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

[Stickman]

For Wonderful Tonight I cop Steve Ferrones pattern from Clapton live.. 2 handed 16ths on the hats (quietly) like ghost notes wiith accents and a solid backbeat with kick and snare. Helps to fill that space on a very sliw song and keeps it steady.

 

[yammyfan]

Probably the Doobie Brother's Listen to the Music. The feel of that one gives me trouble for some reason.

 

[2 hit wonder]

I play Hard To Handle just a small amount slower than the Crowes tecording but no issue with the groove. A singer I work with pointed it out but said he prefers the tempo to sing and play guitar to.

 

[Stx'n'Bonze]

Rocket Queen - GnR. I have a bitch of a time with that hihat shuffle and getting the right swing.

 

[Cmdr. Ross]

For me, its the fill transitioning out of that groove you are referring to

I guess. The part where the whole band comes in after the rim clicks and the Texas shuffle starts is my big hang up.
I practice that a million times, yet when our band plays it, I always feel like I'm not on the mark time wise.
Very frustrating.

 

[2 hit wonder]

Rocket Queen - GnR. I have a bitch of a time with that hihat shuffle and getting the right swing.

What a fun song to play, though.

 

[2 hit wonder]

I guess. The part where the whole band comes in after the rim clicks and the Texas shuffle starts is my big hang up.
I practice that a million times, yet when our band plays it, I always feel like I'm not on the mark time wise.
Very frustrating.

It is. I started doing it with quads until backing it down to triplets again. Sometimes it still got wonky but less frequently.

 

[BruceW]

I play Hard To Handle just a small amount slower than the Crowes tecording but no issue with the groove. A singer I work with pointed it out but said he prefers the tempo to sing and play guitar to.

I catch myself playing that one a little too quickly, when I hear it played back...and i'm singing it, too, go figure

Which brings up another element to the topic... I can't play and sing the chorus on this one, especially the way the Crowes do it. So the other guys have to sing that while I'm hitting those accents. I hate going that route, but it is what it is.

 

[Totigerus]

Never heard anyone call it easy though

Right, but it SOUNDS easy until you try and play it.....at least for me. Same thing happened to me when I had to learn six deep purple songs. I never cared for that band, but Ian Paice's parts are really weird at times and difficult...at least for me, to manage. Frank Beard too.

 

[jaykaydrums]

rebel rebel by david bowie, its not that i cant play it, its more that its the exactly same thing from start to finish almost with little variation and my mind wanders during it.

 

[roncadillac]

I think I put this in a similar thread some time previously: Don't Change by INXS

Great song and great band, deceptively difficult. Not in a complicated sense but in a "I still have 90 seconds left of this song and my forearms are on fire" way.

 

[roncadillac]

rebel rebel by david bowie, its not that i cant play it, its more that its the exactly same thing from start to finish almost with little variation and my mind wanders during it.

Funny, I was going to say Let's Dance. Easy drum part but a very long and repetitive song that is super easily to slow down without realizing.

 

[JohnYa]

Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. No matter how much effort I put into it, singing remains a challenging.

 

[classikdrummr]

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.

thats a hard part on that song

 

[Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX]

oh man, that would be most of the Iron Maiden stuff. And not saying that it is money beat easy, but compared to other stuff I play, it can be considered more straight forward.....

but

there is just a little hitch in Nicko's, Clive's and Steve Hariis' gallop that I can't quite copy. Have been trying since 1982, and can successfully get through the songs, but I feel like I am just missing something

but I can get it on bass, that is the weird thing

 

[Sausagetoad]

Pride & Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughn...that "Texas shuffle" thing. I have to play it like a regular shuffle. I dunno, it's not 'meaty' enough the way they do it.

 

[PorkPieGuy]

I'll admit that one of the easiest songs I've ever played is George Jones's "He Stopped Loving Her Today." With that said, I am absolutely terrible at this song without a metronome. I can NOT play this song without speeding up. It's soooo hard to play this slow while remaining consistent and steady.

 

[Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX]

I'll admit that one of the easiest songs I've ever played is George Jones's "He Stopped Loving Her Today." With that said, I am absolutely terrible at this song without a metronome. I can NOT play this song without speeding up. It's soooo hard to play this slow while remaining consistent and steady.

there are a few of the country ballads that we do that have just a weird enough space feel that I sometimes struggle...I call it the "country hitch"...like almost swing, but not quite

She Thinks I Still Care
Today I Started Loving You Again

are a few examples of these kind of songs that took me a while to "get"

 

[Otto]

Blister in the Sun
Violent Femmes

One part caffine, one part Questlove gyration and one part cat herding.

It helps to master Tejano first.

 

[Luv4drums]

La Grange by ZZ Top. I just can't get that intro after the rim clicks right.
Not sure why.

THAT is no easy song. It is like Radar Love to me, but even faster.