rate my favorite instruments!
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Topic: rate my favorite instruments!
Posted By: video vertigo
Subject: rate my favorite instruments!
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 03:35
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Piano Bass Guitar Drums Synths/Keyboards Didgeridoo Harmonica Trumpet Flute Kazoo ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
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Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 03:44
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Piano - 5/5. Every album with piano just earns extra points of interest for me. Just listen to John Hawken in the Illusion albums. And is really love the few folk albums that feature this instrument. Bass - 2/5. Essential, but you have to be very good (I mean, Chris Squire) to make it no be a background instrument. It's easy to put it in the front and make it badly. Guitar - 5/5. Electric guitars are essential in rock. The exception being Renaissance most of the times. Drums - 2/5. Just background. Please, no drum solos. Synths/Keyboards 4/5 Didgeridoo - What the h....? Harmonica - 1/5. Sorry, doesnt like this one at all. Maybe in some Bruce Springsteen songs... Trumpet - 2/5 I usually like these kind of instruments only when they are in an orchestra. Flute - 5/5.
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Posted By: krauthead
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 04:11
------------- *Dancing madly backwards on a sea of air* - Captain Beyond |
video vertigo wrote:
Posted By: DarthBob
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 04:11
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Piano - 4/5 It can always add a little flavour and makes for good
accompaniment on softer songs. Bass - 5/5 My instrument and when in the hands of a really good player (A Tony Levin or Jack Bruce) can be as interesting to listen to as a guitar. Guitar - 5/5 Obvious a must for rock Drums - 5/5 Drum solos after bass solos are really interesting to listen too. Synths/Keyboards - 2/5 I only really find them interesting in really atmospheric music like Pink Floyd. I find a lot of Symphony X's music is hurt by their overuse. Didgeridoo- 10/5 most awesome sound ever. Harmonica - 3/5 more appropriate for blues than prog really. Trumpet - 2/5 Never really liked the sound of trumpets in rock music Flute - 4/5 not my favourite woodwind. |
Posted By: spectral
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 04:15
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kazoo 10/10 - when played out of your a$$hole! ------------- "...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 04:17
i add: lute excellent when combined with flute 5/5 ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 08:19
| I've never heard a really good didgeridoo solo, neither have I ever heard a kazoo used on a prog record (as far as I know). Shame really. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 08:33
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Piano Bass Guitar Drums Synths/Keyboards Didgeridoo Harmonica Trumpet Flute Kazoo ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: el_Sethro
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 08:54
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This is a weird topic. Oh, well.... Piano 4/5 awesome Bass 5/5 I love bass Guitar 4/5 I guess I just kinda
take guitar for granted, but I don't pay that much attention to it... I
gave it a four because it's always there and I can't really imagine
what it would be like without one Drums 5/5 drums rock Synths/Keyboards 5/5 I like synths Didgeridoo 2/5 I haven't really heard enough digeridoo to form a good opinion, but from what I have heard, it doesn't suck Harmonica 1/5 harmonica, on the other hand... Trumpet 3/5 don't hear trumpet
too much, but Flea proved on the Mars Volta's albums that it can be
awesome. however, only one case of awesome trumpet playing isn't enough
for me to give it more than 3 Flute 3/5 see "Trumpet", replace "Flea" with "Ian Anderson" and "The Mars Volta" with "Jethro Tull" Kazoo 2.5/5 see "Didgeridoo". gets an extra .5 because it sounds funny ------------- Who you gonna call? |
Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 09:07
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Doesn't everyone know that the mellotron is the greatest instrument
invented by humankind? Duh! I'm also fond of the dulcimer and the sackbut. OK, maybe not the sackbut. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 10:27
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Piano Bass Guitar Drums Synths/Keyboards Difficult to say. Mellotron Didgeridoo Harmonica Trumpet Flute Kazoo "Mama's little rater" |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 10:27
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Piano 5/5 (there are many examples of great piano moments in prog) Bass 5/5 (my fave instrument - when played by Chris, Geddy or other greats) Guitar 4/5 (essential in rock, less in prog) Drums 5/5 (I love all kinds of percussion, especially if played by masters like Peart or Bruford) Synths/Keyboards 4/5 (I prefer the Mellotron or the Hammond organ to synths) Didgeridoo - never heard in prog, though I've seen it played by buskers Harmonica 0/5 (not a prog instrument at all, and I don't like it anyway) Trumpet 2/5 (not a typical rock instrument, but there are a few good examples) Flute 5/5 (Ian Anderson rules!) Kazoo - what the hell...? |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 11:26
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Posted By: bamba
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 11:31
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Piano [10] Bass [8.5] Guitar [10]+ Drums [9] Synths/Keyboards [8] Didgeridoo [8] Harmonica [7] Trumpet [9] Flute [10]+ Kazoo [8.5] ------------- Learning Flute [Amigo de Manticore y Memowakeman] (primo)[IMG]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2187/2437702285_fbb450500d_o.jpg |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: August 10 2005 at 11:40
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YOU ASKED FOR IT HEHEHE Piano ***** Bass ***** Guitar ***** Drums ***** Synths/Keyboards **** 1/2 Didgeridoo *** Harmonica *** Trumpet **** Flute *** Kazoo * |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 03:15
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I didn't think this was going to be taken seriously, more of a parody thread. These ones make forums fun though ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: lucky man
Date Posted: August 12 2005 at 07:04
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Piano *** Bass **** Guitar **** Drums **************************** Synths/Keyboards ****** Didgeridoo ** Harmonica 0 Trumpet ** Flute * Kazoo ( WtF is that man????) |
Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:19
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Piano ****1/2 Not essential in music, but it can make music very romantic/classical with it Guitar ***** What is music with no guitar??? bass **** It can be reproduced with keyboards, but some bass players like Levin and Squire Drums ***** Rock without drums!? Essential Synths/Keyboards ***** Keyboards are the most varied instruments of all!! Essential. Didgeridoo What on earth is that?? Harmonica ** Only for rock&roll, Blues and Led Zeppelin. Squire!! Stop playing harmonica in And You And I!!! Trumpet ** Only In Classical Music and rock with symphonies. Flute ****1/2 My favourite wind instrument. Kazoo huh? |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:43
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Piano 7/10 not as emotional sa some guitars and keys... Guitar 10/10 - love the elctric gutar as much as the classical one! So many faces it has... bass 6/10 - A bass player must be really good to make the bass sound interesting (Primus, Red hot chili peppers - those are bands that make the bass sound great) Drums 6/10 - like with the bass.. Although You can't get enough of Portnoy and other superb ones... But still, solos shouldent be 10 min long! Synths/Keyboards 10/10 - a must have.. it can imitate a piano and its has as many faces as the guitar.. Only those 2 instruments gave me reall shivers from time to time... Didgeridoo 4/10 - in stranhe and funy songs - great... but the in the rest... NOT! Harmonica 5/10 - Don't nkow why I don't like it.. it has a strange, irritating sound... Trumpet 2/10 - in prog? NOT!!! Although its not tragic... Flute 8/10 - all flutes are great instruments, and they have a great sound (alto flute rlz!) Kazoo - whats that? The human voice - 10/10!!!!!! My fav instrument, when played rightly... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Axis
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 11:17
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Piano - never trust anything with that many keys and no lock Bass - A nice fish with chips on the side Guitar - block of wood to pose infront of the mirror with if you don't have a tennis racket Drums - my ears would be lost without them Synths/Keyboards - allowed people who play with one finger at a time to think they are musicians Didgeridoo - well, what did you expect from people without shampoo or hairdressers Harmonica - mouth organ, organ mouth. That's the intros over, now fellate Trumpet - instrument for simpletons who can only use 3 fingers at a time Flute - malicious instrument designed to poke the eye out of anyone standing next to you Kazoo - ideal instrument for learning modes, complex scales, inversions and sounding like a bee in a tin |