What are you currently playing/learning?

cautioner

Moi, I'm practicing the hell out of Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky. It's tough and I'm cac. Anyone else having more success with current endeavours? Or are we all failures like me?

CianRyan

Learning hot for teacher by EVH!

Tough nut to crack for sure.
It'll be great once i have it down though.

Ostrom

Michael Jackson, Beat it

Guitar hero has inspired, some great cheese

Ziycon

Trying to get to grips with The Kill by 30 Seconds from Mars. I'm finding it a though one though!

-=al=-

i learned your hand in mine its a great piece to play i was going to record it all with all the gutiars, it rocks, but i remember i got stuck recording one arpegiated bit

leanring warm regards by steve vai right now

Doctor J

My band are resuming activities after a 7 month interruption so I'm relearning our stuff, it's amazing how quickly you forget stuff but muscle memory gets you through :pac:

nyarlothothep

caprichi something or other and something by villalopis

CianRyan

Doctor J wrote: »

My band are resuming activities after a 7 month interruption so I'm relearning our stuff, it's amazing how quickly you forget stuff but muscle memory gets you through :pac:

I forget songs an hour after i write them these days, which sucks cause most of them are class, and i only completely remember half of them!

I need some sort of recording device.

brendansmith

CianRyan wrote: »

I forget songs an hour after i write them these days, which sucks cause most of them are class

HAHA theres modesty for ya

-=al=-

all the songs i forgotten are class

Hornswoggle

Have started learning Texas Flood by SRV, should keep me occupied for at least another couple of weeks :eek:

Squirrel

I'm trying to learn the solo on the unplugged version of Layla. I've never really wanted to learn solos or anything but might as well learn to play some lead stuff sometime, and this seemed a good place to start. I can do the intro solo and the rest of the song

-=al=-

Hornswoggle wrote: »

Have started learning Texas Flood by SRV, should keep me occupied for at least another couple of weeks :eek:

gota learn lenny after that, or else

Dord

Currently working on the bassline for "Ain't that peculiar" by Marvin Gaye with the mighty James Jamerson on bass. :cool:

It's a fun song, but the timing is a little tricky in places.

cautioner

Your Hand in Mine is coming along ok; I'd forgotten the satisfaction of sitting down and just working on a song until it starts to come together.

That being said, it still sounds ****...

-=al=-

sounds great when you get all the guitars and harmonies down, i remember playing it a while back with a dd-20 and layering up the different guitar tracks, wonderfull harmonies in that song, good old trusty e major

crosstownk

Trying to get some Harry Chapin into the fingers. Not as easy on piano as first thought but it's coming together.

mp3guy

Currently just playing over some meshuggah riffs and my band's songs, most of them I wrote specifically to push my limits at the time, so it helps me stay up to scratch on what I can play.

Ostrom

Ok, had to post something....

Just started playing drums again, first time in years and just finding pace again, all the little bits are slowly coming back, holding the sticks, posture, placing the pedals, timing....

I completely forgot how much fun it is, edrums are the greatest invention - I just finished playing, in our houseshare without waking anyone

Anyway, I played everything - rage against the machine, the who, SRV, split whiskers; far from perfect but great fun!!! With proper timing in places

cautioner

Picked up Spanish Romance again this week, which I'd started learning a few months back but had sort of let go; such a nice, simple, pretty song.

mp3guy

efla wrote: »

Ok, had to post something....

Just started playing drums again, first time in years and just finding pace again, all the little bits are slowly coming back, holding the sticks, posture, placing the pedals, timing....

I completely forgot how much fun it is, edrums are the greatest invention - I just finished playing, in our houseshare without waking anyone

Anyway, I played everything - rage against the machine, the who, SRV, split whiskers; far from perfect but great fun!!! With proper timing in places

Want lessons?

Yakult

Alive By Pearl Jam. Just playing it, as the solo is alot of fun

A7X

Just finished learnin ye olde Stairway to heaven solo. I dont understand why it has such a "OMG" factor around ppl. Its fairly easy. Then the teacher made me learn Black dog cause i said i hated it... now thts hard

cautioner

My friends (singers) want to enter a competition, so I have to learn:

Forever/With You - Chris Brown
Disturbia - Rihanna
Nothing Compares 2 U - Prince
Halo - Beyoncé
Warwick Avenue - Duffy
Hallelujah - Buckley's, I think
Valerie - The Zutons

... in the next week. Presumably most of them are simple enough chords, haven't really checked them out yet though.

Ostrom

mp3guy wrote: »

Want lessons?

Possibly, i'll see if I can get back to form over the coming weeks before I say anything

dasdog

I listen to Jazz mostly these days but I can't play Jazz guitar for shyte - so now and again I go back to my metal/rock roots and see if I can learn a tune. I found a really good youtube video of how to play Slayers' Raining Blood recently....didn't take long to "nail it down" but holy crap its fast. It does sound hilarious on an acoustic though.

Mr. CooL ICE

Hand injury meant I couldn't play bass for almost 2 months. Currently relearning with YYZ and Natural Science by Rush. Not the most difficult basslines ever, but still tricky enough that I need to take my time to get them down perfectly

DeVore

I'm learning Fur Elise. I'm all cluck* and have 17 thumbs and no wrists.

Its coming but slowly. I am learning up to the point where Beethoven seems to channel some sort of 19th century oompah-oompah army band leader and loses it. Seriously. WTF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQTTFUtMSvQ

DeV.
*gaming slang for being as physically coordinated as a bag of broomhandles and elastic.

Piste

Piano
Since I have an exam next week I'm trying to learn a "song without words" by Mendelssohn I only began to put hands-together last week (exam was sprung on me!). It is really frustrating as there are a long of finger-switches and it's hard to get it to sound smooth as there's no pedal and it was be very hard to play some notes slurred and other notes detatched with the same hand.

For my exam I have a Gigue by Handel and a Tarantelle by Prokofiev which are more or less learned. The Handel is very technical and while it sounds better quite fast I have to slow it down a bit to get it technically accurate. The Prokofiev can be a bit annoying as there are a long of leaps on black notes and my clumsy, stubby fingers tend to fall off black notes.

Violin
Has it really been 6 months?! Apparently so, I had my grade peices pretty much learned before Christmas so now I'm on to more difficult pieces in my book. There's a nice one called "Skye boat song". Also "Kalinka" and "The old Bazaar in Cairo" to learn staccato. Still need to get the hang of vibrato.

Singing
I have all the pieces for my LC music practical more or less learned. 3 of them I sang for my exam in December so I wouldn't say I'm "learning" them right now. Really the only one I have trouble with is the Cadenza at the end of "Think of Me" from Phantom of the Opera. It's all very well being able to sing a high B if the preceeding cadenza is impressive enough.

This post probably makes me seem way more musical than I am, I really don't practice all that much unless I'm coming up to an exam!

ROC1977

I'm only playing guitar since Xmas. I'm learning Behind Blue eyes "The Who", Sweet Child of mine "GnR", and Wanted dead or Alive "Bon Jovi. All Guitar hero inspired. So is playing the guitar to be honest. My girlfriend was sick of me sitting infront of the TV with a toy guitar so she got me a real one. Best thing ever.

The songs I'm learing are beond my skill level by miles, I can play them all slowly.
Songs I can play are things like Wild thing (must be the first song everyone learns) House of the rising sun, and a few other simple open chord songs.lol

kwalshe

On Bass :

Baggy Trousers - Madness
Black Cow - Steely Dan
Manifest Destiny - Jamiraquoi?

Splatterly

I just bought myself a Mandolin, just because I really want to learn an instrument, it was in a sale and I thought it was a nice instrument. I have also bought "Absolute Beginner Mandolin" and I've started trying to teach myself!

DonalN

this week it's 'Trouble' by Mr Ray LaMontagne..

Lovely tune - have to sing it a bit lower than yer man though..

-=al=-

i learned this the other day and made a vid

other than that ive been learning bucketheads big sur moon, steve vai's warm regards and my own stuff

RHRN

Seek and Destroy..Metallica

population

Fool For Your Lovin by Whitesnake

The original, not the hair metal version with Vai. I am not dissing it from a purist point of view, rather from a "I am a bit crap and couldnt possibly figure out a Vai solo if my life depended it" angle.....

Don1

I don't play the piano, but am learning Feelin' Good (the Muse version) on it by transferring notes across from the guitar.

Learning lots of stuff off Metallica - Ride the Lighting, mainly by ear, but had the tab for Fade to Black so used that. I now have a sore shoulder from playing the speedy rythm bits on other songs. No more learning for a while!

Malice

In between writing stuff for my own band I'm currently revisiting some old classics - Therapy's Troublegum on the bass and Fear Factory's Demanufacture on the guitar. The riffs themselves aren't too hard to learn but getting up to speed and maintaining that speed is a killer!

Jesus Juice

I'm a beginner on bass so I've been learning a lot of Death From Above lately and I'm starting to Slap as well so Rage Against the Machines Take the Power Back is what I'm at now...Actually does anyone have any tips on slap bass while im at it?

frany

DeVore wrote: »

I'm learning Fur Elise. I'm all cluck* and have 17 thumbs and no wrists.

Its coming but slowly. I am learning up to the point where Beethoven seems to channel some sort of 19th century oompah-oompah army band leader and loses it. Seriously. WTF?

I was learning it too and but recently,
I got a pain on my left baby finger
so I stopped opening the piano lid.:(
I feel time is crawling like a snail without piano practice.

I think it's from the poor posture
so I'm currently looking for a piano tutor.
I'm unhappy without piano practice.;(

Burning Eclipse

Message in a Bottle and Synchronicity II by the Police, I've a friend who plays bass, so we're gonna try get the tight.

For myself; Rock n Roll Hoochie Koo (manageable) That Smell (beyond my skill, but I'm trying) and Casey Jones (to improve my improv )

Mac Masters

Playing what I always used to play, going back and learning it currently! 'The Baby Elephant Walk' for the guitar. It's just EPIC!

demanufactured

Im very slowly learning For The Love Of God by Vai , the magority of it isnt too hard but when yaget to the faster technical parts im struggling a bit , i know all the theory , but i really need to work on my right and left hnd co-ordination.

RHRN

The Cait Sith Theme from FFVII

rcaz

RHRN wrote: »

The Cait Sith Theme from FFVII

**** yes I learned Tifa's Theme on piano a while ago, Nobuo Uematsu's great!

At the moment I'm learning Chopin's Prelude No.6 Op. 28 in B minor, it's gorgeous.

And Deerhoof's My Purple Past on drums. Greg Saunier's my favourite drummer at the moment.

cedomination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNb-YT5ECA

On bass.

fobster

Just a question I'm currently developing my pull-off technique and want to know is it only a finger-based movment or does the movement come from the elbow joint? I read when bending strings the major force of movement should come from the elbow in a movement similar to turning a dial, does the same principle apply when doing pull-offs just doing it the opposite way?

Opinions? Thanks

-=al=-

all in the fingers, in a gentle movement really nothing to big going on here


as for bends no idea where the elbow comes in dont think i do anything like that just some finger dexterity and strength, in a way your wrist and forearm may come into it more since it may twist a bit for the extra leverage your using to bend



as for me im working on writing a solo for a Bmin song ...Bmin to a Gadd9 progression its quite nice

NoQuarter

-=al=- wrote: »

as for me im working on writing a solo for a Bmin song ...Bmin to a Gadd9 progression its quite nice

Post it up when your done, and you prob have this site but its a great backing track generator> http://12bar.de/backing_midi.php

Ive a bit of time off work so im learning loads of songs!

kings of leon - trani yesterday(which there were no good tabs for:rolleyes:)

and a load of acoustic songs for my camping trip soon! :pac:

fourmations

learned "plug in baby" recently for guitar - great to play

learning bass at the mo as well
so playing primus & jamiroquoi tunes

ciao

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NoQuarter

fourmations wrote: »

learned "plug in baby" recently for guitar - great to play

learning bass at the mo as well
so playing primus & jamiroquoi tunes

ciao

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Primus - Shake hands with beef!