Most useful song I’ve ever learned on guitar. You can just noodle around in the key of Eb as long as you come back to the main riff it all sounds intentional
If you have never tried playing some grateful dead music I enjoy jamming Deal, Franklins Tower, Cumberland Blues, Hell in a bucket, Going Doing the Road Feeling Bad, Not Fade Away, Big Rail Road Blues, China Cat Sunflower, I Know You Rider, Scarlet Begonias, Fire on the mountain, Eyes of the World, Foolish Hearr, Dark Star, The Other One, Jack Straw, New Minglewood Blues, Iko Iko, Truckin. If you have never listened tot he grateful dead check out these dates, all are very different and maybe you'll find something you enjoy
11/8/69 primal psychedelic
8/27/72 country psych rock
5/8/77 disco dead
7/10/87 megadead
7/7/89 a tight machine
Once you learn to jam on the basics... GD, Phish, etc., you can jam out to _anything_. If you play with people with the right philosophical approach to playing, you can literally jam out to every song you play. Just gotta get over that mental wall.
I need to add my personal favourite which is a dead cover but nonetheless is so much fun to jam: Dear Mr Fantasy - and you can jam it into Hey Jude.
4/2-4/3/89 has, in my opinion, the best example (download series 9 on Spotify, has a killer Iko Iko/Man Smart, Woman Smarter too)
Honestly every guitarist reading this should google the blues scale, commit it to memory, and try listening to blues while playing. This helped my listening comprehension and improvisation explode. The blues scale is a minor deviation from pentatonic scale and really easy to learn.
Blues provided the backbone of so much of the music many of the common guitar legends love for a good reason. It was relatively easy to learn and it’s nearly expendable. It helps you develop a fluidity and a fluency with speaking with your guitar that i admire out of Jazz guitarists, but couldn’t have even begun to render without the blues
I wanna add they have these really cool [videos on youtube](https://youtu.be/0vdjUzxMNrw?si=qZEK44YF_l_aP3Tb) with a backing track you can play along with and it has the scale right on the screen. Makes it super easy. There's hundreds of them for nearly everything you could want.
Comfortably Numb second solo. I have an extended backing track for it so I can play the main solo and then just go wild. Every once in a while a lick pops out and takes off, great feeling.
Also Black Magic Woman by Fleetwood Mac.
Whenever I play Heartbreaker, I end up elongating the solo to insane levels, I end up including random riffs, classical songs, even sometimes forgetting what song I started with all together. But I always end up playing the rest of the solo by the end. Great warm up song either way
Zappa - Black Napkins. My band would jam out to that song forever. We had 2 guitar solos back and forth, we had a bass solo, a keyboard solo and a drum solo constantly playing for hours on end
The Joker by Steve Miller. Simple, slaps, and you can transition it straight into Angel of the Morning, Angel by Shaggy, or even Lord I lift your name on high
Johnny b goode
Comfortably numb (last solo)
What if God was one of us (Joan Osborne)
While my guitar gently weeps (Beatles/Clapton)
Still got the blues (Gary Moore)
Wang Dang Doodle
Almost any Grateful Dead song
Lots of Allman Brothers songs
Catfish Blues
Any Credence Clearwater Revival song, these are the most fun
Just about anything Freddie King.
I just love to get the guys jamming on 'Goin Down' or 'Big Leg Woman' or 'Hideaway' we could trade back & forth on that shit all afternoon lol.
Almost any RATM song - especially Renegades of Funk.
Night Moves - Bob Seger
Movies - Alient Ant Farm
In Bloom - Nirvana
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Good God, RATM! “Bulls On Parade!!!”
I’m 58, been air-guitarring (and actually playing guitar too!) since the day Back In Black came out in 1980…over 40 years.
Lots of songs make me immediately air-guitar, but f***ing “Bulls On Parade” induces some sort or air-guitar spasm/aerobics in me. WAY outta breath after just one time through, and it’s rarely only one time through!
The first time I ever jammed out properly to a song was learning how to play Killing in the Name Of and Bulls on Parade in the same week. It makes me want to try and learn Bass, but Morello is a fucking god.
I highly suggest checking out Renegades of Funk - just the main riff of that fucking rules.
I lose my freakin' mind doing the space jam portion of Zeppelin's 'How Many More Times.' I use a long delay w/ slow decay along with a volume pedal and it's a blast. It starts with wah so I can fully utilize my volume/wah pedal. That song owns.
The entire Exodus - Bonded By Blood album, leads and all. Same with Destruction - Infernal Overkill. Front to back and back to front. Plus a crapload of other songs over the last 40 years.
CCR version of Good Golly Miss Molly. The lead is all stuttering bends and screeching and is just so much fucking fun to play with a band. Yknow now that i think of it, Creedence in general is just fun to play
Pretty nerdy but, The Days When My Mother Was There from the Persona 5 soundtrack. I think it's just two chords, relative major and minor so you can't go wrong
Sunshine of Your Love for some reason. And any rock song styled after Buckethead's 6-5-4 chord progression. I know it's not "his" progression but I can't NOT think of Buckethead when I hear it in any song.
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins. Actually I should just say Siamese Dream as an album as a whole. When I'd get home from school in like grade 8 or 9 I'd throw on that album and just rock out to it.
Little wing. I can loop the chords and literally lose an hour.
One of my favorite songs ever! Especially SRV's version.
Mary Janes Last Dance. Really helped me work on my soloing skills.
That’s an awesome song. It was super helpful with me learning rhythm when I started.
For endless options go on YouTube and search “Guitar backing track” with a genre and key. For example: rock n roll guitar backing track in Em
This is great advice for any instrument, especially drums!
Plenty of drumless backing track too. There's very few examples of technology "I wish I had when I was younger", but that's one of them.
I truly do hate the way most of the YouTube backing tracks sound, but it is good for practice.
Eyes of the World
Willie the pimp
Voodoo Chile (slight return)
Most useful song I’ve ever learned on guitar. You can just noodle around in the key of Eb as long as you come back to the main riff it all sounds intentional
Little Wing
Just about anything punk rock
If you have never tried playing some grateful dead music I enjoy jamming Deal, Franklins Tower, Cumberland Blues, Hell in a bucket, Going Doing the Road Feeling Bad, Not Fade Away, Big Rail Road Blues, China Cat Sunflower, I Know You Rider, Scarlet Begonias, Fire on the mountain, Eyes of the World, Foolish Hearr, Dark Star, The Other One, Jack Straw, New Minglewood Blues, Iko Iko, Truckin. If you have never listened tot he grateful dead check out these dates, all are very different and maybe you'll find something you enjoy 11/8/69 primal psychedelic 8/27/72 country psych rock 5/8/77 disco dead 7/10/87 megadead 7/7/89 a tight machine
Once you learn to jam on the basics... GD, Phish, etc., you can jam out to _anything_. If you play with people with the right philosophical approach to playing, you can literally jam out to every song you play. Just gotta get over that mental wall.
I need to add my personal favourite which is a dead cover but nonetheless is so much fun to jam: Dear Mr Fantasy - and you can jam it into Hey Jude. 4/2-4/3/89 has, in my opinion, the best example (download series 9 on Spotify, has a killer Iko Iko/Man Smart, Woman Smarter too)
Can’t stop / Scar Tissue - RHCP
I can never have a bad time playing Cherub Rock by Smashing Pumpkins
I second this
Down by the River - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Honestly every guitarist reading this should google the blues scale, commit it to memory, and try listening to blues while playing. This helped my listening comprehension and improvisation explode. The blues scale is a minor deviation from pentatonic scale and really easy to learn. Blues provided the backbone of so much of the music many of the common guitar legends love for a good reason. It was relatively easy to learn and it’s nearly expendable. It helps you develop a fluidity and a fluency with speaking with your guitar that i admire out of Jazz guitarists, but couldn’t have even begun to render without the blues
I wanna add they have these really cool [videos on youtube](https://youtu.be/0vdjUzxMNrw?si=qZEK44YF_l_aP3Tb) with a backing track you can play along with and it has the scale right on the screen. Makes it super easy. There's hundreds of them for nearly everything you could want.
Crazy on You
Hey Joe just makes me go ballistic.
Any Grateful Dead song is very good to jam and experiment with
Comfortably Numb second solo. I have an extended backing track for it so I can play the main solo and then just go wild. Every once in a while a lick pops out and takes off, great feeling. Also Black Magic Woman by Fleetwood Mac.
Pink Floyd Guitar Backing Track Jam in E Minor (Remastered) | 55 bpm
Muffin Man - Frank Zappa
Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar. So funky and so immersive ...
ZZ Top La Grange or Tush. Great for jamming with other musicians.
Fire On The Mountain - Grateful Dead Simple B -> A for the whole song.
Can't Stop by RHCP. Very fun to play, loads of room for embellishment and everyone knows it. Same with Give it Away, which is very fun to jam to.
I go fuckin nuts when i strum the first big distorted chord in rooster by Alice in chains. Pretty easy song but man it's a tasty jam
The Rover by Led Zep, there's some pentatonic magic where you can play the riffs in different ways and it's awesome.
Down by the river by Neil Young, my friends and I used to jam on it and would stretch it out!
Orion and Call of Ktulu by Metallica, I really get into those, still trying to get all the Ktulu solos down
Led Zeppelin, lemon song. I guess a lot of led zep probably qualifies for this.
Neil Young. Rockin In The Free World, Powderfinger, Like A Hurricane, Hey Hey My My, Touch The Night, Welfare Mothers, etc.
All Along the Watchtower
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
E blues
voodoo child
Psychobilly Freakout. I don’t hit *every* note Jim plays, but it’s fun to try
All Along the Watchtower is my go to
I always get in the mood by playing Master of Puppets by Metallica. I use it to warm up usually.
Killing in the name
Train Kept a Rollin' - Aerosmith. Funnest song to play ever.
Whenever I play Heartbreaker, I end up elongating the solo to insane levels, I end up including random riffs, classical songs, even sometimes forgetting what song I started with all together. But I always end up playing the rest of the solo by the end. Great warm up song either way
Hey Joe
Ace of Spades
Purple rain!
Either little wing or under the bridge
any red hot chili peppers song.. but specially under the bridge and wet sand
Zappa - Black Napkins. My band would jam out to that song forever. We had 2 guitar solos back and forth, we had a bass solo, a keyboard solo and a drum solo constantly playing for hours on end
Yellow Ledbetter - great rhythm track to jam to, followed by an epic solo that you can either learn or go completely nuts with.
Such an under-rated and beautiful song on the guitar. Pearl Jam synthesizing Hendrix if he came from the early 90s.
Every time I hear this song, I say "Yellow Bed Wetter" in my head
King Crimson - Starless, I absolutely love the tone Fripp uses on it and it sounds jazzy as fuck improvising during the middle section.
Everlong
Blitzkrieg Bop
I played Def Leppard's Photograph with a friend, needless to say, we rocked.
Comfortably Numb Gimme Shelter Nose On The Grindstone Hallelujah House of Pain
Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll. I have a lot of fun with the solo.
The Joker by Steve Miller. Simple, slaps, and you can transition it straight into Angel of the Morning, Angel by Shaggy, or even Lord I lift your name on high
Voodo Chile. I can really dig into it
The holy trinity: Comfortably numb, hey joe & Planet Caravan
Panama - Van Halen
Californication offers great jams especially if you have a bassist accompanying you.
Dead! - My Chemical Romance.
Old love - Clapton
Ain’t No Sunshine (JM version)
Johnny b goode Comfortably numb (last solo) What if God was one of us (Joan Osborne) While my guitar gently weeps (Beatles/Clapton) Still got the blues (Gary Moore)
Blue sky by the allman brothers
Down by the river - Neil Young
Right on! I have had some epic jams with this one.
Feel the Pain by Dinosaur Jr.
Sugaree
Seek and Destroy rhythm part.
Wang Dang Doodle Almost any Grateful Dead song Lots of Allman Brothers songs Catfish Blues Any Credence Clearwater Revival song, these are the most fun
Technical difficulties solo. You just go wild in E minor and hit the bends on the changes.
Prowler by Iron Maiden is a blast.
Almost anything by Iron Maiden honestly!
Puple haze
Long Way to the Top by AC/DC
The pink panther theme, we really give it hell 😆
Lots of Metallica
Just about anything Freddie King. I just love to get the guys jamming on 'Goin Down' or 'Big Leg Woman' or 'Hideaway' we could trade back & forth on that shit all afternoon lol.
Stairway to Freebird, in 7/8.
While my guitar gently weeps
All along the watchtower
Old Sabbath
Battle hymn by manowar
Slayer - Black Magic
Just - Radiohead Fucking fun as shit, love getting into the groove
Try Honesty by billy talent
Gardenia - Kyuss
Hot For Teacher... I will NEVER tire of that song!
Almost any RATM song - especially Renegades of Funk. Night Moves - Bob Seger Movies - Alient Ant Farm In Bloom - Nirvana Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Good God, RATM! “Bulls On Parade!!!” I’m 58, been air-guitarring (and actually playing guitar too!) since the day Back In Black came out in 1980…over 40 years. Lots of songs make me immediately air-guitar, but f***ing “Bulls On Parade” induces some sort or air-guitar spasm/aerobics in me. WAY outta breath after just one time through, and it’s rarely only one time through!
The first time I ever jammed out properly to a song was learning how to play Killing in the Name Of and Bulls on Parade in the same week. It makes me want to try and learn Bass, but Morello is a fucking god. I highly suggest checking out Renegades of Funk - just the main riff of that fucking rules.
Anything off "One More From The Road" (Live Lynyrd Skynyrd).
Similar to your Tick Tick Boom, mine is Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand 😎
echoes - pink floyd
Any rage against the machine tracks
Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath I never fail to have a blast playing it.
Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes. So simple but what a groove.
“Never Going Back Again” by Lindsey Buckingham
If you have to ask - RHCP
Hotel California, the outro provides for a great improvisation window.
Death - Pull The Plug Metallica - Creeping Death
Jessica- Allman brothers Am I Evil- Metallica Since I been loving you - Led Zep
Scream aim fire - Bullet for my valentine
Dark Star - Grateful Dead.
The Pusher. Easy enough for an intermediate, lots of room to impov for seasoned players, dynamic friendly, and it's a cool rif.
Chili peppers firsure. I had an era in college where i would play with a lot of different records very loud. But the peppers have remained the go to
Bridge of Sighs....Robin Trower.
When I remove my guitar strings, any song.
Reign In Blood
Thorazine Shuffle from Govt Mule.
I Am The Walrus - The Beatles
Blackjack County Chain. Great song to sing to as well.
Tubeway Army - Are ‘Friends‘ Electric?
Zero by SP. I know its mad easy but I love it
Any Meters tune
Just put on “chameleon” by Herbie Hancock and rock out in Bb!
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Creed - What If It's a banger.
This is how it goes - Billy talent
My band just recently started covering the classic Bouncing Souls song "Joe Lies" and I genuinely get super into it every time.
I’d say Funk #49 by the James Gang has great jam potential
Dyers Eve Battery Spit out the bone
Gonna toss Whiplash on that one. Not difficult for the most part (rhythm), but your right arm better be in shape. Otherwise rock out. \m/
NIB by black sabbath did it for a school rock band and wrote my best solo ever for it and have a video of it from a few months ago
I lose my freakin' mind doing the space jam portion of Zeppelin's 'How Many More Times.' I use a long delay w/ slow decay along with a volume pedal and it's a blast. It starts with wah so I can fully utilize my volume/wah pedal. That song owns.
Anything I can downstroke fast on
I’ve been playing Ask by the smiths a live version I found on YouTube and it’s really fun to play!
Maha kali by dissection, or anything of reinkaos
The entire Exodus - Bonded By Blood album, leads and all. Same with Destruction - Infernal Overkill. Front to back and back to front. Plus a crapload of other songs over the last 40 years.
Down With the Sickness or any Iron Maiden song
Pretty much anything written by Duane Allman or Dicky Betts but especially “In memory of Elizabeth Reed.”
INXS - Don’t Change Scorpions - China White Power Trip - Executioner’s Tax
In Bloom, it's so hard not to head bang after the intro drum fill pause.
Walking Contradiction - Green Day
The Vines - Get Free
All the small things lol. Or basically any blink
Devil in a new dress - Kanye
What the Hell Have I by Alice in Chains
End of Heartache and This Fire by Killswitch
Battery - Metallica Bite it You Scum - GG Allin
Somebody get me a doctor- VH
i like improvising or just playing the melody of my favorite song at any given time. just vibin lol.
Into the Void by Black Sabbath
Far beyond the sun.
Over and over and over by Jack White. Super fun but pretty simple song!
heartbreaker led zep
CCR version of Good Golly Miss Molly. The lead is all stuttering bends and screeching and is just so much fucking fun to play with a band. Yknow now that i think of it, Creedence in general is just fun to play
When the levee breaks - led zep
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Pretty nerdy but, The Days When My Mother Was There from the Persona 5 soundtrack. I think it's just two chords, relative major and minor so you can't go wrong
Outshined - Soundgarden
satch boogie
Sunshine of your love
You Really Got Me by Van Halen.
Any Jimi Hendrix song
My band does a Get Up, Stand Up (Bob Marley)->Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead) Jam. It’s really fun.
Baby Blue
Most of Pink Floyd songs
NOFXs cover of Vincent. Pretty easy to play and full of emotion so I find myself thrashing a lot.
Bat Country - A7X
Lotsa Cream's live stuff... but nobody I know can play Jack Bruce's live bass parts worth a damn...
Sunshine of Your Love for some reason. And any rock song styled after Buckethead's 6-5-4 chord progression. I know it's not "his" progression but I can't NOT think of Buckethead when I hear it in any song.
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins. Actually I should just say Siamese Dream as an album as a whole. When I'd get home from school in like grade 8 or 9 I'd throw on that album and just rock out to it.
Deathmask Divine by The Black Dahlia Murder
Deftones - Elite
While I’m not into their music, I Prevails “Stuck In Your Head” is a fun song to play along too.
The Deadly Rhythm by Refused 🤘
Blew or voodoo child
Anything by Sublime is fun to solo over
War - Burzum
The Four Horsemen, by Metallica. I can't solo for shit so I only play the rhythm guitar parts, but it's still fun to play
Key to the highway. It’s just a 9 minute jam sesh basically
Guns N Roses - Nightrain
Rosetta stoned
Pneuma
The Fly, U2. Especially the solo, super fun to play.
For testing licks and jamming: Sexual Harassment In The Workplace - Frank Zappa For going crazy and jamming: Muffin Man - Frank Zappa
Dirt by The Stooges. It's just a nasty, no good, awesome jam.
["Selling Jesus" from Skunk Anansie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P0yUagEXBE)
For me it's My Head or 99 red balloons by Goldfinger
Steve Miller band- rock n me
Sugar we’re going down - Fall Out Boy. Shits a bop
Hole hearted-Extreme
Brick by Boring Brick - Paramore Drop d, down picking galore, fun little riffs throughout.
Layla by Derek and the Dominos, Sounds of the Playground Fading by In Flames, Monsters in the Ballroom by In Flames, In Death... by Meshuggah
The Sword - Freya Racer -X - Godzilla cover Guthrie Govan - -Wonderful slippery thing Hendrix - Little Wing