Instrument

clarke2001 wrote: Philéas wrote: It has to be contrabass saxophone if it has to be saxophone.  Agreed 100% Ban the sopranino and alto saxes!!

Philéas wrote: It has to be contrabass saxophone if it has to be saxophone.

It has to be contrabass saxophone if it has to be saxophone. 

Anything cooler than a saxophone? Especially not since I started playing it  7 years ago. Gotta love non-electric instruments.

Edited by Kid-A - March 20 2007 at 20:08

Hmmm...
Let's see
Ummm....
Synthesizer?
yes, synthesizer(s) Many synthesizers.

I voted for guitar, cause I play it by myself

Edited by ProgFan - March 17 2007 at 10:43

Scapler wrote: How dare you include the Violin yet leave out the mastery of the Viola!!

What do you call an aweful violinist?

....I'll let you figure it out. 


Edited by rileydog22 - March 16 2007 at 21:32

Trickster F. wrote: By the way, are you able to write down the music you hear(as in, how did you get the Supper's Ready tune? Got a good ear?)?   Yeah, I also have improved dramatically since starting, obviously - who doesn't?   I like Harmonium a lot, I guess I should learn to play that tune (and it's my favourite album - I've also heard the debut). Thanks a lot for posting, wouldn't have ever found out there was flute sheet music for prog online without you.   I also have the flute sheet music for Supertwister (courtesy of the same music tutor that attends my place from time to time).

No problem.

I got Supper's Ready mostly by ear but I asked an old friend of my father for help. My ear isn't bad but I can't find anything complicated.

Do you, by any chance, have that sheet music on your computer or is it only on paper? I'd like to learn to play that song.

Got to say bass...its a pretty cool instrument...

Trickster F. wrote: Well, I remember you saying you were going to play Supper's Ready a week after picking up the flute, or something to that extent... If you could achieve that level after a week, whereas I only learned to play a dramatically simplified version of Jingle Bells a couple of months after starting out...  I have an excuse though, I had absolutely no knowledge of music theory at the time (and I am still not exactly interesting in learning it, I just like to play).   BTW, I can actually play all the flute parts from Rhayader off The Snow Goose. Not that it's a big achievement, and my sound does not cut it. My teacher says I don't play (or to put better, hold in my lips) the instrument the way it is supposed to be played, but then I played her some of my favourite flute parts in prog and she said I sound almost exactly like all the prog flautists.

I learned to play Rhayader too. It's a pretty cool song to play and most people like it when they hear it. I'm actually thinking about playing it in my school's play at the end of the year (with a little arrangement of course).

Playing Supper's Ready on flute is really easy actually. It's the first song I learned to play on flute and it's just a little more difficult than Jingle Bells is.

My sound is pretty far from being great too. I'm having troubles with my lips too but I'm improving. My sound is a zillion times better than it was when I started.

If you know Harmonium and if you like Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison, maybe you'd be interested to know that there is the sheet music for Histoire sans Paroles on their website. The opening melody may be one of the most beautiful piece of flute ever and it's not THAT difficult to play.

http://www.harmonium.qc.ca/tablatures/tabhistoiresansparolesintro.gif

Enjoy!