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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 2004/09
From: PhilFrei@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Re: oboe and guitar
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 05:15:20 -0400
In a message dated 9/18/2004 12:15:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
doublereed-digest-help@-----.org writes:
My best friend and I would like to play some music
together. She is a guitarist and I play oboe. Her
background is in pop music, and she is very fluent in
chords and lead lines. However, her classical
background is very limited. While she is great at
picking lines out of recordings, reading a complicated
part is not her strong point. We are looking for
things that are either somewhat simple, or that
involve traditional chord structures. I am willing to
do some improvisation and pop-style things on oboe as
well. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Esther
I may be dating myself, but maybe some old rock tunes with flute might work,
for example the band Traffic (from "Low Spark" or "John Barleycorn") or Jethro
Tull. It could be fun to play the flute lines on oboe. There's even an
example of Bach (a Bourree, I think) on one of the old Tull records. A lot of folk
music that draws from old English folk songs might also serve as inspiration.
"Morning has Broken" comes to mind--very pretty melody sounds quite nice on the
oboe. A copy of the Unitarian Church hymnal might also provide some good
material. Lot's of folk and guitar friendly stuff in it, drawing from many
different traditions.
Also, you can probably work out arrangements of simple classical piano pieces
like works from Bach "Notebook for Anna Magdalena..."
Phil Freihofner
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