# Recommend a jazz song for me to play on guitar **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 24, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-jazz-song-for-me-to-play-on-guitar/947227 "2021-07-24T22:25:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-jazz-song-for-me-to-play-on-guitar/947227/1 "2021-07-24T22:25:44Z")
I’m a intermediate player, have played only acoustic until a few months ago. My electric is a Fender Special Edition FMT, I’ve heard it called a Les Paul in a Fender body. I’m looking for something sort of mellow, no really fast playing but not ballad speed either. Somehing that would require me to go up and down the neck, which I haven’t really done before Basically, something I could impress a date with, If I ever get another one, when she sees I have 3 guitars. ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-jazz-song-for-me-to-play-on-guitar/947227/2 "2021-07-25T00:55:39Z")
Miles Davis’ “So What” ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-jazz-song-for-me-to-play-on-guitar/947227/3 "2021-07-25T01:32:37Z")
Autumn Leaves is a perennial favorite, and not difficult to play. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-jazz-song-for-me-to-play-on-guitar/947227/4 "2021-07-25T01:35:36Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a6KDpB6skA4/hqdefault.jpg "Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave 1967") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6KDpB6skA4) ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-jazz-song-for-me-to-play-on-guitar/947227/5 "2021-07-25T01:52:38Z")
Check out Dave Van Ronk—while people called him a “folk singer” he insisted he was a jazz musician for much of his career. He does what you might think of as jazz stylings to songs such as St. James Infirmary, and it was his arrangement of House of the Rising Sun that Bob Dylan used, which in turn became the arrangement The Animals made famous.