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 Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:17 pm
Well, this forum's looking a little bare. How about a topic! blaugh
So, what's you favorite style of music? Whether it's playing it, dancing to it, or just sittin' back and enjoying some tunes. What do ya like?
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:21 pm
I've got a lot of favorites. By catagory!
Playing: I love to play Bach style chamber music on flute. It's so wonderful. Like, "Ariso" is one of the prettiest pieces ever! Jazz flute rocks pretty hard, too. I must say, my favorite jazz style has got to be either swing or be-bop.
Dancing: Again, "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!" I'll dance to pretty much anything, though.
Kickin' back: I can't even begin on this one. I listen to too much! Classic, acustic guitar, blues, jazz, new wave, new age, dark wave, industrial, the list goes on and on....
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:29 pm
ah, music!
i love to play Gustav Holst's music (on French Horn, of course). My favorite probably is "First Suite in Eb" (yeah, lame title), with "Jupiter: Bringer of Jolity" a close second. Holst's music is just friggen epic and full. He actually uses the entire ensemble to their fullest potential to create a uniform and lucious peice of music. truly inspring.
for just hanging around, i listen to just about everything including (but not limited to): folk, instrumental, acoustic, rock, metal, new age, ambient, blues, jazz, classical, emo, trance, house, etc.
@geofftate: i haven't played that much chamber music, but i tell you, i don't know if i like playing it or not. it's really tiring for me, but it always turns out nice. how long have you been playing?
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:04 pm
Ahhh!! First Suite is the best! By far one of my favorite pieces I played this year. 3nodding "In the Hall of the Mountain King" was pretty kickass too, though.
I've been playing flute for about 8 years now, but I only just started playing chamber stuff a year or two ago. What about you? How long have you been playing?
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:57 pm
i've been playing about 6 years.
i've never heard "in the hall of the mountain king" before...i feel left out xp
are you familiar with Holst's entire epic peice, "The Planets"? fricken awesome, the whole lot of it. "Uranus, the magician" is so cool. and "Mars, bringer of war" was used in Star Wars! 'twas the Death Star theme.
-is a nerd-
hehe
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:48 pm
Have you ever heard/seen Peer Gynt? The one where the guy get's turned into a troll? Anywho, it's a piece from that. Here, have a link!I don't think I've ever played any of the Planet Suites, but I've heard of them. Couldn't pick them out of a line up, but I'm working on that. mrgreen
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:03 pm
yay youtube!
i have to admit, it's pretty epic. oh wait, maybe i should listen to the orchestral version sweatdrop
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whoa, i've totally heard this. and...played it? maybe. maybe a remix/arrangement of somekind. it's pretty amazing.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:39 pm
For me, the Apocalyptica and origional orchestral are a pretty close tie on the awesomness scale...
Yeah, my head pretty much exploded at the end. A high A...nice. It songs liek that I believe there should be a soprano staff for silly things like Flutes (or even Piccolo)
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:51 pm
heh, all those ledger lines just make it confusing. i don't have that problem in music up top, but on the bottom...geebus. luckily though that when it gets way too low they just put it in bass clef (which i have a hard time reading sweatdrop ), and i don't have to count ledger lines.
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:57 pm
Lucky me, I can't play anything past a B below the staff (and that's on a really good day.) I can't read bass cleft worth a crap. It takes me like ten years to read a line. xd "All Cows Eat Grass" is my best friend.
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:53 pm
GeoffTate101 Lucky me, I can't play anything past a B below the staff (and that's on a really good day.) I can't read bass cleft worth a crap. It takes me like ten years to read a line. xd "All Cows Eat Grass" is my best friend. i usually cheat and figure the notes out before hand ninja ....and then i write them in with a pencil.... but that's one thing i love about horn is the bodacious range (which is sometimes my foil). pros can usually go 6 or more octaves on it. i'm move of a 4 octave-er myself, with a couple extra notes in each direction, but it's not even a 5th. definintely the king of instruments mrgreen the flute is so flippin hard, though. all those buttons! i just don't have the dexterity....
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:35 pm
Oh yeah, I love Horn. If I ever played a brass instriment, it'd definetly be that. 3nodding Lucky for me I hardly ever have to read bass cleft. (And when I do, I have to write the notes down too. xd )
It's not that bad. Maybe I'm just used to it, though....Could you imagine Clarient? gonk My pinkies don't move like that! I started playing Alto Sax this year and all those pinkie keys really threw me for a loop!
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:16 pm
all the pinkie keys? yeah, what about the palm keys? i tried learning tenor sax once, but immediately stopped because there were WAY too many buttons. i mean not only do you have keys for all of your fingers (and then some), but you've got keys for your palm! wtf.
i think clairinet wouldn't be so bad simply because it's played downward rather than to the side. those pinky keys would be hard sometimes, but at least my arm wouldn't get tired sweatdrop
speaking of difficult fingerings: bass guitar is hard. for a girl i've got fairly large hands, but i swear i have so much trouble with bass. my pinky just does NOT want to get over to that fourth fret at all. it'll get better, i suppose.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:18 pm
I listen to alot of rock music and techno. I had a band, but we split up becaues of a conflict between one of the members and the rest of us. Instruments I play are the guitar, bass guitar and the Alto Saxophone. I tried flute once, but It made me too light headed.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:06 pm
Yeah, I got that light headed thing when I was starting out, too. Did you know that it takes about as much air to play tuba as it does flute? Could you imagine a contra-bass flute? eek
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