	*[44]	chords	x
John Cougar Mellencamp	Jack And Diane	*[22]	chords	x
John Lennon	Imagine	*[50]	chords	x
	Stand By Me (ver 2)	*[15]	chords	x
John Mayer	Say (ver 2)	*[31]	chords	x
Johnny Cash	Folsom Prison Blues (ver 6)	*[20]	chords	x
	Hurt	*[36]	chords	x
Johnny Nash	I Can See Clearly Now	*[13]	chords	x
Journey	Dont Stop Believing (ver 2)	*[106]	chords	x
K-ci And Jojo	All My Life	*[17]	chords	x
Kansas	Carry On My Wayward Son (ver 2)	*[9]	chords	x
Kinks	Lola	*[25]	chords	x
Kiss	Beth	*[28]	chords	x
Lady Antebellum	Need You Now	*[58]	chords	x
Led Zeppelin	All My Love	*[28]	chords	x
	Communication Breakdown	*[7]	chords	x
	Dyer Maker	*[11]	chords	x
	Stairway To Heaven (ver 2)	*[52]	chords	x
Lenny Kravitz	Again	*[11]	chords	x
	Baptized	*[4]	chords	x
	Cant Get You Off My Mind (ver 2)	*[5]	chords	x
	Dig In	*[3]	chords	x
	Fly Away Acoustic (ver 3)	*[6]	chords	x
	Stillness Of Heart	*[3]	chords	x
Leona Lewis	Bleeding Love	*[37]	chords	x
Lifehouse	Hanging By A Moment (ver 4)	*[32]	chords	x
	You And Me (ver 2)	*[107]	chords	x
Live	I Alone	*[21]	chords	x
Louis Armstrong	What A Wonderful World	*[24]	chords	x
Lynyrd Skynyrd	Gimme Three Steps	*[7]	chords	x
	Sweet Home Alabama	*[42]	chords	x
Madonna	Material Girl	*[3]	chords	x
Mariah Carey	Always Be My Baby (ver 2)	*[7]	chords	x
Maroon 5	This Love (ver 6)	*[17]	chords	x
Marty Robbins	El Paso	*[8]	tab	x
Marvin Gaye	Aint No Mountain High Enough (ver 2)	*[4]	chords	x
Matchbox Twenty	Unwell (ver 6)	*[31]	chords	x
Metallica	Escape		chords	x
	Fade To Black	*[15]	chords	x
	Mama Said Acoustic	*[33]	chords	x
	Nothing Else Matters (ver 4)	*[21]	chords	x
Michael Jackson	Ben (ver 2)	*[3]	chords	x
Misc Cartoons	Aladdin - A Whole New World	*[20]	chords	x
	Ducktales Theme	*[3]	chords	x
Misc Soundtrack	August Rush - Elgarsomething Inside	*[2]	chords	x
Misc Television	Discovery Channel - Boom De Ya Da	*[3]	chords	x
	Full House Theme	*[1]	chords	x
	Kermit The Frog - The Rainbow Connection	*[4]	chords	x
Misc Traditional	Greensleeves	*[7]	chords	x
	Happy Birthday	*[21]	chords	x
Mr Mister	Broken Wings	*[2]	chords	x
Naked Eyes	Always Something There To Remind Me	*[2]	chords	x
Neil Young	Keep On Rockin In The Free World	*[27]	chords	x
	Old Man	*[37]	chords	x
New Order	Blue Monday	*[4]	chords	x
Onerepublic	Apologize	*[117]	chords	x
Otis Redding	Dock Of The Bay (ver 2)	*[16]	chords	x
Our Lady Peace	Somewhere Out There	*[31]	chords	x
Ozzy Osbourne	Back On Earth		chords	x
Peter Frampton	Baby I Love Your Way	*[30]	chords	x
Pixies	Where Is My Mind	*[20]	chords	x
Prince	Purple Rain Acoustic	*[12]	chords	x
Queen	Fat Bottomed Girls	*[20]	chords	x
	Killer Queen	*[18]	chords	x
	Radio Gaga	*[1]	chords	x
Queen	Youre My Best Friend (ver 2)	*[4]	chords	x
Raffi	Banana Phone	*[6]	chords	x
	Wheels On The Bus	*[2]	chords	x
Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated	*[7]	chords	x
Randy Newman	Youve Got A Friend In Me	*[20]	chords	x
Red Hot Chili Peppers	By The Way	*[31]	chords	x
	Californication	*[82]	chords	x
Rem	Everybody Hurts	*[56]	chords	x
Rent	Seasons Of Love	*[4]	chords	x
Righteous Brothers	Unchained Melody	*[30]	chords	x
	Youve Lost That Loving Feeling	*[4]	chords	x
Rise Against	Swing Life Away (ver 4)	*[164]	chords	x
Sara Bareilles	Love Song (ver 4)	*[34]	chords	x
Scorpions	Dust In The Wind (ver 2)	*[15]	chords	x
Searchers	Love Potion No 9	*[4]	chords	x
Smashing Pumpkins	1979 (ver 3)	*[21]	chords	x
Spin Doctors	Two Princes	*[19]	chords	x
Starland Vocal Band	Afternoon Delight (ver 2)	*[15]	chords	x
Steam	Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye	*[2]	chords	x
Steve Miller Band	Fly Like An Eagle	*[3]	chords	x
Steve Miller Band	Rockin Me	*[26]	tab	x
	The Joker	*[11]	chords	x
Steve Winwood	Valeria	*[3]	chords	x
Stevie Wonder	Superstition	*[6]	chords	x
Styx	Best Of Times (ver 2)	*[2]	chords	x
	Come Sail Away (ver 3)	*[9]	chords	x
Sugarland	Stay	*[30]	chords	x
Talking Heads	Once In A Lifetime	*[4]	chords	x
Temptations	Build Me Up Buttercup	*[12]	chords	x
	My Girl	*[14]	chords	x
The Allman Brothers Band	Melissa	*[24]	chords	x
Three Dog Night	Joy To The World (ver 2)	*[8]	chords	x
Tom Jones	Its Not Unusual (ver 2)	*[2]	chords	x
Tom Petty	Ill Feel A Whole Lot Better	*[1]	chords	x
	The Apartment Song	*[4]	chords	x
	Wildflowers (ver 2)	*[13]	chords	x
Tracy Chapman	Give Me One Reason	*[5]	chords	x
Twitty Conway	Hello Darlin	*[2]	chords	x
U2	Beautiful Day	*[55]	chords	x
	I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For (ver 3)	*[8]	chords	x
U2	Mysterious Ways	*[6]	chords	x
	Pride In The Name Of Love (ver 3)	*[8]	chords	x
Van Halen	And The Cradle Will Rock	*[1]	chords	x
	Dance The Night Away		chords	x
Van Morrison	Brown Eyed Girl (ver 2)	*[34]	chords	x
Violent Femmes	Blister In The Sun (ver 5)	*[17]	tab	x
Wallflowers	One Headlight	*[21]	chords	x
Whitney Houston	I Will Always Love You (ver 3)	*[2]	chords	x
Zac Brown Band	Chicken Fried (ver 6)	*[9]	chords	x
Zz Top	Rough Boy	*[2]	chords	x

THERE ARE ABOUT 250 COVER SONGS ABOVE. SOME ARE WELL KNOWN like The Violent Femmes' - "Blister in the Sun" - AND OTHERS LIKE Country Joe and the Fish's "Fixin' to Die Rag" ARE SLIGHTLY  UNDISCOVERED BY LISTENERS BORN WITHIN THE PAST 20 YEARS. BUT THAT'S OKAY; THAT'S WHY THIS LIST IS HERE. MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN REQUESTING SOME OF THESE SO HERE THEY ARE, AND THEN SOME EXTRA. ENJOY!

Wanna Learn How to Play "Need You Now" by Lady A? READ ON.

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OKay, First of all. There's your cheat sheet down below if you don't wanna stop and start their CD 20,000 times in each minute. Thank God we don't have to do that with cassette tapes anymore. Well, unless you're Mr. T's cousin or something.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/l/lady_antebellum/need_you_now_crd.htm

Anyway, bad 80s joke. MOVING ON!

heheh.

So this song shifts back and forth from "F (major)" to "Am (minor)" but it's a little different than other hit songs or smash singles in that - it doesn't have 4 chords for the VERSE of the song. It's simply relying on all the other lead guitar and maybe a Rhodes piano lightly following along with the chord structure.

So play the INTRO with all the filler music along with the CD to get the starting point down solid. Usually, what I do with a cover song when I'm working it out for the first time is:

1) Get used to "the way the chords feel" as they change on the tips of my fingers.
2) You're trying to develop a) muscle memory & b) "sight/eyes" on the left hand.
3) I only STRUM each chord once...
4) Divide your concentration 80% on your left hand 20% for your right hand. Rhythm is secondary to being ON BEAT.
5) On the other 3 beats in a 4/4 time signature - i sing the lyrics real SLOW...
6) Next I process half or all of the next line's LYRICS...
7) Once I get familiar with the VERSES - I practice the 4th verse line and then 1st CHORUS line.
8) After that, I'll "PALM MUTE" the verses and develop a nice, FULL strumming pattern. This ACCENTS and SEPARATES your  structure of the cover.
9) Remember to KEEP YOUR TONE and vocal style.
10) Right hand rhythm DETERMINES your GENRE. (more blogging on this later!)


11) FINALLY, use tricks like STACCATO to beef up your full renditon!  

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