Musicians! Can you play prog? What ones?
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Topic: Musicians! Can you play prog? What ones?
Posted By: Can-Utility
Subject: Musicians! Can you play prog? What ones?
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:39
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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:
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:
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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Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:47
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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.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Nipsey88/?chartstyle=myspace02" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:52
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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  -------------  
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: Can-Utility
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:55
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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 ------------- Rael likes a good time, I like a good rhyme. |
Posted By: chamberry
Date 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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Posted By: Kid-A
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 17:57
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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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Posted By: Can-Utility
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:04
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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! ------------- Rael likes a good time, I like a good rhyme. |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:10
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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. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:18
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Well, Im learning to play guitar but I can play the Roundabout intro.
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Posted By: Hierophant
Date 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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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date 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  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: VanBuren
Date 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 |
Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:46
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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) |
Posted By: Kid-A
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:52
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there's too many people in my house for me to spend long working things out on saxophone. -------------
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Can-Utility wrote:Posted By: Guashmin
Date Posted: March 02 2006 at 12:57
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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 |
Posted By: penguindf12
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 14:01
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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 |
Posted By: Rosescar
Date 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. ------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: walrus333
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 19:12
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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. ------------- If anyone knows where I can get a copy of some Flute and Voice (Indo-Prog/Raga Rock) albums please PM me! Many thanks! |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 20:22
Me too...except for the anything part... ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 21:32
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Im a drummer, and these are some of the prog songs I can play with ease:
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 00:37
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I play guitar:
And many more. ------------- 
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Posted By: BebieM
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 09:53
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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 |
Posted By: yaksongs
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 13:02
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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 M http://www.yaksongs.com - www.yaksongs.com
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Posted By: A Guy
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 13:57
| I can play *sort of* play Moonchild by King Crimson on the keyboard... |
Posted By: penguindf12
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 21:55
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^ add to my list: Captain Beefheart's "Hair Pie" and "Pachuco Cadaver" on bass |
Posted By: °¨ [] ¨°
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 06:40
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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. |
Posted By: A'swepe
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 10:26
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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. ------------- David - Never doubt in the dark that which you believe to be true in the light. http://www.myspace.com/aardvarktxusa - Instrumental rock http://www.soundclick.com/aardvarktxusa |
Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: March 20 2006 at 17:13
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I second that |
Posted By: evilantal
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 08:23
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I am the keyboardist for a progressive rock cover band in the Netherlands, http://www.awakening-band.nl - 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... |
Posted By: Garfo
Date Posted: March 23 2006 at 06:52
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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. Garfo. ------------- http://www.garfomusic.com - Ambient Prog. http://www.myspace.com/garflord - More Ambient Progressive Music |
Posted By: utas
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 12:39
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A sad thread, because I used to play
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. |
Posted By: Badabec
Date Posted: April 03 2006 at 15:51
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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. |