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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2006 at 00:37

I play guitar:

  • Rush- Working Man, Fly By Night, Bastille Day, most of The Fountain of Lamneth, 2112, A Passage to Bangkok, Something for Nothing, Xanadu, Closer to the Heart, Cinderella Man, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres, Circumstances, The Trees, Jacob's Ladder, Natural Science, Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, Limelight, Witch Hunt
  • Frank Zappa- Peaches En Regalia, Watermelon in Easter Hay, Zoot Allures
  • King Crimson- Red, Matte Kudasai, The Sheltering Sky, Larks' Tongue in Aspic part II, Frame By Frame, Exiles, 21st Century Schizoid Man

And many more.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2006 at 09:53
Hmm I play the oboe and tenor sax so there aren't that many parts I could learn ....

I can play the flute solo of firth of fifth on the oboe.
Friendship by Camel
Rhayader by Camel
21st century schizoid man on the sax (except for that noodling part in the middle)
Cirkus sax solo (kindof!)
Sax solo of crime of a century by supertramp
Us and them by PF sax solo

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 13:02

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

Wow - that's amazing Lindsay - can we here any of the stuff you do play anywhere?

My band worked out Siberian Khatru for our last rehearsal - which was a laugh

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2006 at 13:57
I can play *sort of* play Moonchild by King Crimson on the keyboard...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 21:55

^ add to my list:

Captain Beefheart's "Hair Pie" and "Pachuco Cadaver" on bass

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 06:40
I'm a drummer and have learned to play many Rush songs in their entirety
and parts of others. My absolute favorites to play (at the moment)
include the following:

La Villa Strangiato
YYZ
Jacob's Ladder
Freewill
Natural Science
Digital Man
Subdivisions
Hemispheres
Time and Motion
A Passage to Bangkok
Distant Early Warning

I can also play some Pink Floyd, Tool, Dream Theater, Primus, and ELP
songs.

I especially like playing through the entire Animals album by Pink Floyd.

I've actually only just recently started learning to play some Dream
Theater songs, but I haven't really mastered any of them yet.

When I'm not playing along to any particular songs, I'll usually just play
some totally improvised rudimental exercises, and mix in some basic rock
and jazz beats and try to incorporate different odd-time signatures and
polyrhythms, and try to create a prog-like feel to it. Eventually I'd like to
play in a prog rock or maybe experimental/art rock band. I just gotta
start playing some jam sessions with other like-minded musicians.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 10:26

I can play the moog solo from Rush's Countdown - It's all white keys & pretty easy - which is why I can play it.

I used to be able to play Dodo-Lurker from Genesis & I did a passable rendition of Long Distance Runaround - many years ago.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2006 at 17:13

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

I second that

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 08:23

I am the keyboardist for a progressive rock cover band in the Netherlands, http://www.awakening-band.nl

We play/played lots of songs from artists including:

Landmarq: Forever Young

Marillion: Fantastic Place, The Great Escape, Beautiful, Misplaced Childhood excerpts, Incommunicado

IQ: Subterranea, Failsafe

Dream Theater: Another Day

Camel: Rhayader, Lady Fantasy

Deep Purple: Child in Time, Highway Star, Lazy, Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming

Uriah-Heep: July Morning, Stealin'

Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb, The Great Gig in the Sky, Shine on You Crazy Diamond

Porcupine Tree: Even Less

Lana Lane: Alexandria

Transatlantic: All of the Above

Arena: Bedlam Fayre

Janison Edge: Beneath the Boy

Kansas: Carry on Wayward Son

Mostly Autumn: Caught in a Fold

Riverside: Conceiving You

Styx: Suite Madame Blue

Angel: The Tower

On my own or with another band I've also played: Money (Pink Floyd), 6:00 and Through her Eyes (Dream Theater), Party in Simon's Pants (Steve Lukather), Misplaced Childhood and Brave albums (Marillion), Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple), The Doorway (Spock's Beard)

off the top of my head...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 06:52

When I was in a prog metal band I played the guitar parts on: -

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man, and Indiscipline.

Dream Theater - As I Am.

Liquid Tension Experiment - Paradigm Shift.

I don't specifically learn songs anymore, unless a student asks to learn one, or I have to play one for a gig. I usually just concentrate on my own material these days.

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http://www.garfomusic.com - Ambient Prog.

http://www.myspace.com/garflord - More Ambient Progressive Music
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2006 at 12:39

A sad thread, because I used to play

  • Take a Pebble, Eruption, and Trilogy (ELP)
  • Promenade, The Hut of Baba Yaga, and The Great Gate of Kiev (original score)
  • Anne Boleyn (Wakeman)

All of these were at the limit of what I could tackle, so they had to be played regularly to keep them in shape. That was a long time ago. Then work and other things intervened, so now it would take several months of practice before being able to play them again.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2006 at 15:51
I can play "Two Weeks In Spain" and parts of "Pantagruel's Nativity", "Free Hand", "The Advent Of Panurge", "Way Of Live", "The House, The Street, The Room", "Spooky Bogie" and the whole "Aquiring The Taste" on the E-Guitar.
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