What do you play on your tenor guitar?

[fox]

So what are you actually playing or learning at the moment, do you sing & play or stick to Irish style?
I am going to get a few Christmas tunes together over the next few weeks...

[Steve Zawacki]

In a word - everything. Went to an Eagles tribute concert last Monday and have been playing about a dozen old Eagles numbers (favorites: Get Over It, Heart of The Matter). Whatever can be played on any 6-string acoustic csn be done on a Tenor.

[bruce.b]

Mostly Irish trad, any fiddle tunes and even a couple of Monroe bluegrass tunes. I've been messing around with some fingerpicking lately. Maybe try some American songbook standards in the future.

[fox]

I like to finger pick too.
As a six string player I do find quite a lot of songs quite difficult on the tenor, not necessarily difficult to play but difficult to sound right. I more or less gave up with house of the rising sun but I do love to play & sing mainly light rock & folk.

[Pete Martin]

TexS fiddle backup and jazz tunes

[fox]

My harmony sounds jazzy without trying, I love playing the archtop but it is quiet without using a pick & when you do use a pick you can hear the pick!
I like my Ozark best of all, it is sensitive, responsive and has a great volume range... great for sofa playing.
I have regular jams with my mates & I need the blueridges bigger body for that although I normally fall back to a six string or banjo on those occasions!
Blues on the archtop sound great & feel right for the instrument...
Anyway, I am going to have a go at Silent Night melody (cant imagine me singing that tune) & maybe 'driving home for Christmas' (Chris Rea)

[Seonachan]

I started working on John Lawlor's versions of Jingle Bells and Christmastime Is Here a couple of months ago - with any luck I'll have them down by Christmas. In the meantime I'm playing some Beatles, Randy Newman, old popular songs, and Gaelic songs in roughly equal measure.

[cargomaster]

Whatever I feel like. Some old traditional stuff, and some original stuff. I use a thumbpick like I do on six string. Love the instrument. The fifths tuning just seems to be really easy to play over.

[Velorum]

Thought that I might resurrect this thread..........

Currently trying to master Octopus by Syd Barratt - playing and singing. Im finding it tough, but as he is one of my musical heroes I will persevere

Im sure some practice will improve the guitar bit - as for the voice............

[Chip Stewart]

Currently working on "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie and "Going North" by Missy Higgins.

[Charles E.]

Oldtime fiddle tunes and Western Swing.

[DavidKOS]

So what are you actually playing or learning at the moment, do you sing & play or stick to Irish style?

Definitely not Irish style...old jazz and some Italian music mostly, even though I'm using the "Irish" tuning.

I like hearing well played Irish music, hence I don't play it much.

[SincereCorgi]

I like hearing well played Irish music, hence I don't play it much.

Ha, I hear that. I think Irish is one of those styles where it's hard to dabble, the good players are into it so deep that they can't really do much else.

All I play on my tenor is old jazz. I've tried using it for old time string band music, but it isn't loud enough to stand up to more than a couple fiddles.

[Jayyj]

I guess i'm a little different than most on the thread... here's a track recorded with my SG tenor build. There's the odd low part by the other guitarist on a six string but the tenor is the lead instrument that you can hear on its own at the start and at the beginning of the build up in the second half.

https://m.soundcloud.com/gizeh/last-...acturefragment

[djweiss]

Honky-Tonk Country and Swing

[Ted Eschliman]

Jazz Standards. I dig up a Real Book and go to town.

[Charles E.]

All I play on my tenor is old jazz. I've tried using it for old time string band music, but it isn't loud enough to stand up to more than a couple fiddles.

Thats why you need a 1930's National Triolian tenor!

[Dolamon]

I work on my Jazz pieces as rhythm exercises and sometimes it is a real struggle. Occasionally I get inspired to play and explore various parts of Bach's cello preludes as either pick or finger exercises. Great stuff for the brain and the fingers. I received a Topher Gayle Resonator Mandola (4 string, 17 inch scale) recently and have been trying to work out some of the allusions which both Bob Brozman and original Dopera Brothers ads listed for using a resonator for rhythm playing ... very odd challenge as the nuances in this spectacular instrument are occasionally difficult to control. This is by far the loudest tenor I've ever played.

I will persevere ...

[bigmomma]

I've played the mandolin for a little over a year and in November got a tenor guitar. Trying to play music that fits both. Lots of Beatles. Credence, John Denver, Cold Play. Some jigs and rags for picking. Love to sing. Just having a great time learning. I hope I don't get arthritis before I get good at something.

[hokelore]

Mostly old-time, in various tunings. I'm wondering about trying CGDA again, and learning contest style back-up, but that hasn't happened yet.

[MdJ]

Songs of disappointmnt and heartbreak...... surprisingly, many are laments about unfaithful women.

And the occasional lullaby, sung for the benefit of unredeemed men of lowest character.......

Moistly,

MdJ

[Jayyj]

Songs of disappointmnt and heartbreak...... surprisingly, many are laments about unfaithful women.

And the occasional lullaby, sung for the benefit of unredeemed men of lowest character.......

Moistly,

MdJ

Well that's got to be my favourite answer so far!

[kmmando]

Stuff liked this .....

[kmmando]

[bruce.b]

Great playing Kevin. That tenor guitar sounds wonderful.