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Ok.
So I have been tasked to learn the piano. [insert infinite jokes here].

I figure if I can play guitar hero at competion level, I need a method of learning to play visually. So what I want to do is get some software that connects to a MIDI keyboard that teaches me songs by rote.


I cant seem to find something that does this (mario teaches typing esque).


After your done making fun, any suggestions anyone?

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Ok.
I can play guitar hero at competion level


Just quit while you're ahead...

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Ok.
So I have been tasked to learn the piano. [insert infinite jokes here].

I figure if I can play guitar hero at competion level, I need a method of learning to play visually. So what I want to do is get some software that connects to a MIDI keyboard that teaches me songs by rote.


I cant seem to find something that does this (mario teaches typing esque).


After your done making fun, any suggestions anyone?



In your next life come back as a child prodigy of Chinese descent. Start learning at age 1 and playing by 2. You'll be fine then.

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My eye it is twitching! [/cool avatar... or bloody annoying. You choose]

Reply to mugz

Maybe this would be a half way house..

Reply to audiovoodoo

GO OUTSIDE NOW.

Reply to Tom_Smart

Fock that.. its wetter than an excited fat bird out there.

Reply to audiovoodoo

Did somebody tell you that? You couldn't excite Jo Brand.

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Accordion? AAAAAGH!!!!! DIE DIE DIE!!!!!

Reply to mugz

Ohhh... it get much worse...

My landlord builds the things for a living! They are I have to say works of art, hand crafted from lumps of wood into beautiful inlayed hand finished instruments of acoustic torture. Look at it this way he has a 7 year waiting list at present.

He's been working on the latest one for the past couple of months and the customer and his mate have just flown in from Cork to pick it up. It's rather Irish and diddly diddly down in my Kitchen just at the minute.. Least this means another month until he's tuning one of the fockers again, the one going out the door today has three sets of reids and each note is hand tunned.

My other house mate by contrast makes / plays electronica / techno.

Do you think I've found a house as bizarre as me or what?

Reply to audiovoodoo

I should add that these are regarded in the community as possibly the best you can buy... I'll get some pics up sometime then the woodwork crew can have a letch..

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Yes, the house is almost as bizarre as you.

Still, where it comes to bizarre housing I'll be giving you some competition in the next month - moving back in with the parents for the interim. Fun...

Reply to mugz

Fun? My ex walked out on me and while we do the whole tug of war over some valuable property rig-ma-roll I'm back at my parents...

It's FANTASTIC... I LOVE it... Come home 4am drunk as a fart, fall over the damn alsation waking up all but the neighbour. Oh, the best being your dad knocking on the car window saying it's 9am and he'd like to leave for work and I'd get into a bed after washing the al.k.hall off the windscreen.

Reply to Vokofpolisiekar

Wasn't there an app that ran off the Win95 environment that you could hook a MIDI file into, and it actually showed a keyboard that would show the sequence? Or am I confused with that guitar tab program?

And why a piano? If I had to choose an instrument, guitar or bag pipe (I'd love to be sloshed going off at 3am with a bagpipe I can hardly play - for ze neighbours or some goofy seranade for some toothless lass)

Reply to Vokofpolisiekar

Why? Because I dont really want to learn all that much, so I figure I would pick an instrument that I could play while at someones house. I already know how to play the instrument I like (the sax).

Reply to CompTIA_Rep

Makes sense. Dunno nada about music though, so I'd think that a piano would take some practice, but I recon if you have the background you'd be able to quickly pick it up.

Reply to Vokofpolisiekar

This morning at 8am I discovered that my Landlord also seems to have a collection of 17th century wind instruments. Being woken up to the sound of a Sean(sp) (it's where the Oboe started out for want of a better description) being tunned in was not far off the Islamic call to prayer only more tortured and with a slightly Celtic twist..

I think there might be a revenge attack of Cheeky girls the next time I know he's been drinking.. :twisted:

Reply to audiovoodoo

A rousing rendition of "God Save The Queen" would suitably rile a drunk Irishman.....

Reply to WingDing

Ahh.. but he's English to the core!

It's a land of contradictions. One of the local Irish bars is called the Union.. No I can't quite work that one out either :?

Reply to audiovoodoo

Then play the Sex Pistol's version of God Save The Queen.

Reply to WingDing

I could very much get into that.. I did offend a few people the morning Diana died when I had Prodigy 'Smack my bitch up' at a fairly obscene volume :twisted:

I think its all about choosing the right weapon.. How about leaving this playing next time I'm away for a week...

Reply to audiovoodoo

Tell him it gives you a hard on and forces you to touch yourself. That should put a stop to it.

Reply to Tom_Smart

Nice....why not loop the theme from The Magic Roundabout. I'd bet he goes psychotic within 24 hours.

Reply to WingDing

In fairness he is gigging today and it needed sorting out.. This does also give me a house to myself until tomorrow afternoon so we might be calling hunting season later :twisted:

To miss quote Harry Hill.. 'Lets Bring out the Beavers!'

Reply to audiovoodoo

Let me know if you pop out, I'll pay you a visit.[/Scouse]

Reply to Tom_Smart

As much as you hate Manc's I know you're a business man at heart. Seeing as the mighty battle cruiser does ~0.001 mpg and I own less that a grands worth of kit even you would struggle to profit on that one.

Reply to audiovoodoo

I wouldn't concern myself with your kit. I'd simply show a few prospective tenants around, take a months rent in advance and a large deposit and scarper. Trust me, it works a treat. :wink:

Reply to Tom_Smart

Yeah.. I saw that one played on the 'Real Hustle'. Camera phones have their uses but at the end of the day it can be a hard one to spot if done properly. Of the ones I've seen on there the Origami scam struck me as one of the cleanest to pull off. That and the torn £20 scam.. very simple.

I've played at a little social engineering in my time. If you don't give them reason to question people will give you anything..

Reply to audiovoodoo

It's hilarious the amount of people who are abusing the 'check yourself out' tills at Asda. People are walking out with a full basket of high priced items and only paying pennies. Just use a barcode for a small priced item strapped to your wrist and scan that instead of the real item as you load your bag, pay the pittance and leave smiling. I spotted a woman at it a few weeks ago, I was nearly pissing myself laughing as the staff just walk right past as it is happening.

Reply to Tom_Smart

What do they expect of people? Honesty?

The only honest monkey is a dead monkey. [/sagacious and half-cut Bomber]

Reply to BomberBill

After my experience this lunch time where they didn't even honor the multi buy discount this is one I'm looking into.

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The only honest monkey is a dead monkey.


Absofcukinglutely correct.

Reply to Tom_Smart

Just don't go mad, simply slip a bottle of your favourite tipple through as a bag of sugar or something.

Reply to Tom_Smart

Isn't AV a turbo shandy man?

Reply to BomberBill

I'm a very, very cheap man... :cry:

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Lambrini.



But not that focking cheap!

Reply to audiovoodoo

Lambrini girls just wanna have fun.

Right, enough of this, I'm off for a pint. Just the one mind, though it will be the tenth one.

Reply to Tom_Smart

I'm out later. No point hitting the bar whilst I have stella in the fridge and the bars are still empty.

Reply to audiovoodoo

Tom prefers the solitude.

Gives him time to prepare for his evening Thomas cabaret.

Reply to BomberBill

Na.. It just takes him a while to shave his legs, drive up to Manchester and slip into the little yellow number in the bogs at Chorlton St bus station. :wink:

Reply to audiovoodoo

Oh fock me!...*inserts spewing emoticon*...

The imagery that provokes is an outrage to my sensibilities.

Reply to BomberBill

If you ever land in this town Bret I would have to take you down the village just to see the look on your face. Sydney pride is but a taste of your average weekend down there..

Tom was threatening to post pictures if I mentioned it any more :wink:

Reply to audiovoodoo

I've seen some wild shite in my day, but I have no doubt my hair would be blown right-the-fock back if I turned up in your neck of the woods.

No focking way!

:lol:

I'm all for people having a good time, but jesus, there's only so much Fab 5 shite that a straight bloke can take before he's looking for a hetro porn bar.

Reply to BomberBill

You actually get quite a lot of the 'Nice Girl' set down there as the door policy keeps out the scally blokes on the whole. The TV bars are a bit self contained as there is a bit of an ongoing dislike of them from the Lesbian set. One things for sure you see more snow on Canal St than Antarctica nowadays,

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From musical instruments to pubs...

Me and a buncha friends wandered into a pub in Cape Town a few years back, on a hot day after we'd been surfing since 4AM. I'm guessing it was early afternoon, could've been late morning. Anyway.

We're all mildly sunburnt, pleasantly stoned and ultrarelaxed, and after a while we notice that the rest of the occupants of this bar are very intensely checking us out and generally looking a bit like they were all raving homos.

When we realised where we were, we didn't even finish our drinks before we all reversed out of there pretty fu[b][/b]cking sharpish. 'Screw that, let's roll another round of blunts and catch the next wave' were my exact words on leaving, as I recall.

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