I'm thinking about doing some busking and I'd love to play a Prince number, although I can't think of too many tracks from his canon of work that would suit just an accoustic guitar... do you guys have any suggestions?

What are the chords to The Other Side Of The Pillow? That one would sound cool...

MattyJam said:

Alot of his songs can be played on an accoustic guitar(if not all).
Depends on the way you arange it I guess.
But these are some cool ones he plays accoustic sometimes:

Reflections
Sometimes it snows in april
With you
Forever in my life

yep he played acoustic guitar last sumer 'snows in april' is perfect but may make the pasengers/shoppers feel a bit suicidle

something uptempo would be good and it would have to be a 'hit' or they wont recognise it and pay u.

Alphabet St.

Seven

How about the acoustic album he did called "The Truth" which was part of the Crystal Ball set.

MattyJam said:

Here are the chords to The Other Side of the Pillow:

E7
Cool as the other side of the

A7
pillow

E7
Smooth as another glass of

A7
wine, oh yes sir

G7
I'm so glad U're my

A7
baby, oh yeah

C7
I'm so

B7
glad that U're

E7
mine


The chords are played higher up the neck. In the second verse, he repeats the C7 - B7 run.

My favorite songs to play acoustically to a crowd are:

Take Me With U
Strange Relationship
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Cream
Little Red Corvette
Beautiful, Loved and Blessed
Raspberry Beret
Money Don't Matter Tonight
The Holy River
One of Us
New Power Generation
Peach
1999
Nothing Compares 2 U
Guitar
Anotherloverholeinyohead
The One U Wanna C
Lion of Judah
Resolution
Baby I'm a Star
The Cross

If you're gonna be playing on a street corner, best to stick to the hits like "Cream", "Raspberry Beret", "Little Red Corvette", etc. No matter how much I like playing "Strange Relationship," no one's gonna pay to hear me play it.

y'all are forgetting "Kiss" too!

'dre