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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2005 at 16:25

Do you play an instrument/sing?

Yep, both

If you play an instrument, which one?

I play keybords on a band called Gris (it means grey in spanish), i sing and play guitars on a band called Maalox. Gris is Classic Metal, Ma.lox is prog, kinda Porcupine tree's style

Have you received training?

yeah ,a good one

How often do you often sing/play Progressive Rock?

Most of the time... 3 or 4 hours a day

What are your favourite songs to play?

It changes all the time. Recently i'm little bit obsessed with Dawn of Victory by Rhapsody


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2005 at 16:26
Yeah, I play guitar and keyboard in a power metal band with some prog influences. We'll hopefully have some stuff recorded soon; once we do, I'll post it on here.

Tomorrow, with some other musicians, I'm auditioning for my school's annual rock concert with a cover of Porcupine Tree's Blackest Eyes. I'll be playing guitar and singing; I've never done that before, so hopefully all will go well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2005 at 16:50

I've been playing bass for six years, almost by ear (I just had a very bad experience with cello lessons before...) but now I'm seriously () studying 'cause now I have not just one but two bands [an all-girl indie band where I also do the backing vocals and a rock-blues one]!!! I'm really happy, although I'd prefer a hard rock or prog band...

Ah, my fav songs to play:

  • A Perfect Circle, "Breņa"
  • Tool, "Schism"
  • all MAdM songs
  • PT, "Strip the soul"
  • Pink Floyd, "Money"
  • ELP, "From the beginning" (i suppose the bass part is played with keyboards but I'm learning it anyway...)
  • Belle and Sebastian, "Like Dylan in the movies"

* My eyes are full but my face is empty *
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2005 at 20:06

I've been playing guitar and piano for 7 years. My band, which doesn't have an official name, is a Rush/Cream inspired band in our sound but we have long instrumental jams.

My favorite songs to play right now are:

Hemispheres
Jacob's Ladder
Exiles
Larks' Tongue in Aspic, part II

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2005 at 20:32
Hi,

I'm another guitarist/singer on the forum.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 06:55
I've decided to start teaching myself keys
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 16:20
Originally posted by hegelec hegelec wrote:

So, I pose the questions:

Do you play an instrument/sing? Instrument

If you play an instrument, which one? Electric VIPER!  (violin!!)

Have you received training? MANY years!

How often do you often sing/play Progressive Rock?  VERY often!  I play spacerock and also world-influenced prog. 

What are your favourite songs to play?  Songs from my CD, Hawkwind songs (especially when guesting with Nik Turner or Harvey Bainbridge!), recording for Systems Theory

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 15 2005 at 19:04
[QUOTE=ViolinCyndee][QUOTE=hegelec]

So, I pose the questions:

Do you play an instrument/sing? Yes to both.

If you play an instrument, which one?  Drums, percussion, keyboards.

Have you received training?  Nope.  I can proudly say...I'm TOTALLY self-taught.

How often do you often sing/play Progressive Rock?  Not lately (e.g.; the last 2 or 3 months.). I've been doing a LOT of writing lately, so when I sit down to play, it's to arrange the song. 

What are your favourite songs to play?  Favorite songs?  Well, I'm biased, since they were the 1st rock I ever heard (1994).  So a bit of Rush, and more and more of my own material.

Some world views are spacious, and some are merely spaced...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 15 2005 at 22:05

Do you play an instrument/sing?  I sing, and I play drums and piano.

If you play an instrument, which one?  Drums and piano.

Have you received training?  I've recieved 4 years of drum lessons, and started taking piano and singing lessons about a year ago.

How often do you often sing/play Progressive Rock?  When I'm not practicing technique, that's all I play.

What are your favourite songs to play?  I don't really have a favorite song to play on piano or drums, but my favorite songs to sing are certain songs in DT's Scenes From A Memory and of course, my own work. :D

How awesome. A place where I can talk about progressive rock and not hear "IS THIS ONE OF YOUR 50 HOUR LONG SONGS?!?!" I salute you. :D
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2005 at 02:48
Originally posted by hegelec hegelec wrote:

This is something of a bizzare thread; I'm not sure where to put it . . .

I've always wondered how many prog fans are musicians themselves and what they play.  The stereotype of the Prog world is that we are all cape-wearing keyboardists who studied musicology with the Royal Conservatory, but I'm sure this is not the case.

I don't wear a cape, I didn't study at the Conservatory, and I don't play "traditional" prog rock.

So, I pose the questions:

Do you play an instrument/sing?

Yes to both.

If you play an instrument, which one?

Piano, Voice, Guitars, violin.

Have you received training?

And given it in Piano, Voice and theory - but I'm self-taught on the guitars.

How often do you often sing/play Progressive Rock?

I try to avoid it. I find I write more progressive music that way.

What are your favourite songs to play?

Somewhat narcissistically, anything I've written - but I like playing other people's stuff too.

There's a demo of some of my stuff at Yousendit http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PCEWAFFVDGCS3HBPBI4JQ4XV Y - the link expires in a day or two.

It's called Demo 3a because it includes two tracks that aren't on Demo 3, one of which is rough, unfinished and is just a proof of concept (Ward 31), and a remix of Industry that improves on the original in many ways, but lacks in others.

The Winzip password is www.progarchives.com

I don't usually circulate my music in the main forum, but I think our new stuff is getting almost proggy - so it may have some appeal. I'd be interested in feedback - but don't expect complex works of genius; I'm trying to get a convincing fusion of rock/metal and electronica going before I start mucking about with a formula I have yet to decide on - so it's all simple stuff 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2005 at 05:24
I play only the piano & keyboards in general. My musical background is in classical music (during more than 10 years), now I explore new territories in contemporary music, notably in minimalism & "drone" suspended music.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2005 at 13:20
Yep, I sing and play an instrument or two.

If you ask me it's the most fun you can have standing up.
I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2005 at 18:30

Originally posted by sigod sigod wrote:

Yep, I sing and play an instrument or two.

If you ask me it's the most fun you can have standing up.

 

The most fun you can have standing up...that's awkward and rather random....HEHE!

Some world views are spacious, and some are merely spaced...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2005 at 20:46
I play the drums, guitar, and piano. I take drum and piano lessons, and am self taught on the guitar. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2005 at 02:18

I classify myself as a recovering folkie.

I play guitar. Some harmonica. I sing. I've never been accused of being a virtuoso.

I like playing Shel Silverstein and Neil Young songs. My favourites to play are anything with a major dose of humour. Songs like "Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other", "Let's Do Something Cheap And Superficial", "Get My Rocks Off" and "I Got Stoned And I Missed It".

There's another song that I don't perform publically but only for my wife. It's our song and mirrors perfectly the situatioin in our life when we became more than just friends. I'd tell you more about it but it's a really sappy, sickly sweet romantic story that would make you either sick or laugh at my pathetic life.

 

"they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world.
the fools
they locked up the wrong man."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2005 at 16:12

Do you play an instrument/sing?

I play the guitar, at christmas or my birthday (two weeks after Christmas) I'll buy Vibes and learn to play on them.
I'm abled to sing, but I haven't enough power on my voice so it doesn't sound really good...


If you play an instrument, which one?

I play the guitar (electric and accoustic).


Have you received training?

Yes.


How often do you sing/play Progressive Rock?

As often as I can. I play in a band that is more or less progressive.


What are your favourite songs to play?

The once's written by our band. Besides I love to play Gentle Giant's "Prologue".


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2005 at 14:41
I play guitar: classical guitar primarily
                  also got an Ibanez AS 73 BS

I sing in a chamber choir, I'm bass


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2005 at 15:56
Originally posted by hegelec hegelec wrote:

This is something of a bizzare thread; I'm not sure where to put it . . .

I've always wondered how many prog fans are musicians themselves and what they play.  The stereotype of the Prog world is that we are all cape-wearing keyboardists who studied musicology with the Royal Conservatory, but I'm sure this is not the case.

So, I pose the questions:

Do you play an instrument/sing?

If you play an instrument, which one?

Have you received training?

How often do you often sing/play Progressive Rock?

What are your favourite songs to play?



I play Guitar and Bass

YEs, I have received training.

I've been playing only a year, so my ability to play Prog Rock isn't good. So I play like, a couple hours a week. Working on easier songs like The Knife, I know What I Like, Us and Them, etc.
www.myspace.com/hail_peter
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2005 at 22:18

Glad someone revised this thread. I'm fairly excited because I just started playing a flute. I played one years ago and it's all coming back to me. My wife had one in a closet. I've always wanted to play it but never seemed to have the time. Well, that and it seemed to bother my dogs. I started a new job and I  sometimes work a nightshift with a couple of hours with nothing to do. I'm overjoyed that I have a place to practice with nobody to complain, great acoustics and I'm getting paid. I'm sure the boss might not be crazy about me bringing in something as bulky as a guitar but the flute is small enough that it fits into the duffle bag I carry. I'm having fun figuring out songs by ear. Maybe someday I'll buy actual sheet music.

 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2005 at 22:44

I can't play a lick, but I'm a real animal behind the mic -

"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

Albert Camus
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