What's the easiest song you have a hard time playing?

[PorkPieGuy]

Anyone struggle with a certain song that sounds easy but it's not?

 

[MustangMick]

Shouldn't be difficult at first glance, but took a while for me.
Mick

 

[mikyok]

Played some horrifically bad first dances over the years.

Can't remember specific names but they're songs that take forever to learn because my brain switches off after 20 seconds and switches back on at the end of the song.

 

[JimmyM]

Anything with a Texas shuffle beat. Also, the song Hypnotized from when Fleetwood Mac was still good sounds so easy, but it’s not at all.

 

[2 hit wonder]

Back in the 90s it was Wonderful Tonight. It sounded so awkward and we always had to play it.

 

[spleeeeen]

Songs like this where there is LOTS of space to manage:

 

[mellanslag]

Highway To Hell, mostly beacuse I fell like the riff starts on the four, I know it's starts at the and of three, but its hard to hear it right.

 

[classikdrummr]

Dreams by Fleetwood Mac took me 2 weeks to learn. But to be fair to myself, at that time i was obsessed with EXACT note by note reproduction of everything.

 

[classikdrummr]

Highway To Hell, mostly beacuse I fell like the riff starts on the four, I know it's starts at the and of three, but its hard to hear it right.

i always play it too fast

 

[ravenson]

Legend of John and Yoko - that stop/start thing that McCartney did on the drums .

 

[Jasta 11]

Highway To Hell, mostly beacuse I fell like the riff starts on the four, I know it's starts at the and of three, but its hard to hear it right.

same here, I used to be in a house band that would play that song and i always screwed up that brake. It never felt right and the bass player would sometimes try to que me on the hits and it never worked. i can air drum it all day long but playing it live i never felt like i was in the pocket.

 

[Bozozoid]

Man...reading this thread makes me feel better. I'm not alone!

 

[BruceW]

Can I Have This Dance by Anne Murray. Had to learn it for a wedding. Of course, having to sing the harmony part while playing that basic 3/4 waltz, kinda threw me a bit

 

[Poleaux]

The drums on the guitar solo part on Van Halen’s Jump. Jump is such a simple pop song, but I cannot figure out what Alex is doing on that guitar solo part. I still can’t do it to this day.

 

[BruceW]

The drums on the guitar solo part on Van Halen’s Jump. Jump is such a simple pop song, but I cannot figure out what Alex is doing on that guitar solo part. I still can’t do it to this day.

Agreed!

 

[Suburbankidz]

Billy Jean. (Don't laugh...) The notation is deceptively simple, and I can easily play it in time BUT the feel isn't always consistently there.

 

[Smoke]

CCR's Lookin' Out My Back Door. It took me way too long to get it right - I wanted to switch the snare and bass. Now, it's a piece of cake.

 

[2 hit wonder]

Oh yeah, right now it's Creep. I'm fine with my playing of it, but this band doesn't understand it, obviously.

 

[A J]

Man...reading this thread makes me feel better. I'm not alone!

You and me both, Brother!

Simple Man by Lynrd Skynrd. No matter how hard I try, I CANNOT sing and play drums on this song! Even when not singing, I still struggle.

 

[bud7h4]

The drums on the guitar solo part on Van Halen’s Jump. Jump is such a simple pop song, but I cannot figure out what Alex is doing on that guitar solo part. I still can’t do it to this day.

It's just a matter of memorizing it one bar at a time. Alex plays that kind of thing often, it's like the down beat and back beat go out the window. Even he rarely plays those parts the way they were recorded. For example this lick in Romeo Delight which I've never heard him play this same way again