Cover musicians...What are you playing now?

[tapper mike]

I've been getting back to fingerstyle chord melody arrangements recently. Classic pop/rock and jazz standards.

Fields of Gold - (sting)
Yesterday (the beatles)
A Night in Tunisia
All of me
Girl from Ipanena


It's been 50/50 half the songs I look for someone elses transcription and half I've been writing my own.

[vurt]

ive been messing about with my j'taime cover, making it even more droney and dark.

[DSmolken]

Recent list for one of my bands:

Angelene (PJ Harvey)
Attracting flies (AlunaGeorge)
Beautiful liar (Beyonce/Shakira)
Buttons (Sia)
Cuentale (Ivy Queen)
Dat sexy body (Sasha/Ivy Queen)
Disparate youth (Santigold)
En que fallamos (Ivy Queen)
The fox (Ylvis)
In your eyes (Inna/Yandel)
Get busy (Sean Paul)
Hasta que salga el sol (Don Omar)
Jar of hearts (Dash Berlin/Christina Novelli)
La tortura (Shakira/Alejandro Sanz)
Lo que paso paso (Daddy Yankee)
Need u 100 % (Duke Dumont/A*M*E)
Ojos asi (Shakira)
Pursuit of happiness (Kid Cudi)
Rapture (Nadia Ali)
Royals (Lorde)
Shove it (Santigold)
Smooth operator (Sade)
Slow down (Selena Gomez)
Temperature (Sean Paul)
Timber (Pitbull/Ke$ha)
Wake me up (Avicii)
White noise (Disclosure/AlunaGeorge)
We are the sun (Heather Bright/Savoy/Sick Individuals)
You can't stop the beat (Wally Lopez/Jamie Scott)
You know you like it (AlunaGeorge)

Newer stuff we might add:

Yonce (Beyonce)
Can't remember to forget you (Shakira/Rihanna)
U (Gareth Emery/Bo Bruce)
I am (Taylr Renee/Sick Individuals/Axwell)

And yeah, two of those are singles that dropped this week.

[tapper mike]

That's quite a collection. As I'm not in a band or playing live I'd pretty much got tired of playing covers for myself. Now that I'm on a one man band, trying to pull it all off on guitar without vocal or backup I've got some challenges ahead of me.

[robogone]

I play various songs on guitar or piano as the mood takes me. Here are some I can think of that I've played relatively recently:

That's Entertainment - The Jam (Guitar)
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin (Piano)
Starman - David Bowie (Guitar)
High and Dry - Radiohead (Guitar)
Imagine - John Lennon (Piano)

[DSmolken]

That's quite a collection.

It accumulated over about four years, though there's been a lot of rotation. That band has definitely gone through more than a hundred songs. It used to be an acoustic thing playing typical acoustic stuff. Now it's two singers one of whom sometimes plays guitar, me on bass and occasional vocals and a guy who used to play cajon and drums but now controls tracks that me and him put together in FL Studio.

I like having that kind of rapid churn. Keeps you on your toes and there's usually at least one new song at every show. Downside is that this doesn't leave enough time to really nail everything.