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tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Nov. 13 2000, 19:56 Ok, I finally got the songbook of TB3 on the piano, and i've been playing it as much as i can. It's pretty cool how it really follows the CD note by note, whereas the book i have of the original TB was altered quite a bit. Anyway, i started playing "Outcast", and i gotta say, it really sounds cool on the piano!!! Obviously not as awesome as on guitar, but still pretty awesome. Anyone else ever tried playing any of MO's music on the piano? -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1865 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Nov. 13 2000, 20:04 How did you get the songbook? I still don't have it. (But I didn't search very hard.) Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Nov. 14 2000, 18:48 I've actually seen the songbook in a few music shops...I don't know where you'd get it unless you happen to be able to visit one of them... I like trying tunes on different instruments (like the way I did a guns n roses song with mandolin once...)..great fun and can get some interesting results... Back to top

Man_in_the_Rain Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Nov. 14 2000, 22:48 If you life in Canada or the US, I've found anything regarding Mike Oldfield is rare (especially songbooks, videos, and DVDs). The easiest way to get a songbook would probably be ordering it through Dark Star www.mikeoldfield.org. ***It's very pricey with the canadian dollar so low, though.*** Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Dec. 31 2000, 12:23 Yeah, i did get the songbook from www.mikeoldfield.org. It was a bit pricey (only because you had to convert from USDollars to UK Pounds (UGH!), plus shipping overseas added some too. But it's worth it. i can play this CD and i love it! I'm thinking about playing "Top of the Morning" for my school's talent show this january. -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

martinec Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: Mar. 2000 Posted: Jan. 01 2001, 06:29 Hi tubularbills Is the songbook only for piano? Is there a guitar too? Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Jan. 12 2001, 23:26 The songbook is primarily piano, but above the piano scales it does give the Guitar chords. It also has vocals in it too, but a lot of the songs that have some lines in them it just says, "female vocal" or "vocal adlib". It also notes key points where other instruments come in. But yeah its strictly piano and guitar, so technically you could learn to play "Top of the Morning" on guitar. wouldn't that sound odd!? -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

TimHighfield Group: Members Posts: 543 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Jan. 13 2001, 01:07 Well you (tubularbills) did play Outcast, a guitar track, on piano, so what's wrong with playing a piano track on guitar? And by the way, why stop at Top of the Morning at your school's talent show, why not create a Tubular Bells III/Mike Oldfield medley? -Tim- Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Jan. 13 2001, 14:39 I WISH I COULD SO BAD!!!!!!!! stupid school is limiting me to 5 minutes, UGH!!!!! :MAD: -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Jan. 13 2001, 22:01 You can fit a lot of things into 5 minutes if you know how...Play around and see what themes you can fit over the chords to others - you might be suprised at what works... While we're talking about top of the morning on guitar, I think Mike actually wrote it for the guitar originally (useless piece of trivia #256 in an infinite series). Oh, and that theme from Amarok that the choir sings at the end (I'm sure it has a silly name of its own but have no idea what) works nicely on piano if you do the right things with it (typically vague of me)...quite fun on the guitar as well. Back to top

sunjammer Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: Jan. 2001 Posted: Jan. 14 2001, 14:16 Five minutes is PLENTY of time for many MO themes. After all...look at what MO was able to do with five minutes anywhere on "Amarok"!!!!! Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Jan. 15 2001, 21:53 Believe me, if i could play as good as him or think of something as awesome as Amarok, i'd blow my school away with the best 5 mins of piano ever!! Playing 11 years of piano can only get you so far! d'oh! -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Jan. 28 2001, 12:51 Well, I played, "Top of the Morning" on Friday, January 26th at my school's talent show. I played it as perfect as i good, and i didn't make any mistakes. I was even all dressed up in a full tuxedo with tails, top hat, and bow tie. Although the crowd roared and thought it was excellent, apparently the judges aren't MO fans, so I didn't win. Some girl who wrote her own song (and played it really really good) won, instead. Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. I'm starting to learn TB2. -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

CarstenKuss Group: Musicians Posts: 362 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Jan. 28 2001, 15:37 Congratulations: YOU DID IT!!!! That's all that counts. Keep it up!!! -------------- -Carsten- Back to top

TimHighfield Group: Members Posts: 543 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Jan. 28 2001, 18:35 Yes, well done anyway, tubularbills. YOu put in the effort to learn the piece, and had the guts to perform it in front of an audience, and, as the famous phrase goes, "it's not the winning that counts, it's the taking part". If I was faced with the prospect of performing in front of an audience I'd probably back out (I almost stuffed up MCing my Year Group's prizegiving last month). So it doesn't matter that you didn't win, you played to the best of your ability, the crowd liked it, and nothing else matters. -Tim- Back to top

Cipher Group: Members Posts: 67 Joined: Mar. 2000 Posted: Jan. 30 2001, 07:56 Congratulations, TBills! But... Tuxedo and top hat and the other things... What kind of show was it? When you say "school", what kind of school do you mean, which age have you? Er, may be you weren't dressed to kill... Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Jan. 30 2001, 14:52 It was just a normal talent show at my public high school. I'm a senior (4th & final year) there, and it was my last year doing a show, so i figured i would go out with some class. I really looked like a professional, not just a high school student. hehe I was the best dressed in the whole show too! (the girl who won was dressed in what looked like pajamas....don't ask). -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

Pacha Daddy Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: Sep. 2000 Posted: Feb. 01 2001, 08:40 Clearly showing that high school students who are into MO are several levels better than your average high school student! (Yeah, but I knew that back in high school...!) Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Mar. 09 2001, 18:08 And of course, if what you wear makes you stand out, people may remember you more...make the music good and they may not forget you (well, for a few days anyway...). I've played at some things where everyone wears their black suits and tuxedos and the like...So I, of course make a point of wearing white (ok, so the suit's 'cream' really...but that's unnecessary detail)... And sometimes I even manage some half decent music... Back to top

ChiRho Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: Feb. 2001 Posted: May 01 2001, 06:23 I'm what they call a 'casual pianist' - I have a keyboard and start messing about when I can be bothered. One day, I got a bit bored, so I decided that I would put even more practice into my well-practiced performance pieces for my exam. Before I do this, I always like to warm up with something that I know that is not difficult, but of standard to be a little warm-up, so I started playing the finale from TBpt1. Then it hit me - why not do the rest? So I set about having a go, running through it in a touch over 20 minutes from what I knew it to be in my head. I can't remember the entire thing note by note, but when I'm playing a section, I can usually remember what it leads into and how the lead-in goes. What resulted was essentially a waste of time, since I didn't get any practice on my set pieces and if I did it again it would be different unless I took arranging it for piano a bit too seriously (Dave Gorman, anyone?*). I also have done the first 4min or so of HRpt1 as well as the beginning and end of Opt1 (I don't have the album and MIDI doesn't really provide an accurate enough sound to work from - I DON'T plug my keyboard into a PC). I find that TTOTM(TB3) was a good warm-up exercise, esp. leading into MW. Also in my warm-up "repertoire" are such things as SD and MITR from TB3, as well as some of Vangelis' stuff (namely L'Enfant, Italian Song, I Hear You Now and Bladerunner End Titles - that last one's quite fun to do actually) Given the current exchange rate, that's my 1.4p worth for today. If only petrol were this cheap (it's 19p/l pre-tax - Eu0,31 or 27c US) -------------- <P>Mr. ChiRho Email to chirho@mine.nu.almost (guess what drops) Visit ChiRho Network Central [URL=http://www.chirho.i12.com/]http://www.chirho.mine.nu/[/URL] Check the forums (topic suggestions still welcome[URL=http://forum.chirho.mine.nu/]http://forum.chirho.mine.nu/[/URL] Back to top

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