# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 26: a song that you can play on an instrument **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512 "2016-08-01T23:26:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/21 "2016-08-03T02:26:33Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > In a 30 day song challenge now entering its fifth month, I’m not sure we need to be sticklers for the rules. Good point? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/22 "2016-08-03T02:53:57Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Sorry but I don’t think voice is part of the OP. Look at this in context. It’s especially in context that we should consider the voice an instrument. And I’d love to see a video of _fachverwirrt_ singing “vesti la giubba.” ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/23 "2016-08-03T03:29:44Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Sorry but I don’t think voice is part of the OP. Look at this in context. Then _Hannah From Montana_. John Schirmer red book. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/24 "2016-08-03T03:54:52Z")
So much for my _Yakety Sax_ suggestions though Chet Akins could [play it on the guitar](https://youtu.be/CvY7JPVX8mU). I can play [_Love Me Do_](https://youtu.be/GW3enefjwY0) on the harmonica. A few other songs as well but it’s my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/25 "2016-08-03T04:54:27Z")
I can play the whole Beatles catalog with my voice. Hooray. I can play along with “Je’taime”, onanistically. Whoopee! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/26 "2016-08-03T13:08:39Z")
I’m a self-taught, don’t-play-much type of guitar player. I have a few books of sheet music and have taught myself a few songs. Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” was the first song I figured out how to play all on my own. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/27 "2016-08-03T14:03:11Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > I can play the whole Beatles catalog with my voice. > Hooray. > > I can play along with “Je’taime”, onanistically. > Whoopee! You really enjoy being the turd in the punch bowl for threads, don’t you? Dude, we’re hearing all kinds of stuff. If someone posts a link to Twinkle Twinkle on piano, that’s “better for this thread” vs. someone singing some badass opera? Why take the time? It’s a fun thread. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/28 "2016-08-03T14:21:43Z")
**drad dog** If you cannot participate in music threads without threadshitting or being rude, stay out of them. You will start earning warnings for this behavior. > [@drad\_dog](#): > > Sorry but I don’t think voice is part of the OP. Look at this in context. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/29 "2016-08-03T14:40:31Z")
Unfortunately this drummer can’t sit behind a kit and come up with ANY beat that will make someone (especially a casual listener) immediately identify it and go: “oh _that_ tune!” Steve Miller’s “Swingtown” is maybe the only example of an immediately identifiable beat. Or if I had a cowbell, then maybe “Honky Tonk Women”. Or the beginning of Zep’s “Rock and Roll”. Or The Zombie’s distinct, almost jazzy “Time of the Season”. Other than that, all us drummers can do is provide the foundation while my bandmates flesh out the tune. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/30 "2016-08-03T14:45:21Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Unfortunately this drummer can’t sit behind a kit and come up with ANY beat that will make someone (especially a casual listener) immediately identify it and go: “oh _that_ tune!” > Steve Miller’s “Swingtown” is maybe the only example of an immediately identifiable beat. Or if I had a cowbell, then maybe “Honky Tonk Women”. Or the beginning of Zep’s “Rock and Roll”. Or The Zombie’s distinct, almost jazzy “Time of the Season”. > Other than that, all us drummers can do is provide the foundation while my bandmates flesh out the tune. Led Zep’s Rock n’ Roll = direct lift, an homage, if you will, of Little Richard’s You Keep Knockin’ But You Can’t Come In: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYr7I4gOSXk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYr7I4gOSXk) How about Walk this Way? 😉 Plenty of great beats that stand out!! ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/31 "2016-08-03T15:31:15Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > It’s especially in context that we should consider the voice an instrument. And I’d love to see a video of _fachverwirrt_ singing “vesti la giubba.” No video, and it’s just the last phrase: [_Ridi, Pagliaccio_](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_TtKvcI0u9tQV9qcTJESTQwNEE/view?usp=sharing). ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/32 "2016-08-03T15:39:29Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Unfortunately this drummer can’t sit behind a kit and come up with ANY beat that will make someone (especially a casual listener) immediately identify it… Inadmissible. The OP specified “musical instruments.” (Note to mods: DRUMMER JOKES ARE ACCEPTED AS THE MOST VENERABLE FORM OF MUSICIAN “HUMOR” PLEASE DON’T GIVE ME A WARNING) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/33 "2016-08-03T16:15:50Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > No video, and it’s just the last phrase: [_Ridi, Pagliaccio_](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_TtKvcI0u9tQV9qcTJESTQwNEE/view?usp=sharing). Wow - that’s you?! Very cool!!! I went back and listened to the movie version - they are at about the same speed, but yours sounds slower, in a good way - I feel like I hear your voice and emotions coiling up behind the big release even more, if that makes sense. Thank you for sharing! **Ukulele Ike** - too funny! One of my drummers would take the time to point out this sign at a local park we sometimes drove past: “Shared Public Space: No Music or Drumming Allowed.” He was convinced some piano player was on the city council. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/34 "2016-08-03T16:26:27Z")
One of MY drummers thinks “five to the bar” is when the combo goes on break. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/35 "2016-08-03T16:29:22Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Wow - that’s you?! Very cool!!! I went back and listened to the movie version - they are at about the same speed, but yours sounds slower, in a good way - I feel like I hear your voice and emotions coiling up behind the big release even more, if that makes sense. > > Thank you for sharing! I take a little more time on the last high note on “infranto” (just enough time to crack!). Corelli’s is probably more authentic, but mine is more fun. Thanks for the comments! (I am in no way comparing myself to Corelli. Man was a god.) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/36 "2016-08-03T16:59:05Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > No video, and it’s just the last phrase: [_Ridi, Pagliaccio_](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_TtKvcI0u9tQV9qcTJESTQwNEE/view?usp=sharing). Wow, actually made me tear up, and I don’t generally do that for opera. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/37 "2016-08-03T18:07:46Z")
Does a touch-tone, landline telephone count as an instrument? If so, I got “Mary Had a Little Lamb”. If not, I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/38 "2016-08-03T18:35:19Z")
It beats being a drummer. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/39 "2016-08-03T19:24:02Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > It beats being a drummer. What - no warning to the mods about Drummer abuse this time? 😉 And: nice pun. “beats” “drummer” - ha. I totally wish I could play drums. I often describe my guitar playing as that of a frustrated drummer. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512/40 "2016-08-03T22:21:32Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Inadmissible. The OP specified "musical instruments 😛 I guess I’ll keep that in mind, **Ukulele** Ike.😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-26-a-song-that-you-can-play-on-an-instrument/761512.md?page=3)