What songs are you trying to learn?
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Topic: What songs are you trying to learn?
Posted By: Guests
Subject: What songs are you trying to learn?
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 13:09
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As kind of a counterpart to the "What are you currently listening to" thread, I thought I'd start one about what songs we are currently trying to learn. Here are mine (I play guitar): Clap- by Steve Howe off The Yes Album (an awesome acoustic number) Animate-Rush (off the Counterparts album) all of "The Wall"-Pink Floyd |
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Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 17:16
| Echoes by pink floyd, and perfecting stuff ive already written. (Bass btw) |
Posted By: happythe
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 17:49
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Trilogy by ELP - I can just about pass it off (minus improv, or at least decent improv!) but only on piano - still getting used to changing patches and using effects on keyboard, The Sheriff by ELP - in the beginning stages Mad Man Moon and One for the Vine by Genesis - sound awesome in the bits I can play right, lots of work to be done though.
------------- Stop me from dreaming? Okay :-( |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 20:34
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Heart of the Sunrise and South Side of the Sky- Yes 21st Century Schizoid Man, In The Court..., Red, and Starless- KC A buncha Who songs... Metropolis Pt. 1- Dream Theater. ------------- 
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Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 20:59
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I play bass- Rush - Freewill Rush - Grand Designs Rush - Xanadu Geddy Lee is my bass god. ------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 21:49
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Rush eh.... Not a bad idea at all sweetnighter! |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 08 2005 at 00:57
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You haven't really tried your bass skills out till you try YYZ, that song is a bitch on the bass. -------------
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Sweetnighter wrote:Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: March 11 2005 at 09:15
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The band I was in back in the 80's used to do a verion of YYZ but I
always used to count if off too fast and I remember the looks of death
I'd get from the band as their fingers worked away in a frantic blur of
hyper speed. Bless them. If you can't do a song at least 10bpm faster than the original, you shouldn't be playing it!  ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: March 11 2005 at 18:10
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I'm having trouble working out some Nick Drake songs...seems easy until you realize he tuned his guitar differently for almost every song. Even worse than Jimmy Page! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: clemdallaway
Date Posted: March 12 2005 at 04:57
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I'm doing Fire Garden Suite - Steve Vai at the momment on guitar. Got to agree on the Rush stuff for bass! Primus is worth a shot at too. ------------- Don't eat the yellow snow!!!!! |
Posted By: trouland
Date Posted: March 13 2005 at 10:01
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Hi All, Our band is currently working on "Dance of Eternity" by Dream Theater (hard song to get down) TR ------------- As I get older a walk down memory lane gets shorter and shorter |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: March 13 2005 at 11:04
I´m trying to learn Beethovens last string quartet, But Reed, that
English SOB does anything he can to make me feel I´ve got
Alzheimers  
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: March 13 2005 at 11:26
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Alhzeimer, never heard of him! Was it he who wrote that "Unfinished Symphony"?Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: March 13 2005 at 11:54
The unfinished ...........Thursday 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: March 13 2005 at 12:29
Yeah, I can't play those fast fills, they're ridiculous. The ones at the beginning of YYZ and at the beginning of The Spirit of Radio are f**king out of this world! How the hell does he pull that sh*t off!?!? But hey, practice makes perfect... I've also been working on Closer to the Heart, which is significantly easier... and I've made much progress on the instrumental section of Freewill as well. ------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 13 2005 at 12:45
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You should try Anthem... that's a wicked song on bass. The Fountain of Lamneth is also pretty cool. -------------
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Posted By: legembor
Date Posted: March 15 2005 at 09:23
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The songs for our gig this saturady And also Cavatina by John Williams. ------------- 
He is comming, He's the Giant, Touch the Giant |
Posted By: RockChick
Date Posted: March 16 2005 at 13:20
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I'm struggling with the piano intro to Genesis Firth of Fifth. ------------- Music and words, words and music - I'd be nothing without them |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 16 2005 at 14:45
I managed to transcribe 'Theme 1' by VDGG a while ago - well, the main theme, anyway  ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: clemdallaway
Date Posted: March 17 2005 at 16:18
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Hey Rock Chick, I used to play Firth of Fifth in a band I was in, "Mozart's Tights". Luckely for me I am the guitarist lol. Our keyboardist was always playing it perfect at practice, when it come to the gig he would always mess it up lol. What band are you in? ------------- Don't eat the yellow snow!!!!! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 18 2005 at 03:31
Luckily? That places on your shoulders the responsibility for playing that solo - I trust you treated it with the respect and awe it deserved  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: clemdallaway
Date Posted: March 18 2005 at 15:32
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Of course!!!!!!!!!! I used to play the original studio, Hackett version, on the last gig I did the Daryl Sturmer version, went down well!!!!!!!!!! We used to do the Slipper Men/In the cage medley too, always went down well. ------------- Don't eat the yellow snow!!!!! |
Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: March 18 2005 at 22:38
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I've known how to play 'Aqualung' by Jethro Tull on my trombone for a
while, but just the other day I figured out how to play 'In the Flesh'
by Pink Floyd (one of the pieces I'm working on right now has a measure
that is almost exactly the same as it and I figured out the rest from
there). Some of my friends and I are currently attempting to arrange 'Immigrant Song' by Led Zeppelin for band. |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 08:40
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Dream Theater: The Glass Prison |
Posted By: The Owl
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 12:13
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Just finished up with : "Nyctophobia" on Larry Coryell/11th House's "Level One", talk about a TWISTED melody line!!!! In Progress: "Green Eyed Lady" by Sugarloaf, a Hammond lover's feast and some pretty cool guitar stuff in there too. On Deck: "Bryden 2-step For Amphibians Pt II" AND "Squarer For Maude" by National Health, I MUST BE FREAKIN' NUTS!!!!! ------------- People are puzzled why I don't dig the Stones, well, I listened to the Stones, I tried, and I tried, and I tried, and--I Can't Get No Satisfaction! www.myspace.com/theowlsmusic |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 08:37
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I'm Not A Guitarist But I Can Play A Little Tiny Bit Of Intersteller Overdrive by Pink Floyd! I've Only Tried it on an Acoustic Guitar. ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: penguindf12
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 16:04
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Acoustic guitar: The verse of "Brain damage" (Pink Floyd), all of "Horizons" (Steve Hackett)... I'm playing "Horizons" as an offertory at church two Sundays from now... Bass guitar: This is my main instrument. I know most of "The Wall" (Pink Floyd), which is easy, easy stuff; I can play all of "Money" as well, and the main riff (adapted to bass) from "Wish You Were Here"; my main stuff I can play is all of part one of "Thick as a Brick" (Jethro Tull), all of "Close to the Edge" (Yes), plus "Gates of Delirium", which I know all of the "pre-war" part, and am working on the "war" instrumental and the "peace" song part ("Soon"); and "Roundabout". And I've only been playing 10 months! Keyboards: Uh...I can play the church organ part from "Close to the Edge" and the main part of "Free Hand" (Gentle Giant)...that's about it... |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 17:01
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I have been working on a bunch of Rush stuff, Mostly Cygnus X-1, and some Yes stuff. BTW, I play the drums (Bruford, White, and Peart= gods) |
Posted By: Xanadu
Date Posted: March 25 2005 at 18:01
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Currently working on the solo in "stairway to heaven"...on acoustic I´ve also just finished to handle the Epitaph by king crimson (the acoustic parts) and "Wait for sleep" on a sh*tty keyboard. Some one else here uses GP4? BTW where do i find keyboard tabs for ELP? |