What songs by other people have you been teaching yourself to play lately?

Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone

isnt that also a cover

It is! And the Blondie version is very faithful to the Nerves' original, but I didn't find that out until later on Sunday afternoon.

i love both. i wasnt sure if it was actually a cover or if it was a shared member kind of situation

also my new band discussed covering that last night!!

the shirelles - will you love me tomorrow

^^ we chose this instead

my old band covered hangin' on the telephone (nerves version), we used to have a live recording of it up on our website but that site doesn't exist anymore

Hole - Violet
Hole - Plump

Nirvana - Blew

Suede, 'Heroine' (simple chords, tricky arpeggiation that I keep stumbling over, varied dynamics throughout the song prevent repetition)

Warpaint - Stars
George & Ira Gershwin - Our Love Is Here to Stay
Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Beatles - I Will

John Fahey - Requiem for John Hurt -- not as hard as it sounds once you realize the tuning (CGCDCE) but has some tricky rhythms

Doc Watson - East Tennessee Blues (massively slowed down obv)

Down Through & Evil by Red House Painters

Switched to bass this summer. Been learning a lot of great stuff I've always wanted to play. This morning its Heartbeat by Taana Gardner. Thank you disco poll.

I got Mountain's "Never in My Life" down pretty good on bass or guitar, but I can't get my vocals to sound right. It's just a bit too high for me in standard tuning.

Did a vocal take of Cocteau Twins "BlueBell Knoll" a while back, to see if I was capable of singing that way. One gets thrown by basically having to make silly phonetic sounds instead of sing words, but I think I did ok. Its a real challenge to do all those trills and runs up and down scales tho!

this is basically all i do now that i'm fast enough

i'm on my third playlist. this one is dedicated mainly to Nuggets I/II but it's already getting kinda boring. i played mary j blige's "family affair" the other day and it was super fun.

i can't find the thread for the newest ilx comp but here is a poorly recorded drum part of chocolate watchband's "are you gonna be there (at the love-in)"
if anyone wants to use it, lemme know! i think it has a little bit of moldy midwestern basement charm.
https://soundcloud.com/marshmallowy/are-you-gonna-be-there-at-the

learned "annie" by elastica with a couple other people the other night. really fun to play

I've been teaching myself the main melodic riff to "She Will" by Savages, which is great because it's basically just a minor scale

Been having a hoot playing the theme to x men the animated series lately.

"Under African Skies" by Paul Simon.

Ooo, nice.

think i'll try to learn 'freight train', though i suspect i'll give up in frustration and self-loathing.

This morning, The Who's 'Success Story'.

Lately when I've been really drunk I'll play like a stoner rock version of the Law And Order theme.

my old band covered hangin' on the telephone (nerves version), we used to have a live recording of new songs on our websitebut that site doesn't exist anymore ,the first was an analysis of one of my own songs. I love this kind of thing, but it takes a lot of effort to write and I have no idea if anybody else is interested or understands what I'm going on about, so feedback is welcome.

Admittedly pretty simple but "That's Just the Way It Is" by Dead Moon. Now I just need to figure out the lyrics.
I covered "Off You" by the Breeders when I played last month.

johnny b. goode

Walk Away Renee and Sunrise Sunset as guitar instrumentals; and Sir Duke for solo voice/guitar.

I have been learning to play "don't talk" by the beach boys on the piano lately. Pure bliss. I could play it forever !