What's your favorite song(s) to play?

[bearblastbeats]

I've been really diggin' on these few as of late:

Fly Me Courageous - Drivin' N' Cryin'
No Excuses - Alice In Chains
Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo - Rick Derringer
All I Need is Your Love - Fastway
Walkin' The Dog - Ratt
Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh

None of them are overly complicated, but just a good, solid foundation a ton of killer riffs.

 

[Out of Round]

It's mostly metronome work for me lately. Aside from various Zeppelin songs, I might play along with pretty straightforward tunes.

He's a Whore - Cheap Trick
Think I'm in Love - Beck
Bodhisattva - Steely Dan
Hallgallo - Neu!
Noticeable One - Missing Persons
When the World is Running Down - Police

 

[AzHeat]

This is and has been the worst question for me. The best I can come up with is I don’t know and it depends. I go through phases where I’ll play a whole l set of Rush as an example, then a Queensryche phase, then I’m playing a whole bunch of simpler pop songs and even K-Pop, then I’m off into some contemporary Jazz, then Raggae and on and on I go.

It just depends, more like the flavor of the day and if those aren’t moving me, then I’m working on complex 4 way independent stuff.

I wish all this made me a great drummer, but I think the flip flopping is more a dissatisfaction with my playing…

 

[Drumolator]

Well known song: "Crossroads"
Obscure song: "Jehovah Never Sleeps"

Peace and goodwill.

 

[Sonar Dave]

The Camera Eye

 

[JimmyM]

Whipping Post
My Name Is Mud
Driven To Tears

 

[C. Dave Run]

This is and has been the worst question for me. The best I can come up with is I don’t know and it depends. I go through phases where I’ll play a whole l set of Rush as an example, then a Queensryche phase, then I’m playing a whole bunch of simpler pop songs and even K-Pop, then I’m off into some contemporary Jazz, then Raggae and on and on I go.

It just depends, more like the flavor of the day and if those aren’t moving me, then I’m working on complex 4 way independent stuff.

I wish all this made me a great drummer, but I think the flip flopping is more a dissatisfaction with my playing…

This is me too. I will listen to metal, rock, disco, pop, hip hop, dance club, just whatever I feel like while playing.

 

[mday]

At the moment it's I Put A Spell On You. We play a version similar to this one by Samantha Fish.

 

[1 hit wonder]

Achilles' Last Stand?
Immigrant Song?
Heat in the Street?
One Way Out?


On bass:
Valerie
Whipping Post

 

[AzHeat]

This is me too. I will listen to metal, rock, disco, pop, hip hop, dance club, just whatever I feel like while playing.

I can't even say I really listen to the stuff I like to play. Can't think of the last time I actually jammed out to Rush or Queensryche! For me, playing is more about the challenge of the parts. If I'm driving, it's usually just a mellower pandora station, but I'll never play those songs.

 

[Bozozoid]

The Ocean..Zep....Let it ride..B.T.O...Lido shuffle..Boz..Ah Leah..Donnie Iris..The Wizard..Uriah heep.

 

[Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX]

I warm up with this list:

Metronome

Metronome · Playlist · 11 songs · 6 likes

open.spotify.com

this is still sort of my regular list.. Trying to master these

Stuff to Drum to

Stuff to Drum to · Playlist · 14 songs

open.spotify.com

 

[KEEF]

In the band set:
Won't get fooled
25 or 6 to 4
Message in a bottle

At home I'm currently trying classical rock a la 'Vadrum'

 

[Huw Owens]

Full House - Wes Montgomery
It’s a Raggy Waltz - Dave Brubeck
Sky Dive - Freddie Hubbard
Pass It On - Dave Holland

Those are all in our current set. When I was younger I’d put on Quadrophenia, or Hemispheres, or Queen Live Killers, or anything by The Beatles.

 

[Ghede]

Welcome to the Machine - Pink Floyd

At least I don't mess it up!

 

[bearblastbeats]

Some more that popped up
The Weight
Mary Jane’s Last Dance
La Grange
Whipping Post
Does Anybody Know what time it is ?

i did MJs last dance and La Grange. Current band doesn't play them, but I've been hinting at it for some time.

 

[1 hit wonder]

Oh, with the band? One Way Out.
We can't play much of the music I would really enjoy playing. We do MJs Dance too slow and La Grange I always enjoy.
Don't Rock The Jukebox has some dynamic changes that I like which go from snare to cross stick and back & forth, which keeps me interested.
Kryptonite has some of those dynamic similarities like that.

On my own I almost don't listen to music. It's almost always independent talk media. No main stream bilge for me. Sometimes in the car it's an Americana channel and even less it's a college radio station.

 

[yammyfan]

My Sharona by the Knack followed closely by the Tragically Hip's Three Pistols.

 

[Out of Round]

My Sharona by the Knack...

Really solid rock drumming on this. It's a shame this song turned into sort of a punchline for the culture at large.

 

[JoeVermont]

Little by Little - Susan Tedeschi's version