Any Flute Players?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]icefire wrote: [/QUOTENAME]i do not understand..i am not a musician..only i teach myself playing drums a litle..but it is still strange to me when a lot of people say that queen's music is easy to play...so is it really so??[/QUOTE]

Don't get us (musicians) wrong. Queen's music is very complex for rock music. Not all rock bands can truly say they understand music theory in its entirety, and their for compose simple and sometimes even incorrect music. For instance, The Beatles could not even read music. However, they were able to come up with some great music.

Presently, I am studying music theory which is extremely complex and confusing. Their are in fact rules you "must" follow when writing a song. Just because something sounds alright doesn't mean it is correct. I could go on and on about these rules of music.

Anyway, back to the point, sorry about all that nonsense I just typed. The music that the middle school marching band is playing is easy because of the arranger of the song. Its not the exact copy that Freddie composed. In fact when buying a score of a song you can sometimes pick how difficult you want it.

So to answer your question: No, Queen music is not easy. Do you really think its easy to sing Bohemian Rhapsody or Who Wants to Live Forever? They are very complex songs with intricate harmonies. I hope you understood all this rambling, I'm not very good at explaining things when I'm not talking to someone in person...

Steve

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Bohemian MAY-niac wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Sorry, I can't help you. But, I do play the Trumpet. I've been playing for nearly 13 years. I wish I could find some Queen scores for Trumpet. The only Queen song I've ever played was WWRY in the stands at football games.[/QUOTE]

My marching band plays We Will Rock You and Another One Bites The Dust in the stands, and as I said the middle school band (which I'm not in) will be playing Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and Don't Stop Me Now for their field show. Pretty awesome...

I agree with Steve Queen music is not easy but you can get it in varying degrees of difficulty so you can find it written very easily if you want it or you can find it quite difficult it all depends on the composition. :)

I thought it was Flautist, not flutist?

I love the fact that I play the flute. It's easier to transfer piano music to it, 'cause they're both C instruments.

^lucky bastard...I have to transfer from the key of C to the key of Bb.

Flutist...Flautist, either or...british call it Flautist..I say Flutist. I love how many people are musicians on this site! It's great, our marching band would never do Queen that's why I never joined. I just learned Nevermore on piano...it's easy! Queen music is easy on certain instruments but not piano or guitar...flute's not challenging at all depending on the ability level you have....but it sounds awesome. Any one ever hear of Robert Dick...one of the flute gods, he pioneerd a bunch of techniques...I love him.

I used to play some kind of flute when I was like 7 or 8 years old. I played for a couple of years, then the interest faded as I started taking piano lessons.

"It's great, our marching band would never do Queen that's why I never joined. I just learned Nevermore on piano...it's easy!"



Well thats not a reason to not join marching band. Have you ever been in a marching band? Its fun! Anyway, I can play nevermore on the piano also, and I can play exactly what Freddie played. So I guess that song is simple. However, singing it is another story...

Well I've never joined marching band also because I don't like marching while playing and the schedule is horendous. Singing Nevermore while playing is very hard to do...and I have to be able to by Friday! I just learned the piano part 2 days ago...yikes!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]iLOVEFREDDiEMERCURY wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Well I've never joined marching band also because I don't like marching while playing and the schedule is horendous. Singing Nevermore while playing is very hard to do...and I have to be able to by Friday! I just learned the piano part 2 days ago...yikes![/QUOTE]

Yeah, people don't realize just how difficult it is to march and play at the same time. And depending on how serious the marching program is it can be extremly time consuming. But when its all said and done you feel good about what you have accomplished. As for that Nevermore song, why do you have to play it on Friday? Is it for school or something?

My band has dedlines on songs we want to do and we have a gig coming up so I have to be able to play and sing it flawlessly by friday! I'm so nervous, it's such a vocally challenging song...and I've got no back up singers. You're in marching band? What kind of music do you do?

I've been in marching band for 5 years. The marching band I'm in just finished its season. But the music we did play for our field show was threatrical music. It has a very triumphant feel to it. The one song has a kick ass trumpet part...it was impossible to play for awhile.

Other than the field show music, we play all sorts of things. We play Get Ready For This, Vehicle, We Will Rock You, Another One Bites the Dust, Final Countdown, Pirates of the Carribean, ETC.

Final Countdown! No way! That's so cool! Our band does mostly motown...last year they did Black Sabbath which was sweet..this year they did Styx(crappilly) all the good players are in concert band...oh well. Your band sounds cool.

Trust me, we are way cool...we get all the babes...