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    Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:39

Okay there may have been a thread like this before, but meh.

For anyone who plays an instrument, what progressive songs have you taken the effort to learn?

I can play (on Guitar) :

Genesis Fans will like:

  • Looking for Someone
  • Bits and pieces of White Mountain
  • A little bit of Dusk
  • The Knife
  • Harrold the Barrel
  • Return of the Giant Hogweed
  • Watcher of the Skies
  • Sorta can play Get Em Out By Friday
  • bits to Supper's Ready (particularly Lovers Leap and Apocalypse)
  • Just about learned Dancing with the Moonlight Knight
  • I Know What I Like
  • Firth of Fifth (One of the first ones I learned :D)
  • bits and pieces of Cinema Show/Isle of Plenty
  • The Lamb, In The Cage, Gradn Parade Of Lifeless Packaging, Back in NYC, Hairless Heart, Carpet Crawlers, Chamber of 32 Doors, Lillywhite Lillith, Waiting Room is friggin easy, Anyways...meh, Lamia, I can SORTA play Coloney of Slippermen...the last few songs on the album are sketchy but yeah lol
  • Patricia (Genesis)
  • In The Wilderness
  • Pacidy

Yes Fans (Yes is a lot more difficult for me cause Steve Howe does A LOT of lead so picking the songs up come a lot harder)

basically:

  • Roundabout sorta lol
  • bits to Awaken
  • Close to the Edge
  • Wonderous Stories
  • just aobut all of Long Distance Runaround
  • most of Siberian Khatru
  • bits to Gates of Delirium (particulary Soon)
  • Show Me

That's about it lol. I spend most of my time learning as many Genesis/Yes songs as i can because believe it or not you learn a lot of amazing techniques and a very unique style of playing...all the grown ups, music teachers, anyone look at my guitar playing and say 'woa! different' yes..I love the Genesis style and i always incorporate some kind of Genesis element into all my songs.

So yeah! What songs can all the musicians play on here? Do you guys have any bands? Tribute bands?

I'm just wondering because some of the best experiences you get in progressive music is when you actually play it.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:47
I have played many cover versions of various prog songs in several bands through out the years on guitar, bass, and vox. Mostly usual suspect type stuff (Lotsa Rush, Yes, Genesis, KC, Tull...) My current band Chicken Noodle Hammer (look us up *SELF PROMOTION ALERT* on our website of the same name) does versions of tunes by Gong, Tull, Roxy Music, and Crimson.

But my particular favorite bragalicious moment came when I pretty faithfully (If I may say so myself) reconstructed the guitar solo for Freewill in a band I was in about 10 years ago. Went over smashingly.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:52
I learned some bits of prog on keyboards and guitar (I almost never have the courage to learn a full song). I'm mostly a keyboard player. Here they come :

Keyboards:
-Firth of Fifth (I just love to play the freaking amazing piano intro)
-In the Cage (well sorta...)
-Back in N.Y.
-The Knife
-Anyway
-I play the guitar part of Hairless Heart on my keyboard
-Bits of Supper's Ready
Well, I think that's about it... only Genesis

Guitar (not an entire song except for The Knife):
-In the Cage
-The Knife
-Hairless Heart
-Bits of Supper's ready
-Cinema Show
-Bits of The Musical box
-21st century schizoid man (well maybe except the solo)
-Prozack Blues
-Vroom
-Intro to Roundabout
-Heart of the sunrise

Well, maybe there are others that I can't remember about. I don't specialize in prog. I specialize in video game music actually.

I can play a whole lot of video game songs



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:55

nice! i can play a bit of the flute solo in Firth of Fifth ..that's it

and the first few notes to Thick as a Brick lol like literally the first 6 or so lol...i just got it like a few weeks ago lol

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:55
I know how to play Pink Floyd's Time

King Crimson's Starless ... at least before they break and go into the improv. part

Sigur Ros's untitled 3

some songs by Porcupine Tree

Oh yeah! and I also know the entire Dance of eternity by Dream Theater

Its a good start considering I started to play the guitar in November

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:57
 Well I'm sure I could learn a lot of sax parts, if I had any clue how to find the music.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:04
find the music? just listen to it ;) it all comes eventually lol it just takes forever and a lot of effort. all those songs i had to learn on my own lol and they're way harder than they sound :( train's your music ear too! now i can pick out every guitar track from like the early genesis stuff lol like when there were about 3 of them all overdubbed. maybe not seem like much to you guys lol but that's good for my age group!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:10

I can play a handful of Opeth songs, the first 5 songs on Blackwater Park, 3 tracks off Deliverance and 2 off Damnation, along with a couple of their other riffs.

I can play Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets... all the way through.

I know a few mars Volta songs.

Right now, I am learning the entire Scenes from a Memory album. I have a lot of it down, just not the shredding portions. I won't be able to do some of "The Dance of Eternity" yet because I don't have a 7-stringer. I have a pedal that can simulate a 7-string decently, I could try it out, but I haven't really worked with that song much.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:18
Well, Im learning to play guitar but I can play the Roundabout intro.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:22
I know the riff from Gentle Giant's - In a Glass House 

greatest riff of all time

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:24
I can play anything that i want to play...but i find playing other peoples songs a bit boring
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:29
i dont really try, i usually make my own stuff but i know i can play yyz and red
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:46

I play guitar since I was 15 (now 32). At that time I discovered David Gilmour. I can play nearly all his soli, they are not that difficult. But nobody can play them with his feeling.

I like to play also "Dancing with the moonlit knight" with the right handed tapping technique that Steve Hackett developed (and Van Halen took it to the limit)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:52

Originally posted by Can-Utility Can-Utility wrote:

find the music? just listen to it ;) it all comes eventually lol it just takes forever and a lot of effort. all those songs i had to learn on my own lol and they're way harder than they sound :( train's your music ear too! now i can pick out every guitar track from like the early genesis stuff lol like when there were about 3 of them all overdubbed. maybe not seem like much to you guys lol but that's good for my age group!

 there's too many people in my house for me to spend long working things out on saxophone.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2006 at 12:57

I consider myself a really fortunate person because I can play the four basic instruments of prog rock (or ordinary rock) which are keyboard, guitar, bass and drums. On keyboard I can play the intro for lamb lies down on broadway, Rhayader, Rhayader goes to town, The Snow Goose, Lady Fantasy and some Castlevanian stuff (which i think is progressive)

I know almost any song of Camel in drums (THE MOST DIFFICULT BEING LUNAR SEA) and can play genesis songs too.

On bass I can play almost the entire Dark Side of the moon album and many floyd songs as in guitar.

For most it does not come easily
For some it comes with pain
From a thought to a living sight
For some it's a life for some a game

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 14:01

bass:

Yes - Perpetual Change, Roundabout, Heart of the Sunrise, The Fish, South Side of the Sky, Gates of Delerium (the whole thing), Close to the Edge, Parallels

Chris Squire - Hold Out Your Hand

Gentle Giant - Advent of Panurge, Cry for Everyone, Boys in the Band, The Runaway, most of the Just the Same/Proclaimation medley, Cogs in Cogs

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man, Lark's Tounges in Aspic Part II

Rush - Tom Sawyer, parts of YYZ, parts of 2112

Captain Beefheart - Electricity, Moonlight on Vermont, Ella Guru, Ashtray Heart

guitar:

Steve Howe - Mood for a Day

Steve Hackett - Horizons

King Crimson - Lark's Tounges in Aspic Part II

Genesis - Lover's Leap and interlude section of Supper's Ready

Captain Beefheart - Moonlight on Vermont (guitars A and B), Ella Guru (sloppily, guitar A)

keys:

Genesis - Firth of Fifth

as well as a bunch of crap I made up



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 14:59
I don't often learn a song fully 

I can play bits of Book Of Saturdays and 21st Century Schizoid Man and Red and Epitaph by King Crimson on guitar. Horizons by Hackett. Bits and bits really.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2006 at 19:12
I play piano.The only prog songs I can play are Long Distance Runaround by Yes, Wait for Sleep by Dream Theater, and the intro to Firth of Fifth.

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If anyone knows where I can get a copy of some Flute and Voice (Indo-Prog/Raga Rock) albums please PM me! Many thanks!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2006 at 20:22
Originally posted by Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan wrote:

I can play anything that i want to play...but i find playing other peoples songs a bit boring

Me too...except for the anything part...
"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2006 at 21:32

Im a drummer, and these are some of the prog songs I can play with ease:

  • Frank Zappa - Inca Roads
  • Brand X - Nuclear Burn
  • Genesis - Watcher of The Skies, Get'em Out by Friday, Dancing With The Moonlith Knight, Dance on a Volcano, Eleventh Earl of Mar, Behind The Lines
  • Yes - Yours is no Disgrace, Starship Trooper, Roundabout, Close to the Edge
  • Gentle Giant - Advent of Panurge,A Cry for Everyone, The Runaway, Way of Life, Proclamatio, So Sincere, Playing The Game, Cogs In Cogs, Just The Same, Interview, Another Show, Empty City
  • ELP - Tarkus, Karn Evil 9, Endless Enigma
  • King Crimson - Cirkus, Lark's Tongues in Aspic 1 (3:00-6:00), Lark's Tongues in Aspic 2
  • Supertramp - School, Bloddy Well Right, Lady, Fool's Overture, and many others

 

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