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    Posted: May 07 2006 at 10:55
Hey, I was wondering what you guys think are some good, easy Prog Instrumentals for a 4-piece band (keys, guitar, drums, bass) to play. I wanted my band to play some Dream Theater instrumentals, but for the most part, DT's stuff is too hard to play atm. So, what do you suggest we try to learn? (We mostly play Symphonic Prog Metal, but we're open to just about any kind of Prog really.)
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How about King Crimson's Red?
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You could select some bits from Tubular Bells to play, and rework them for your line up.
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What about Stellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd or perhaps Start by Peter Gabriel.
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Area? try to vocal parts first then proceed!
    

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Some Camel stuff maybe.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

How about King Crimson's Red?

I was thinking about this one, but what would the keyboardist play? I guess he could play the scales in the beginning and some chords throughout the song... And the keyboardist and I love Camel, so that might be a good idea too...
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Originally posted by Proghat Proghat wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

How about King Crimson's Red?

I was thinking about this one, but what would the keyboardist play? I guess he could play the scales in the beginning and some chords throughout the song... And the keyboardist and I love Camel, so that might be a good idea too...


Check out Niacin's cover of Red - the organ is the lead instrument there and it works well enough. Maybe the keys and the guitar could both work on the lead but an octave apart, for a truly powerful sound.

Alternatively, a four-piece reworking of Peaches en Regalia would be interesting. Tongue
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How about Wedding nails by Porcupine Tree?

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depending on what you consider hard you could do "The Boys in the Band" by Gentle Giant, or on the other side of things, "YYZ" by Rush.
 
I agree with Wedding Nails too
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Thanks guys! These are some great suggestions -- I'm gonna bounce 'em off them the guys at the next practice and hopefully we'll come up with some up with something decent. I'll be sure to post a recording of whatever we cover when we finish it!
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You could try Hell's Kitchen by Dream Theater... that one is probably the least technical DT instrumental

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Early Floyd material is sometimes instrumental.
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What about "Speak to Me" off DSOTM? Wink Actually, crap that'd be pretty hard to do....


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Holy crap, I just listened to wedding nails -- that guitar riff is awesome haha. I think I'm going to learn this one even if the rest of the band doesn't =P
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ELP - Toccata (Japanese band Gerard have done a brilliant heavy version of this on a CD called 'Keyboards Triangle')
 
Also Edgar Winter Group -Frankenstein,is a great heavy prog instrumental.
 
They're not 'easy' though! Are there really any easy prog instrumentals?


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