So ... there I was, in between trying to play baroque flute pieces along with SO sight-reading old, neglected piano with many sticky keys, and doodling the odd reel or two ...
"Alec Wilder described it in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950 as "a maverick, an unprecedented experiment and one which, to this day, after hearing it hundreds of times, I cannot sing or whistle or play from start to finish without the printed music"
I doodle around with old REM tunes... like "Begin the Begin" though "Cuyahoga" with its singalong chorus is certainly more adaptable to group settings....
(More seriously, though, browsing through manuscripts int he Village Music Project makes fun practice.)
It has everything to do with Irish Traditional Music, cos. Are you honestly telling me that, while you're in the house footling around on your flute, you don't play great songs from Cole Porter? And you expect me to believe that?
Dude...It's major cool when someone rips the shred on the classic of all time classics........da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da......... AHH Ha Ha Ha Ha ..............WIPE OUT!!!!
I've heard 'Smoke on the Water' played on an amazing variety of instruments, and it always makes me smile, especially when I hear it come out of classically trained 8 year olds. It makes me really wonder where it comes from... are they, or their parents still listening to deep purple? Did they hear it in the grocery store?
I know a great DADGAD guitar player who often impishly breaks into 'All Along The Watch Tower', and I enjoy paying him back by replacing the A part of a D Dor reel with the lick from 'Crazy Train'.
Beginning to doodle ...
Beginning to doodle ...
So ... there I was, in between trying to play baroque flute pieces along with SO sight-reading old, neglected piano with many sticky keys, and doodling the odd reel or two ...
... when this pops out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0gy27CEN-0&feature=related
So many tunes, and I go and pick this one.
How about you guys? What do you doodle when the mind goes blank?
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by ethical blend
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"Alec Wilder described it in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950 as "a maverick, an unprecedented experiment and one which, to this day, after hearing it hundreds of times, I cannot sing or whistle or play from start to finish without the printed music"
Hmm...
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by David50
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Sorry, that should have been "Wow!"
Usually a scottish song tune.
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by David50
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I doodle around with old REM tunes... like "Begin the Begin" though "Cuyahoga" with its singalong chorus is certainly more adaptable to group settings....
(More seriously, though, browsing through manuscripts int he Village Music Project makes fun practice.)
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by gravelwalks
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[in hushed tone] did someone mention ... ahem ... printed music? um ... let's not, this time, eh?
... so I've somehow got on to "Who Will Buy?" You wouldn't have thought either of those were *particularly* suited to an 8-key flute, would you?
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by ethical blend
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Ragtime Annie
go figure
Mary
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by Antikhntr
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I can't get Lady Gaga out of my head these days. Rah, rah, ah ah ah....
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by sara505sings
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Lady Gaga!!?!? Gosh!
Isn't she that woman that looks a bit like Elton John? Only with less make-up?
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by ethical blend
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I request the removal of this silly thread.It has nothing to do with Irish traditional music.
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by cos
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Oh, I think she quite beats EJ, in the cosmetics dept.
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by sara505sings
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It has everything to do with Irish Traditional Music, cos. Are you honestly telling me that, while you're in the house footling around on your flute, you don't play great songs from Cole Porter? And you expect me to believe that?
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by ethical blend
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Ever heard smoke on the water played on the mandolin????
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by mandolinist
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I've been known to play Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath on tin whistle. In a session ...
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by ethical blend
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In a gadda da vida, on fiddle, in the middle of any Ador reel....
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by Will Harmon
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Dude...It's major cool when someone rips the shred on the classic of all time classics........da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da......... AHH Ha Ha Ha Ha ..............WIPE OUT!!!!
On bodhran of course.
# Posted on February 6th 2010 by Gone to work
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I've heard 'Smoke on the Water' played on an amazing variety of instruments, and it always makes me smile, especially when I hear it come out of classically trained 8 year olds. It makes me really wonder where it comes from... are they, or their parents still listening to deep purple? Did they hear it in the grocery store?
I know a great DADGAD guitar player who often impishly breaks into 'All Along The Watch Tower', and I enjoy paying him back by replacing the A part of a D Dor reel with the lick from 'Crazy Train'.
# Posted on February 7th 2010 by Twisty
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"I wanna be your dog" and sing "all along the watchtower" with it, with "star of munster" for the instrumental break.
# Posted on February 7th 2010 by justjim
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I still play "Rollin' in the Clover".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBzWasuX0go&feature=related
# Posted on February 8th 2010 by Lint - upon - Tweed
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Vltava (by Smetana)
# Posted on February 9th 2010 by showaddydadito
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Yankee Doodle
# Posted on February 10th 2010 by fauxcelt