Do re mi fa so la ti do and all that jazz. A place to talk about music.
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Do re mi fa so la ti do and all that jazz. A place to talk about music.
I really like many different styles of music. And one of the GAPAs is up early…
(first poste! I think… *does first poste dance,which IS different from the first Post dance*)
woOT!woOT! second post!
Okay, I am a rockin’ cellist. Did you know that symphony orchestrates make, at the least amount, $90, 000 a year? That rocks!
Shiny. And now I have to sing:
DO, a deer, a female deer
RE, a drop of golden sun
MI, a name, I call, myself
FA, a longlong way to go
SO, a needle pulling thread
LA, a note to follow SO
TI, a drink with jam and bread
that will bring us back to
DO
No, I am not wearing curtains at the moment. Haha, that would be funny, though…
For the record, Fa is a long, long way to run.
I still remember the parody of that song that Mad magazine ran when I was a kid. It went something like this:
DOUGH… means cash for all of us.
‘RAY… for musicals like this.
ME… a star, so big by
FAR… this movie just can’t miss.
SO… insipid is the plot.
LA… di-da, although we know
TE… -dious it is a lot,
It will bring us all much DOUGH.
I love the Sound of Music. My little brother pronounces it ‘ The sound of Moosic’.
3&4- Hee hee.
yay, a new music thread. Danke.
2- yes, but how much do the individual musicians get paid? Including the second-string, little symphonies? I kind of doubt it’s that much… Of course, NYPhil is like $120000 a year, but if you can get in to the NYPhil you’ve got it made..
Has anyone heard of Kyo (the french band, not the japanese musician)? My friend sent me a few of their songs, and I really like them. I can’t understand a word they say (I, unfortunately, don’t speak french), but I like the songs..
Also, I had a really good lesson yesterday. I got the fingered-octaves part in the beginning of the Wienwiaski like perfectly. It was really satisfying.
New thread! woot. Anyways, what to say… Oh, who else caught the Eurovision contest last summer?
This might be sort of random, but oh well.
The free download on itunes is horrible!!!
4-*keels over laughing*
4 – *falls over laughing, which, although she used to do it often, has not been done for years*
5 – I was in a production of The Sound of Music. I was Marta, and I’m turing 7 on Tuesday. I didn’t even get a birthday party. Or at least the party didn’t make the cut.
4- Ooooh. Run. Right ^^;
Speaking of music….I have my piano lesson in about an hour. And I haven’t practiced……*runs to try to look like I learned something*
Cellist, bassoonist, and learning to play bass guitar and piano. Apocalyptica fan. U2 fan. Beatle fan. Vivaldi fan. Various J-pop/rock fan. I like a lot of music, actually.
Agrrfishi- You played the Vivaldi Double? We could do a virtual concert.
What are you laughing about, Ebeth? Can I call you Eggbeth? Just joking.
I felt obligated to post because my name is music related.
We have a concert tomorrow.
The orchestra has unaminously chosen Follow the Drinking Gourd as our favorite piece, therefore, we play it last.(save the best for last and all that) It really is an awesome piece. It will be a miracle if I play Concerto in D major and Spring without messing up. 
This post doesn’t really make sense, does it?
Ooh! Music thread! Whee!
I play flute. Go flutes! Actually, I have a playing test wednesday… not a big one, just the normal after-concert stuff to make sure we were playing it right. I should practice.
Wow. Not much activity here… Only 15 posts!
/gradster(1)
SWEET FUZZY thank you so much GAPAs! ♪♪
(6) o_o I’m surprised (in a good) way that you know of/about Kyo (of Dir en Grey, I think). I don’t mean to sound weird though. It’s just most people don’t know squat about Japanese music. -babbles- But that band sounds cool, I should give them a try~
Axa=shameless, shameless j-rock fan, and darn proud too. >D
(16) Considering the thread was made today, it’s a bit hard to say if there’s activity or not. Only the random thread has a crush of posts as soon as it pops up.
Saxophone people?
I like saxophone and jazz music in general.
Saxophone rocks
La, a note to follow so?
Such a filler line. Come on.
Has anyone seen either The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash or The Rutles 2: Can’t Buy Me Lunch? The more you know about the Beatles the funnier they are. Ah, Melvin Hill. So underappreciated.
p.s Hi this is emily. I was just looking something up for french super quick so I wanted to say hi. hi. P.s you what a better movie is? Bring it on. Most def- I love that one. Ok, bye.
I play the Violin, and the piano (guess my favorite piece).
The violin is the best when it is played right, but the worst when played badly. But that’s true with alot of things…
Sorry, I didn’t notice the 4 at the beginning of 9 and 10.
French horn, piano (not really anymore though), and I guess I could play trumpet if I had a fingering chart and a trumpet.
does anyone know what I should download on Itunes???
I can’t think of any good songs!!!
22-What kind of music do you like?
CiD- It’s canon. ‘Cannon’ is the thing you shoot.
have Frigy and Lizzie been here yet? Ha! They should see where flattery can get them. i’m expecting thanks for this one.
GAPA: *blinded….by…..flattery….*
VF: Aaah, the sweet smell of sucess!
i play cello………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
19- SALMON OF DOUBT!!! Sorry,that was unmusicrelated.
Trombone. I got 1st trombone in all-county concert band, kind of sad because the other trombonist got 2nd trombone in all-county wind ensemble, which is way better, and his music is easier than mine. I already ranted about this, but it still bothers me. If I had a brass instrument and a fingering chart though, it doesn’t seem so hard *says with no experience and can’t even hold a trumpet correctly or read treble clef*
3+4: *Giggles*…
The Drinking Song
DO – The stuff I buy beer with
RE – The guy I buy beer from
MI – The guy I buy beer for
FA – A long long way to beeeeer
SO – I drink + drink + drink
LA – Lalalalalala…….
TI – No thanks, I’ll have a beeeeeer
…And that brings us back to dough
ROFLwaffle
24. It’s a play on words. ’cause I’m the bomb to be around.
but I’ll change it if you like
I like your name! You don’t have to change it, if you don’t want to. If you want to, fire away.
HAHAHA
sorry
“Fire Away”, cannon, haha.
sorry
I’ll just switch whenever I feel like it…
Does anyone know what a ukelali is? (I dont know how to spell it, that’s why I can’t google it.) one of my friends is always joking that he’ll buy one, but doesn’t know what it is.
A ukelele is a small four-stringed guitar-like instrument used in Hawaiian music. It’s fun and easy to play. My father has one.
22: Don’t. Use Bitlord. Download torrents.
(35) Supporting musicians=♥ Yesplzthx.
Although I’m in no way free off that…Darn you iTunes, and your inability to carry music I like!
27-Of course. Love it! I’ve already worn out two copies of that book. Heh heh.
34-Bertie Wooster played one, but it was unfortunately burnt. Much to Jeeves’s gratification.
I Play Piannnnnnnnnno. and i didn’t practice for my lesson so my teacher got mad.
i like music in general
38-Hey! Me too. I had a lesson today, and I’m going to Festival in March! WooT!!!
39) speshul.. My teacher always gets mad at me, but i am playing Pachelbels Canon, if i even spelled that right, and it’s AWESOME. and i’m playing this Rebikov song called the clown. I was going to do festival this month, but, i can’t
The old music thread is here for anyone who wants it.
(260 on previous thread) Yes, that’s exactly what it means. So you have to be able to transpose in your head. But it’s not to hard. For B flat instruments, you just go a whole step up. So B flat to C, F to G, etc.
I like making music videos is my heads to go with songs while I’m listening to them. Does anyone else do this?
i do. i imagine some pretty weird things, actually. i also play piano. i’m supposed to have a lesson today but she canceled… so i’ll get away with not practising.
I’m going to post the lyrics to a song we got to sing in jazz choir:
*women* Sleigh ride ringalin’ bells are jinglin there’s a happy feeling in the air. *Men* snowflakes flyin’ and eveyone’s smilin’ cause’ the joy is felt everywhere….*women* it’s felt everywhe-ere!
*all*It’s Christmas, and all of that Jazz! With a sparkle and a shimmer and a rzamataz.
There’s a certain glow that everyone ha-has it’s christmas and all of that jazz!
*women at the same time as men* Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
*men* (I don’t know this part cuase I’m not a guy) and the lights are twinklin’ on the tree.
*women* cookies bakin’ and decoratin’ there are presents for you and for me.
*all*It’s Christmas, and all of that Jazz! With a sparkle and a shimmer and a rzamataz.
There’s a certain glow that everyone ha-has it’s christmas and all of that *men and alto* all of that jazz! *all* It’s christmas and all of that Jaaa-aa-zz
Cool eh?
I like to play my frickin’ awesome French Horn.
36: Download the album, and if it sticks with you for a month, buy it.
40- God, Pachelbel’s Canon in D is like the most overplayed, most overrated piece of classical music on the face of the earth. Seriously. There’s tons of better pieces out there. And search for “Pachelbel Rant” on YouTube. It’s hilarious.
41- That’s kind of confusing.. My brother is home for Winter Break and he brought his saxophone, and he keeps calling the notes different names from what they should be (okay, should be according to stringed instruments/piano). I have perfect pitch, and so it’s really confusing to me when someone’s playing a C and calling it an E flat or something…
So what do you guys use to download music? With/without paying?
I use Bitlord. You download torrents with it, which are usually entire albums. and not just one single track, but all nicely organized in a folder. Even whole discographies. I filled up 60 GBs on my ipod in about a month.
46. I’m offended!
You have perfect pitch?! That is sooooo cool! I wonder how that happened- evoloutionary wise.
48- I started playing violin when I was four. I listened to a lot of music. I still do. And so I guess it just developed. My friend/roommate cultivated it at summer camp, with the help of her teacher- she basically just started to sing an A, whenever she could, as often as she could (she even carried around a tuner in her pocket so she could check) and after a few days, she was hitting it every time.
46, 41, 259 etc- Different keys? Explain to me why this means they have to call the notes different things.
Today my chorus sang on the radio. I got to miss first and most of second period, and brag about it afterwards.
50-Think of it as different ranges for pitch. Some instruments are higher. Some instruments are lower. The music notes have to be translated (it’s called transposing) into the keys of the different instruments. I’m lousy at this, but other people are phenomenal.
I am a piano player. I like jazz better than classical, but am stuck with the Chopin Ballade. Ow. I’m also playing a few intense, shall we say, Martha Mier pieces as warm-ups, and Bix Beiderick. I like 1940s jazz. Any other jazz piano players here? Hello? Hello?
46-I’m not allowed to download music…:mad:
33, 34 – The Ukulele is derived from the original guitar, which first appeared in Henry VIII’s day, around 1530. This “renaissance” guitar was much smaller than the modern guitar, and had 7 strings arranged in four courses. Despite the development of the 5-course guitar around 1630 and subsequent enlargements, the original 4-course stayed around, probably because it was easier to carry. One or more of them ended up in Polynesia in the 18th century, and the locals copied it, but made it even smaller, giving it a local name of “ukulele”, and reverting to single strings instead of double-strung courses. It was brought back into Europe as a novelty in the 20th century, and made popluar particularly by George Formby, a vernacular singer who moved from the music hall to the cinema, and was famous for singing funny but rather rude songs. He actually played a “banjo ukulele”, which was a weird hybrid, but it was always referred to as a uke.
Anyway, the uke is a nice little instrument, easy(ish) to learn, and very cheap, if you buy one of the imported Chinese jobs.
That”s probably too much information. I’ll go back to sleep now.
i just downloaded 12 manowar albums. completrly free!
it was a torrent. and, the quality’s indiscernible from a cd. yay!
46-yeah, pirate’s bay. and utorrent.
47-utorrent pwnz bitlord.
22-yeah. think of a band you like, and download a discography from it from pirates bay.
FS-do you have a good dream evil torrent? if so can you… ummm…. tell me what to google? in quotes? because the only dream evil torrents i can find are horrible quality. and there are only 2 albums.
52-whyever not?
I didn’t have to do my band final because we ran out of time!
(51 Queenie) I played jazz piano last year. In a jazz band, so it was different than just jazz piano music. Lots of chords. Which I’m not so skilled at. But I had fun. Can you improvise at all? I’d like to work on that. But there’s too much music theory involved and music theory I cannot get my head around. So far. I intend to change this.
i got a new music teacher and she makes us sing
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
the alphabet
except like low then get higher lower higher low….. high lo hi
abcde fg hijk lmno pqrstuv w xy z
she is a bit different
So, what are some of people’s favorite bands?
me, lately I’ve been listening a lot to Beatles, Pixies, Sex Pistols, Kyo, Keiji Haino, TMBG, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, George Harrison, Bob Marley,various classical artists, and probably some others I’m forgetting.
41- All the time. Very fun.
I am mad. Ish. Not really, but annoyed. One of my favorate music people, Butterfly Boucher, is releasing a new cd soon(yay!) but it comes out in the UK first. Meh. And the old cd had 2 extra songs in the UK version, but iTunes doesn’t carry them, and when I figgured out how to get into the UK version of iTunes it wouldn’t let me buy them. Meh.
50. When some instruments were first coming into use, it was common to have them in several keys, for example C as well as B flat clarinets. To make things easyer for musicians, all the music in keys other than C was written such that the fingerings would be the same as for C clarinets. That’s all very well back then, but now that B flat is the only common clarinet, we still haven’t rectified our error. I find that amusing.
I listen to a lot of folk music. For the record, folk and country music are not the same thing (itunes thinks that they are). Folk is earthy, not hic.
51, 59- But if you sing soprano and not alto, you don’t have to move everything a note and a half down to sing the same thing. Why doesn’t it work like that with musical instruments?
(46) mp3 rotations. How I love you, J-music fandom. ♥
My only defense at downloading music is that the music I’m in to costs double to buy, usually, since it’s all imported.
I envy you musically talented people. D: I wish I had stuck with the piano now…
I’m listening to random Taiwanese pop right now. Yummy. And since I’m watching it on YouTube, I get to see the shmex actor from the show it comes from parading around on a motorcycle. Hooray for male objectification.
Speaking of YouTube, y’all need to go look up the Yo-Yo Ma and Tamasaburo’s Bach Cello Suite 5. Even if you’re not into classical, it’s so beautiful that you have to watch it. Kabuki is amazing, and Yo-Yo Ma plays so fantastically. It comes Penty-approved and everything. ♥
2- i have a friend wh is a pro wc3 gamer. he makes 200k a year plus tournaments. hes 13. life isnt fair.
(62) :O That soud wonderful. Believe me, that’s all I do somedays..everyday. xD And I agree, Yo-Yo Ma is amazing. The fact that he performed some of the music in Memoirs of a Geisha made me like the movie more. Oh I wish radio.blog were working so I could go listen to him. T_T
If you want male objectification in musc, try Johnny’s Entertainment/ Johnny’s Jimusho bands from Japan. They’re so beautiful, yet their music isn’t really theirs…except for KAT-TUN, I think. But oh well, they can dance and act at least. Entertainers, yay! :3
I’m sad classical; music doesn’t get enough love in my horrible, musically challenged age group.
dlod: Actually, there are four. Evilized, Dragonslayer, The Book Of Heavy Metal, and the latest, United. TBOHM is my fave, I’d buy it. shouldn’t be too hard. Otherwise for good metal torrents try kerrazy-torrents.net (Hope that doesn’t get zapped) [Not this time. –Admin.]
oops doublepost.
Lizzie: Drop the Sex Pistols. Honestly. They can’t play more than 2 chords, can’t sing, or drum. If you’re listening to it because it’s hip, then, whatever, but if you like the anger and political correctness, then there’s far better stuff. Check out Napalm Death, socialist grindcore from the 80s. Scum is amazing. Pure anger.
I can’t believe it. Revolver, one of my favourite magazines, called AFI goth. I’m sry, but even I don’t think one could classify them as that.
It really, really makes me angry that there are all these ppl who think that straight-edge (drug-free) bands are lame. AFI + Lostprophets got dissed so many times in the latest Revolver…*sarcasm* Yeah, who cares about what a band sounds like? As long as they drink, smoke, and *censors a few things*, they must be pretty cool, huh? */sarcasm*
But there was also an interview w/ some of the lead singers from a few Christian heavy metal bands. I’m not Christian, but I did like the article; what they had to say (about how their musik ties in w/ what they believe) was very interesting.
67: AFI and Lostprophets aren’t goth, but then goth isn’t really seen as what it is in the states anyway. But then, Revolver never really knew much about music anyway.
K, so christian bands play about what they believe. So do about a million other metal bands with social tendencies. Go listen to some Napalm Death. Now THEY knew about expressing themselves.
ZOMG THEY HAVE APOCALYPTICA ON YOUTUBE
If you like metallically inclined, long-haired Europeans, you mustmustmust watch them. Plus, cellists are hawtzorz.
67 (FS)- Yeah, but Christianity gets dissed so much by other bands that it takes a certain amount of strength to go out there and play good music about it. I have never been and never will be Christian, but I do like some Christian music.
69: I know their music teacher. Friend from Helsinki.
and yeah, but since when do christians care about what other people think about them?
and is emogrl/metalfairy still not talking to me? I can’t help being a metalhead elite.
(60) It’s not a matter of the actual note, it’s just a matter of the name they give to the note. You can sing any note, but they name the notes you sing in concert key. so let’s say you were singing a song with a piano, and you wanted to check your pitch with the piano. The note you know of as C would also be C on the piano. But if you wanted to check your pitch with a trumpet, C for you would be B flat on the trumpet. I don’t know why you would do that with a trumpet, but hey, it was a hypothetical situation.
(70) That was horrible generalization. What gives you the right to think you know what every Christian thinks like? Honestly, you talk about Christians like they’re a different species. Give it a rest. You’re just as bad as the conservative kid in Spanish who sits around making nasty comments about Muslims. I have an idea. Let’s not judge people by their religions for once in human history. People make themselves, their religions don’t make them.
[/ annoying finger wagging rant]
On a happier note (haha! note! this is the music thread… *is pied*) I’m done with finals, and I went to the music store at the U today and got a bunch of ideas for b-day presents I want (it’s a bit late to put them on my x-mas wish list).
(66) Maybe she’s listening to them because she likes them. ♥
(67) Oh that’s so cool, Christian metal! Like seriously, to me that’s really interesting, especially since it’s the last thing a lot of people would expect. I’m not generally a metal fan OR a Christian music fan, but I’d like to listen to that some time…what bands were mentioned?
(70) -lovesyoualot–
70 (FS)- See, you’ve finally conviced me that I should be European.
Oh my mistake, I meant to say 71, not 70. Ahaha. Numbers. Pff.
70-Just a question, but were you raised in a broken home or sexually abused by a Catholic priest or something? I ask because you have a serious bias. Curiosity, you understand.
I finally finished The Boat. God, it was difficult.
Hey, I’m kinda new here and I’m just checking out what’s on the different threads on MuseBlog. I really enjoy music. I play the piano, but used to play the trombone too. I compose my own music, and some people appearently think that its pretty good cuz they’re performing it at church for big events and stuff. I like Green Day, even though a lot of people abandoned them after awhile (sniff) and I also like Evanescence, though my sister continously calls me a goth. Oh well.
60- Now I’m confused. Soprano and alto clefs? : ? :
76- I’m a composer tooo! w00t composers! lol. Yeah, I did it on my own for a while and now I take a class at my music school that I go to on Saturdays. It’s great. I’m composing a lot of string quartets lately… something weird about that medium intrigues me. I’m a violinist myself so maybe that’s why.
(76) Hi Kiara! Piano is cool. I think it’s awesome that you compose your own music…I’ve never tried, because I don’t know where to start. Welcome to the Museblog.
hey, quickie questionaire for all you music types who play/sing/whatever:
1. What instrument do you play (sing?)?
2. What are you currently playing/singing (in other words, repertoire, songs, pieces, whatever)?
Answers to Lizzie’s questionaire:
1. What instrument do you play (sing?)?
I play piano, bass clarinet and clarinet.
2. What are you currently playing/singing (in other words, repertoire, songs, pieces, whatever)?
On piano I am currently working Rimsky Korsakov’s The Flight of the BumblebeeI love this piece. It’s so fun to play. Lotsandlots of really fast chromatic note sequences. I am also doing a Mozart Sonata (an original, not an arrangement). I like that, though it’s a step up for me in terms of trikiness. And I’m doing the second movement of a two-piano Clementi sonatina with my sister.
In band, we just did Saint Saens Carnival of the Animals and Rimsky Korsakov’s Dance of the Tumblers.
(what with all the Rimsky? I seem to be dong a lot of him lately).
Hopefully once I get through Bumble Bee on the piano, I’ll start somethibg a little jazzier to get away from all this classical and romantic stuff.
71- I know that, but why do they call it by names different from concert key at all is what I’m asking.
76- I was about to not pie you because you were another trombonist, but why’d you quit? Why does anyone willingly quit playing the trombone? *pies*
77- No spaces between parts of emoticons or the like. You meant to do this:
79- 1. TROMBONE, for the nth time. Not that I ever pass up an opportunity to mention my favorite instrument. And sing 1st soprano.
2. In band: Pirates of the Carribbean, Lest We Forget, which is a generic boring band song, and Encanto, another generic band song, but with some dotted eighth/sixteenth combinations, and thus not quite so boring. For all-county(still) all basically generic band songs which you wouldn’t recognize anyway. For brass ensemble: The Entertainer, Largo from Xerxes, something a guy I know in brass ensemble wrote, which is sick, twisted, probably beautiful if we could play it, and in the key of D. In jazz band, nothing new after the concert yet. Chorus just did its last concert for about a month, and there hasn’t been anything new there for a long time, just refining what we know.
Christian rock really isn’t a new thing. And the better metal bands usually aren’t christian.
And jeez, there was a humorous note to what I said! However, every christian I know who firmly believes and doesn’t just assume a yeah-whatever-maybe attitude is a dogmatic cretin oblivious to theological, philosophical or ethical debate and criticism. I’m not biased, I have experience. It’s different.
81- Aaah, no wonder it didn’t work right. That’s what I get for not reading everything in HG2MB.
80- Rimsky Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee was originally for violin, right?
I have approximately three recordings of extremely accomplished violinists playing it.
79- Answers:
1. What instrument do you play (sing?)?
I play violin, percussion less seriously, and I used to sing.
2. What are you currently playing/singing (in other words, repertoire, songs, pieces, whatever)?
On violin I am playing The Bee by Francois Shubert and the Viotti concerto in G major (No. 23). On percussion I’m just doing band pieces for snare but for mallets I’m doing the (3rd?) Handel Sonata.
82-the humorous note is often hard to find. I think it’d be interesting to go to a Switzerland Ko-konvention. Do you have some kind of facial expression or something that makes it easier for real-life friends to know when you’re joking?
And your experience might be different from others. I have several friends who are hard-core christian (not least of them monty, who left because of this sort of pointless dissing) and while they do tend to be conservative and i don’t agree with a lot of their political views, they’re certainly aware that they’re criticized and if they choose to ignore that, well has it ocurred to you that it might just be how they deal with it? And i think i spelled occured wrong. Occurred? Too early *yawn*
Instrument: Trumpet
Playing: Hoom. Boring concert band stuff. Our concert band majorly sucks, if i haven’t mentioned this a thousand times already. Um…this weird combination of Stars and Stripes Forever and Jingle Bells (where do they GET these ideas?), a brazilian thingamawhatsit, Farandole. In jazz band, Second Line (? i think that’s what it’s called) Agua de Beber, and a few other things that get stuck in my head all the time but i can’t remember the name of.
I don’t see my name higher up this thread anywhere. So i’ll mention once again that i like classic rock (not metal, as fridgey seems to think all kewl people do, and don’t follow up with the obvious that i’m not kewl because i am and i have a pie in hand
(yeah, almost walked right into that one…))
And for christmas…The Chipmunk Song!
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83: Check out the At Vance recording of it. Electric guitar doing it in a very virtuosic way.
84: No, I keep as straight a face as possible, and they burst out laughing when they realize i’m joking.
82- It’s very hard to tell your humerous notes from your general nasty sarcasm…
to answer my own questionaire:
1. What instrument do you play (sing?)?
Violin and viola, and I’ve dabbled in a few others.
2. What are you currently playing/singing (in other words, repertoire, songs, pieces, whatever)?
on violin, currently I’m playing the third movement of the Bruch concerto no 1 (I got into the finals of the local dinky concerto competition with it, and I’m doing S&E also with it, so it’s basically my competition piece this year), first movement of Wieniawski (sp) concerto no 2 (funfunfun), several etudes, the 27 pages of music I have to learn for all-state (x_x Bartok Concerto for Orchestra and Dvorak overature to something or another), umm, and I think that’s about it..
Instrument: voice. I want to take up the violin again.
What are you currently playing/singing (in other words, repertoire, songs, pieces, whatever)?
I’m in my school’s theatrical production, in which I sing a long, reeeeeaaaaaallyy sad solo about Hiroshima.
plus some chorus songs, including one in Zulu, and one in German.
87- One of my friends is working on Bruch right now. Wieniawski?? That concerto is SO hard! No. 2 is in D minor, right? I LOVE that one! I like the slidey part
I haven’t played it (not in a million years) but two of my violin teacher’s students (they are several years older than me (most definetly high school)) are playing it.
Etudes. Mazas? I love them. I’m on Mazas #8, and my teacher said I may be ready for Dont (spelling?) soon.
Music Otzi Like:
Jimi Hendrix. The Beatles. Johnny Cash. Bob Marley. The Killers Death Cab For Cutie. Gnarles Barkley.
1. What instrument do you play (sing?)?
I play flute. Except, it broke and we had to send it in because it’s one of those cheap ones they tell you to get when you join band in 5th grade. It’s held up pretty well, but now one of the keys is leaking air out.* Can’t sing(well) to save my life.
2. What are you currently playing/singing (in other words, repertoire, songs, pieces, whatever)?
In band- We just finished a concert, so we’ll be getting all new music soon, but we just finished up a Holiday(mostly Christmas, we didn’t play any Hanukah or Kwanzaa stuff or anything, which kind of bothered me) concert where we played Holiday Favorates, The Grinch, and a shnazzy new one called Russian Christmas Music, which is 4 pages long and includes 60 somthing measures of rest. Plus it sounds more like a funeral dirge in some places. Gah… if anyone here has played it (on flute or clarenet or sax or another woodwind), did your band director keep the 32nd notes in cut time? Ours switched them to whole notes 2 days before the concert. And I was sort of anoyed, because even though those notes=death I practiced them a lot.
.. and I forgot to continue mu asterisk. So..
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*Actually, the key started acting up right as I was about to take my playing test. Not. ZFun. I got so messed up… it wouldn’t play C, #F, or D flat. Ahhhhg… but he had me play a bit of it on Sarah’s flute and I could do it fine on hers, so he’s latting me retake it after break. *sigh of relief*
69: Haha, I shall! If my comp will let me…
72: They interviewed the lead singers of four Christian heavy-metal bands – As I Lay Dying, Demon Hunter, Norma Jean, and Underoath. I don’t know much about the last three, but I saw AILD live this past summer, and they were pretty good.
75: *Falls off chair laughing*
76: You compose? That is so cool! I’ve tried to write a few songs, but I’ve nvr been able to finish them. Maybe it’s a sort of talent that you’re born with…at least, that’s what I’ve heard. I used to listen to Ev a lot. They’re pretty good, but I think they’re a little over-hyped nowadays. If you like Ev, you might also like Lacuna Coil and I Am Ghost (Two bands a bit similar to Ev that, IMO, deserve a lot more attention).
79: 1. I’m kind of an all-around in choir, but I’m usually a soprano.
2. Whatever we get in choir…Although I think I’m getting a Lacuna Coil songbook (The type w/ sheet musik + guitar tabs) for Xmas – w00t!
for anyone who likes evanescence, they should check out lacuna coil. infinitly better band, and same style. basically, much better and much less famous.
94: They are.
I can also think of two other female-fronted metal bands…Within Temptation, and Nightwish. But I haven’t heard anything by WT, and I think Nightwish are RIP.
What instrument do you play? Cello and bassoon mainly, though I’m trying to teach myself to sing and play piano and bass.
What are you currently playing?
On cello, I’m playing the Vivaldi Double (I refuse to name it because I don’t remember what it’s actually called) and some tarantella by Squire for myself, and Samson et Dalila by Saint-Saens and the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg in orchestra. I is way too busy.
My bocal broke and I am despondent.
(82 and 86 Frigid Symphony) OK, maybe you were being sarcastic, but there wasn’t a note of humor in what you said. Because you didn’t say it. Yout typed it. And text doesn’t carry vocal patterns. I’ve pointed that out about a million times and yet you never take it into account.
Also, you always make these comments that we get angry at you about, and then you get all annoyed and say you were just joking, but I have to ask, how exactly is what you are saying funny? I mean, I love sarcasm, but sarcasm is used to express a point by voicing the opposite of what you mean. But that’s not what you do. You just say something extreme anf then pass it off as a joke. It’s not funny, and it’s not sarcasm! It’s irritating! Please, either use sarcasm correctly, or don’t use it at all!
*cringe*
Sorry. I hate posting these angry posts but I had to say that. Love you dearly FS. Really truly. You may thrash me verbally.
(83 Potato Chip) I just wikipedia-ed it. It was originally an orchestral piece written for an oprah. So yes, I imagine that it’s highly likey that the melofy was originally played on violin.
97- Coolness. But I thought Rimsky Korsakov was (way) before Oprah? I think you mean opera
From wikipedia-
Although the original orchestral version mercifully assigns portions of the sixteenth-note runs to various instruments in tandem, in the century since its composition the piece has become a standard showcase for solo instrumental virtuosity, whether on the original violin or on practically any other melodic instrument.
89- lol, actually most of the Wieniawski isn’t that bad.. you just sort of have to work on it slowly… Mazas etudes are pretty.. Dont aren’t as much (op 37, right? the easier ones), although that might have been because my teacher had me play them at the frog without using the first finger on my bow hand x_x.. Currently I’m doing Sevcik shifting the positions, Flesch scales, Dont op 35 (the etudes and caprices- they’re really hard. I’m doing no. 8, which is entirely thirds. For an entire page. gah), and various Kreutzer, Schradiek (sp), Rode (apparently pronounced “rode”, by the way, not “roday”), and Paganini caprices (I’m actually not doing any Rode or Paganini right now, but I have recently.. I’ve played Paganini caprices nos. 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, and 24, and I can’t remember which Rode).. The Viotti concerto is pretty.. I like the part where it’s like triplets high up, can’t remember exactly where, but it’s fun to play.
Does anyone here listen to Mannheim Steamroller (new age/techno)? I’m listening to one of their Christmas albums right now. Their version of Carol of the Bells is awesome.
99- I was working on Flesch but then I switched teachers so I am now doing Galamian, which is much much easier. Schradiek is fun! Will go play it, and drive my parents crazy! Muahahahahaha!
Sorry to possibly double post, but I have a question. Solfege is do re mi fa sol la ti do, right? Is anyone required to use si instead of ti? My theory/eartraining class makes me do that. I get confuzzled becuase the teacher says, Sing a Si scale, so I sing a C scale because I’m thinking he said the letter C (Do) instead of the solfege Si (letter B). I find this annoying and wish they had just kept it Ti. But then if I switched back I would probably get confused again. Bah.
102-It’s ti. What is it with all this ‘si’ stuff? The solfege alphabet is more than annoying. I can’t sing at all. I envy you.
Am I the only jazz player here? God. That’s depressing. All you classical people are usually deficient in improvisation.
“I don’t play with accuracy. Anyone can play correctly. But I play with wonderful expression.” Name the source, classical geeks.
I’m not good enough to compose. But my Boat sounds freaking wonderful, in case you’re curious. Yay!
101- yeah, I hate fingered octaves and those evil false-harmonics double stop thingys… What grade are you in, btw? You seem pretty advanced..
(98 Potato Chip) *blushblush* oh yeah. That is what I meant.
(102 Potato Chip) Yeah, I’ve heard it as Si before… somewhere. Ti makes a lot more since though
(103 Queenie) Read post 55. I do a little Jazz. Some ragtime, some boogie. Also read the end of post 80. I hope to start some more jazz soon.
What’s Boat?
103- I’m in the school jazz band, because my band teacher also conducts jazz band, and I have friends there. It’s fun. There were more glascandos(spelling? A gliss, where you don’t tongue at all and just move your slide) in the last meeting that I’ve seen in the previous four years of playing combined. I had a solo last concert too, and I messed up so much.
105-Just this piece I’m doing. Yay! Good to know someone shares my interest in jazziness. Even if it hasn’t blossomed to near obsession. Yet. You know, that’s probably a good thing.
106-Ooh. You do trombone? That’s difficult to play, but it sounds sooooooo good…Yeah, from what I’ve gleaned (not much) jazz trombones do a lot more glissando-thingys (dunno how to spell it either) than other trombones. I think. Yeah. It’s all right to mess up on your solo–people probably think you’re just really creative now, so that’s OK.
106- I think it’s glissando, gliss is the abbreviation.
104- 7th. You seem… more advanced. Pagannini caprices? I envy you, having the ability to play them. I love them… that’s one of my most frequently played albums on my iPod.
103- I can’t sing, so don’t envy me.
(106 c and q) Jazz trombone? That’s the best! Seriously, I would love to be able to play jazz on the trombone or trumpet. Those were the people who had the most fun in Jazz band last year. Don’t worry about screwing up your solo- most people don’t even notice. Plus, that’s part of learning to perform, especially in solos. You have to screw up a bunch before you can not screw up.
(107 Queenie)
Cool. So, do you have any favorite jazz pieces that you would suggest I try? I’m not very good, so they’d have to be on the easy side.
109- The other trombonist in my grade, also in jazz band two years longer than me, noticed as soon as we got offstage, I think because he was jealous and wanted to say I could have done that so much better than you. I knew, I’d noticed, but everyone else who heard me tried to cheer me up and say it wasn’t so bad. The whole rest of the section wanted the solo, and I was ecstatic when I got it. It was fun, though, and still is. Like the time Mr. T. gave out pixy stix to people who did things right. Processed, refined, colored sugar, as I remarked to a friend trumpeter. Fun. It was, though. Another pointless story about my life. Nobody cares. Oh, well. I seem to be doing that a lot lately. I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle, in the words of Arthur Dent.
Just so everyone knows, it’s SOL, not SO. People seem to be a might confuzzled.
I play piano…and accordian. I really like the accorian because it’s really fun to play..but it gets really, really, really heavy after awhile and it’s hard to remember where all the buttons are.
I started playing the violin when I was 5.
I am playing the A scale, The Monkey song, and the Flower song. And variation A of Twinkle, Twinkle, little star.
108- yeah, but I’m in 10th grade.. It’s kind of weird, actually- some of the caprices aren’t that hard.. I played my first one (admittedly, slower than full tempo) summer before 9th grade, I believe…
111- Yes, they need to change the thread description.
112- Cool! I started when I was four. Suzuki.
113- Aaah, but they sound hard… I really want to play the bach E major partita. It’s my mom’s ringtone. My teacher says when I’m fourteen.
Has anyone ever watched the Pachelbel Rant? It is SO FUNNY!!!
I play piano, harpisichord, clavichord, and pipe organ. not electric organs though. they stink. i like mozart, beethoven, debussey, and P. D. Q. Bach. My favorite music to play is the Short-Tempered Clavier-Preludes and Fugues in All the Major and Minor Keys Except for the Really Hard Ones (s. 3.14159, easy as). POE St. Louis, that was so fun.
LONG LIVE THE MUSES!
I think it can be so or sol…now that I think about it. I’ve just always used sol. But I think it’s ok.
Kiki – I just google searched it and watched it. It was really funny.
116-How do you play that many instruments?????
with about two and a half or three hours of tiring practicing a day. jeez. oh, and I sing. forgot about that. has anyone else listened to or played P. D. Q. Bach? he rocks out loud.
oh, I’m a Beatles fan, too. yeah. and Weird Al. some of Goldfinger’s stuff’s okay too.
115- yeah, I posted like twice on various music threads about it… funny.. although the violas only get the pretty melodies sometimes, in some versions..
120 – Yeah, I’m a Weird Al fan too. My freind just got me a CD with White and Nerdy on it, one of my fave songs now.
95: Nightwish are… hmm. There’s some really good power metal material in melodies and such, but Tarja just can’t cut it. She’s technically a good singer, but she’s not fit for the type of stuff the rest of the band does. And when you’ve got male vocals, especially Tony Kakko from Sonata Arctica when he makes a guest appearance on a live record, it sounds really good. But frankly, Tarja wasn’t that good. Plus she stole all the attention making it look like she was the main thing.
But anyway, Nightwish>>>>>>>>Evanescence.
119-20 lol, I usually practice that much and I only play one instrument.. well, two if you count viola, but it’s basically the same as violin.. And the Beatles most definately rock.
By the way, I’m going to ask again, does anyone know where the picture of all the Beatles playing digideroos (sp) is? I think it’s on a website that also has a “kiss your favorite Beatle” thingy but that’s all I can remember about where it’s located.. It’s on an orange and red striped background… Juliette?
114- I love Bach.. I’ve played the E major partita but that’s the only one.. it’s fun, although some of the movements? dances? are kind of annoying..
112- I started when I was 4 like PC, also Suzuki.. I don’t think I actually started really reading music until like the 4th Suzuki book..
So, violinistas, shoulder rest or no? I use one, although I can sort of play without one, but it’s much more comfortable and easier to shift, for me, with one and is generally more secure. And I can do better vibrato with one.
Heavy metal reminds me of chain saws. But I like Evanescence. Did you know that they used to be a Christian band? They said some bad words in an interview once, and the Christians disowned them.
119 – I used to practice a bunch. Just piano. Sometimes for 4 hours every day. But now that I’m in high school I don’t have enough time to practice as much.
I love PDQ Bach! I think it’s funny.
I like his opera parodies.
I think Peter Schickele is a really talented composer.
124- Shoulder rest. I can’t keep the violin on my shoulder without it. Having it break is my worst nightmare… it actually did happen once before a concert. Something fell off it… but then we found the piece on the floor of the warm up room.
Wow, I managed to read everything from where I left off. Skipping questionnaires…
67 [metalfairy]- *le gasp* My aunt’s friend’s nephew is in AFI. Or so I hear from my cousin. Don’t know which one he [the person in AFI] is, though…
76 [Kiara]- w00t for composers…I have Evanescence’s first album [have for ages…] and a friend of mine gave me Green Day’s latest one… Holiday is so catchy!
103- [Queenie]- On occasion. Meh, I’m a sonata/sonatina person…
116 [Piggy]- The Prelude to the Short-Tempered Clavier = love.
124 [Lizzie]- Ahh, vibrato. Took me ages to kind-of manage… ^^;
Random thing: can we please keep comments about religion on the Hot Topics thread? Unless we’re discussing how it influences music.
Other random thing: People keep getting me Beatles t-shirts for presents. Weird.
Anyone else here like Blue Man Group? Supertramp? Angelspit? The Yardbirds? The Eagles? The Supremes? Boston? The Four Tops? ELP? John Denver? The Temptations?
Yes, Motown pwns.
How popular would the Blue Man group be, if it wasn’t so blue?
126- Ack! Four hours? I wish I were like you. These days I have such a short attention span. Can’t even manage 1 hour
In fact, I’m supposed to be practicing right now. Dang.
128- eh, I’ve never heard of any of them. sorry. I just listen to the radio is all and some taiwanese groups.
Mmm I just play the piano. I have played the clarinet, but alas tis no longer. Artificial Bass too I guess, because our Bass in Jazz Band can’t play some pieces, so I fill in for her and play bass on the electrical keyboard for Jazz Choir. Gets tiring though, I have to change uniforms for all my groups: Choir, Jazz Band, Jazz Choir.
129-25% less. There music is good and there shows are fantasic!
Anyone know Nirvana or Foo Fighters? They PWN! I’d list my FAV songs, but they won’t get moderated. Here’s what makes the cenorship cut: Smells Likes Teen Spirt, Come As You Are, and Lithium.
I’m amazed…so many cellists! That’s awesome!
This is my fifth year playing cello and my first year playing the tuba. I own an electric bass which I cannot play, and I also can’t believe that I convinced myself (and my parents) that I wanted to. Sigh.
I play my dad’s guitar occasionally. I can play about four chords.
I like to sing, too.
At the moment, I’ve been listening to Eye To The Telescope by KT Tunstall, which I got for Christmas. She has such a gorgeous voice, IMHO.
About Blue Man Group, what is it? My friend saw them in Albany a few months ago, but I’m not sure what they do exactly.
120/122- I’m also a Weird Al fan (Your Horoscope For Today, from the album Running With Scissors, is my #1 most played song). And in the last four days, They Might Be Giants have grown on me. Noidea why. Birdhouse In Your Soul pwns, though. Why Does The Sun Shine? (the Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas) and Istanbul (Not Constantinople) are good too.
That’s Supertramp, right?
128- In chorus, we sang Give A Little Bit at the local United Way fundraiser kickoff. I got to miss some of the third day of school for it.
133- Tuba? What is it with people switching from random instruments to tuba? I’d understand someone going from trumpet to tuba, that makes sense, and trombone to tuba wouldn’t be bad, only there’s not enough trombones anyway, but the tuba in our band switched from clarinet, and you’re playing cello and tuba. What clef is cello music? I could understand it if they play bass clef, but I thought they played in alto clef.
FIVE YEARS OF CELLO??? Wow , you must be awesome! I’ve only taken three years!
134- I’ve heard of flutes switching to tuba. Something about the embouchure being the same or very very similar. My band teacher keeps trying to convince all the floutists (sp?) to switch to tuba.
136- Really? I’d think it would be kind of difficult to learn bass clef and how to do a lip buzz when most of the instruments are doing way-advanced things. I already know bass clef and how to do a lip buzz, but I can’t imagine a comparable switch- say, to flute. I just looked up embouchure, and it means mouthpiece and position of the lips and stuff like that, and it looks to me like there’s a much harder switch between any non-brass instrument to a brass instrument then there is between two brass instruments. Maybe it’s just me, though.
125: Do you know any heavy metal? It’s not about chainsaws, it’s usually about religion, politics, warriors, heros, battles and such. But apart from classical music, it’s the genre that requires most skill to play. Kai Hansen from Gamma Ray took a 4 year course in opera singing to learn how to sing, Eric from Manowar was originally going to be an opera singer, and almost all of the musicians have classical training.
136 – I know that rather well. My lil’ sister, a flute player (don’t know how to spell flautist) , has decided to switch to trombone. There’s only one trombonist in my sister’s band, and the band for my grade doesn’t have any. However, I’m rather PO’d cuz she’s just copying me again.
. I never get any attention anymore cuz whatever I do is almost immediatly copied by my siblings. At least her band is gonna have a slightly better low brass section.
134 ~ I chose tuba because the band directors started flattering me and then asked me to play tuba in the band. The conversation went something like this:
“Margaret’s too cool to not be in band. We need to find her an instrument.”
“Hey, don’t we need a tuba player?”
“Margaret, do you want to play tuba?”
The end.
Cellos do play in bass clef, so it makes sense.
135 ~ Eh – I’m not that awesome. I’m going to NYSSMA level five this year, which won’t mean anything if you don’t live in in New York, and I’m going to be in the high school All-County Orchestra (I’m in eighth grade), but I’m probably last chair or something. I don’t practice enough, and therefore I don’t do justice to my years.
139 ~ Low brass pwns, though.
76 ~ I think it’s awesome that you compose your own music. I’ve always wished I could.
i love Pasi organs. like the dual-tempered one at the Cathedral in Omaha. that one was cool. i got to play it. and the one at the Cathedral in St. Louis. (not Pasi). that was hugemongous. does anyone else play organ? please post if you do.
Pwt pwns
Yesterday I saw The Producers on DVD (Christmas present). It was great. Has anyone else seen it? So funny!
142: I saw the old one with Gene Wilder. Funny.
143 ~ Cool…I didn’t know there was one.
Have you seen the largest organ in the world? It’s near Philadelphia.
About flutes to tuba, a girl in my 6th grade band did that. I heard about the embouchure thing but it doesn’t make sense to me that a brass instrument and a wind instrument would have similar embouchure.
Organs are cool. I don’t understand how you do foot pedals (bass notes?) and play the keyboard part at the same time.
On the subject of clefs, I read treble, bass, and some alto. I’m trying to read alto better, and also to learn tenor. But tenor is so rarely used I don’t see the point. solfege teachers! mon dieu!
145 ~ One time I saw an organ in a rock cave in Virginia that was made of stalactites and stuff.
you know what I’d really like to learn how to play? the steam calliope. steam that’s under pressure shooting through pipes? cool! they have some performances on a P. D. Q. Bach cd. it sounds really cool and dangerous!
146- eh, cellists use tenor a lot.. I can read treble and alto, but that’s about all..
128: Eek! You should definitely try to meet this nephew of your aunt’s friend!
There’s this musik museum (simply called The Music House) a few miles from where I live. They have some of the coolest organs I’ve ever seen – They probably have one of every type there is.
Put together the second demo with my new band today. Much better, we’re probably the two best guitarists in the school, and the creative energies are astounding. If anyone’s interested I can probably send the demos to the GAPAs for them to upload.
151- yeah, I’d like to hear it.. I don’t know if they do that, though.. probably – they uploaded that thingy to Jingle Bells by that family (dumpster dive)..
So I just taught a viola lesson, and then fiddled around on viola (ha! pun!) a bit, which was satisfying, as the longer I play it, the more like an actual violist I sound, rather than a violinist playing viola.. Also I was able to sightread the viola part to the fourth movement of one of the Razamovsky (sp) quartets, by Beethoven.. The fun fugue one.. and I played some Bach cello suites, which is fun..
149 ~ Yeah, I’m learning to read tenor clef for cello. I also read bass (duh) and treble clefs.
151 ~ Please do. I’d love to hear it.
152 ~ Wow. Are you an orchestra teacher or something?
I didn’t know that cellists used tenor. That’s cool. I need to practice now, 25 more minutes or more to be exact. *puts computer in a padlocked room to resist temptation to go on MB*
153- nah, I’ve just been playing for like 11 years and am pretty good (I somehow came in 2nd in the tape tests for All-State Orchestra. Not quite sure how that happened, and am practically guaranteed to lose the chair in the seating auditions, but it’s still pretty cool), so I started teaching violin and viola lessons this year to earn money.. I’m kind of mostly making it up as I go along, but yeah…
154- how much do you practice? And do you actually time yourself?
Shostakovich 5th symphony 3rd movement is love.
155- Yup, I actually time myself. One hour and forty minutes a day or more. I know it’s not much, but it’s a big improvement on my previous forty-five minute practices *shudders*
I don’t do it all at once. I take too many breaks.
*Goes to practice for an hour and twenty-two more minutes*
155 ~ Here, getting into All-State at all is really good. So congrats!
155 – Cool! I’m an assistant teacher for my school’s little kid string program. I help out with teaching them tune and rhythm. Mostly it’s just instructing them on solfege (sp?) and the difference between different meters and other stuff, but it’s still alot of fun. I have a fan club of little kids who come and give me hugs whenever they see me. It”s really cute!
154 – The pain! The temptation! Yeah, I’m actually supposed to be filling out an application for some school thing, but I just needed to go on MB. *gets dragged off of computer by mother with me saying “Just one more minute! Pleeeeeeease!”*
140- Level 5 is hard. You’re special. I’m probably going to be level 3, or maybe 4, but I only first did a NYSSMA solo last year, it was level 2, and the only thing I did wrong was not using enough air. I know someone doing a trombone level 5 solo, but his music scares me. And how did you get into high school All-County? Junior high is grades 7-9, that’s what I’m in. But, as I already said, you’re special. And maybe your county is different from mine.
156- yeah, I’m really bad about taking breaks also, especially when I’ve found a new webcomic x_x.. So why 1 hour 40 min? Why not 1 hr 45 min? 2 hr? I like practicing about 4 – 5 hours a day, but I usually don’t have the time/willpower.. By the way, what is the music school that you mentioned on the other thread?
157- yeah, it’s pretty hard to get into here also, but that means that the groups are really good – there’s three of them, I was in the top one last year (and will be this year also) and it was amazing – it was the best orchestra I’ve ever been in.. I mean, the last chairs of each section could have been the section principles of their home orchestra, or even at All-Region orchestra.. It was really amazing and spectacular and stuff (and the violin sections were like 80% Chinese, but that’s a different story)…
160- 1 hour 40 minutes because that’s 100 minutes. I usually end up doing more than that… I guess I should really say 100 minutes is my ideal minimum. I don’t think I can mention the name of the music school here… because I don’t think the GAPA’s want people to tell what school they go to. And even though it’s not a regular school… yeah. But it’s in NYC. It’s mainly a college, but I’m in the prep division.
159- I did level 5 violin and marimba last year. and level 4 for snare drum. It’s not that bad, on violin I think what I’m doing now is level 6. But I don’t know about for trombone.
Still 1h22m left.
*Throws computer into a pit with the ravenous bugblatter beast of Trall*
GAPAs, where did my post go? It’s not showing up as awaiting moderation.
and now it’s there as awaiting moderation. Weird. you might as well disregard my previous post and this one.
161- omg, is it like _the_ music school prep division? the one that starts with a J? Because if it is, major jealousy. I have a lot of friends in the San Fransisco conservatory prep thingy but I don’t live close enough to any.. :-(.. but I have an awesome teacher..
159 ~ Well, orchestra is a lot less competitive than band here, so even though I did badly at NYSSMA last year, I still got into high school all-county. Plus, junior-high all-county starts in fifth grade here, so it’s really really easy.
You’re a trombonist, right? The friend that I’m trying to convert to Musery is sitting right next to me and she plays trombone too. I was expressing my frustration at how I couldn’t find out whether or not you live in our county, and she says probably not because last year a boy was first chair. (She’s going to be first chair this year, though, she says.
We were looking back over your previous posts (to find out what instrument you played), and she is in agreement with your wondering why anyone would switch from trombone. We are also in awe of your first soprano-ness because we both sing alto. (Last year, the girls’ choir director put me in second soprano and her in second alto, though, because we’d talked too much when we were in the same section, and she didn’t even want us in sections next to each other. Unfortunately, for reasons that make no sense at all, there’s no girls’ choir here anymore.)
Also, switching to tuba is not that hard because the tuba parts are so easy anyway. It doesn’t take that long to catch up.
164- Nope, not Julliard. I got rejected from there though. I knew I wasn’t going to get in there, nowhere NEAR good enough, I just tried for fun.
AAAH! I’m on the computer. Must control self.
166 ~ There’s none of that kind of stuff in my BORING TOWN! (I said that just to spite my friend who’s still sitting next to me…it’s not thaaaaaat boring. She says I can’t call it boring if we have shootings in the mall and hate rallies outside the high school. Well, not plural. And anyway, nobody got killed or anything. And the rest of the time it’s boring.
) But my private cello teacher rocks. So that’s good enough for me.
And really, we don’t usually have shootings/hate rallies. Very isolated incidents. I promise. ;D
167- I don’t live in NYC. My parents simply drive there and back every Saturday.
168 ~ Wow, so you board there? Isn’t that just a tad expensive?
No, I don’t board. My parents drive *me* there and back every Saturday ( Sorry!
) There isn’t a place where I could board, even if I could afford it.
165 – Attention Margaret’s friend: (Margaret, if your freind is no longer there, show this to them) You simply neeeeed to become a Muse because Musers PWN!!!!!!! And I play trombone too. I wasn’t able to do band this year cuz I need to take Espanol for foriegn language, but I still play it when I can. Now my grade’s band has no trombones, and I feel kinda bad about that. My freind in band is trying to convince me to switch, but I’m not sure I can. Anyways, you must be converted to Musery cuz if you’re like Margaret, then we definently need more awesome people like that! (Not that there aren’t already, but we could always use more!!!!
) Go Trombonists!
167 – What was the hate rally for/against?
170 ~ But during the week, though, where do you stay?
I hope you don’t mind my curiosity., I just think that’s really cool.
171 ~ Aw, thanks! I just IMed her the link – she should get it when she gets home.
I’ll post about the hate rally in Hot Topics since it seems really really off topic for the music thread.
Hmm, speaking of music, I need to go practice now. *sigh* Oh well, either that or math.
165- I wasn’t first chair last year. If I was, it’d be cool, but last year I didn’t even try for all-county because I didn’t have a NYSSMA score and I thought I would prefer not trying to the near-inevitable disappointment of not getting in. So we could maybe still be in the same county. It would be cool if we were. Also, it sounds like our All-County stuff is different grades. Here, Elementary All-County is 5-6, Junior High All-County is 7-9, and I think the high school level is 10+, but that is a guess, because I don’t know that it exists. Is there a safe way to express where we live? Probably not, but there has to be some way.
[Unless it’s a town of a million or more people, let’s keep it a secret. — Rosanne]
I double-clicked the Submit button by accident.
Sorry. Pretend that didn’t happen and there’s only one post saying that.
172- At my house, north of NYC. With my parents. Unfortunately.
Oh no! I revealed my alter ego.
I’m too careless.
Oh, okay, I thought you said you’d been first chair before. My bad. Anyway, I can ask Sarah about how the bands work.
This is so frustrating. xD
177 ~ Me too. xD
174 ~ Apparently it’s that way here in
[Place name snipped. Sorry but we want to keep location info to a minimum. — Rosanne ]
So unrelated to what everyone is talking about, but I can’t resist.
afknagdkjbga at Dir en Grey placing first MTV2’s Headbanger’s Ball. And being in Revolver magazine, which I read yesterday just for that. It’s not everyday a foreign band gets an honor like that. I’m no fan of their but daaaaaaaaaaaaaaang that’s awesome.
1. What instrument do you play (sing?)?
I play my voice
2. What are you currently playing/singing (in other words, repertoire, songs, pieces, whatever)?
I am currently practicing the star spangled banner because apparently it’s a “hard” song. I’m not so sure about that though.
I play the flute, piano, piccolo, and keyboard. And I really hate practicing. Bleh. It’s really boring.
Paul Baker (if you know) (or anybody else who knows), I recieved a tin whistle for a late Christmas present two days ago. I’m not really sure if you know about tin whistles, but I’m going to ask you anyway. How do you get the high notes to play without sounding horrible and loud? According to the booklet thingy, you are supposed to blow harder, but (with flute, anyway) I thought you were not supposed to do that. And it makes sound AWFUL that way. I have mastered almost all of the songs in the aforementioned booklet thingy, but whenever I play the really high notes, they sound really bad. Do you have any advice? Or comments? I am rather confuzzled.
183 – I think I used to have a tin whistle when I was seven or eight, but I would advise blowing till it reaches the note you want and then slowly ebb off the airflow a bit until it sounds better. If it doesn’t work, sorry. It works on an old recorder we have, so it might work for you.
My experience with tin whistles (when I was Muser-age) is that the trick was to blow only as hard as necessary to get into the high range. My lips had to be just right, which took some experimentation. Whistles varied a lot, too. Even with identical-looking whistles by the same manufacturer, some were much harder to play in the high range. I’m sure Paul Baker and other Musers can give you more-current information.
I concur with Robert. There are whistles and whistles. On the other hand, the whistle has no ingenious back hole like the recorder or a turbo recalcitrating valve like the flute, so blowing harder is the only way to get a higher octave. You can go up into a third octave on some whistles, but it’s not pretty. Just the nature of the beast, I’m afraid. It sounds OK with lots of reverb, as heard on most of the Irish musc CDs I’ve heard.
Thank you (184,185+186)! I was being paranoid, and wondering what I was doing wrong, but now I am happily un-paranoid (hmmm…I wonder how long that will last…). I will have to practice, and get used to the sound.
Okay I take back my previous statement on 180. Dir en grey is amazing. And that’s the correct way to type it I now know.
Has anyone ever heard a song for the first time and been deeply moved by it? I know I have, but I’d like to know about you guys too. ^^
ooh!
here’s another one!
(this isnt the one linked to in the reminder you know)
Yeah, shouldn’t the reminder link to the newer thread?
I have just discovered a really cool song by “Garbage” from a James Bond CD called “The World is not Enough” I have been listening to it almost non-stop on iTunes.
Introuduction and Rondo Capriccioso/ Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso by Saint-Saens is love.
Seriously. Listen to it.
123 – I just listened to a Nightwish music video and it was okay except for the guy with blondish dredlocks and the guitar shouting every now and then. His beard frightened me.
Bugt the lead singer was oretty good. 
192- I’ve listened to it before, will do once more once I get through listening to the 19 minute first movement of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto.
192- Which movement? I have the all movements played by Heifetz, and I have Sarah Chang and Itzhak Perlman playing the first. I like the first
Listening to Heifetz first movement now.
192- My bad. I have Heifetz, Chang, and Perlman each playing all three movements. Sarah Chang’s and Itzhak Perlman’s are just comined into one track for all three movements. My “length” column was hidden on WMP.
196- wait, it has more than one movement? Or are you talking about the Tchaik? I have Heifetz (and maybe also someone else, not sure) playing the Tchaik, and Sarah Chang and Kyung-Wha Chung playing the Saint-Saens (and I want Oistrakh, but I don’t have it)…
I’m in a Chamber Music group (with Taiwan Hippo fan,) and we’re playing Seven Scottish Airs . It has 1 piano, 3 violins, and a Cello. It’s uber cool.
So I saw Wicked and Rent last weekend, both shows with some great music. Does anyone know the music from either?
We got our All-County chorus music today. I’ve never heard of any of it. One of the songs was apparently written for this year’s chorus. I was lucky enough to be put as an alto (I have a ridiculously low range most of the time), but my friend with an at least equally low voice was put as a soprano. She was very pissed. Our director lives by the theory that it doesn’t matter that she randomly chose parts for us, because there’s no possible way that we could be unable to sing any of the parts. She says that our voices won’t mature until we’re in our twenties. My argument against that was “My voice may not be mature, but it is low.” She ignored me. Sigh. Poor Sarah.
In fact, there was a “Wicked” thread on the blog last March:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=213
199- lucky.. I want to see Wicked really badly, but the closest I’m going to be to it in the near future is like two hours away, so we’ll have to see..
So… uh… Can I send someone those demos, then?
Of course. You can even try e-mailing them if you like.
Will do… Wait a few days, I should get them from our recording studio soon…
you went to an actual recording studio to record the demos? How much did it cost?
205: Nope, we fitted a room in his house with all the necessary material. Mixer, soundboard, mics, amps, etc.
197- It is Saint-Saens, in A minor. I don’t think he wrote more than one.
206-thats really cool!! i wanna hear. what genre? and what are you called? and what do you play in it?
and, i just had to come on here to say that the dark ride by helloween has to be one of the best albums ever.
208: We’re called Hellion, and we play all sorts of stuff, all guitar oriented.
Actually my fave albums by Helloween are Keeper of the seven keys II and Keeper of The Seven Keys: The Legacy.
209- i like the dark ride better. but cool name!
*211th post dance*
any1 else play bagpipes?
i play 6 instruments…clarinet ,bass clarinet , oboe, violin, bagpipes, recorder BUT i hope that dusnt automatically put me as a music geek cos i do hardly any practise!!!lol!!!
(oohhh the torment)
Gaack.
I got hit with Chopin. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeet…music. Yeah. Very, very hard. I know! I’ll sprain my finger, and then I won’t have to do it. Great plan, right?
212 ~ Well, that’s one approach! xD
I have to memorize this music from Carmen. (singing) It’s in French. I hate it. -dies-
Queenie – what Chopin piece(s) are you playing? I’m working on Fantasie Impromptu, which is uber hard. Gak!
But I love it, so that helps
(211) You play bass clarinet?? I play bass clarinet! It’s the froodiest instrument ever! I play clarinet too. But I don’t play any of those other ones. Cool that you do though! Bagpipes…excellent/
(212) Better plan: tell you teacher that your fingers were crushed under the keyboard cover when you practiced so hard that it shook the whole piano and made it close.
I’m doing a Chopin too. Nocturne. Mucho funno. Lotsa chords. Ho joy!