h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

HEY!
im a major band geek...i wanna see howmany ppl out there are too
so what insturment do ya play??
im a saxamaphone!... err... saxaphone..
cheers
ford

OH COMEON!
I cant be the only musician out there!... sad group!
cheers
ford

Well there's a lot of people playing instruments...only I dont think Im a band geek! I play the clarinet, piano, flute, sing, and Ive just started playing the saxaphone....and Im horrific. I can only make 5 sounds.

Ah, a Jazz Saxophinist then

I'm a terrible pianist, but I'm not ust limited to that, I'm also a terrible drummer, an awful guitarist, a tragic recorder player, and well, a poor player of the other countless instruments that I collect..
I used to play drums for my school brass band, but only becuase I was too awful at the sax

They never let us have sax in the school band

(and a happy centenery to that pun!).

Bass guitar

Om

duh-duuh, duh-duuh, duh-duh duh-duh duh-duuh, it's the band geek mafia!

duuh-duuh-duuuuh, duh duh duh duh duh, duuuuh-duuuuh duuuuh you'll feel the horn of justice!

Heh heh. you've made me wnt to listen to the Voodoo Glow Skulls now...

HEHE... well maybe not band GEEKS... its just a name, you know?
nice sax joke! today i got a sax sextional.. (misspelled for the pun) goody!....
cheers
ford

Reckon you can teach me saxaphone over the net? Seeing as I can only play a G,A,B and a C currently.

ya! that would rock!.... hmm but how?...
ok... the smilys are open keys and the smileys are buttons you push down... hehehe]
cheers
ford

oh dear.

Currently Im just trying for an F. Fingering fine, however...it SOUNDS higher than the G!

well it should if your playing low g and high f ... check the low/high button thing... or check for sticky keys or try blowing more air through
i feel sorry for anyone else in the house hehe
cheers
ford

I play the trombone
*looks at case with 1 inch of dust on top of it*
when I play

~Skenvoy

nice! lol
My bro is a tromboner...???!!!.... and his case has uhh... 2.5 inches of dust on it
chooers
ford

Okay I thought this was rather geeky so thought I would tell you all about it.

I found a midi of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A. I then downloaded it and put it on a program called Midinotate which turned it into sheet music. Imagine my horror when I found that it was showing every note as one note lower! So what was actually an F# was being shown as an E! I tried in vain to alter the sheet and in the end had to walk away as I was in danger of breaking something.
My problem is that Im incrediably unmusical. Therefore I have to hear the piece played before I can play it. Yes Im just a parrot. So the whole midi and sheet music thing was a godsend...or not.

What can I do?

do you know how to change the music from one key to another?... i forgot what its called but .... what key is your instrement in maybe i can do it for you
cheers
ford

Bb! But when I downloaded the music it said it was in Bb

Maybe Ill end up having to just write it all out...which is a bother as I havent got any sheet paper anywhere.

try this: http://www.blanksheetmusic.net/ but if your instrument is in Bb and it came out in E? hmmm... lemme think about this one...
cheers
ford

oooh thats exciting!

Sigh...I wonder if all this work is worth it. Maybe Ill just...pretend this never happened