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Which is good, but everyone leaves after the first 3 minutes when they realise that they don't know the full version. Like playing Carmina Burana.
Besides, the best piece of classical music ever is the final movement from the New World Symphony. Or possibly Beethoven's Ninth. Moevements 2 and 4.
And the best instrument is the French Horn anyway. Or Trombone. They get the cool parts. So the answer, if you want to be cool and still play decent music, is to learn the French Horn and Rhythem Guitar (less pressure than the lead, but you can still dance across the stage).
Still, as a member of a marching band, it's about as cool as wearing white socks with Doc Martins. With shorts. And a tank-top. That's purple. With a "Kiss me quick" hat.
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Whew...I thought you were talking about my wardrobe there, but I have a green tanktop, so I'm still cool.
I think in any good band, the Lead player (Which I aspire to be), accentuates the rythym player by augmenting certain notes and/or chords during a riff. Well, at least I think it's cool.
Besides, everyone knows the Lead Singer gets all the women.
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That's a myth. Lead singers may get tail, but not as much as the guitarists. Women seem to have some thing about guys who use their hands so well. At least that's what one once told me. Drummers, too, get chicks, although generally the wierd ones.
And the ONLY sort of band that is cool is rock related. That extends to jazz, blues (where we get rock) and of course, rap.
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I LOVE the guitar... and the man I marry WILL be a guitar player.....
As for who gets the chicks, Right now the only two people in the band I hang out with that DON'T have girlfriends are the lead vocalist and the lead guitar player (both of whom I've been informed I'll someday marry).... hehehe... so there goes THAT theory.... even the SOUND guy has a GF... in fact... he's ALWAYS got a GF... hmmmmmm.............
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No problem at all, Tora! It's been fun discussing it.
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