# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 27: a song that you wish you could play **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872 "2016-08-05T20:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/1 "2016-08-05T20:19:32Z")
[Judas Priest - Reckless.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxy7HQ53Rnk)… for the guitar solo that starts at 2:35. (For drums: [Rush - Tom Sawyer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk)) ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/2 "2016-08-05T23:26:50Z")
I’d love to pay any of the instruments here, but especially the organ or the drums [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA7V68w5hiA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA7V68w5hiA) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/3 "2016-08-05T23:41:04Z")
Classical Gas ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/4 "2016-08-06T00:38:15Z")
I would love to bang out the piano part in Rolling in the Deep by Adele. I don’t think it’s particularly complex but it would be fun to just play it loudly. ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/5 "2016-08-06T00:44:51Z")
**[“Blackened” by Metallica](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxKWWbmVEhQ)** Guitar and/or drums. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/6 "2016-08-06T01:13:09Z")
[Distant Sky by Rhapsody.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb6wtODL7os) I just want to be able to do the guitar part near the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/7 "2016-08-06T05:47:48Z")
I just began learning to play the cello ten months ago, on my 70th birthday. There’s no way in hell I’ll ever be able to play [Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto #1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx6UDgi9TEA). Perhaps in another lifetime or three, if ever. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/8 "2016-08-06T07:03:13Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Perhaps in another lifetime or three, if ever. And when you can - shoot by a video - that was some insane technical wizardry going on, there. This drummer wishes he could do the whole Internecine album in one take, and especially the second number in particular, “Ceremonies Of Deceit (Effulgence Rituals)”, starting at 3:53… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Wm2l_jcQum4/hqdefault.jpg "Internecine - The Book Of Lambs [FULL ALBUM]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm2l_jcQum4) ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/9 "2016-08-06T08:19:56Z")
Oh hell, what DON’T I wish I could play. “Whammer Jammer” by J. Geils (harp, of course) I pick at “More Than a Feeling” sometimes, but that’s as a novice exercise, nothing recognizable. One day I’ll get it. I’d like to learn, “Rebel Rebel” by David Bowie (guitar.) Seems like it would be a blast. See, there are dozens I could list right now, but we’re picking one. One massively cool song that would blow my mind if I could rip off a kick-ass redition. I’m tempted to go Gilmour. “Comfortably Numb.” But if it’s gonna be ONE song that I can learn and tear up, I’ll go with something fun and rowdy. I’ll take the lead guitar on, “My Sharona”. That 2-minute solo is just too much fun. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/10 "2016-08-06T10:59:03Z")
I wish I could play boogie woogie piano like Pete Johnson. Here’s **Roll 'em Pete** with Big Joe Turner, the amazing blues shouter, on vocal: [- YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VnO-Wp4BZMg) My god it would be fun to groove that hard. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/11 "2016-08-06T11:32:34Z")
…by the way **Face** , the Rebel Rebel riff _is_ fun to play. It circles back on itself so nicely, and has such a good combo of chords and lick fills that you can find yourself cycling through it endlessly - in a good way. Sharona is fun to play in a band but not something I groove on alone. I faked the solo - Averre was a great player and I couldn’t be arsed to work through the note for note. From a guitar player’s standpoint Rebel Rebel is more fun to play. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/12 "2016-08-06T13:29:19Z")
Any typical Jerry Lee Lewis piano rocker. Including the stand-up-and-kick-the-stool-away part. mmm ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/13 "2016-08-06T15:12:06Z")
Dueling Banjos ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/14 "2016-08-06T15:58:08Z")
[David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_x9fzY4WH0) On piano, especially the avant gard, jazzy solo. Mike Garson, Bowie’s long time pianist, recently said that Bowie’s son Duncan, would get nightmares from hearing that piano solo. It has a crazy, ominous sound to it that could definitely be scary to a kid. But oh to be able to play piano like that! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/15 "2016-08-06T18:44:14Z")
_YYZ_ - **Rush** The drum part. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/16 "2016-08-06T20:21:57Z")
I have an E9 pedal steel that I’m still pretty below average on. For example, I can play “When the Levee Breaks” or “Crimson and Clover” on it, but nothing hard. I’d like to be good enough to play like Bobby Black on his worst day, but as long as we’re wishing, let’s pick Commander Cody’s version of [Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyYLrVNKE68). Sheer gorgeousness, wayyyyyyy past my ability. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/17 "2016-08-06T21:17:33Z")
[Windy and Warm](https://youtu.be/cw2Dn9a8sQ4). ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/18 "2016-08-07T03:30:45Z")
not sure if threads of this sort can go without… the unplayable… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jQqK1CjE9bA/hqdefault.jpg "The Shaggs ~ Philosophy of the World (full album 1969)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqK1CjE9bA) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/19 "2016-08-07T04:15:19Z")
[quote=“Eddie The Horrible, post:18, topic:761872”] not sure if threads of this sort can go without… the unplayable… [/QUOTE] You misspelled “unlistenable.” ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/20 "2016-08-07T17:51:45Z")
Only one answer here - the guitar duel (both parts played by Steve Vai) from the movie _Crossoads_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMAkr\_Z74E8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMAkr_Z74E8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872.md?page=2)