Songs you enjoy playing but not listening to

[SteveXFR]

I've started looking for some covers to learn  something I haven't done since I joined an originals band but since we split covers makes sense but what I'm finding is I'm most enjoying playing songs I don't really listen to but I thought I'd have a go at for something different. 

I really don't like Red Hot Chilli Peppers but Righteous and the Wicked is really good to play. Same goes for Nice to know you by Incubus.

Anyone else find songs you enjoy playing aren't the same as what you enjoy listening to?

[Dad3353]

38 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

...Anyone else find songs you enjoy playing aren't the same as what you enjoy listening to?

 

I listen to a lot of Schubert, Mahler, Bruckner etc. I don't get much opportunity to play those riffs, though. 

[Waddo Soqable]

7 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

I listen to a lot of Schubert, Mahler, Bruckner etc. I don't get much opportunity to play those riffs, though. 

I've done a couple of bits of Bach on the ukulele, the very easy bits that is

[Dad3353]

5 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

I've done a couple of bits of Bach on the ukulele, the very easy bits that is

 

This may be of interest, then; it's very good, and not that difficult ...

 

[Trueno]

I currently don’t like anything I play. I’m in a classic rock band and I’m strictly soul and funk myself. That’s the compromise for finding a truly local band so I don’t have to travel all over the country.

 

I play JS Bach and othe baroque/classical on the flute… which I rather like. As the current band is on the edge of imploding I may be devoting more time to that… hopefully soon.

[Waddo Soqable]

1 minute ago, Dad3353 said:

 

This may be of interest, then; it's very good, and not that difficult ...

 

Gawd it uses the "dots" !

As a mindless thug i always just work things out by ear.

tab wouldn't be much help either, as the uke, (one of the larger size ones) I've tuned like a banjo so it's dead easy to suss out innumerable tunes

[ubit]

I used to hate most of our set. Every time we played songs I liked the punters didn't. I would have loved to have played a mixture of country rock and traditional mixed in with metal. The country rock and trad. to please the punters and the metal for me.

[Dad3353]

16 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Gawd it uses the "dots" !

As a mindless thug i always just work things out by ear.

tab wouldn't be much help either, as the uke, (one of the larger size ones) I've tuned like a banjo so it's dead easy to suss out innumerable tunes

 

Try it, though (OK, maybe just the once...)..? Take the first page, work out, laboriously, what the notes are, and where they are on the bass. By the nature of the piece, the rhythmic notion is quite easy, and once you've worked out a line or two, you'll see how it works, and what it can bring to the party. It's a great introduction to 'dots', and doesn't imply that one has to become a 'swot', or pour over pages of operatic libretti. Just a couple of lines, and you'll impress yourself, I'm sure. 

[Waddo Soqable]

15 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Try it, though (OK, maybe just the once...)..? Take the first page, work out, laboriously, what the notes are, and where they are on the bass. By the nature of the piece, the rhythmic notion is quite easy, and once you've worked out a line or two, you'll see how it works, and what it can bring to the party. It's a great introduction to 'dots', and doesn't imply that one has to become a 'swot', or pour over pages of operatic libretti. Just a couple of lines, and you'll impress yourself, I'm sure. 

I've played a few wind instruments as a "yoof" so have used basic notation with that, long long ago..never attempted it with a bass or any stringed instrument tho.

My messing with keyboards is again purely by ear, including those 'string orchestra' things i do sometimes.

I had a lovely full score with all the individual parts for a Haydn piece for orchestra, this was an original 18th or 19th century printed manuscript, long lost now unfortunately, was just a nice set to have.

[bass_dinger]

55 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Try it, though (OK, maybe just the once...)..? Take the first page, work out, laboriously, what the notes are, and where they are on the bass. By the nature of the piece, the rhythmic notion is quite easy, and once you've worked out a line or two, you'll see how it works, and what it can bring to the party. It's a great introduction to 'dots', and doesn't imply that one has to become a 'swot', or pour over pages of operatic libretti. Just a couple of lines, and you'll impress yourself, I'm sure. 

Sounds advice.  I have the same book, and for some of the notes, it really is a case of working out each one at a time.   

When I started to read music, I figured that it was an alphabet with perhaps a dozen letters - very manageable, given that I had mastered a 26 letter alphabet while still at primary school!  I still struggle with timing of notes, but note reading is now possible. 


 

[Munurmunuh]

I've spent my whole life performing and listening to music and I've only recently come to terms with the fact that the music I perform and the music I listen to have as good as no overlap. I used to feel guilty about it, but it now seems to make sense.

[Lord Sausage]

7 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

This may be of interest, then; it's very good, and not that difficult ...

 

When I was 14 my first teacher, school instrumental lessons, was a classical guitarist, he started me off on Bach Cello etudes. I wanted to learn Guns n Roses.

 

My second teacher, private lessons, made me do jazz. Complicated big chords and funny times signatures, but I wanted to do  Guns and Roses.

 

Neither of em let me do Guns n Roses and I'm so glad for that......I wasn't at the time.

[chris_b]

For me, playing music and listening to music are two totally different things.

[Lozz196]

I really enjoy playing to pretty much all of my last bands tracks, don’t like listening to them.

[SteveXFR]

54 minutes ago, Lord Sausage said:

When I was 14 my first teacher, school instrumental lessons, was a classical guitarist, he started me off on Bach Cello etudes. I wanted to learn Guns n Roses.

 

My second teacher, private lessons, made me do jazz. Complicated big chords and funny times signatures, but I wanted to do  Guns and Roses.

 

Neither of em let me do Guns n Roses and I'm so glad for that......I wasn't at the time.

 

My daughter started guitar lessons at school last year and the teacher only did classical guitar while she wanted to play Misfits and Hives. She got bored and didn't practice enough. She's moving up to the next school after the holidays and they have a really good guitar teacher who will teach the fundamental skills to be a great guitarist but apply them to music the kids enjoy. He taught my older daughter bass a few years ago and I remember he taught arpeggios through ska and used Megadeath to teach timing exercises. 

[DiMarco]

The full repertoire of my band.

 

[ambient]

I will now only play what I enjoy listening to.

[chris_b]

2 hours ago, ambient said:

I will now only play what I enjoy listening to.

 

I've spent many years trying to expand my playing situations, and you're trying to reduce yours. I don't understand that approach to being a professional musician, which I believe you are.

[ambient]

14 minutes ago, chris_b said:

 

I've spent many years trying to expand my playing situations, and you're trying to reduce yours. I don't understand that approach to being a professional musician, which I believe you are.

I’ve taught mostly for a few years, I had to reduce my playing whilst doing my masters and PhD. I was doing a lot of gigs until about three years ago, mostly jazz, I’ve just started again recently. I played with a new jazz trio this afternoon.

Edited August 20, 2021 by ambient

[Manwithvan]

There's a probably apocryphal story of the musician who went into hospital and was asked if he had any allergies?

'Yeah, two,' he replied, 'country and western.'

I'd never listen to country music for pleasure, but it's fun to play.

I like to listen to Allan Holdsworth, Zappa, etc, stuff some say is difficult to listen to.

It's usually too difficult for me to play.

I've been planning a Henry Cow tribute act for some time, but it'll probably never happen!

Edited August 20, 2021 by Manwithvan

[lozkerr]

I'll go for Morrissey (with the dogs, if I've got them with me when we meet). We have a few of his songs on the go and listening to them is about as enjoyable as root canal work sans anaesthetic. But they're great fun to play.

[bagsieblue]

On 20/08/2021 at 18:49, Lozz196 said:

I really enjoy playing to pretty much all of my last bands tracks, don’t like listening to them.

Absolutely this for me too, and I hope that not listening to them keeps them fresh when playing live.

[Nail Soup]

I'm fortunate that my punk/new wave band features pretty much songs I enjoy playing AND listening to.

The one that fits most to the OP question would be 2-4-6-8 Motorway by TRB. Although I've seen it on peoples 'don't like to play ' list!