I finally hooked up my Lutefish which is supposed to let up to 6 people jam together.
I got all set up tested it and realized outside of 100s of Gospel songs and freeform improvisation,
I don't know any songs by heart. LOL. All I know is theory and gospel songs. I could probably hang with fairly standard chords but I need some songs.
When I start a session I'll publish the Nashville Number system to a few songs in the invite.
Taking any ideas on a top 10 songs to memorize? Fairly easy ones please (Blues, Country, Pop Hits).
Maybe One Way Out by the Allman Brothers could be a good start
Or I was thinking of learning all the blues grooves on GW and going with that. I need to study all those anyway :). Then I could just kick off a groove and see what happens :).
I did find this list of country and rock called the Nashville 100.
https://nashvillemusicianssurvivalmanual.com/list.html
That's cool Cruz! Not sure if you've worked on any of the Jazz Standards lessons on GW. If you've been working on your R37 swing groove, several of these are pretty easy to learn with the chord voicings you already know. Plus you have the advantage of Tomo's lessons with them. I've been working on "All of Me," "Another You," and "Autumn Leaves" for a while. They might not be exactly the stuff you want to play, but might be a good start. And the fact that they are standards raises the likelihood that other folks will know them too.
I haven't looked at the link yet, but there are also tons of cowboy chord songs that are easy to learn and improvise with - stuff like "Knockin on Heaven's Door" or "Hey Joe."
Thank you Clay. I do need to get to those and that makes sense, well known chords.
Someone on the Lutefish portal invited me to jam and they have 5 stars on like 6 instruments lol.
Thank you Cruz for sharing about this. "Jam" is not effective unless each person has some experieces listening learning one style deeply. Blues or Jazz etc. Otherwise as if people who speak English as 2nd language, they are try to have a conversation! Tough!
About suggestions. I do not recommend 10 songs to learn. Maybe one or maybe two or 3 at the most. Number system is for someone really understood one style deep enough and organize by numbers. Like country singers, country song writers.
First you need to learn some songs in styles. Maybe you can learn Blues, R&B/Soul and Pop/Rock. That's 3 songs!
1) Super simple blues tune like "Back at the Chicken Shack with super simple blues chord progression in F.
1 1 1 1
4 4 1 1
5 4 1 1
2) Mercy, Mercy, Mercy in Bb.
1 4 1 4... and bridge... (A section & B section)
3) Pop/Rock Chord Progression
1 5 6m 4
Using only 1 4 5 6m etc.
Bottomline is to learn "Original Version" Then... you can cook it with your own taste!
Tomo
Thank you Tomo. I will look into those. I dont have a language to speak out side of my gospel songs. So glad I found GW :).
On a side note Lutefish already wants my streaming device back saying it has an issue. Guess being an early adopter has limitations. They are promising to replace it. lol
My pleasure Cruz! Good thing will take some time! So happy that you are here!
Thanks for letting us know! Best thing is avoid anything seems easy!
Tomo