The Musical Instrument Thread

IdRatherBeSkiing said:
If I was in your band, that Whiney Houston tribute would be the cause of my resignation.

At least they aren't doing the Horse With No Name.
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I'm sure a medley of songs by America is somewhere in our future.

There are always pieces that are much worse than a Whitney medley. The 1920's show tunes, the painfully slow ballads, the ridiculously fast and monotonous marches. Last season, my most reviled piece was The Irish Washerwoman. Non-stop impossibly fast and difficult music.

But a lot of it is very fun and challenging. And it's nice when it starts coming together.
 
scotchandcigar said:
If I recall, you like 1 Abba song, and hate the rest.
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Truth

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I'll admit there are some of their songs I just don't care for, versus hating. But plenty I hate.

 
scotchandcigar said:
Led Freakin' Zeppelin! Led Zeppelin On Tour - featuring Rock and Roll, Immigrant Song, Black Dog (!), Kashmir, Stairway to Heaven. So far, Rock and Roll was pretty fun. The Immigrant Song was cool but needs work. We started Black Dog but the director bailed for now. Kashmir and Stairway are both good concert band pieces; Stairway in particular was pretty moving.
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So this piece has progressed quite a bit since I posted this. On the following rehearsal, the director dropped the Immigrant Song, because the low brass has to play the difficult and monotonous bass line for like 100 measures. This, only like 20 times:

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So we crossed it off on our sheet music, but then we worked on Black Dog, which is actually pretty fun for a concert band. The Robert Plant wailing vocal line is played on alto sax, and we have a great young sax player who really belts out a jazzy riff. The guitar/bass melody is quite complex and difficult, but we handle it pretty well.

The following week, our director apparently had several people asking about the Immigrant Song (including me), so after the break, he announced we'd be putting it back in (screw the low brass). So now we're playing it. But that piece and Kashmir both drag on too long for a medley, so we're gonna do some editing.
 
scotchandcigar said:
the director dropped the Immigrant Song, because the low brass has to play the difficult and monotonous bass line for like 100 measures.
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I think I posted this elsewhere but, I love Zep but find a lot of their songs are actually quite simple and repetitive. Auditioned a singer who chose "Whole Lotta Love". Man, there's nothing to that song. One riff, noise, back to the same riff.
 
sadchild said:
I think I posted this elsewhere but, I love Zep but find a lot of their songs are actually quite simple and repetitive. Auditioned a singer who chose "Whole Lotta Love". Man, there's nothing to that song. One riff, noise, back to the same riff.
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The guitar/bass riff on Black Dog is anything but simple. But I get where you're going with this. Those songs are from a time where people wanted to hear epic length tunes, to accompany their high. Besides, is there any more going on in Paranoid by Black Sabbath, or Smoke On The Water, or Hey Jude?
 
Yeah they've got some real complex songs for sure. I was just shocked when I realized how many of their songs are one or two riffs and that's it.
 
I got to see them a few years ago in St. Louis. They put on a really fun show. The guitar player rips, and the singer still hits all of the notes. Highly recommended.
 
Rick is great.
If he didn’t have an amazing understanding of music and theory, I wouldn’t bother. He brings it though.
 
He knows his shiz.

Im glad he’s making some cash off of YT for something worth while.
Hopefully he starts getting more producer gigs out of it.
 
Did a re-string on the guitar, and picked it up for the first time in a very long time tonight. Pretty much think I'm going to have to relearn everything!

I know a few chords but my change patterns have fallen off a cliff badly. Hopefully be back to the level I was previously by the end of the year, ish!
 
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