[QUOTE=Creeping_Deth]I can't be bothered to tune down to play that song. I'm so lazy when it comes to tuning. I try to avoid drop D for that reason as well.[/QUOTE]
That's the reason why i have 2 basses.:D

Yeah, I find the stuff I write to be a lot more interesting if I stay in standard.


EDIT: To Txus, I need another bass :(.

[QUOTE]Yeah, I find the stuff I write to be a lot more interesting if I stay in standard.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, a lot of people as what tuning we play in, and I just say "standard, bitch!" :lol: ...we are leaning on tunign down a step though...

I can't write technical stuff in drop tunings. I forget where I am.

My favourite Opeth song to play is Silhouette..its so dark and ominious. I just got my bass, so I wanted to start doing something else, like Blackwater Park looks like it would be fun. That, and it's one of my favourite songs by them :p

You can play Silhouette on piano? That's pretty sweet.

I wish I could play piano, man...

I want to learn BWP on bass!

[QUOTE=Txus]I want to learn BWP on bass![/QUOTE]

It's a pretty simple song...I don't think it'd be too hard to play on bass.

The tabs pretty easy. If you're a decent slapper for the end part, it wouldn't be a problem.

I may learn that later today. I've got nothing better to do.

[QUOTE=ICB]It's a pretty simple song...I don't think it'd be too hard to play on bass.[/QUOTE]
I'll try to learn it today cauz i have nothing better to do.:p

[QUOTE=Creeping_Deth]You can play Silhouette on piano? That's pretty sweet.[/QUOTE]

Heh, only like the first three pages, after hours of scouring the net for pages that give/sell sheet music, that's all I can find. I've figured out most of the rest of it...I should just finish the rest of the damn thing and get it over it :lol:

[quote=ICB]I wish I could play piano, man...[/quote]

/throws beginner piano books at ICB

Then go start learning :p

I used to be pretty good at piano. Then I stoped playing, and now I've lost all my skillz.

I regret that.

[QUOTE]/throws beginner piano books at ICB[/QUOTE]

Hey, while you're at it, through a fricken' piano at me :lol: ...

I want to be able to do the stuff I can on guitar and then play it on keyboards...that would be awesome (I'm such a CoB-head)...but I really want to learn how to play piano so I could do some dark, melodic intros and shi[size=2]t[/size]...plus I'd bust out some Opeth at school in the band room :lol: I'm getting the band director here into Opeth.

[QUOTE=Txus]I'll try to learn it today cauz i have nothing better to do. :p[/QUOTE]

Good luck :) I'll probably be recording today...

ahh, im starting to play piano.....pauses.....well, keyboard lol

But i learned a fair judgement and the grand conjuration with they keyboard

I just spend too much time on my guitar to bother actually learning how to play piano...I know where the notes are and everything I just haven't spent a lot of time playing as I probably should...

I wish I could learn to piano.
Probably the most beatiful instrument in my opinion.

My grandparents have one and they say I'm always welcome to go down and practise but I'd really love one of my own.

I have a keyboard but never really saw the appeal......

Keyboards just don't have nearly the same aura.

Or enough buttons :rolleyes:

I played piano for years, then I got really bored with it and quit. I got to gr 9 Conservatory grade though, so I can legally teach piano at any institute. :D

Just thought I'd blow my own horn a little. :p

[QUOTE=ICB]It's a pretty simple song...I don't think it'd be too hard to play on bass.[/QUOTE]

But that slapping part is sweet.

[QUOTE=toaster135]But that slapping part is sweet.[/QUOTE]

I concur.

I took a year of piano when I was 6, stopped at 7, and started screwing around with it again at the beginning of the summer.

I attempt to write piano/keyboard parts for my music, and I know the rudiments of piano...just not very good at it. :upset:

Used to be quite good...not anymore.

[QUOTE=Sixty Ton Angel]Or enough buttons :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

Mine has 88 keys. Do I really need THAT many more? :rolleyes:

I happen to love keyboards. Although nothing can beat the pure acoustic sound of a perfectly tuned piano, keyboards and synthesizers can do so much more musically. The technology just keeps getting better, and some of the softsynths they are developing (Synful Orchestra, for example) are flat out amazing.

Plus, as a 22 year old who works at Starbucks, a MIDI keyboard is simply a much more realistic option. It was $200, I don't have to tune it, and I can make it sound like ANYTHING I want to if I try hard enough.

Again though, you can't beat a grand piano.

I like synths though...they give you a lot more options to work with.

While a piano has only one sound (granted, its quite a good one), synths have thousands. Plus, you can do some really spacy stuff you can't do on a normal piano.

I have a SMALL *** keyboard...no idea how many keys it has. It's like a children's keyboard...extremely small keys, and 6 settings. :D

We also have a normal piano, just not a grand piano.

[QUOTE=Creeping_Deth]Again though, you can't beat a grand piano.[/QUOTE]

Mine's CONSTANTLY going out of tune. It sits right beside a window, and I think that has to do with it somehow, with the changes in temperature and such. Grands are good (they're grand in fact :p ), but they are very expensive and take up a ton of room. You can get a very similar sounding synthesiser that doesn't go out of tune for half the price and an eighth of the space.

[QUOTE=Hells Bells]Heh, only like the first three pages, after hours of scouring the net for pages that give/sell sheet music, that's all I can find. I've figured out most of the rest of it...I should just finish the rest of the damn thing and get it over it :lol:
[/QUOTE]

Can you link me? I've searched for those pages, but all my searches found was dead links.

I could probably find them if I tried hard enough, but I like the easy way. Link please! :p

So... least favorite Opeth album?

Mine would have to be Ghost Reveries. Not nearly as emotional or complex as the others, and Reverie/Harlequin Forest kinda blows. Though there are some really fantastic songs. I guess it's about a 8/10, which is why it's the worst Opeth album for me, cause all of their others are 10/10s :thumb:

From the albums I'm really familiar with, I'd say Deliverence is my least favorite.

[QUOTE=ok lateralus]So... least favorite Opeth album?

Mine would have to be Ghost Reveries. Not nearly as emotional or complex as the others, and Reverie/Harlequin Forest kinda blows. Though there are some really fantastic songs. I guess it's about a 8/10, which is why it's the worst Opeth album for me, cause all of their others are 10/10s :thumb:[/QUOTE]

Heh, you're the thread designated conversation starter. :thumb:

I'd say either Damnation or Orchid is my least favourite. Damnation just doesn't have what I like best about Opeth- the balance of heavy and light, and the awesomely odd chord progressions. It's a great light album, just not a great Opeth album.

[QUOTE=toaster135]Heh, you're the thread designated conversation starter. :thumb:

I'd say either Damnation or Orchid is my least favourite. Damnation just doesn't have what I like best about Opeth- the balance of heavy and light, and the awesomely odd chord progressions. It's a great light album, just not a great Opeth album.[/QUOTE]

Hmm, yeah I kind of see what you mean about that, it sounds maybe a little bland compared to, say, Still Life. But actually it has some of Opeth's most interesting chord progressions, I'd say. The guitar playing is really unique.

[QUOTE=ok lateralus]Hmm, yeah I kind of see what you mean about that, it sounds maybe a little bland compared to, say, Still Life. But actually it has some of Opeth's most interesting chord progressions, I'd say. The guitar playing is really unique.[/QUOTE]

I don't think it's unique at all, really. In fact I think the only real good thing about it is that even though the song ideas have been done to death (not by Opeth), at least they're done very well. Even his voice isn't that great. I guess the more I listen to it, the more reasons I find not to enjoy it.

[QUOTE=lost_profits]Fav. Opeth song at the moment

White Cluster

"hangman clutching at his tools" I will come for youuuu!":thumb:[/QUOTE]


That song is tight, I love how it fades out...

''...Beckoning right behind me...'' then that little acoustic riff to end a great album. :)

I just learned BWP on bass....the slapping part almost at the end was a bit complicated cauz i suck at slapping but i figure it out, IM SO FREAKING HAPPY! :D

[QUOTE=Txus]I just learned BWP on bass....the slapping part almost at the end was a bit complicated cauz i suck at slapping but i figure it out, IM SO FREAKING HAPPY! :D[/QUOTE]


That's cool dude, I love playing along with that song. I go nuts at the end. btw, what kind of Bass do you have?

[QUOTE=Flynn]That's cool dude, I love playing along with that song. I go nuts at the end. btw, what kind of Bass do you have?[/QUOTE]
I have a Yamaha RBX170 which was my first one, and also a ESP J-1005 LTD Deluxe 5 string bass.

I have a Spector Legend 4. Love it with all my heart.

I think my least favorite album is Orchid. I still like it, it's just not as refined as the other albums.

[QUOTE=Txus]I have a Yamaha RBX170 which was my first one, and also a ESP J-1005 LTD Deluxe 5 string bass.[/QUOTE]

Nice. I have a Fender Lone Star Stratocaster. Before that, I was using a squire. This Lone Star made a world of difference. :lol:

Just about anything does after having a Squire.

/former Squire owner