View Poll Results: Do you play an instrument or sing?

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  1. #31
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    I play bass and alto clarinets, but I have just had to give up band as my thesis is due soon and I need to get it done before going to the States...

    Right now I am at work and I am missing the first rehearsal of not being a member anymore.

  2. #32
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    Quote Originally Posted by silentC
    I've got a gig coming up in a couple of weeks and I have to learn some new songs for it. Try these for golden oldies:

    Because I Love You (Master's Apprentices)
    Gonna See My Baby Tonight (La De Das)
    Golden Miles (Healing Force)
    Don't Bogart Me (Fraternity of Man) - "Don't Bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me"
    50th birthday party?

  3. #33
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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner
    Wongo and the Wackers...

    Al
    Wongo Bongo and the Straw Hats
    If you never made a mistake, you never made anything!


  4. #34
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    Cool Kazoo Solo

    Quote Originally Posted by silentC
    Hah, we do a song with a kazoo solo in it. Can't remember the name of it. One of those 60's pop songs from the Mellow Yellow era... Wet myself laughing every time...
    It was Paul McCartney on Ringo Starr's "You're Sixteen"
    If you never made a mistake, you never made anything!


  5. #35
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    Quote Originally Posted by TassieKiwi
    Played acoustic on/off for 20yrs, had a Strat for a while but wifey hated it..
    My first one did too so I kicked her out. This one loves it when I actually decide to pick it up.
    If you never made a mistake, you never made anything!


  6. #36
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    G'day,

    Used to play the clarinet. It's sitting in the lounge room in it's box net to my wife's piano. I haven't play it in 18 years (strueth! time flies)

    The reed was stuffed even when I was playing it, all cracked and chipped and I never got around to replacing it, just learnt to play with a buggered reed :eek: . The cork is pobably all stuffed by now too.

    One day, when Sarah asks her Daddy what's in the black case I might drag it out. Maybe, or she might ask if she can help Daddy make some toys in the shed.
    I make things, I just take a long time.

    www.brandhouse.net.au

  7. #37
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waldo
    G'day,

    Used to play the clarinet. It's sitting in the lounge room in it's box net to my wife's piano. I haven't play it in 18 years (strueth! time flies)

    The reed was stuffed even when I was playing it, all cracked and chipped and I never got around to replacing it, just learnt to play with a buggered reed :eek: . The cork is pobably all stuffed by now too.

    One day, when Sarah asks her Daddy what's in the black case I might drag it out. Maybe, or she might ask if she can help Daddy make some toys in the shed.
    Geez mate, it's not as though reeds are expensive

  8. #38
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    G'day,

    Yeah I know, about $2 for 2 I think, but it was always the sort of thing I kept forgetting to do.
    I make things, I just take a long time.

    www.brandhouse.net.au

  9. #39
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waldo
    Used to play the clarinet. It's sitting in the lounge room in it's box net to my wife's piano. I haven't play it in 18 years (strueth! time flies)
    Et tu, Brutus? I wanted to learn the sax... but the school said No, I had to study the tootle-flute first, to "learn the basics." Some four years playing an instrument I couldn't really give a damn about, then the school decided to allow 1st-year students to start on the sax from day one. I promptly signed up and was informed I'd have to restart the course from the very beginning... paying appropriate fees, of course! :mad:

    So much for the clarinet being "learning the basics," eh? F#$@ing b$#@$%ds!!

    I told 'em to shove it and haven't touched the tootle-flute since.
    I may be weird, but I'm saving up to become eccentric.

    - Andy Mc

  10. #40
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    Quote Originally Posted by craigb
    50th birthday party?
    How did you guess?

    [Da-da da-da da da]
    Oo-oo-ooh,
    Do what you wanna do
    Be what you wanna be, ye-e-eah
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

  11. #41
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    While I can't play the piano by ear I can fiddle with my ....................... :eek:

  12. #42
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!
    I told 'em to shove it and haven't touched the tootle-flute since.
    G'day Skew ChiDAMN!!,

    Except for me, I wanted to learn the black stick (would've preferred the sax) so I was told by parents if I wanted a clarinet I had to learn music all the way to grade 12. Well that was pretty useless as I was tone deaf and couldn't pick a note when the teacher played it on the piano and said, "What's this for an exam?"

    Don't know how I got a pass in music, couldn't do jack really. I think I got a pass out of sympathy and trying more than anything else. Only went to school to do art and that was it.

    And I didn't have to learn an instruement to do it.
    I make things, I just take a long time.

    www.brandhouse.net.au

  13. #43
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    The funny thing is that the sax is far easier than the clarinet.

    Its register keying simply raises the notes by an octave (much more sense) and the keys are generally less complicated and less finger busting.

    So, it shouldn't be hard to pick up the sax anyway...

    Cam

  14. #44
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    I've played the guitar since I was about 10-11yrs, only play once in a blue moon now...
    Q?, what was the 1st piece of music you learned...
    smoke on the water, then progressed to le'grange
    ....................................................................

  15. #45
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    The first piece of music I learned was probably "The Blue Danube" on the piano :eek:

    I learned chords on the keyboard and then transposed them to the guitar (all open chords) and started to learn to play various things I can't remember when I was a kid. But Smoke on the Water was definitely the first riff I learned.

    A girlfriend taught me to play bar chords and the like properly when I was 18. She was mostly into Fleetwood Mac and Bob Seger!
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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