Band

Acoustic

Play in the band. I'm a bass player.

The empire spring is very gay.

My band must play marches.

The Grateful Dead was playing in the pizza parlors.

I never heard the orchestra in better form.

Will you have the orchestra play Isn't It Romantic?

The whole orchestra is playing.

Of course, I don't dance at the club I just play in the band.

Clarence I would rather be able to play an instrument again than walk.

( lively band music)

And after doing that, they really look at each other, and the first players of the orchestra lead the whole ensemble in playing together.

Syncopators. Does that mean you play that very fast music... jazz?

We require high end talent management to keep the rock band together and playing.

I want to compose music on a human scale

I played him my music

And the point, the essential nature, of musical performance is to produce excellent music.

Hey, the band's swinging.

I use these scores to collaborate with musicians.

I'm going to play a piece of music for you.

If I come up and I dictate to the band that I want to play like this and I want the music to go this way, and I just jump right in ...

It's a whole orchestra of about 100 instruments, all designed for anybody to play using natural skill.

And we started by making instruments for some of the world's greatest performers we call these hyperinstruments for Yo Yo Ma, Peter Gabriel, Prince, orchestras, rock bands. Instruments where they're all kinds of sensors built right into the instrument, so the instrument knows how it's being played.

But here, when you think about experiences, think about Thomas Dolby and his group, playing music.

These are played mainly in small rooms.

David Holt plays mountain music

I'm afraid I prefer playing the works of other composers.

This is Bix Beiderbeke doing Jazz Me Blues.

(band plays A Life on the Ocean Wave )

(band plays The Man on the Flying Trapeze )

(band plays Auld Lang Syne )

So jazz, this bandstand is absolutely amazing.

Am I going to play that cadenza tonight!

I mean, obviously the orchestra musicians playing beautifully, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

But it's the best music making, like this.

I didn't realize there was going to be a little music before.

TM So Dan is going to play a piece of his, called My Eagle Song .

He's also a music hall artist making a tour of Bandrika.

I don't play boogiewoogie and that's the music you like.

Excuse me. I think I'll ask the orchestra to play some Brazilian music.

Do you usually have a musical accompaniment to your meals?

It's only the execution of the written music, no interpretation.

And so the bands at Tootsie's or at CBGB's had to play loud enough the volume had to be loud enough to overcome people falling down, shouting out and doing whatever else they were doing.

So for example, one of the things that we learn when we are dealing with being a percussion player, as opposed to a musician, is basically straightforward single stroke rolls.