Favorite instrumental song(s)

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-04-15 01:14pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:
The Dark wrote:
irishmick79 wrote:Gotta go with Zaia's nomination of "elsa's procession to the cathedral". Absolutely amazing piece.
Amazingly painful to me...I was playing crash cymbals for that piece at state Festival, and pinched a nerve in my elbow with the first hit. Couldn't feel my left arm for a week.
We played it as the march for graduation in college. COLLEGE mind you. That's over 500 people walking in. Over and over and over and over... If I never hear that song again, it'll be too soon!

We had 900 at my HIGH SCHOOL graduation. I never want to hear "Pomp and Cicrumstance" again.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-15 01:41pm

Zaia wrote:
aphexmonster wrote:
Zaia wrote:Satriani is the man; totally blows Steve Vai out of the water.
I donno about that, i saw them both at G3... Satriani has speed and everything, but Vai is a way better composer. Hes invinted his own scales, tempered his own instrument effects, and composed full length scores. Satriani is still the man, but hes nothing more than just a " shred " guitarist. There was hundreds before him, and there will be hundreds after. Vai is just a more acomplished musician.
Ummm.......first of all, I HIGHLY doubt Steve Vai invented his own scales. There are many, many different scales, modes, sequences, etc., and Steve was born after almost all of these came into existence. I don't know what sort of musical background you have, but I'm a music educator who has taken years of music history, music theory, composition and arranging classes, and I am almost positive that Steve Vai did not 'invent' any new scale. He may have popularized an obscure one, though: what scale is it that he allegedly invented?

Second of all, Steve is a good technical musician, but that is all. Joe Satriani is entirely more musical, both in composition and execution. Steve's abilities to create instrumental effects doesn't impress me in the slightest; I'm much more impressed with Joe's lyrical melodies and seemingly-effortless solos. I have CDs by both of them, and it's my opinion that Joe Satriani is the better musician.

Damn, she brought up Satrianis singing days >_<

Im studying musical composition and theory in college. So i have a bit of a small background ... but not much of one by numbers yet.

...but seriously, dont ever get all defensive over an opinion. I just think joe satriani is too comercial for me. ( not that hes a bad guitarist or anything ) i just dont see how he blows steve vai out of the water, when vai opened the door for alot of guitarist to shine mainstreem. Like Satriani or Petrucci. I dont see Satriani as more than a guitarist, a good one... but i dont see it past that. I just see steve vai as a more acomplished musician...

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-04-15 01:49pm

some of my fave's

Cannon in D -Pachabel
Feels So Good -Chuck Mangione (gotta love disco jazz! lol)
Mars (from Suite of the Planets) -Gustav Holst
Flight of the Valkyres (i love the smell of naplam in the morning

)
Red Clay -Freddie Hubbard (the best lead trumpet i have ever heard...dare i say better than Miles)
Watermelon Man -Mongo Santamaria
Oye Como Va the original Tito Puente version with the kickass timbale solo by the man himself

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-04-15 01:54pm

aphexmonster wrote:Damn, she brought up Satrianis singing days >_<

Im studying musical composition and theory in college. So i have a bit of a small background ... but not much of one by numbers yet.

...but seriously, dont ever get all defensive over an opinion. I just think joe satriani is too comercial for me. ( not that hes a bad guitarist or anything ) i just dont see how he blows steve vai out of the water, when vai opened the door for alot of guitarist to shine mainstreem. Like Satriani or Petrucci. I dont see Satriani as more than a guitarist, a good one... but i dont see it past that. I just see steve vai as a more acomplished musician...

I'm not getting defensive, I'm just asking for you to support what you say. What scale is it that Vai allegedly invented? If he really did invent a scale, I'll give him props for that, but like I said, I think it's highly unlikely that he did any such thing.

And I could be getting the two mixed up, but I'm fairly certain Joe Satriani has been around longer than Steve Vai and in fact was Steve's teacher for a while. I don't feel Steve ever surpassed Joe in any musical aspect, but you disagree. I'm fine with that; we can have differing opinions. That doesn't mean I'm going to go easy on my half of the discussion.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-04-15 02:07pm

The Imperial March of course.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-15 02:32pm

Zaia wrote:And I could be getting the two mixed up, but I'm fairly certain Joe Satriani has been around longer than Steve Vai and in fact was Steve's teacher for a while. I don't feel Steve ever surpassed Joe in any musical aspect, but you disagree. I'm fine with that; we can have differing opinions. That doesn't mean I'm going to go easy on my half of the discussion.

Well, the fact that he was Satrianis teacher is no more than a rumor blown out of porportion. They both happened to be in a guitar shop in Seattle one rainy day, exchanging licks or whatever guitar gods of those calibur do with eachother. When Steve introduces Satriani to the chromatic scale or what-have-you... he just gave him a pointer on something... this turned into Steve gave Joe a lession... this turned into Steve was joes teacher .... you see a pattern forming here ? If the trend continues, next year people will be saying Steve was Joes mentor, and attended Vais college of Shredding arts....

I used to go to a website frequently called Chops From Hell i Dont even know if it still exsits, but they claimed to have many Vai tempered scales and they used them as a means of teaching.

... and i dont think Vai has surpassed Satriani in any way, Satriani is deffinitly the better guitar player, i just think Steve Vai means more to the industry than Satriani.... ( the whole comercial guitar player thing ... )

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-04-15 03:18pm

Some more:
Walk, Don't Run - The Ventures
FBI - The Shadows
Piano solo at the end of Layla - Derek and the Dominoes

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2003-04-15 04:40pm

Well, if we can include parts of songs, then the last 4 minutes of Freebird by Lynyrd Skynard can't be ignored.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-15 08:43pm

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Well, if we can include parts of songs, then the last 4 minutes of Freebird by Lynyrd Skynard can't be ignored.

Agreed...

Im supprized nobody said Fur elise.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-04-16 12:30am

Raiders of the Lost Ark: the Raiders March
Raiders of the Lost Ark: Desert Chase (you know, where Indy hijacks the truck with the Ark on it)
Ocarina of Time: Gerudo Valley
A Link to the Past: Castle of Hyrule
The Wind Waker: the Great Sea
And of the course, the Imperial March.

Boba Fett · Post by **Boba Fett** » 2003-04-16 06:46am

Favourite instrumental songs:

The ride of the Valkyrie - Wagner
Entering hyperspace - Williams (TESB)
Cool 9 - Satriani
The Messiah will come again - Gary Moore
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Williams
Empire of the Sun - Williams
Bolero - Ravel
Summer song - Satriani
Friends - Satriani
Cyborg sex - Satriani
The four seasons - Vivaldi

...and several else from Handel, Beethoven, Gershwin, Paganini etc.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-16 06:49am

Ugh, too many to name...

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-04-16 10:25am

Oh! I forgot one:

Jessica -The Allman Brothers Band

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-04-16 02:57pm

There's one from ESB, i think it's called Han and Leia's theme or someting.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-04-17 04:13pm

Forgot to mention what I consider to be one of the best instrumentals:

"Orion" by Metallica (Master of Puppets)

It's the long instrumental just before "Damage, Inc."

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-04-17 04:20pm

Adagio for Strings by Barber. Always makes me thing of Homeworld.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-04-17 08:28pm

Darth Pounder wrote:Adagio for Strings by Barber. Always makes me thing of Homeworld.

*sighs* Oh, I love that piece...

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-17 10:58pm

Mmmmm, barber

irishmick79 · Post by **irishmick79** » 2003-04-17 11:10pm

I also gotta mention "Beck's Bolero," By Jeff Beck. Kick ass guitar work.

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2003-04-18 02:17am

Favourite Instrumental Song (as in real song, not symphonic or operetic) is probably "Bittersweet Symphony" don't know who wrote that...

but it reminds me of all my violin playing friends (of who most are female, and hot

)

actual art music favourites are in approximate order are:
(Composer, Piece, Section)

Olivier Messiaen, Turangulilia Symphony, Whole piece, but especially movements 1, 2, 5, and 10

Gustav Mahler, Symphony 7, Movement 1

Shostakovich, Symphony 7, movement 2, 3, and 4. (1 is ok though too)

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Symphony 2, the whole symphony.

Carl Vine, Symphony 3, the whole symphony... so lonley, yet triumphal at the end. it's its own fantasy world.

Igor Stravinsky, Petrushka, Scene 1 and 4

Richard Wagner, Das Rhiengold. Entire first and second acts. (Those Giants are really funny. and I love the idea of leitmotifs!)

J.S. Bach, Violin Concerto Movement II... I heardher play it once and I'v loved it ever since...

Ottorino Rehspighi, The Roman Trillogy (Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome, Roman Festivals), the entire three pieces, they are so colourfull! and discribe their scenes so perfectly! They say Richard Strauss was the master of the symphonic poem... I think Rehspighi tops him with these though...

Steve Reich: The Desert Music, the sections in this piece are fairly ill defined, and the piece really 'evolves' rather than having specific sections... it's minimalist, but it's so inventive in that style... first time I heard it sent chills up my spine when the choir entered with it's 'stuttered' words.

Pieces I can't Stand:

Ravel: Bolero... I had to play that yesterday in Orchestra... goo! yuck! It gets stuck in your damn head and wont go away!

Mozart: Anything ever written by mozart apart from the Requiem

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2003-04-18 02:20am

2000AD wrote:There's one from ESB, i think it's called Han and Leia's theme or someting.

Nah, the one in Empire Strikes Back is the greatest instumental of all time... I believe it is called "The Imperial March"...

hahaha

I'm serious!

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-04-18 02:54am

Durran Korr wrote:Sleepwalk, the best instrumental of all time.

That's my most favorite song, ever.

meanwhile, back in the jungle...

The Peter Gunn theme
The "In" Crowd
Grazing in the grass
Green Onions
Soulful Strut
Java

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-04-18 03:30am

jenat-lai wrote: Mozart: Anything ever written by mozart apart from the Requiem

Is he really that bad??

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2003-04-18 03:41am

Well... I think so

Boba Fett · Post by **Boba Fett** » 2003-04-18 04:04am

Drewcifer wrote:
Durran Korr wrote:Sleepwalk, the best instrumental of all time.
That's my most favorite song, ever.

meanwhile, back in the jungle...

The Peter Gunn theme
The "In" Crowd
Grazing in the grass
Green Onions
Soulful Strut
Java

Yes the Peter Gunn theme!

The Pink Panther theme is also very entertaining!