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Musical Instruments - What Can You Play?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Tina., Jul 22, 2014.

  1. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    I canny.

    I only dance when pished and make a right **** of maself.

    I do cut loose when am alone in the hoose tho and think am brilliant at dancing <laugh>
     
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  2. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    I dance around the kitchen when no one's looking. Apart from the neighbours. I don't know what upsets them most: me dancing or the fact I'm naked.
     
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  3. RAVENBLACK

    RAVENBLACK Well-Known Member

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    Yup quite a groover down the disco in my day.
     
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  4. Mick O'Toon

    Mick O'Toon Well-Known Member

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    I had a little boogie recently on my holidays,after world cup final in Portugal some Scottish bloke in a Irish bar blasting out 500 miles.Germans,Scandinavians,English rugby team and a few Irish and if I wasn't steaming I would have thought it surreal!
     
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  5. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    My brother used to have a neighbour who liked to undress with her bedroom light on and the curtains open. We used stand in his kitchen in the dark with a beer for the entertainment.

    Nobody can tell me she didny know exactly what she was doing.
     
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  6. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    Spoof.
     
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  7. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    I have to admit I was kinda relieved when I got to the bit where it said 'she'.

    Edit: Mind you, if I'd read it properly I would have worked out it was a woman from the first sentence.

    I've out-mindied Mindy with this one!
     
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  8. EDGE.

    EDGE. Official POTY 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018 & 2023

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    Heard you play a mean 'Rusty Trombone'
     
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  9. Simon's black friend Josh

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  10. Jip Jaap Stam

    Jip Jaap Stam General Chat Moderator
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    I play the Dambusters.

    Derrrrderderderderderderderderder etc
     
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  11. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    There's a cocktail called a Dambuster. Drank it in ma yoof in Corfu. And yes, I did the Dambuster theme with arms out like an aeroplane while running around like an eejit. Good times.
     
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  12. Bullet tooth Tony

    Bullet tooth Tony Well-Known Member

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    The Music Man: "I am the music man, I come from down the way, and I can play!"
    Audience: "What can you play?"

    Piano:
    The Music Man: "I play the piano!"
    Sing "Pia-pia-pia-no, pia-no, pia-no; pia-pia-pia-no, pia-pia-no" to the tune.
    Actions - act out playing chords on a piano

    Trombone:
    The Music Man: "I play the trombone!"
    Sing "oomp-pa-oomp-pa-ooomp-pa-paaaa, oomp-pa-paaaa, oomp-pa-paaa; oomp-pa-oomp-pa-oomp-pa-paaaa, oomp-pa-oomp-pa-pa" to the tune.
    Actions - mime playing trombone.
    Follow with pia-no lines again then chorus
    Bagpipes:

    The Music Man: "I play the bagpipes!"
    Sing "Scotland the Brave"
    Actions - mime playing bagpipes.
    Follow with pia-no, oomp-pa etc.
    Call and response section:

    The Music Man: "Whoawhooaa!"
    Audience: "Whoawhooaa!"
    The Music Man: "Yeeaah-yeah-yeah-yeah"
    Audience: "Yeeaah-yeah-yeah-yeah"
    The Music Man: "Oggy oggy oggy!"
    Audience: "Oi oi oi!"
    The Music Man: "Oggy oggy oggy!"
    Audience: "Oi oi oi!"
    Football section:

    The Music Man: "I am the music man, I come from down far away and I can play".
    Audience: "What can you play?"
    Match of the Day, (followed by a scarf waving section to the music of BBC's Match of the Day music)
    Dambusters:

    The Music Man: "I play The Dam Busters!"
    Sing the theme to The Dam Busters with arms outstretched, like bomber aircraft.
     
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  13. Mick O'Toon

    Mick O'Toon Well-Known Member

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    As a member of the Royal Institute of Civil Engineers it's not one of our favorite tunes
     
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  14. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    We had "I can play the ****house door" "Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang"
     
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  15. RebelBhoy

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    fiddle, mouth organ, button accordion , piano accordion, flute.... Not great but I can get an aul choon out of em.

    Bodhran.... Passable

    Piano. I'm ok.

    Tin whistle I'm pretty ok at. I was on the front page of the paper as a wee small boy for being good at it.... But the paper was talking ****..... Slow news week.
     
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  16. Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction

    Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction Well-Known Member

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    Ulster champion on flute and all-ireland runner up on whistle and accompaniment with guitar. Can muck about a bit with banjo and bouzouki.

    Play range of guitar tunings for different purposes. Open D (DADGAD )for backing trad music, open G (DGDGBD) for more of the folk stuff, few things on open E and drop C. But love playing blues on drop D and standard tuned guitar.

    Building my own Fender Strat at the moment, not going well :(
     
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  17. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    Drop D tuning for Blues Jacky? I've tried it on the bass but it's a bit heavy for Blues and Classic Rock I thought...well my band did.
     
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  18. Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction

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    Just allows you to be a bit more melodic when playing in major, you can throw in a bit of country/bluegrass playing a la Tony Rice if you're feeling brave. For the rest in your pentatonic minor you can easily thumb mute the D as most blues chords allow a thumb wrap round anyway. When playing minor scale its not a huge effort to transpose any playing done on the D string up two frets to compensate
     
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  19. Black Caviar

    Black Caviar 1 of the top judges in Europe

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  20. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    ...in other words, yer a stereotypical ****in paddy.
     
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