Greatest 12 String ACOUSTIC Guitar Songs

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  • Опубликовано: 17 янв 2025

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  • @Karlgolden
    @Karlgolden  3 месяца назад

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  • @driveman6490
    @driveman6490 5 лет назад +626

    I can only play half of these........because, of course, I own a 6 string guitar.

    • @samtheman123
      @samtheman123 4 года назад +24

      Ba-dum tss

    • @williamsvendsen9990
      @williamsvendsen9990 4 года назад +4

      I bet you have kids

    • @wiskyr6510
      @wiskyr6510 4 года назад +1

      @@samtheman123 or on a 12-hwad drum, Ba-ba-dum-dum-tss-tss

    • @natyuko5355
      @natyuko5355 4 года назад +2

      You play it the same way, it dos not change, just the sound

    • @amandareynolds2779
      @amandareynolds2779 3 года назад +1

      I can play wish u were here on a 12 string. But a 12 string omg. It's a huge difference

  • @torreskev
    @torreskev 4 года назад +136

    0:03 Wanted Dead Or Alive
    0:15 Wish You Were Here
    0:41 Maggie May
    0:55 Hole Hearted
    1:19 Over The Hills And Far Away
    1:44 Free Falin
    1:54 Closer To The Heart
    2:14 Wild Horses
    2:25 Mamma Im Coming Home
    2:40 Suicide Note 1
    2:55 More Than A Feeling

  • @henrye8127
    @henrye8127 5 лет назад +474

    I love how one of the lyrics for Wanted Dead or Alive is “loaded six string on my back”, yet you need a 12 string to play the song 😂

    • @stevencooper1103
      @stevencooper1103 5 лет назад +7

      I was thinking the same thing, lol

    • @richsmbr1544
      @richsmbr1544 5 лет назад +6

      Henry E that will be because it's recorded and performed live on a 12 string

    • @tommyzawr
      @tommyzawr 5 лет назад +2

      It’s because 12 strings are heavy to carry 😝

    • @canadaplace2be176
      @canadaplace2be176 5 лет назад +2

      I hardly dout he cant play a fucking 6 string.

    • @bensims8994
      @bensims8994 5 лет назад +1

      You probs could play on a 6 string

  • @NiRo_90125
    @NiRo_90125 5 лет назад +167

    Queen - Love of my Life (Live version)

  • @moistayyylien
    @moistayyylien 5 лет назад +454

    Surprised you didn’t include hotel California. Would love to see it.

    • @KeeperOfPoops
      @KeeperOfPoops 5 лет назад +29

      then the video would've been took down

    • @Karlgolden
      @Karlgolden  5 лет назад +103

      It was number 1! Got blocked worldwide. See end of video

    • @moistayyylien
      @moistayyylien 5 лет назад +5

      Karl Golden i see now, anyway you could upload it anywhere else? Instagram, facebook, etc.

    • @bluejaysbaseball
      @bluejaysbaseball 5 лет назад +15

      Karl Golden Not surprised. My channel blew up when I did a cover of it 2.5K views, but they took it down for zero reason... I was making no money off of it and didn’t even use a backing track

    • @JM-mi2ew
      @JM-mi2ew 5 лет назад +9

      I stopped listening to the Eagles for this very reason, they are overreaching and money hungry scumbags. I do like some of Joe Walsh's solo stuff though.

  • @shauryabellani7365
    @shauryabellani7365 5 лет назад +23

    Congratulations on your upcoming child. You'll be a great father and the coolest dad too. Stay safe and don't worry about taking time off. We'll still be here. Put yourself and your family before us.

  • @1Adventures2
    @1Adventures2 2 года назад

    Thanks!

  • @geraltzrivii4582
    @geraltzrivii4582 5 лет назад +6

    I'm really happy you made that video. I think, that many of the acoustic songs are really underrated. Love your compilations

  • @MusicCoversByEssie
    @MusicCoversByEssie 5 лет назад +9

    I play almost exclusively with a 12 string, and I really, really enjoyed this video! It gave me lots of ideas for future songs to learn. thanks!

  • @GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy
    @GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy 10 месяцев назад

    Also, 'Walk Right In' by the Rooftop Singers, even though it's kind of folky and outdated ( 1963 ) it does have a great 12 string acoustic guitar solo.

  • @ethanlundy
    @ethanlundy 5 лет назад +2

    That Over the Hills and Far Away cover was absolutely brilliant

  • @aliriohernandez8458
    @aliriohernandez8458 5 лет назад +7

    One tip for tuning, Karl: strike the upper string with a gentle downpick, and the lower string with an upstrike. It lessens the hassle. For me, finding the right tuning peg is annoying!

  • @joshuasalgado4694
    @joshuasalgado4694 5 лет назад +22

    So happy to see pantera on this list🙏🏻

  • @1960beadie
    @1960beadie 4 года назад +1

    Hey Karl...I have told so many the same thing...I have an Ibanez Concord that I have had for 46 years and while I consider myself an intermediate player, it makes me sound so much better because of the sound it produces...magic!!!

  • @richrinehart1083
    @richrinehart1083 2 года назад +1

    I learned to play on a 12 string. I sat across from my dad and just followed him on the fretboard. Yeah it was pretty ugly for the first probably 6 months or so because I only played when we were together which was about 2-3 times a month. About a year or so into playing with him he had to quit working because he was getting sicker and sicker from cancer. We ended up playing 4-5 nights a week, sometimes we played every night together. After about a year I wasn't half a step behind him anymore and with both of us on 12 stringers it was pretty cool. Lost him after our usual 6-7 hour jam session. I left him at 2:30 am and he was found at 8am still sitting at the kitchen table right where I left him..... I just started playing again after 22 or 23 years and I wish I wouldn't have ever put it down.... it was just too painful. I still play his 12 string that he gave me one morning after we did an all nighter with his cousin who I always called uncle Paul. Uncle Paul made a couple of records but never got a lucky break. They had been playing together since they were teenagers and Paul could play everything from the banjo - to the steel guitar. Paul could play anything with strings on it.... and yes even a violin. Truly a gifted man. I miss them both everyday when I pickup my 12 stringer and try to play. The years of working in the construction industry really killed my hands. I have carpal tunnel in both hands and I am really struggling with getting my fingers to move independently of each other..... it is really starting to piss me off. I had to change what style of pick I play with due to losing about 40% of my right pointer finger and cutting a saw kerf through the meat of my middle and ring fingers from the night that I broke 3 cardinal rules of working with a table saw....... I cannot hardly feel those fingers so I had to get picks that have a rough gripping surface because I cannot feel a smooth one in my hand and all the sudden I will lose it in the sound hole or it will fly out of my hand. I really enjoyed watching someone really getting the amazing sound that a 12 string brings to the party!!! I cannot play a 6 string.... I cannot seem to find he strings LOL
    Peace

  • @Lalairu
    @Lalairu 5 лет назад +159

    12 strings sound like heaven... Stringing tjem must be a pain in the ass though
    PD RUSH!!

    • @Karlgolden
      @Karlgolden  5 лет назад +13

      Oh yes massively! 😂🤣

    • @Lalairu
      @Lalairu 5 лет назад +7

      @@Karlgolden I love them a lot anyway. They sound like something between an harp and a mandolin. Really dreamy.

    • @antoniocpt4870
      @antoniocpt4870 5 лет назад +11

      Mexicans be abusing 12 strings they use it to fingerstyle they be sounding fire

    • @alexcrawfordguitar9361
      @alexcrawfordguitar9361 5 лет назад

      Believe me they are

    • @kevinkarg4464
      @kevinkarg4464 5 лет назад +1

      @@zoeysmith7103 Not if you shop around and get the right kind of strings.

  • @asnahusaini7272
    @asnahusaini7272 5 лет назад +50

    Over The Hills And Far Away - Led Zeppelin🤘🏻

  • @RC32Smiths01
    @RC32Smiths01 5 лет назад +8

    I was about to say Stairway to Heaven, but we all know already haha! Great session and showcase man!

  • @krabwater
    @krabwater 5 лет назад +35

    Suprised that Suicide Note, pt 1 was included... made me happy

  • @himanshuhingwe7356
    @himanshuhingwe7356 5 лет назад +31

    God damn.. they are literally blocking every video containing Hotel California on RUclips. It's such a great song and if they keep blocking such content then how's that beauty of a song will reach new generation of listeners. They must be a little lenient on youtubers using that song.

  • @alexrogers9083
    @alexrogers9083 5 лет назад +3

    Recently started playing on a 12 string and they sound so beautiful

  • @aaronbaltazar253
    @aaronbaltazar253 2 года назад

    0:03 wanted dead or alive - bon jovi
    2:55 - more than a feeling boston

  • @lornedey4040
    @lornedey4040 3 года назад +3

    Anything by the Byrds is classic 12 string guitar music. Mr. Tamborine Man, I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better, Bells of Rhymney, Turn, Turn, Turn, Chimes of Freedom, Eight Miles High, My Back Pages, etc.

  • @gavindwyer5205
    @gavindwyer5205 5 лет назад +11

    I stay away by Alice In Chains and like suicide by soundgarden the real song is heavy but there’s a 12 string acoustic b side made by Chris Cornell and Kim thayil that is so beautiful

  • @stephenzatlukal9549
    @stephenzatlukal9549 5 лет назад +2

    Oldie but goodie Rooftop Singers 1963 "walk right in" - - two 12 strings left and right handed

  • @curtisallred7250
    @curtisallred7250 Год назад +1

    I went to a music store on 1/27/2023 and tried a 12-string guitar and I could not get over how bright the tune is. I played one of my favorite Tom Petty songs on it and dang it sounded good. The song I played was I Won't Back Down. A teen girl was standing beside me moving her head to it. I have a black MAESTRO acoustic 6-string guitar that I got for Christmas back in December of 2015.

  • @cannibalcorpse6664
    @cannibalcorpse6664 5 лет назад +12

    I’d say my favorite 12 string of all time is suicide note pt1 pantera

    • @AirGuitar
      @AirGuitar 5 лет назад

      CANNIBALCORPSE666 oh yeah that song is amazing! That was the first thing I learned on a 12 string. Still gives me chills. That whole album is amazing!

  • @helloworld4284
    @helloworld4284 5 лет назад +2

    So beautiful. If you want, you should do full covers of all these songs. Love from Canada!

    • @bakowsky1
      @bakowsky1 3 года назад

      SAME HERE!!! FROM Toronto with LOVE! Merry Christmas!!! I LOVE A WOMAN WHO LOVES THIS STUFF!!!

  • @ferccini
    @ferccini 4 года назад +1

    KARL, MATE AWESOOOOME, THANKS FOR THIS - made my day

  • @craigpierce7996
    @craigpierce7996 3 месяца назад

    Beautiful music! That's my gen there, still rockin' in the free world. You played fantastic and your guitar sounded great! Nice action on it!

  • @violetflame23
    @violetflame23 2 года назад

    Hey Karl. Was checking out great songs for 12-strings and found your video. I just got my first 12-string - a Faith Naked Venus like yours. What an instrument! Love your playing.

  • @andrewpappas9311
    @andrewpappas9311 5 лет назад +1

    This was awesome, man, props from the Canadian for throwing some Rush in (I also just read your pinned comment and congratulations on your upcoming baby, I'm really happy for you)

    • @Karlgolden
      @Karlgolden  5 лет назад

      Thanks Andrew 🤘🔥🎸

  • @Noochmane
    @Noochmane 4 года назад +1

    Highly recommend to people who are thinking about getting a 12 string look into one with a built in tuner it makes life much easier, more moolah but so worth it

  • @jeffreyschmoldt7798
    @jeffreyschmoldt7798 5 лет назад

    Nice playing..thanks for sharing. Ps the rush sounded great as well as the Ozzie

  • @alistairewen9558
    @alistairewen9558 5 лет назад +2

    12 is one of my favourites and, it didn't cost the earth.

  • @melindagracia175
    @melindagracia175 4 года назад +1

    Love the sound! You are an awesome guitar artist!!

  • @troytempest4918
    @troytempest4918 5 лет назад

    Thank you Karl! I'm a huge Ken Navarro fan. You and Ken would really meld together.

  • @billymac23454
    @billymac23454 5 лет назад +15

    "Bron-y-aur stomp" , Led Zeppelin from the 3rd album.

  • @magg93
    @magg93 4 года назад

    the way you play free fallin sounds really good!

  • @dandoesmusic2656
    @dandoesmusic2656 5 лет назад +25

    Props for including suicide note part 1

    • @ethanmcleathan8021
      @ethanmcleathan8021 5 лет назад +2

      Awesome song. I absolutely love it

    • @ellisdugg
      @ellisdugg 5 лет назад +1

      FUCK YESSSS 🖤🖤🖤

    • @WillieE2337
      @WillieE2337 5 лет назад +1

      Panfuckintera 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

  • @Angrybogan
    @Angrybogan Год назад

    Karl, love your style and thanks for covering many beautiful songs. My personal 12-string favourite: "Question" by the Moody Blues.

  • @jessekragiel
    @jessekragiel 4 года назад +1

    The beginning of Wouldn't It Be Nice by the Beach Boys! Such a cool riff!

  • @andrewvargas5258
    @andrewvargas5258 3 года назад

    Excellent.. I can relate as I only play 12 strings.... I play a Taylor but love the sound of that Faith too

  • @kurtzskorner3414
    @kurtzskorner3414 4 года назад +1

    Cool video! I'm learning songs on 12-string after nearly dying from a brain aneurism. My mom called both of my brothers and told them to hurry down to California if they want to say 'goodbye' to me beFORE I die. "Your brother is now at UCLA", my mom said, "because they're trying one last-ditch effort by the neurologist, Dr. Vespa, but another neurologist called Charlie's wife and told him it would never work. He said, 'I've been practicing medicine for 20 years, so I know what works, and what does not work, and that procedure by Dr. Vespa will NEVER work!' My poor wife said, "I'm CERTAIN you know more about this than I do, but we don't seem to have much of a choice!" Obviously, the procedure DID work, but for the rest of my life, I will always be quoted for what I said when the medical staff at UCLA asked me shortly after waking up if I recognized the weeping woman at my bedside, my wife of 17 years, I said, "I'm not sure who she is, but I think I like her a lot." (Of course, I had to be TOLD I said this, because I can't recall ever SAYING it!!!) To hear my story, search RUclips for "Charles Frank Kurtz", then spread word that miracles still happen to this very day! My being alive to even SAY 'miracles happen' is miraculous!!! (I now remember who my wife IS, BTW! ;^D)

  • @reinsphoenix
    @reinsphoenix 4 года назад

    wow first 2 songs i learned to play: wish u were here and over the hills and far away, was just lookin for some 12 string songs. thx

  • @henryharvey6609
    @henryharvey6609 5 лет назад

    I play my old Fender DG 16-12, thru a Gallien Kruger MB115 and it sounds amazing. Just got the ToneWood Amp and it's amazing as well!!

  • @6174ever
    @6174ever 5 лет назад

    Beautiful sound. Thanks for posting

  • @TheAdwatson
    @TheAdwatson 5 лет назад +3

    I really regret selling my 12 string, complete with magnetic pickup, for NZ$100 several years ago. Even mistakes sound good on 12 strings!

  • @dwells37
    @dwells37 2 года назад

    Lovely playing, mate! And lovely Faith guitar as well! And I thought I was the only person who still used the word plectrum!😆

  • @misaelvagni9225
    @misaelvagni9225 5 лет назад +39

    Karl! Look for a argentinian band named "Soda Stereo". I'm sure you're gonna like it!

    • @manuelgarciamiranda5178
      @manuelgarciamiranda5178 5 лет назад +2

      Aguante Sodaaa

    • @augustosantiesteban3426
      @augustosantiesteban3426 5 лет назад +1

      @@manuelgarciamiranda5178 Soda, Charlie y Spinetta❤

    • @mercurybruh4212
      @mercurybruh4212 5 лет назад +2

      There another band, but this time is chilean, its called: Los Prisioneros, check it out, you guys are gonna love it, the song called Paramar is one of the beautiful songs they have

    • @felixcafferata
      @felixcafferata 5 лет назад

      soda spinetta y charly

  • @UnfamiliarBeetle2917
    @UnfamiliarBeetle2917 3 года назад

    I have a fender CD-140 that is a 12 string and I just absolutely love it.

  • @stephengervais3555
    @stephengervais3555 4 года назад

    Wow love the rush part on a 12 string!!!

  • @gregorystace8176
    @gregorystace8176 3 года назад

    Nice work and great playing !

  • @KyleCowden
    @KyleCowden Месяц назад

    Watched this to wind down to sleep. Now I have to go find these all over RUclips. Thanks a lot.

  • @ve2um
    @ve2um 11 месяцев назад

    Wanted dead or alive...... Wish you were here""
    Staright at the beginning you killed me...
    SSSOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL !!!!
    Thank you so much... 12 string is the best guitar sound.

  • @samkan90
    @samkan90 5 лет назад

    Enjoyed much (and I'm 65, an oldtimer). See if you can do anything with Rod's "Gasoline Alley". Tough without the lead slide(s) but a beautiful tune!

  • @ed_music1834
    @ed_music1834 3 года назад

    This is great Sir. Wanted Dead or Alive certainly is one of them classics

  • @alastairstewart8302
    @alastairstewart8302 5 лет назад +5

    Ocean by Jon Butler is a really beautiful song, I would love to hear you play that.

  • @rockstarlpl
    @rockstarlpl 5 лет назад +1

    This video makes me want to go buy a 12 string acoustic now lol good job man sounds amazing

  • @inahbaxter6964
    @inahbaxter6964 Год назад

    Beautiful. Imma get one

  • @twofingerspirits1479
    @twofingerspirits1479 2 года назад

    Awesome! Thank you!

  • @Gustavo_Chagas
    @Gustavo_Chagas 5 лет назад +25

    Hard Luck Woman!!

  • @mop_sends
    @mop_sends 3 года назад

    Been playing for ten months... You are a god to me

  • @jeffstewart3342
    @jeffstewart3342 Год назад

    Great video. Love it.

  • @vlogmancsa8453
    @vlogmancsa8453 4 года назад +1

    0:00 2:55

  • @allenstevens9943
    @allenstevens9943 4 года назад

    NICE! My studio has red and black acoustic treatment too.

  • @suspendedandfaraway
    @suspendedandfaraway 2 года назад

    I miss my twelve string. I had to sell in college because I needed the money. Thanks for the video, it makes me very sentimental.

  • @LoserManic
    @LoserManic 5 лет назад +23

    If your looking for other songs...
    Tangerine- Led Zeppelin

  • @countroshculla
    @countroshculla 4 года назад +1

    I was only waiting for Closer to Heart - And the men who hold 12 string guitars, must be the ones to play!

  • @antman2826
    @antman2826 5 лет назад +2

    Wasn’t expecting Suicide Note Pt1 but much appreciated.

  • @AidenWheresMoh
    @AidenWheresMoh 5 лет назад

    Nice playing karl golden

  • @grene1955
    @grene1955 6 месяцев назад

    I love 12 string guitars! Try The Moody Blues, Nights In White Satin... great 12 string song and fairly easy to play!

  • @ashurhinawer5864
    @ashurhinawer5864 3 года назад

    Chicago- if you leave me now.
    Nice work 🙂

  • @gino3286
    @gino3286 3 года назад

    listening to these amazing player and songs ... i would try a dobro with some dsp ... i will do one day

  • @jamesmorrison2063
    @jamesmorrison2063 5 лет назад +1

    "The Wizard" by Uriah Heep. 12 string is tuned down a whole step and the 6th set of strings are tuned down to "C" EASY and FUN!

    • @vuthithu9051
      @vuthithu9051 4 года назад

      James Morrison psychedelic rock hell yes!

  • @coldinwisconsin2017
    @coldinwisconsin2017 3 года назад +2

    These melodies are beautiful and you play well, but that fret buzz on the B string (especially during More Than A Feeling) is rough. Hopefully you've gotten the neck adjusted by now.

  • @svent6022
    @svent6022 5 лет назад +1

    Way too beautiful!

  • @seanperdue232
    @seanperdue232 4 года назад +1

    I was gonna be MAD if I didn't hear Hole Hearted.
    This player did NOT disappoint.

  • @robocarroll4872
    @robocarroll4872 Год назад

    See if you like these; they're from a 1963 album by some session musos recording as The Guitar Ramblers. There's lots of 12 -string and these guys are virtuosos.

  • @Amexel
    @Amexel 2 года назад

    Great video!

  • @jimmydeett12
    @jimmydeett12 3 года назад

    1:36 - hey man i was just about the like!

  • @RCROSSH
    @RCROSSH 5 лет назад

    I have 12 string Epiphone guitar. It' not very playable but its one of the best things I've ever had in my life.
    You don't know what you feel with a guitar like this till you play one.

  • @kiko3782
    @kiko3782 4 года назад +1

    Wanted Dead or Alive é a primeira música que eu toquei também quando eu peguei o meu eagle 12 cordas

  • @enekontxa281
    @enekontxa281 5 лет назад +3

    Friday Im in love - The Cure

  • @SARGE11963
    @SARGE11963 5 лет назад

    Well done, dude!

  • @sebaselnieto
    @sebaselnieto 5 лет назад +5

    Don't know if QOTSA "Mosquito song" is 12 string guitar, but think it could sound great

    • @70NA5
      @70NA5 5 лет назад

      It is

  • @budycelyn
    @budycelyn 5 лет назад

    i love my 12 string, noticed you were getting some fret buzz on the more than a feeling track, could have added i remember you from skid row also :) great video though

  • @bradprather6749
    @bradprather6749 4 года назад

    I forgot all about Maggie Mae! Thanks, nice compilation.

  • @them.e.5119
    @them.e.5119 3 года назад

    You motivated me to buy one!

  • @marcaopenas7329
    @marcaopenas7329 2 года назад

    I just LOVE this video. Just bought a 12 string guitar.

    • @Karlgolden
      @Karlgolden  2 года назад

      Thank you and congrats! So much fun!!

  • @harleck9119
    @harleck9119 5 лет назад

    *Give a Little Bit by Supertramp!!!!!* That was a must. Awesome video though!!! :)

  • @texasborn9382
    @texasborn9382 4 года назад

    Dude, my hats off to you

  • @kylerdayton4383
    @kylerdayton4383 4 года назад

    Wow hearing closer to the heart😍

  • @paulbanner9612
    @paulbanner9612 3 года назад

    Just had to be a Faith 12 string ..own two 6 strings .Super playing 👍👍😎

  • @codyblair4818
    @codyblair4818 5 лет назад

    This was a wonderful video! Awesome job! Just a quick question, what chords are you strumming when you do Free Fallin? I tried to mimic it, but nothing I was doing was sounding any similar.

  • @cooper5882
    @cooper5882 4 года назад

    Acoustic version of ELP Still you turn me on. Nice Job

  • @worshipgeek
    @worshipgeek 5 лет назад +2

    Turn, Turn, Turn; Mr. Tambourine Man; Rhymes and Reasons by John Denver.

    • @marmotsongs
      @marmotsongs 5 лет назад

      The Byrds used an electric 12 (Rickenbacker), not acoustic.

  • @canadaplace2be176
    @canadaplace2be176 5 лет назад

    U melting hard. Awsome. Hotel California. Metelica. Ozzy. Awsome bro thank u so so much. From canada. I got a fender 12 string. 77/81. Hard wood back pine front walnut stock and key area.

  • @francocivica5929
    @francocivica5929 3 года назад +1

    No Genesis 12 strings songs, no party