Good songs to improv to?

rchess5

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Does anybody know good songs to just make up your own beats to? (I don't know if I'm in the right thread, so sorry for that!)

Lots of people learn songs like it supposed to be played, but I like making up as I go.
I don't want any main-stream hip-hop/pop (Unless they are older) songs but something that might just have a simple beat to it, where you can add you own stuff in it

Thanks!
 
I'm not into r'n'b, but the song I use to improvise to is "Caught up - Usher". Have you seen the video with Aaron Spears. Gah! Otherwise, just jam to a song you like...
 
I do a ton of my practicing this way. Lately, my list of favorites has been:



Smooth Criminal 3:29 Alien Ant Farm
Takin' Care of Business 4:52 Bachman-Turner Overdrive
The Weight 4:35 The Band
The Funeral 5:22 Band of Horses
Pump It 3:33 Black Eyed Peas
I Got Mine 3:59 The Black Keys
Paragraph President 5:09 Blackalicious
Blue School 4:26 Blue Scholars
Cornerstone 4:37 Blue Scholars
The Long March 2:24 Blue Scholars
Sagaba Remix 3:56 Blue Scholars
Jamming 3:31 Bob Marley & The Wailers
Take Me Home 5:02 Brother Ali
Big Swing Face 5:34 Buddy Rich
Outside Woman Blues 2:25 Cream
Yer Blues 4:27 The Dirty Mac
L.A. Woman 7:50 The Doors
Inca Roads 8:45 Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
The Corner 2:58 Galactic/gift Of Gab
Crazy 2:58 Gnarls Barkley
New Ways Train Train 5:51 Jeff Beck
Fire 2:44 Jimi Hendrix
The Wind Cries Mary 3:21 Jimi Hendrix
Castles Made Of Sand 2:47 Jimi Hendrix
Rocky Mountain Way 5:16 Joe Walsh
Waiting On the World to Change 3:21 John Mayer
(I'm A) Road Runner 2:46 Junior Walker & The All Stars
Whole Lotta Loves 5:34 Led Zeppelin
Goliath 7:15 The Mars Volta
Cotopaxi 3:39 The Mars Volta
Feeling Good 3:57 Michael Bublé
Assassin 3:31 Muse
I Belong to You/Mon Cœur S'ouvre à ta Voix 5:39 Muse
Break The Same 6:00 Mute Math
Reset 5:26 Mute Math
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover 3:37 Paul Simon
How the Leopard Got Its Spots 3:59 Portugal the Man
Killer Queen 3:02 Queen
Get On Top 3:18 Red Hot Chili Peppers
Smooth 4:58 Rob Thomas/Santana
Soul Sacrifice 6:37 Santana
Born to Be Wild (Easy Rider Version) 3:37 Steppenwolf
Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing 4:45 Stevie Wonder
Vicinity of Obscenity 2:52 System of a Down
Werewolves of London 3:26 Warren Zevon
Who Are You 6:22 The Who


Copied straight from my "drumming" playlist on iTunes.
I just put it on shuffle and mess around. Kind of a strange (maybe eclectic?) group of songs haha.
 
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