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jason21

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What's everyone doing for their 4 pieces in the HSC? I'm doing
1. Ejercicio (Spanish study piece)
2. Blackbird-Beatles
3. Classical Gas-Mason Williams
4. Study in Em (core)

also, cold fingers while playing guitar is the single worse thing to happen on HSC day.......
 

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1. Voodoo Chile(Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
2. Tamacun - Rodrigo y Gabriela (look them up :) )
3. *no title* - my own spanishy composition - core piece
4. Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder (on bass guitar)
 

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I'm only doing two pieces on guitar and one on piano. My guitar pieces are:

Octavarium (Excerpt) - Dream Theater
Canon Rock - Jerry C

Let's pump up that distortion and rock the hell out! :)
 

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Scott Henderson - Dolemite.
Opeth - Demon of The Fall.
Rush - YYZ.

Good luck children.
 

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I'm doing
Red House - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Not the version on Are You Experienced? though.

My other piece is a saxophone one, however I may do another viva voce instead.
 

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Only 2

Mist-John Butler
Pachelbel's Canon in D (standard, i know, but i do really like the piece, and it's easy to show off playing, just speed it up until you can't play it properly any faster)
 

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lixt07 said:
Only 2

Mist-John Butler
Pachelbel's Canon in D (standard, i know, but i do really like the piece, and it's easy to show off playing, just speed it up until you can't play it properly any faster)
The second one on a classical guitar or the shred version? I did the classical one for a performance last year, can't remember how to play it any more though which is a bit of a bugger. Not a big fan of Canon Rock.
 

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Fish Sauce said:
The second one on a classical guitar or the shred version? I did the classical one for a performance last year, can't remember how to play it any more though which is a bit of a bugger. Not a big fan of Canon Rock.
Classical one. The only shred version i have is Malmsteen's, and i'm not a huge fan of wanking on a guitar...
 

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lixt07 said:
Classical one. The only shred version i have is Malmsteen's, and i'm not a huge fan of wanking on a guitar...
Ah cool. I don't mind occasional shred but there's something about Canon Rock that I really don't like. Not sure what it is.

Sad Statue said:
Yeah. The fretboard gets all sticky. :/
:p
 

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1) excerpt from Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
2) Winter Solstice - The Tea Party
3) Take Five - Dave Brubeck(transposed from saxaphone?)
4) Going To California - Led Zeppelin
 

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(Film Music) - Chris Cornell - You Know My Name (My own Version)

(Rock Music) - Avenged Sevenfold - Eternal Rest or Chapter Four

Core - Parkway Drive - It's Hard To Speak Without A Tounge
 

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- Willie Dixon - I Can't Quit You
This piece I arranged into something i felt was more structurally conjusive to prowess, just purely to show off the blues (a dying breed of musical existence)


- Jak Reid - To The Hills
I wrote this piece that evolved out of a strange exponential piece from a Mars Volta concert I went to. I liked the dissonance, and decided to contrast it with a more classical progression, moving into a Latin groove. Listen to it at www.myspace.com/bandunderreconstruction (plug my own music). This is the version of the piece in its production phase.

- Jak Reid - Hamner
This is a solo acoustic piece that I wrote whilst in New Zealand last year. Its really just a chance for me to slink into a chair and play my introverted melodic opus to contrast with the blues and the Hills piece.

Everyone this year seems to be doing a lot more of the traditional stuff, Pachelbel's Canon and theres atleast 150 guys playing jazz standards. Mix it up!

But all the best to everyone.


 

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Recuerdos De la Alhambra - Francesco Tarrega
Tarantos - Sabicas
Bulerias - Paco Pena
Sol Azul - (My Comp)

Nailed all performances yesterday :p
 

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Wow
I admire you guys ^^
I played piano... haha.
Lots of latino and jazz and... classical I see owo;; I would have thought more people would have been doing compositions ._.;;
Oh well~~~~
 

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I did mine a few weeks ago:

So Beautiful - Pete Murray (Core)
Taylor - Jack Johnson
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Kryptonite - Three Doors Down
 

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Fish Sauce said:
Ah cool. I don't mind occasional shred but there's something about Canon Rock that I really don't like. Not sure what it is.
Having now done it for my HSC prac, I know exactly what you mean... I will never listen to that song again. >_>

Edit: I'm now getting into a lot more music by Petrucci... A lot more soul mixed with shred in music like that; just want I want! :)
 

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