Play like Bert...

I learned to play "Here come the Farmer's Men' at piano lessons. I don't want you to spend any time searching for it

i learned Amazing Grace on the piano and mama weer all crazee now on the kazoo

MONDAY



Like most kids, I tried to learn guitar. But not for long. My preferred instrument was the piano accordion. This was (if memory serves) the first tune I mastered.


Red River Valley - Slim Whitman


Keep it Country!

 
NEWSFLASH!


On the very day this theme is being broadcast, cameras covering Glasgow's bus lanes become operational. So, unless you're driving someone else's car,
stay out of the bus lanes!


>8-D

Hmmmmm


Red rag & bull.....

Pretty sad the affect a court hearing can have on a proud flautist

Take it Julie's glued to BBC4 tonight

as i was saying......i've played a few tunes

the mandolin.
nearly the greatest instrument.
i could play these.....

'when i'm dead and gone'................mcguinness flint

'fat man'....................ask SG

'maggie may'......................rod stewart


the 'tin whistle' is a decent enough instrument and so is the wee tune 'caliope house',its stuck on the end of this mike scott gem.....

'a man is in love'........waterboys.......(with caliope house stuck on the end)

and i was once taught the chanter by a member of a great island piping family.
so one day i am going to up sticks and head to the west coast of clare and purchase a set of uilleann pipes and learn to play.....

'the kildare mans fancy' like yer main man o'flynn

cheers frae the dale

The Happy Wanderer - Obernkirchen Children's Choir - Piano
Stranger On The Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk - Clarinet (Trad boom)
Dansevise - Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann - Guitar (The Beatles were just around the corner)
Dance Tonight - Paul McCartney - Mandolin

Just looked up my original notes


Blaw, blaw, sook, blaw, sook,
Blaw, blaw, sook, blaw, sook,
Blaw, blaw, sook, blaw, sook, blaw.....
Start spreadin the news....

New York, New York - Frank Sinatra




I also looked up the notes on the mouth organ for Madame George but they aren't allowed

I can play 'The Hens March Through The Midden' on the comb and paper ;o)

Has there ever been
a dafter theme?

Ah kain







Well, yer richt, ah cah mind





DC practising drums tae Rolling Stones DeadFlowers

#5

Some of those authorised to use the bus-lanes drive as if they're part of Team Red Bull!




Before a pedestrian or cyclist is killed, speed cameras for Glasgow's bus lanes anybody?

 


Howzabout red light cameras for bicycles?

#14 @ ya MM frae kilbowie

don't even get me started on the doyen of the community.......the glasgow cabbie!!

sometimes they park side-on to keep the economy of the city ticking over....couldnae do without them imho.

cheers frae the dale

 
Massive support for Fat Man - Jethro Tull (see #8)

 
Happy Birthday, Your Majesty; Happy Birthday to you!


:o)

what a ridiculous theme. First song - probably Ba Ba Black Sheep.

And if I hear the word eclectic again used once more I'll ..oh never mind.

And another thing, are people going to claim that Anji was the first thing they played on their guitars? Oh really? And that'll be Bert Jansch played at last, but hey, what about Davey Graham?

I bought piano music for

Rag Mama Rag - The Band
Hey Jude- the Beatles
Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harum

did I ever manage to play them I wonder?

#15. Is that no different to a motoring Amber Gambler? Those who mount the pavement need their heads examining & give the rest of us a bad press.

#16. Good grief... I'm no fae the old-town but a lovely post Blitz scheme!

Please give space to road cyclists whit you do re those on mountain-bikes is up to you >8-0

I remember getting knocked off my Raleigh Chopper as a ten year old only for the driver to get out his car and scream look what you've done to my
******* paintwork ya wee ****

As i picked ma twisted bike and grazed knees off the road I cursed my mother for making me wear short trousers.

He got in his car and drove off. I'm still looking for him. Red morris marina man with the yellow shirt, look out PP is gonna get you one day.






* Other bikes were available....but no as good

#

Keep On Running - Spencer Davis Group - Bass guitar

Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group - Organ

I vote we hand the whole show over to the Glen Miller Orchestra

Tom Hark - Elias and his Zig Zag Jive Flutes - Penny whistle
Sassaphonic - Jon Sass - Tuba

Did yer mammy never buy ye a stylophone ?

So its for musicians is it? eh, I'll get ma coat

#25

Nah! She did buy him a red Morris Marina and a rather fetching yellow shirt...

#26

Wid that be the first coat or the second coat?









Put me oot, Ah'm oan fire!

Sir Gavin Grimbold - Gryphon - Bassoon

Concerto Antica - III Cantilena - John Williams - Classical guitar (by ex-Gryphon Richard Harvey)

Medley - Brett Domino - Stylophone

 
I stand corrected!



Again...

Hello again Bryan, Blogotariat....
To my great shame I have never learnt how to play any musical instrument.....
#8 (Dale) The tin whistle?

Well, let's all fly to Brazil and enjoy the glorious sunshine there.
suggestion: Rita LEE 'Lança perfume'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nY31bga-GY

friendly greetings to all.

I'm learning to play Gerry Rafferty's Mary Skeffington on the Jew's harp

'evidence of the bloggers brandishing an 'axe' would be welcome.'

Here's me thinking we were just a peaceful music lovin' bunch

Al.

 
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a mad axe murderer."




With apologies to Peter Steiner.

Like Christophe, I never learned to play an instrument even though I've had an accoustic guitar for about 30 years.I just never got round to it.I used to kid myself I could play Marie Elena by los Indios Tabajaras,but it was 'kiddy on' playing.

#4 Why do taxis get to use bus lanes.To get to your house quicker? If I had a burst pipe I would want a plumber pronto not a cab.( and I used to drive a Hackney)

#29

I saw Gryphon support YES at the Apollo! I'll keep this up my sleeve for the next time the theme is "Support Acts."

 
#35

joe,

Are you suggesting that plumbers should be permitted to drive in bus lanes?

Scotch
Ha ha some of my best friends are plumbers.Some taxi drivers used to be my best friends.

Give an emergency plumber the use of a bus lane and a McLaren F1 car and they still wouldn't be able to make it out before tomorrow!

#35 Joe it’s never too late to pick it up again…..

My daughters' had weekly guitar lessons up until their more serious exams started to encroach on their free time more, I then decided to take the spot with the guitar teacher.
I’m afraid a few years down the line and I am now a bit of a guitar geek, previously I could strum a song or two, just chords and stuff, but now with the kids grown up I spend a lot more time practicing. Still don’t have any aspirations to play the Albert Hall but now when I play people don’t jump out of the nearest window.

As Mr Weedon suggested, the trick is to try and practice every day, works for me.
I guess the first songs I learned were strum along versions of Wild Thing or Horse with No Name, canny really remember but don’t particularly want to listen to songs like that for two hours.

The theme’s a bit of a challenge.

From my Creedence Clearwater repertoire, John Fogerty’s songs are always fun to play as there’s loads of wee catchy riffs to learn, a bit at a time, if you need to.

Up Around The Bend / CCR

Al.

#36

I saw them on Friday 17 May 1974 supporting St****** Sp**. It looks as if you saw them on Friday 18 or Saturday 19 April 1975 with the much cooler Yes. The bassoon never really caught on.

You Ain't So Tough - Heart - Casio sampler - Like Steeleye Span a guilty pleasure

Not Fade Away - Rolling Stones - Moothie - Never really mastered it. Brian Jones, on the other hand, could play anything.

awfy quiet,maybe we should aw just

Start A Band / Brad Paisley & Keith Urban

Al.

#40
I might just do that Al. Better go and tune up.

Bread-Guitar Man.

From the age of 8 (she'll be 10 soon) my youngest (Georgia) has played a mean 'Sunshine Of Your Love'.... something her trendy guitar teacher taught her at school. It has been most amusing to see the reaction of some of our older friends when she has picked up a guitar she saw lying around at their homes and served up some 60's Cream...

I bought "Play In A day" yesterday and spent all day learning guitar. By the end of the day I had mastered:

Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane

David Bowie - Queen Bitch

Richard Ashcroft - Royal Highness

Play either one as they are the same song.

#45

I hope you're resting today.

Since I see no upcoming themes and an important event on the social calendar, the Paisley Beer Festival, takes place this week, I suggest Drink. Apart from the importance of the industry in its own right, it makes a major contribution to employment in the medical and law enforcement sectors and is the subject of many good songs.

Phew!
Thought for a minute you were going to suggest Paisley as a theme, which also makes a major contribution to employment in the medical and law enforcement sectors.

It's a long time since I've done it but I could once do a fairly rough version of

Hey Bulldog - the Beatles on piano and a fairly poor rendition of Light My Fire on acoustic guitar.However, since I believe Clarence Carter made the definitive version (even better than the original or Astrud Gilberto) and I don't think it's in the library, we won't be hearing that.Pity.

regardez - vous

henri

#46

The Greenock & Inverclyde Fortified Wine Festival is also annual.







It lasts all year.......

#46 Of course I'm resting. It's Monday.

Paisley for drink it is!

#49

Efter youse wi' ra electric soup, Gaie.

#44
Mike for a song that is nearly 50 years old, I'm not sure "trendy" is the right word.


"Groovy" maybe?



Holiday here today. We celebrate St George's Day in Rio.





Deh ask.......

St George is the patron saint of lost souls

#45 what a coincidence!!!!

I also bought "Play in a day" over the weekend and have just about mastered Wot's uh the deal, best performed by David Gilmour on his Live in Gdansk album




DC

Guitar's the easy bit, it's the whistlin' you need to get right.

Over My Shoulder / Mike & The Mechanics

Al.

As a teenager, it tended to be keyboard-based stuff, however, since investing in the joy that is a Variax for my 40th, USB interface and various software-modelled effects and amps, the world of guitar sound is my mollusc.

Since then, I have great joy in torturing the riffs from:
* Cream - Sunshine of your Love
* U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
* Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
* The Who - Baba O'Riley
* Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock & Roll

But most, most, most of all, with all distortion turned up to 11:
* Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
Come on, Bryan, if there's one night when Ver Tap are appropriate, tonight is it.

#49 gonnae come doon here an' say that in person, eh? eh? the baith e' yez. Aye an' Glen an' a'.

#45

Funnily enough, I also learned 4 chords over the weekend and can now play:

1. Journey-Dont stop believing
2. James Blunt-your beautiful
3. Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love
4. Alphaville-Young Forever
5. Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
6. Train - Hey, soul sister
7. The Calling - Where Ever You Will Go
8. Elton john - Can you feel the love Tonight
9. Akon - Don't matter
10. John Denver - Take Me home
11. Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
12. U2- With or Without You
13. The last goodnight- Pictures of you
14. Maroon 5 - She will be Loved
15. The Beatles - Let it be
16. Bob marley - No woman no cry
17. Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
18. Men at work - A land down under
19. America's funniest home videos theme!
20. Jack Johnson - Taylor
21. Spice Girls - 2 become 1
22. A-Ha - Take on Me
23. Green day - When I Come Around
24. Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
25. Toto - Africa
26. Karl Wolf - Africa
27. Beyonce - If I Were A Boy
28. Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes
29. Jason Derulo - In my head
30. Hawthorne Heights - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
31. Joan Osborne - One of Us
32. Avril Lavigne - Complicated
33. Offspring - Self Esteem
34. Offspring- Your Gonna go far Kid
35. Akon- Beautiful
36. Timbaland- Apologize
37. Eminem- Love the way you lie
38. Bon Jovi- Its My Life
39. Lady Gaga- Pokerface
40. Aqua-barbie
40(and a half). Red hot chili peppers - otherside
41. Double rainbow song!
42. MGMT- Kids
43. Andrea Bocelli &Sara Brightman - Time to say goodbye
44. Auld Lang Syne
45. Five for fighting- Superman
46. Axis of Awesome- Birldplane
47. Missy Higgins- Scar

Easy, innit?

#56

Sorry to hear about the mollusc - have you tried ointment?

#57

Tom Petty dyes his hair

#58 Rumbled. Ok I admit it I only got to the end of the third chord chapter. Fourth chord next week. Then I will be able to play ALL of the Boss back catalouge. Except Streets of Philladelphia as it would need your wee Casio thing....

#59 that's such a petty remark

Complete with Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan on 1st and 2nd kazoos, think we could all learn that in a day.
Great wee chordie intro too.

Star / Stealers Wheel

Al.

So we'll all bring our musical instruments to the next blog get-together?

What about a name for our band?

Dear Joan,

All my blog friends have musical talent or something they are excellent at and as for me... well I haven't ever found any instrument I'm good at.

This theme has induced all these stressful emotions in me but this talent-less feeling is the worst and I have no idea what to do and to find what it is I am supposed to do.

Can anyone help me how to figure it out?

Thanks.

M.M.

Name & Address provided

#64

Dear MMfC

That never stopped anyone else making it big in the pop charts.

Nae bother
Wee Joanie

I'm not musically talented however my darling children have acquired musical genes from somewhere. DD Emily (aged 12) played a Beatles medley "I Want To Hold Your Hand, Hey Jude and With A Little Help From My Friends" (all of which she chose herself) for her Grade 2 keyboard exam last year and DS Jack (aged 9) who's learning to play the guitar, is mastering the riff to Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight". Needless to say I'm an "awfy" proud mum :0)

#54 DC

I can't play any Gilmour

But my friend George can


and very well too...

#63

Maybe Gaga
The Captain and Ten Heels
A Hundred Pipers (We'll up an' gie them a blog, a blog)
Gaie's Gits
Adam & The Grants
EC/DC