If you could play any instrument, and only one song on it...

[J86]

kumbaya on a recorder

 

[fozzybear]

Guitar - Wonderwall.

 

[p4radox]

Piano: Nefeli - Ludovici Einaudi.

In fact, it's probably not that difficult to learn, hopefully I'll learn it at some point.

 

[~>Dg<~]

gotta be rach the one that send mr helgoff crazy in shine truly awesome

 

[raz0rr]

Drums - If I had to pick one, it would be Cynic - How Could I
Sean Reinert has the most insane feel ever, pulling off some of the craziest licks while still being totally relaxed. Some of the smoothest playing you'll ever hear.
[EDIT:]Or Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy. Shouldn't need any explanation


Guitar - Al DiMeola/John Mclaughlin/Paco De Lucia - Passion Grace & Fire.
Epitome of acoustic guitar playing, imo.

Bass - Marcus Miller - Power. Marcus Miller defines funk bass.

 

[Magic_x_uk]

Piano (have played Piano/Organ for last 30 years or so) Just trying now though to get my head round Rag time Music, Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.
Completely new style of playing. Not easy at the moment. Mainly Left hand.

Plus I am also learning the Guitar. Being able to read music helps though.

 

[marc_howarth]

Piano. Gershwin 'Rhapsody in Blue'. Good thread.

WOW!!! If you can play that i'm darn impressed, i remember my sister trying to learn this piece, it's a real mission!!

 

[Hilly]

always wanted to play the song from "big" on the piano, where Tom Hanks and the old guy do a duet (also in Superman Returns)

that would be cool!

 

[arty]

Beethoven Sonata in F minor op. 57 (Appassionata)

Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven

Piano - Chopin's Nocturne in Eb Maj (same as above!)

Piano. Gershwin 'Rhapsody in Blue'. Good thread.

I've performed all of those in concert

Piano - Rach 3

Still working on that one; can't get the cadenza down pat

piano - Beethovens 5th piano concerto (all 3 movements)

or Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto

I've sight-read both of those but not yet got round to learning them properly. They are on my list, though.

I'd like to be able to play Berg's Violin Concerto, or anything by Jaco Pastorius on fretless bass

arty

 

[Mr_White]

Trombone.

Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade.

 

[phykell]

I've performed all of those in concert



Still working on that one; can't get the cadenza down pat



I've sight-read both of those but not yet got round to learning them properly. They are on my list, though.

I'd like to be able to play Berg's Violin Concerto, or anything by Jaco Pastorius on fretless bass

arty

Get up to sunny Warrington sometime will you? My piano is still waiting!

I chose the Appassionata because it's the one I always wanted to play as a kid. I've played through the first movement but it's still beyond my ability as yet. My favourite performance of it is by the great British pianist of the war era, Dame Myra Hess.

 

[arty]

Get up to sunny Warrington sometime will you? My piano is still waiting!

Where is that, up near Manchester way?

I chose the Appassionata because it's the one I always wanted to play as a kid. I've played through the first movement but it's still beyond my ability as yet. My favourite performance of it is by the great British pianist of the war era, Dame Myra Hess.

It is a phenomenal piece of music, but also one which is often performed badly. I think there's a famous recording of Horowitz playing it with really lax articulation at the start - un-dotted crotchets or something - and I went to a concert many years ago with a very aged pianist whose name I can't remember playing it where he nearly collapsed at the very end from the rapid homophonic chordal quavers. He kept slowing down

I haven't heard her recording, so I might see if I can get hold of it. I've never quite managed to get one I've been 100% happy with, annoyingly.

arty

 

[sarutobi]

Electric Guitar - Jordan or Binge and Grab by Buckethead

Drums - Welcome by Slipknot, Song for the Dead by Queens of the Stoneage

 

[Phalanx]

i'd love to learn some Polyrhythmic stuff on Drums like Meshuggah or Spastic Ink as well as the thousands of odd meter riffs i make on guitar pro but I suck so much at drums

 

[Jleo]

Piano - something by Hatchett opposed to Chopin.

 

[raz0rr]

i'd love to learn some Polyrhythmic stuff on Drums like Meshuggah or Spastic Ink as well as the thousands of odd meter riffs i make on guitar pro but I suck so much at drums

A lot of Meshuggah stuff ain't all that technically difficult to play, but getting it to sound as smooth as Haake does is just crazy.

Spastik Ink is just so technical it isn't funny. Bobby's an insane player.

 

[Robosapien]

Piano - moonlight sonnata
Can't be that hard, might give it a go soon

 

[Phalanx]

A lot of Meshuggah stuff ain't all that technically difficult to play, but getting it to sound as smooth as Haake does is just crazy.

Spastik Ink is just so technical it isn't funny. Bobby's an insane player.

yeah, my drummer chums tell me the same but i think it's more to do with me sucking at drums then it does Meshuggah having difficult drum beats. Still, if I managed to play a meshuggah beat i'd be very impressed with myself

 

[pitchfork]

Well I can play lots of instruments already but i've always wanted to get a timpani.

 

[phykell]

Where is that, up near Manchester way?

In between Liverpool and Manchester

It is a phenomenal piece of music, but also one which is often performed badly. I think there's a famous recording of Horowitz playing it with really lax articulation at the start - un-dotted crotchets or something - and I went to a concert many years ago with a very aged pianist whose name I can't remember playing it where he nearly collapsed at the very end from the rapid homophonic chordal quavers. He kept slowing down

I haven't heard her recording, so I might see if I can get hold of it. I've never quite managed to get one I've been 100% happy with, annoyingly.

arty

It's worth hearing her recording - there's a video of her playing on one of the piano DVDs if you've seen any of those, the "Art of Piano" or "Golden Age of the Piano". She's perhaps more well known for her Schumann htough.