What piece of music are you learning at the moment?

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  1. Genomer 5/8 Supporter

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    Such a daunting number of time changes.

    Lars is fantastic, what is he like on the other albums he plays bass for?
  2. Cheesus Junior Member

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    I haven't listened to any of them lol I just meant in terms of what I thought when I first heard the album.
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    "Insect" update. So I stopped working on it shortly after the previous posts because, well, it's a Spiral Architect song and is full of fuck... but I have been working on it off and on over the past few weeks, and I know everything except:

    - the lick at 0:52-0:56
    - need to remember the first half of the part at 1:56-2:02
    - the lick at 3:44
    - all of 3:54-4:20 (even though most of it appears earlier in the song in one way or another)

    Everything else ranges from pretty sloppy to passable. but it's coming.

    edit: also lifted the bassline to Esperanza Spalding's "I Know You Know"
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    WHO THE FUCK IS ESPERANZA SPALDING?!?!?!?!

    :tard
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  5. Xarquothios xarquothios

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    Agustin Barrios: La Catedral.

    Almost done, just working on cleaning up the third movement.
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    Scale the Summit - The Levitated... with the tab book I've figured out how to play the majority of the riffs, it's just a matter of tightening up and getting it down. Though the last section needs a bit more study for where the rhythm starts to have that bounciness!

    Mattias Eklundh - The Masala Conspiracy (an etude w/ the same ideas as Teargas Jazz). I've got everything, just not up to tempo... it's got some seriously nasty grooves in it. Like there's one section where you take a sequence of notes and play 12 123 1234 12345 123456 1234567 in 16th notes with just sixteenth note rests in between.
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    just learned Rope and Bridge Burning by the Foo Fighters.
  8. Chavie1982 Junior Member

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    I haven't learned a thing in years.
    been mostly writing my own material.... which lately becoming harder and harder....
    Maybe its about time i learned something new, for inspiration lol
  9. tsoafo.0 Junior Member

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    Lafaro's solo section in Bill Evans' "Waltz for Debby",
    Also Sikth's "Scent of the Obscene".

    edit: Also for you bassplayers out there, Summer Rain has to be one of the most enjoyable pieces in their repertoire to learn/play, James Leech is a beast. (some minor trouble with the run at the beginning/throughout the tune, mostly minor confusion over which 16th note the run begins at any given time, but otherwise its such a great tune to get your hands around)
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    Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

    i suck at it
  11. King Prawn Shaft Master

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    I'm currently learning the hardest thing I've ever had to learn. Fuck you Jeff Kollman.
  12. MistaMarko Retired Troll

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    Have spent a lot of time learning my band's new material, but I've got it down and have been wanting to resume my long-listed agenda of things to learn:

    Learn from scratch:
    Teen Town (Jaco)
    Sex in a Pan (Victor Wooten)

    Things I already know but want to precisely perfect:
    YYZ

    I've just been doing 3 at a time lately. Healthy number without being too overwhelming.
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    Beirut - Nantes

    so much fun
  14. Sisi Be Strong. Be Wrong.

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    I'm attempting this track to improve my speed and general co-ordination:



    I can sort of get the basic grooves but the speed and little fills he plays is pretty hard for me. Urgh.
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    Just learned the main theme of Waves by Guthrie Govan. So much fun to play.
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  16. Pedal Lives in Nigger City

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    I have a friend who plays that IA part when bored. it's so god damn cool!
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    I'm learning the title role in Act 3, Scenes 3 and 4 of Berg's Wozzeck for an opera gala that we're having in about a month.

    I'm also learning 3 pieces for violin and baritone for a recital I'm going to do with my wife sometime in October:

    Vaughn Williams - Along the Field
    Rebecca Clarke - Irish Songs for Voice and Violin
    Gustav Holst - Four Sacred Songs

    It's hard to find pieces for that particular ensemble; we might have to arrange some ourselves.
  18. Genomer 5/8 Supporter

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    I'm either going to learn Turn on the Bright Lights or Our Love to Admire, which should help me play a bit more precisely and a little less "notey", because Interpol albums are always littered with succinct and well-written basslines.
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    Always like the Dunlop crybaby more than the the Vox wahs fwiw.
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  21. wogbog og og

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    Beirut - Cherbourg because dudes parts are the funnest to sing.
  22. Mike You Won't Get With Me Tonight

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    My arrangement of Twin Peaks' main theme "Falling" which I am considering putting on my second album.
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    I got to see few other approaches to that sequence. The hardest by far is repeating four notes going up and down in order, ie you continue in order as opposed to starting on the same note each time. Really messes with you and teaches you to play the rhythm as opposed to playing the notes.
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    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge

    inb4 lol noob
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    A Perfect Circle - The Hollow
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    I haven't learnt a song for ages. Like years. Just had no desire too. So starting Friday I tried to work my way through this, easily the most difficult memory/fingering piece I've ever tried to learn, I can't believe I could even semi-fumble my way through it at half speed.
  27. chronowarp Changed man

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    Nice! I think you might have an easier time if you modified your right hand for some of that stuff that's moving across things, though.
  28. fluorescent >

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    I like playing the first couple of minutes or so of the clean jazz leads. so fucking smooth
  29. Manolito Mystiq Ladelideladelo

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    I'm practicing some flamenco. I'm working on this one:
  30. Ploum Junior Membre

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    My band is working on Level Five by King Crimson. The middle section is fucking annoying to count! 18 measures of 7/8 + one of 6/8, then 2 x 7/8 and 1 x 4/4, then 5 x 7/8 +1 x 4/4, alternating with sections in 11/4 :stare:
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    I am working on "Mediterranean Sundance" by Al Di Meola as well as various pieces by Pat Metheny. Trying to get a feel for fusion guitar playing.
  32. Ploum Junior Membre

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    Arranged for which instrument? That song is awesome!
  33. Mike You Won't Get With Me Tonight

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    Electric guitar. It's not nearly as beautiful as some of the baritone acoustic versions you'll find on youtube.
    I also love playing it on piano. Best song.
  34. Overtone .

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    I do like that baritone version, and was thinking of posting it to your fb, though it still doesn't come close to the original. I've always had that as something I want to work out for solo guitar as well, in my own way...
  35. Manolito Mystiq Ladelideladelo

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    Another song, but Twin Peaks:

    I definitely need to speed it up a bit, though.
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  36. chronowarp Changed man

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    Independance in voices like that is something I will never be able to do on guitar...good job.
  37. Manolito Mystiq Ladelideladelo

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    This is what you get when you try to play all 3 voices of NES and GameBoy songs on guitar as accurate as possible for several years. I usually end up with just two voices, though.
  38. DT89 Junior Member

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    Scale the Summit - The Collective

    So far I have most of the first four songs done.
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  39. DT89 Junior Member

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    Just got the tab book for A Dramatic Turn of Events, so I'll be working on that for a bit.
  40. Kahless Heil Ragnarok!

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    "Mediterranean Sundance" is one of the most fun wankfests in all of guitar music.

    I'm learning a couple of southern harmony pieces that have been arranged for choir, but I'm attempting to transcribe and play an oboe part on the Irish whistle, which I have never played before. Concert is in 3 weeks. We'll see how this goes.
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    Justin King - Knock on Wood.

    Someone dared me to learn it by the summer. I am fucked.
  42. DT89 Junior Member

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    Working on DT - Outcry. So far I have most of it down, just cleaning up the sweep-tap part and learning the part at 8:33.
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    Meg & Dia - Monster
    Lindsay Lohan - Ultimate

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  44. DT89 Junior Member

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    Working on Breaking All Illusions now.
  45. Brodgers Junior Member

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    got a few in progress some farther along than others:

    [learned and up to speed, just tightening]
    Animals as Leaders - Do Not Go Gently

    [learned, currently at about 80% performance tempo]
    Periphery - The Walk
    Periphery - Icarus Lives
    Of Legends - Save the Humans

    [learning]
    Sky Eats Airplane - The Contour

    all TO style obv
  46. Lashie 5/8 Supporter

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    lol, how can you be 'learning' that? I worked it out one evening when I was bored.
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    Because I am a 13-year old female.
  48. Seanto Junior Member

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    Django, Fly Me to the Moon, and soon Giant Steps.
  49. chronowarp Changed man

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    fly me to the moon to giant steps.

    not advisable.
  50. Cheesus Junior Member

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    been working on getting Giant Steps up to an appropriate tempo, and working on the coltrane reharm of But Not For Me, and then a bunch of my own tunes which I still suck at.

    I also learnt Jaga Jazzist's "Low Battery" the other day. Such a sweet groove.