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oracus
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Posted: May 07 2006 at 14:06 |
hawkbrock wrote:
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Man are you kidding? Which amateur band can play Pictures at an exhibition?
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MattNYR
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Posted: May 10 2006 at 19:07 |
The beauty of prog is that not many amateur bands can handle the musicianship needed to play it. Which just makes it that much more impressive when pulled off.
As for easy instrumentals, maybe The Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd, without the crazy vocal soloing.
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MattNYR
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Posted: May 10 2006 at 19:09 |
How good is your keyboardist?
I'm a high school piano/saxophone player who can also sing. At a concert recently I played ELP's "Take a Pebble" with the full piano improvisations in the middle, but I did it with just piano and drums.
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Proghat
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 15:13 |
He's pretty good, but I don't think he's too keen on soloing or
anything yet. I might have to give that song a listen though just to
see if we could play it, because ELP's awesome haha.
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coffeeintheface
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 15:18 |
Proghat wrote:
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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"Acrid Plasticity" by Meshuggah
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OBQM: www.soundcloud.com/onebigquestionmark (solo project)
nQuixote: www.soundcloud.com/n-quixote (ambient + various musical ideas)
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Rocktopus
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Location: Norway
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 15:57 |
Did you stream 'Jordrök' by Anglagård? I think it's a fantastic
instrumental. They vere just teenagers when they made it. More dark,
classic prog inspired than metal, I know.
'Secrets of the Flesh' is an incredible instrumental by Enslaved form their album Isa. Defenatly ProgMetal and not too complicated either, I think.
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Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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eddietrooper
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 16:00 |
I used to play the first part of Shine On You Crazy Diamond as a starter on stage with my band. It worked very well and it's very easy to play.
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sleeper
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Joined: October 09 2005
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 19:50 |
I know the bass line on DT's Stream Of Consciousness isnt that hard to play (compared to some of their other stuff), I dont know how hard it would be on the other instruments but it doesnt seem to have the technical wizadry that DT normally employ on instrumentals.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Zoso
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 21:32 |
That would be really, really awesome.
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Proghat
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Posted: May 15 2006 at 22:03 |
Yeah, I streamed Anglagard a long time ago when you were allowed to dl
'em from here. I have to listen to it again though, because I'm not
sure if we can play it. That's pretty crazy that they made that when
they were teenagers, though. =O I've tried to get my band to learn
'Red' (after listening to the Niacin cover, I know what parts the
keyboardist should play) as well as "Wedding Nails". They like both
songs (except the keyboardist has heard some PT stuff before and
doesn't like the long sections of 'wierd noise' type stuff.) Thanks,
guys!
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penguindf12
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Location: United States
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Posted: May 16 2006 at 23:59 |
Captain Beefheart's "Hair Pie"
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