can anyone please recommened me some good pieces to learn on the guitar which dont require mad tunings, i,e bron yr aur stomp, that i could learn, adn if poss a site or link to listen to it, i just want to learn some mroe stuff for my acoustic cheers
Well, I am not a big acoustic player - I tend to play electric stuff on acoustic, but the obvious places to check are:
alt.guitar.tab (go to Google, click on Groups and look for alt.guitar, then within that, pick alt.guitar.tab)
OLGA - the OnLine Guitar Archive (easy to find via Google)
and a new one I came across:
http://littlebrother.nlpd.com/
Little Brother’s home page - enough to keep any guitar nut occupied for awhile - click on the acoustic section and it shows a bunch of links to tabs and fingerstyle websites…
Have fun.
These are my two major pickin’ party pieces that don’t require retuning:
Leonard Cohen, Suzanne.
The Beatles, Blackbird.
(Can’t guarantee the quality of the TAB I’ve linked to - I find it’s always best to learn the piece, then listen to it to see if the transcriber has messed up anywhere, and adapt it.)
I’d love to be able to play anything by Leo Kottke, but I’m just not good enough.
For pieces you are prepared to retune for, nothing beats Nick Drake for beauty and complexity. Impossible to play if you don’t listen to the songs obsessively first. Joni Mitchell is a close second, IMO.
“Blackbird” can be pretty difficult if you’re not familiar with Travis picking. Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” and “Comfortably Numb” are two strumming acoustic classic everyone shopuld know
Libba Cotton’s “Freight Train”. Piedmont blues is a great way to start picking, and gets you very nicely into all kinds of other good stuff like Bluegrass, Country, chicken-picking, etc.
I hesitate to say this, but nonetheless it’s true: “Stairway to Heaven” is a good learning experience. It’s got it all, really (picking, strumming, power chords, big fast barre chords, solos, you name it), in one song, and anyone can teach it to you because almost every single acoustic guitar player alive today, whether they will admit it or not, knows how to play it.
Radiohead - Karma Police
Foo Fighters - Big Me
A lot of stuff by Dylan
Beatles - You’ve Got to Hide your love away, rocky raccoon, any early stuff
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss (G Em C D)
Gilligan’s Island Theme Song
Counting Crows - Round Here
Eagles - Take It Easy
Strumming Songs;
The first song I ever learned how to play on guitar is ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis. Jack Johnson also has a lot of good stumming style songs such as ‘Flake.’
Picking Songs;
I really recommend trying out the song ‘Unintended’ by Muse. You may not have heard it before, it’s not only easy to learn and play but it’s a good song by an awesome band. Also the song ‘Everybody Hurts’ by REM is fun and easy to pick. Many people also enjoy ‘Time of your life’ by Greenday.
Here’s a good tab site; http://www.guitartabs.cc/home.php
Hope these might help you a little. 
I learned to pick “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas in pretty short order when I was first learning guitar. It’s pretty easy and sounds great.
cheers guys, incidently i can already play all of stairway(and the rest of the zep catalogue)!!, round here, blackbird ill check the others though
I ain’t never heard of Travis picking, and I can play it just fine (thumb for the bass, middle finger for the top notes, and first finger for the G drone - or is that what you mean?).
Try the Allman Brothers’ Lil Martha, Pure Prarie League’s Amie (Fallin In and Out of Love), or anything from the Indigo Girls’ Rites of Passage album (simple strumming, mostly).
Phish - The Horse
Jimmy Buffet - God’s Own Drunk (the Bear)
Fleetwood Mac / Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide
Tom Petty - Don’t Fade on Me, several other songs on Wildflowers
It’s hard to say without seeing you do it. You might be Travis picking without knowing what it’s called. Different people will tell you different patterns are Travis picking and the others are Travis variations (I suspect people most people believe their favorite is the original and everyone else’s are variations ) but this is what I was taught vis a vis Travis picking (T for thumb, 1 for index, 2 for middle…):
3+T, 1, 2, 3, T
where 3+1 is thumb and ring playing at the same time. It goes into Travis picking on the word “night” and bounces back and forth from there…at least that’s what it sounds like to me. You sound like you’re playing the same thing, but letting your middle finger do the work for your ring finger.
Sorry to bring up an old thread but…
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
It can be played on classical or acoustic guitar and is a great piece for picking. This was the first song I learnt, (and in hindsight probably not such a good idea…) nevertheless a fantastic instrumental hit of the late 60’s. But I guess that I’m biased towards it…
I think R.E.M.'s “Driver 8” sounds very nice when played solo acoustic.