Rods and Cones

Firstly, thankyou for all the kind comments about the video - it's been more popular than I'd thought! It's been a long time since I updated this video and as I'm putting up another one I thought I'd try to answer all the questions I'd been getting here on the description.

---PADDLES:
The paddles are home made, from a synthetic foam rubber type material. It's alot like wetsuit or mousemat material. Unfortunately the website I bought it from ( http://www.cisdirect.co.uk ) seems to have died and disappeared from the web completely.
I used 2 pieces of sticky backed foam;one 5mm thick, the other 3mm thick and inbetween was a wooden dowel held in place by the adhesive. Then some duck/gaffer tape was used to strenthen the area around the dowel. There is about 10cm of foam from the end of the dowel to the end of the paddle. I find it best hitting the pipes with the 5mm side of the paddle down.
There are some pictures of the paddles in this photobucket album:

http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d132/Animusx/Blue%20Man%20Group/

---PIPES:
The pipes are 40mm in diameter and made out of PVC. In the UK they are known as push fit waste pipes. The length of the pipe (and the width to a small extent) affect the note produced when hit. The pipes are laid out as in the following image:

http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d132/Animusx/Blue%20Man%20Group/?action=vie...

All of the pipe lengths are detailed there too.

---NOTES:
The blue man group use the E major scae for most of ther music which includes the following notes:

E F# G# A B C# D#

The main riff of the high range part is as follows:

G# C# C# A C# C# G# C# C# A C# C# G# C# G# C# X 2

G# B B F# B B G# B B F# B B G# B G# X 2

D# A A E A A D# A A E A A D# A D# A

D# F# F# E F# F# D# F# F# E F# F# D# F# D# F#

D# A A E A A D# A A E A A D# A D# A

See the Duet version of this here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETDyKnwsvLA

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Blue
• Man
• Group
• Rods
• and
• Cones
• PVC
• Scale
• Pipes

[ethanizabunny]

about how much did this cost to make?

[Frogstopper]

@ethanizabunny About £40-50, I made it a while ago though so I can't remember exactly.

[cornbreadman26]

you have the tabs for that

[Frogstopper]

Hey,

I haven't got tabs but the notes for the first part are in the more info section ->

[Gforcelover]

dude that was awesome but can you send me the music or notes to this song please?

[Frogstopper]

Hey Gforce, thanks :-)

There's a version of this song on youtube at watch?v=fVgB9VmWLZg. Check out the more info section for the notes.

[kaufmabr]

FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!

[GHessenthaler]

really good acoustics.

[pkvirusclan]

:o NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nick00580]

The beginning i know from a song but i dont know the name can you make a tut plz.?

[rolo6rolo]

AMAZING! :D

[pemdas927]

Very awesome. I think U've actually improved the Blue Man Group style. They should have a trampoline in their bit.

[aburame163]

Wow epic

[luvwrapper]

blue man group

[yayyayyay09]

EPIC CAT IS EPIC- er, I mean amused.

[calgaryflame08]

thats awesome,im gonna try and get one made...and practice.this reminds me of a friend who made music by tapping a pencil on his cheeks and using his vocals as base,it was so cool....this is just like the hd version....lol,awesome dude keep it up.