For the longest time I`ve wanted to be able to play the snake charmer on my oboe. I roughly figured out some passages.... but nothing sounds to great. I`m a highschool student and I have to do an intrument demo for elementry school students. I am looking for a catchy song to play. If anyone has the music to the snake charmer or even the not sequences, I would love help. Email me or post back! thank you

Is there a particular piece that snake charmers use? I wasn`t aware of that.

I didn`t know there was such a song, however the actual instrument used in snake charming is actually the shawm, basically the father of the oboe, just for information sake.

Well, i am a middle school student, and the thing that makes every1 turn and stare is when i play a version of what they know as snake charmer. i play it " D E F E D D E F A E F D" that is the best help i can give. Any minor scales also sound cool on oboe. i play them for my little brother and his friends and they are in Awe.

the DEF... is good, also, if you want something more in the prime tang of the oboe, G A Bflat G G A Bflat D A Bflat G A Bflat D D D D D A Bflat G

HI there, about that snake charmer thing, i searched a lot to know what scale to play to have that sonority and found out that it was the hungarian minor. Some say you can also play a harmonic minor too and the interval between the sixth and the seventh is what gives you that snake charmer kind of sound...
Here is the hungarian in A : A B C D# E F G# A
Here is the harmonic minor in A : A B C D E F G# A notice the 1 1/2 step between the sixth and the seventh...
hope it will help...
ciao...

If I know what you are talking about then the way I play it is
C D Eb D C C D Eb F D Eb C.... but its just a basic one. After that it sounds cool if you go straight into the same kind of thing starting at a F.... F G Ab G F F G Ab Bb G Ab F.... I hope that`s the one you meant.

If you buy accent on achievement book 1 it is in there. Also, typing in snake charmer on ask jeeves, washingtonpost, yahoo, refdesk, and google helps.

~Hi,

Did you mean Snake Charmer by Brian Chapple, or something else? I have Brian Chapple`s version for piano in sheet

I didnt noe there is such a piece called Snake Charmer...

I`ve found 2 version of the snake charmer that i like, one goes C D Eb D C C D Eb G D Eb C, it sounds cool when it`s played in the lower octave, the other version is F G Ab G F F G Ab Bb G Ab F, then of course you repeat and repeat and repeat...

is there anything after the first verse?..or is there more?

(to the person with the accent on achievement book) would you mind typing that out for us? thanks

I love my oboe!

You know those books they give to for starting out as beginners? I had one of those for oboe and I think it had Snake Charmer in there. I regret that I forgot to take it home and now I can borrow one from the beginners. I`ll try to remember to get back on this.