most complicated song you can play?

[wayward bob]

in my habitual style of trying to run before i can walk i got me an elliott smith tab book. 38 different chords in one song?

come on, inspire me, how hard can it be?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Hall of the Mountain King (bassoon and tenor recorder).

 

[wayward bob]

i need youtube/soundcloud links i reckon mrs m (although i think i know that one, it's my mental soundtrack when kid2 does her "troll dance" )

 

[spring-peeper]

I was going to post "Mary had a little lamb', but remembered one more complicated. 'Fais dodo', a french canadian lulluby. (b-a-c-a-b-a-b-d-a....)


No musical talent here

 

[Mrs Magpie]

i need youtube/soundcloud links i reckon mrs m

Well, I haven't picked up a basson for over 35 years. I can still play it on the recorder though but I can't record nuffink on this netbook.

 

[wayward bob]

I was going to post "Mary had a little lamb', but remembered one more complicated. 'Fais dodo', a french canadian lulluby. (b-a-c-a-b-a-b-d-a....)


No musical talent here

i have very little musical talent either, but i refuse to let that stop me the most complicated song i can almost play includes many Bms but i stumble massively on them still

 

[wayward bob]

Well, I haven't picked up a basson for over 35 years. I can still play it on the recorder though but I can't record nuffink on this netbook.

examples will do mrs m, doesn't have to be you playing

 

[Clair De Lune]

I dunno. Some where I struggle to play a few chords I give up on (I prefer writing my own anyway) and the rest become easy with practice.

 

[wayward bob]

post us another vocaroo clair? your singing is ace

 

[Mrs Magpie]

examples will do mrs m, doesn't have to be you playing

Totally misunderstood you. You'll know it when you hear it.




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It's not actually that hard except for the getting faster and faster bit.

 

[wayward bob]

heh, yep, that's the one i was thinking of i'm gonna miss the troll dance when she grows out of it

 

[Steel Icarus]

"I don't like Mondays" - I used to be able to play Bach's Inventions but not now for a very long time.

 

[SpookyFrank]

It'd be a song I wrote. Took me 10 minutes to write it, 2 years to learn to play it

I'm a pretty lazy musician and I rarely bother leaning complicated things any more.

As for the OP, 38 chords might not be so bad. Tom Waits often has songs with lots of chords in them but lots of them will be very simillar with added 4ths or altered bass notes or something. Thinking of them all as individual chords rather than as a melody within a chord pattern is probably not that helpful.

 

[stuff_it]

I was grade 6 in piano and 'cello when I left home....haven't really played anything since then....

 

[wayward bob]

links peeps please

here's mine btw (obvs not my version of it )

 

[wayward bob]

It'd be a song I wrote. Took me 10 minutes to write it, 2 years to learn to play it

 

[discokermit]

i can play the blue peter theme tune on my teeth with my thumbnail.

 

[wayward bob]

i can play the blue peter theme tune on my teeth with my thumbnail.

youtube or gtfo

 

[discokermit]

youtube or gtfo

i can do the william tell thing as well.

 

[gavman]

someone once taught me the bassline to 'wild thing'
i also mastered the equally challenging 'dazed and confused'. three notes about my limit

 

[Clair De Lune]

Just
for
you
bob

http://soundcloud.com/cake_of_doom/crappy-drunken-cover-of-hey-ya



so gonna be deleted soon

 

[discokermit]

Just
for
you
bob

http://soundcloud.com/cake_of_doom/crappy-drunken-cover-of-hey-ya



so gonna be deleted soon

that's fucking ace. you are fucking ace. ace.

 

[wayward bob]

oh yes, fucking ace

ta

 

[audiotech]

Learning this presently.

Oh Well Part 1


Part 2

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'm considering arranging the entire of Bach's B minor mass for a rock band but I reckon that might be quite tricky.

 

[discokermit]

i can whistle 'night train' by james brown.

 

[ericjarvis]

It'd be a song I wrote. Took me 10 minutes to write it, 2 years to learn to play it

I'm a pretty lazy musician and I rarely bother leaning complicated things any more.

I've got one of those, although I just wrote the music (Everett True did the lyric). Haven't played it in a while and it may well take another year to get it back into shape. It's not so much that it has particularly difficult chords in it, or even vast numbers of rapid changes, it's just that there are places where the fingering just has to be spot on or it all gets sort of tangled up. Plus, as usual, I fucked about with the time signature so you can't simply count your way through it. It's auto pilot or nothing.

As for the OP, 38 chords might not be so bad. Tom Waits often has songs with lots of chords in them but lots of them will be very simillar with added 4ths or altered bass notes or something. Thinking of them all as individual chords rather than as a melody within a chord pattern is probably not that helpful.

Precisely. What actually matters is what your fingers have to do, and not what the various stages of what they do are called.

 

[damnhippie]

well whenever they get together i play bass for a heavy metal band, and they are dicks like that. so one of theirs probably.

personally i'd be happy if i could play 'Time' by Tom Waits properly...

 

[ericjarvis]

I can't currently play any of the most complicated stuff I ever learnt. That's because at the time I was in a band with a brass section. So we had to play loads of songs in Eb and things like that. I'd write a nice easy guitar part in E or Am, and Jerry would write a lyric, then the brass section would demand that we do it in Ebm or somesuch.

 

[fishfinger]

I can play John Cage's 4'33"