My choices for Sunday's jam

[Jon Silberman]

Our last jam was kinda loose so for this Sunday, the deal is each of us is supposed to ID in advance 5-10 songs to play, the understanding being that if you ID it, you sing it. So here're my choices, what do you think and what would you ID if it were you?!

Althea (Grateful Dead)

Beds are Burning (Midnight Oil)

Beverly Hills (Weezer)

Driven to Tears (Police)

Santa Monica (Everclear)

Strawberry Fields (Beatles)

Taxman (Beatles)

Wonderwall (Oasis)

[guitrr]

I don't understand Jon, is this an open jam, or will everyone have that list beforehand to study?

Kane

[violetlove]

I strongly approve of having a set-list for people to prepare. None of those songs ring my bell, but hey, I'm not gonna be there.
It's a great idea.

[gixxerrock]

Good idea. I always appreciate having someone else's list in advance in case I don't know a song. I keep a few songs in my back pocket for that purpose. They are super easy chord progressions, can handle long guitar solos and a bit of jam chaos. They also work for a harp player.

Sweet Home Alabama/ All Summer long
All Along Watchtower
New Orleans is sinking
Rocking in Free World
Knocking on Heaven's Door
With or without you
House of Rising Sun
Slow wanky blues in E

Not my first choice of songs to play in a regular band though.

Shawn.

[Jon Silberman]

I don't understand Jon, is this an open jam, or will everyone have that list beforehand to study?

Kane
I sometimes host open jams but more often jam with specific sets of partners. I have two sets going now, one is general blues/R&B/rock, the other Grateful Dead/space/jam scene. The guys in the first group agreed to share song ideas in advance for the next jam so we can move beyond the usual suspects and broaden our horizons.

BTW, it's never been simpler in the history of mankind to learn new tunes!

Althea (Grateful Dead)
chords: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/g/grateful_dead/althea_crd.htm
video/audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzlJwmBsEQs

Beds are Burning (Midnight Oil)
chords: http://www.yourchords.com/59483/Midnight-Oil/Beds-Are-Burning-Chords/
video/audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10BbpGKLXqk

Beverly Hills (Weezer)
chords: *** transpose to E *** http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/w/weezer/beverly_hills_ver2_crd.htm
video/audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4iTyHItFwg

Driven to Tears (Police)
chords: http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tab-tips-theory-technique/73275-police-driven-tears.html
video/audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BaLhCyccs8

Santa Monica (Everclear)
chords: http://www.scribd.com/doc/109756/everclear-santa-monica-chords
video/audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzIr1_PMvW8

Strawberry Fields (Beatles)
chords: http://www.azchords.com/b/beatles-tabs-410/strawberryfieldsforever-tabs-101055.html
video/audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywg-PdeGVL0

Taxman (Beatles)
chords: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/b/beatles/taxman_crd.htm
video/audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El9RZvbXIj4

Wonderwall (Oasis)
chords: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/o/oasis/wonderwall_ver3_crd.htm
video/audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPtTS0TYtU

[Jon Silberman]

Knocking on Heaven's Door
That's one of our perennial faves, too!

[Jon Silberman]

None of those songs ring my bell ...
In that case, you'd be a cool guy to jam with because I'd probably learn some new stuff. What would ring your bell?! P.S. Those songs I listed, it's specifically because they are different from our usual "standard" fare.

[fullerplast]

Our last jam was kinda loose so for this Sunday, the deal is each of us is supposed to ID in advance 5-10 songs to play, the understanding being that if you ID it, you sing it. So here're my choices, what do you think and what would you ID if it were you?!

Althea (Grateful Dead)

Beds are Burning (Midnight Oil)

Beverly Hills (Weezer)

Driven to Tears (Police)

Santa Monica (Everclear)

Strawberry Fields (Beatles)

Taxman (Beatles)

Wonderwall (Oasis)

My initial reaction Jon is that you may be a bit ambitious, unless these are regular get togethers with the same guys who are focused on becoming a band. I've run jams for years so this comes from some degree of experience.....you'd be surprised at the trainwrecks that can come from something as basic as Cold Rain and Snow.:dunno

At the very least, have all the recordings, changes written down, and do a group listen before starting (which I see now you are prepared for:AOK). Good luck!

[Jon Silberman]

My initial reaction Jon is that you may be a bit ambitious, unless these are regular get togethers with the same guys who are focused on becoming a band.
These are guys who I've been jamming with regularly for years who are focused at NOT becoming a band! :p Seriously, we are quite experienced playing together, don't mind testing and working on new stuff from time to time, and have a good track record. :) And I love singing each of those and have actually played several of them previously in bands (back when I used to be in bands)!

[Gas-man]

Songs don't seem terribly well suited to jamming with the exception of Wonderwall.

[TNJ]

Throw in some Credence and you'll be set!
Suzy Q comes to mind.
Now THAT is a jam vehicle.
Do you have a keyboard?
If so, Magic Carpet Ride is another great jammer.

S.
j

[Jon Silberman]

I probably should repeat this: we play tons of tunes, many of which are classic jam tunes. The whole point of this thread is that we're looking to expand our horizons now!

Oh Noble One, I'm with you totally on Credence. One of my faves to sing and play with this specific group of guys is a medley, as follows:

Green River into Born on the Bayou into Suzy Q back into Green River

with tons of swampy jammin' all throughout (open position E is the most perfect vehicle there is for swampiness)! :)

We don't have a keyboard but I've done Magic Carpet Ride before just fine without one. For the organ stuff, I use my Visual Sound H20 Chorus on what the manual calls the Leslie setting, works just fine!

[fullerplast]

These are guys who I've been jamming with regularly for years who are focused at NOT becoming a band! :p

Better be careful......next thing you know, you'll have 40 good tunes down, somebody's brother needs a band for a party, and that's all she wrote!:D

[TNJ]

Sounds good, Jon!

Next we need some vid clips!

S.
j

[violetlove]

In that case, you'd be a cool guy to jam with because I'd probably learn some new stuff. What would ring your bell?! P.S. Those songs I listed, it's specifically because they are different from our usual "standard" fare.

For jamming or for playing ??

I probably don't know a whole lot of "jam" songs. Sitting here thinking about it, I think I gravitate to songs wiht a definite structure, since I enjoy learning nice compositions.
For jamming, a few Floyd songs are great, esp Money, Breathe reprise, Comfortably Numb, cos they have long jam sections built into them.
Hendrix stuff is cool too, esp Hey Joe. At parties we would sit there and make up a verse of lyrics for every person present. It can go on for hours, with nice spaces for endless guitar jamming as well.
I'll think some more.
White Stripes have some groovy stuff for this too, Ball and Biscuit , Death Letter, Little Birdie comemo to mind quickly.

CAn't You Hear Me Knocking springs to mind too, possibly the best extended jam ever recorded. ZZ Top songs seem to be an intro, a coulpe of verses, then a whole lot of BIlly laying down pinches, so I can see them suiting a jam session as well.

Pearl Jam have some good jam songs too, Even Flow, Daughter (they usually tag another song onto the end of that), RVM, Black, Alive, Rocking in the Free World & ****in' Up ( yeah both Neil, I know, but PJ rock them hard).

[shihanderek]

You must have a pretty high voice, or will do some key changing. The Midnight Oil and Police tunes get up there a bit.

[Jon Silberman]

I disagree on the Midnight Oil tune - Beds are Burning is not especially high-pitched. Some of the Police stuff is. I have no trouble, though, handling Driven to Tears (except for the "whoa-oh-ohs" over the F# variant which I admit I have to "force").

Myself, I used to have a quite limited vocal range. I've actually been able to expand it, of late, simply by singing more. It's almost like my vocal chords are becoming more supple and flexible with increased use.

Guys, I'm realizing that a big part of the disconnects here are perhaps my fault for using the word "jam." It would appear that while I use the word cover both improvisational playing and simply playing songs with friends, others reserve it for the former. If there's another word y'all prefer for the latter, let me know and I'll use it next time instead of jam to avoid misunderstandings.