Hardest Song to Play

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What is the hardest Dave song to play?

Warehouse w/mutes
13
15%
Tripping Billies-whole song
15
17%
Fool to Think-chorus
13
15%
Dodo- verse timing
0
No votes
JTR-whole song
5
6%
Hello Again-whole song
1
1%
The Stone-whole song
28
32%
Other (I know I forgot some)
12
14%
 
Total votes: 87

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Hardest Song to Play

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I know it has been done MANY times before, but what do you guys think is the hardest Dave song to play. I'm learnin' Stone now, but already know more difficult songs like Warehouse, BOWA, Billies, OSW, etc along with all the easy ones (SMTS, Too Much, Nancies, WWYS).
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you forgot proudest monkey
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Post by mangold »

i would vote one sweet world, atleast for me i havent been able to learn it because i cant remember all of it... havent tried that hard tho..
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I think stone won last time. Is this with or without singing?
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Post by jsgksu »

I cant play the chorus to fool to think for the life of me, the rest of them dont really give me trouble
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Post by fede »

I voted for stone....but JTR IS quite a catch to play and sing.

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well i play bass mainly but have a guitar that i learn some dave songs and just make up stuff on...so im not too good, but i can play billies and JTR just fine, so its definately not them. ive never much liked the stone or fool to think so ive never tried. and i dont listen to dave solo so i dont know dodo. hello again sounds hard to me, but ive never tried it. i can play warehouse alright.

i dunno what the hardest song is...
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With the chorus in Fool to Think, you either get it or you don't. If other time signatures come easy such as the 9/8 it is in, then its no problem. If you can't handle anything other than 4/4, I think it will be the toughest thing to learn.

I voted for dream of our fathers. That is really tough to play and sing at the same time.
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never really tried Dodo
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I can play most dave songs besides the different tuning songs. I voted for JTR, because i learned it i think my own way and i just never sat down and learned it dave way. I've tried and it was without success. So JTR for me :)
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I voted based upon how hard it was for me when I was learning. Of the 4 songs on there that I learned I have no problem with now.

Warehouse took me a long time to get down. The strumming pattern really gave me a hard time. FTT, Stone and Trippin Billies came fairly easy for me.

If I was voting for which is the toughest song for me to currently play I would say Captain because the stretches hurt my hand.
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Post by paulaitchison »

ive never been happy with my jimmi thing verse, i can play it , but it just sounds a little less.. . . .something.

i never got my head around the BOWA verse.

i find the fool to think chorus easy, but then i play a fair bit of electric rock, and thats nothing compaired to some of the songs in that genre, then it all depends on the player, we all have strengths and weaknesses. i like the way i play warehouse, it s more like the old way, i like the stop time, but it only works full band (imo)
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Post by Boyd Tinsley Band »

Singing and playing fool to think is the hardest of all
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Post by Kahn »

http://www.dmbtabs.com/boards/viewtopic ... ht=hardest

I think for the 13th time everyone determined it was the Stone
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Post by czech »

ummm, is Hello Again hard?
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