I thought so many answered my question "What music has been in your player beside McKennitt?" so I want to ask you another question...
I think many here play instruments of their own. I'm interested in what music you play on your instrument? Maybe it's something different than what you listen to?
Anxious 2 know...
Posts: 925 | Location: Denmark | Registered: January 25, 2008
I think I need to do a significant update on this question since the last time I answered it...
Half a year ago I met a singer/songwriter/guitarist at a folk session in my local pub. To our great delight, we discovered straightaway that our voices work together extremely well, and now we've formed a musical duo and are starting to do some busking and gigging at various places around our city and other nearby towns. I introduced him to Loreena McKennitt's music straightaway, of course, and our favourite songs of hers to play are All Souls Night, The Mummers' Dance and The Stolen Child. If any of you are on Google+, you should add us to your circles! We're called 'Velvet Sledgehammer'
Anyway, other songs I like to play myself include a vocal/percussion arrangement of The Gates of Istanbul various traditional Celtic songs and tunes on piano, ukulele and tin whistle, quite a few songs by Evanescence (I really love them at the moment) on piano and ukulele and I've even started composing some of my own songs!
I went to a folk session at a pub in Hobart recently and performed an arrangement of The Wind that Shakes the Barley with just my voice and my tin whistle...and EVERYONE in the pub went completely silent! This was a Saturday evening, and there was a special Irish music event happening that weekend, so the place was absolutely PACKED. It was such an honour!
Posts: 706 | Location: In my bed curled up with my cat | Registered: July 15, 2008
Nice. I hope your group is up to the filming/recording.Wonder what a PVC pipe, a shoebox harp and some spoons sounds like?
Anxiously looking forward 2 hear the composition...
Well, good news and bad news. Good news: the performance was fantastic! Bad news: the video was TERRIBLE!!! The audio didn't even pick up the box harp and the pan flute sounded tinny on the playback. But, I do have a copy of the composition, and I can probably do the same thing on Dad's old accordian at home. I think I still have a midi file, but I don't know how to upload it (probably YouTube?) and it's not the edited, complete version we did in class. I'll figure something out so I can share it with you all!
Until later... ~Alex
Posts: 197 | Location: Cal Poly SLO | Registered: July 21, 2009
Nice. I hope your group is up to the filming/recording.Wonder what a PVC pipe, a shoebox harp and some spoons sounds like?
Anxiously looking forward 2 hear the composition...
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Originally posted by Semaspa A: I didn't mean that old! But yes, we did have to build our own instruments (one per group member) and score for the instruments, and perform in front of the entire class! So far it's really turning out...I made a pan flute out of half-inch PVC pipe, my partner Robbie has a shoebox harp, and my other partner Anita has a box drum and spoons! We're almost finished composing, now we have to put it onto sheet music (handing in manuscript paper docks some serious points) and keep practicing until Monday morning at 8:00 California time. If I can set up my little point-and-shoot camera I'll record it and post a link...assuming my partners approve. Well, we'll hope for the best and whatever happens, happens! Thanks for responding to me, Anxious! Until later, ~Alex
Posts: 925 | Location: Denmark | Registered: January 25, 2008
I didn't mean that old! But yes, we did have to build our own instruments (one per group member) and score for the instruments, and perform in front of the entire class! So far it's really turning out...I made a pan flute out of half-inch PVC pipe, my partner Robbie has a shoebox harp, and my other partner Anita has a box drum and spoons! We're almost finished composing, now we have to put it onto sheet music (handing in manuscript paper docks some serious points) and keep practicing until Monday morning at 8:00 California time. If I can set up my little point-and-shoot camera I'll record it and post a link...assuming my partners approve. Well, we'll hope for the best and whatever happens, happens! Thanks for responding to me, Anxious! Until later, ~Alex
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Originally posted by Anxious 2: Hi Semaspa
OLD! what are you talking about, it's not even 2 years! :P
Anyway, it sounds so exiting that you are to compose a song and build your own instrument. Is it also on that instrument you have to score your composed music?
I just had a D in composing - had hoped for F, so I could have had the chance to make something better (I thought it was really bad!) - but hey it's also nice that I have passed the examin!
Posts: 197 | Location: Cal Poly SLO | Registered: July 21, 2009
OLD! what are you talking about, it's not even 2 years! :P
Anyway, it sounds so exiting that you are to compose a song and build your own instrument. Is it also on that instrument you have to score your composed music?
I just had a D in composing - had hoped for F, so I could have had the chance to make something better (I thought it was really bad!) - but hey it's also nice that I have passed the examin!
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Originally posted by Semaspa A: I know this is a reaaally old topic, but I thought this would be the perfect place to post... I'm taking a music theory class for my general ed, and for our big group project a little later in the quarter (for those used to semesters, we only have ten weeks or so before our finals! ) and we have to compose and score a piece of music, and make our own instruments. So no pianos or formal instruments we have experience with (souvenier instruments are ok). Any ideas? Thanks! ~Alex
Posts: 925 | Location: Denmark | Registered: January 25, 2008
I have recently added a few more songs to my collection for the piano. I'm working on "The Highwayman" right now and love playing the introduction! Next I'll focus on "All Souls Night", I hope to be done by Samhain and thirdly, is "Dante's Prayer". Loreena's sheet music is so reasonably priced and getting it instantly off of the net, I can't see going to the music store until I have mastered her library. Well, maybe... Sad to say, I have fallen "off the goat". I haven't played the djembe is 2 months, I sound as if I never played at all. I jump back on and ride! Love, Gina
Posts: 573 | Location: Everett, Washington USA | Registered: November 11, 2006
I thought so many answered my question "What music has been in your player beside McKennitt?" so I want to ask you another question...
I think many here play instruments of their own. I'm interested in what music you play on your instrument? Maybe it's something different than what you listen to?
Anxious 2 know...
Posts: 138 | Location: U.S. / Midwest area | Registered: June 02, 2009
I know this is a reaaally old topic, but I thought this would be the perfect place to post... I'm taking a music theory class for my general ed, and for our big group project a little later in the quarter (for those used to semesters, we only have ten weeks or so before our finals! ) and we have to compose and score a piece of music, and make our own instruments. So no pianos or formal instruments we have experience with (souvenier instruments are ok). Any ideas? Thanks! ~Alex
Posts: 197 | Location: Cal Poly SLO | Registered: July 21, 2009
Such a telepathic moment - before I wandered around the place and observe your post, I had no idea I'd still remember why did I sing a couple of days ago ("Crazy On You") while I excelled to go deeper and deeper in the pleasure of my daily singing (training by my own) ; Thank you very much! Those words of mine came out directly through the fountain’s song of my heart singing. And I absolutely agree with you on that - voice itself is an magnificent instrument or a very expressing journal for the singer (at least) as they could sail within their song as the pencil upon the white piece of paper and express all of the feeling sheltered deep within. Good luck with your covers on the harp and keep in touch permanently with great news!
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Originally posted by Unforeseeable Silence: May I also participate within this topic as an opinion based on my personal process of singing?
How beautifully poetic. The voice is a magnificent instrument. And I would love to play a rock song on the harp. I particularly like the rock of the 80s and 90s. My favorite rock band, is Heart.
Posts: 113 | Location: Romania | Registered: September 16, 2009
Originally posted by Unforeseeable Silence: May I also participate within this topic as an opinion based on my personal process of singing?
How beautifully poetic. The voice is a magnificent instrument. And I would love to play a rock song on the harp. I particularly like the rock of the 80s and 90s. My favorite rock band, is Heart.
How wonderful is that! Your favorite rock band is HEART!!! I have loved them since 1976 and listened to them mainly until I heard the serene voice of Loreena. Heart newest album was released yesterday, June 23, 2010. That's 34 years of rockin' out! And still not in the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame. I don't understand why that is... It was great having the band from my home town but I can rave about them for too long so I'll just say... I play: Piano (sort of)classical, waltz, Ragtime, chopsticks Dunbek Arabic Marco Polo (don't know if I am doing it right, at least it sounds good to me) Frame Drum Native American, Wise Woman Tradition Recorder Native American, Wise Woman Tradition Rattles, tambourine same as above And rock on Guitar Hero and Rock Band (some how I don't think they count ) I have gotten into the Ragtime music with The Entertainer and Maple Leaf Rag and A Good Man Is Hard To Find. There's an English show that had their own version of "Candid Camera". A well dressed lady was in a park sitting at the fountain with a harp. She began to play and people crowded around her and within a few seconds she went wild and hard rock sounded from her harp! People were shocked to hear such loud booming sounds coming from a harp and didn't realize that there was a speakers from behind the fountain playing for her! It was too funny! I almost forgot; Heart's new album is called RED VELVET CAR. I should check it out... Take care!!! Gina
Posts: 573 | Location: Everett, Washington USA | Registered: November 11, 2006
Originally posted by Unforeseeable Silence: May I also participate within this topic as an opinion based on my personal process of singing?
How beautifully poetic. The voice is a magnificent instrument. And I would love to play a rock song on the harp. I particularly like the rock of the 80s and 90s. My favorite rock band, is Heart.
Posts: 212 | Location: Westchester, New York | Registered: April 17, 2008
On Piano, most of my repotoire is (duh) songs by Loreena McKennitt. I also regularly play traditional Irish music, songs by The Corrs, and one or two various pieces each by other artists I'm into, such as Vienna Teng, Delta Goodrem, Sons of Korah, Chris Tomlin, Yohanna, Dean Geyer, Brooke Fraser, Avril Lavigne, Teddy Geiger, and Jesse McCartney.
At the moment, I'm especially into the following songs: - Samain Night and The Dark Night of the Soul by you-know-who - Only When I Sleep by The Corrs - Black is the Colour, Amazing Graceand Banks of Claudy - Traditional Irish and English songs -Believe Again by Delta Goodrem -Into the West by Annie Lennox -I'm Sarajevo (Taste Me!)! by Craig Christie (from the musical Eurobeat - Almost Eurovision (Sarajevo) -Homecoming by Vienna Teng
My Ukulele repotoire is much smaller, due to the degree of playing difficulty (it is supposed to be the easiest instrument in the world to play (oh, alright...apart from the triangle!), but once you go outside the keys of C or G, this is not necessarily the case). I still have a fairly large LM Ukulele repotoire, and there are some traditional Irish songs I can play on it as well. Other artists whom I have covered include Chris Tomlin, Jason Mraz, Brooke Fraser and Missy Higgins. Favourite songs to play on Ukulele at the moment: -The Bonny Swans and The Lady of Shalott by LM -The traditional Irish songs Spancill Hill and I'll Tell Me Ma -Scar by Missy Higgins -I'm Yours by Jason Mraz.
I have also arranged LIVE VERSIONS of The Two Trees and Beneath a Phrygian Sky for Ukulele, Piano, and vocals...all of which I do myself! Aren't I clever?!This message has been edited. Last edited by: Jesse,
Posts: 706 | Location: In my bed curled up with my cat | Registered: July 15, 2008
) and we have to compose and score a piece of music, and make our own instruments. So no pianos or formal instruments we have experience with (souvenier instruments are ok). Any ideas?
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