Influenced To Start Learning An Instrument
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Topic: Influenced To Start Learning An Instrument
Posted By: JS19
Subject: Influenced To Start Learning An Instrument
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 15:53
I was just wondering if anyone here's love of music has inspired them to play an instrument, and if so what instrument and who was your biggest influence?
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Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:01
a bit off topic but what song are the lyrics in your signature from i know the words but can't remember what from and it is driving me crazy!!!
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Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:03
topographicbroadways wrote:
a bit off topic but what song are the lyrics in your signature from i know the words but can't remember what from and it is driving me crazy!!! |
That would be 'Different Strings' by Rush ... Great song
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Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:10
JS19 wrote:
topographicbroadways wrote:
a bit off topic but what song are the lyrics in your signature from i know the words but can't remember what from and it is driving me crazy!!! |
That would be 'Different Strings' by Rush ... Great song |
OF COURSE! shame on me i even listened to permanent waves last week
And prog inspired me to take up keyboards recently my main influence probably being tony banks i am very slowly learning apocolypse in 9/8 and after a month on it i am about 40 seconds in. Well i'm sure i'll get there eventually
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Posted By: Nathaniel607
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:15
Keyboards!
I'm not doing any prog yet... just doing Jazz to get my grades! Jazz is nice as well and comes into prog quite a lot, but a lot of prog is just rock to play!
I guess I was inspired to do keyboards by just prog keys in general and maybe some jazz fusion (Return to Forever!) but also the composition aspect.
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Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:19
topographicbroadways wrote:
JS19 wrote:
topographicbroadways wrote:
a bit off topic but what song are the lyrics in your signature from i know the words but can't remember what from and it is driving me crazy!!! |
That would be 'Different Strings' by Rush ... Great song |
OF COURSE! shame on me i even listened to permanent waves last week
And prog inspired me to take up keyboards recently my main influence probably being tony banks i am very slowly learning apocolypse in 9/8 and after a month on it i am about 40 seconds in. Well i'm sure i'll get there eventually |
I've been thinking of trying my hand at a keyboard. At the moment I'm 'classically trained' but I really want to at least have a go.
What I wanted to know is whether when us Prog fans take up an instrument, unlike most people who will pick up a guitar and have a mess around with it once or twice, we dedicate ourselves to trying to become the best we possibly can, because most of our favourite musicians are such masters at their instruments.
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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:19
For me it was the other way around, I started playing guitar, saw a guitar world magazine featuring Dream Theater, and the rest is history!
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Posted By: Show Don't Tell
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:24
I had already played the piano for a number of years. It was Alex Lifeson / Rush that inspired me to learn guitar. I'd say he and David Gilmour are my main two influences.
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Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:25
Nathaniel607 wrote:
Keyboards!
I'm not doing any prog yet... just doing Jazz to get my grades! Jazz is nice as well and comes into prog quite a lot, but a lot of prog is just rock to play!
I guess I was inspired to do keyboards by just prog keys in general and maybe some jazz fusion (Return to Forever!) but also the composition aspect. |
It's the same with me. I mean, I love Jazz, and almost all Jazz-Influenced Prog is great (love Return To Forever),
On that note we seem to have an uncannily similar taste in music...
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:30
Prog has definitely inspired me to pick up the axe, and has absolutely made it a lifelong hobby.
I've only been playing for a year but I play guitar and bass guitar, though I've taken a little unorthodox route for it. I play an 8 string guitar and a fretless 5 string bass. My biggest influences have been musicians like Tosin Abasi, Paul Masvidal, Misha Mansoor, John Petrucci, and other notable prog metal guitarists, and then bassist like Les Claypool, Jaco Pastorius, Geddy Lee.
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Posted By: OzzProg
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:31
Mel Collins (especially on the Red album from King Crimson) made me decide to start renting a sax and taking lessons. A year or too later bought my own, and I jam up a prog storm when the time is right :)
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Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:35
OzzProg wrote:
Mel Collins (especially on the Red album from King Crimson) made me decide to start renting a sax and taking lessons. A year or too later bought my own, and I jam up a prog storm when the time is right :) |
I love the way that Prog inspires people to try out a whole range of different instruments .
Most of us young 'uns nowadays just want to learn guitar because whats'isname from whichever band is popular at them moment can sort of play one ... and he's 'COOL'
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Posted By: omardiyejon
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:36
dan britton(deluge grander, birds and buildings) really inspired me to play piano and i have been taking lessons for 2 months. i think i'll do well
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Posted By: Roy-Mus
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 16:55
I started playing keyboards and then some years later decided, out of the blue, to pick the guitar.
My main influences in terms of keyboards are Keith Emerson and Jon Lord, although I'll never be able to play like them even if I played for a thousand years. When it comes to guitar, my obvious choices are David Gilmour and Andy Latimer.
My two cents...
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Posted By: Mushroom Sword
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 18:24
Hell yeah. I play the entire classic rock lineup. Electric Guitar, Acoustic, Bass, Drums, and Keys. (and harmonica). Study Music theory thanks to my teacher. But it started from RUSH. Geddy-Lee inspired me to pick up bass. And YYZ was the very first song I learned.
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Posted By: DomValela
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 19:42
JS19 wrote:
topographicbroadways wrote:
JS19 wrote:
topographicbroadways wrote:
a bit off topic but what song are the lyrics in your signature from i know the words but can't remember what from and it is driving me crazy!!! |
That would be 'Different Strings' by Rush ... Great song |
OF COURSE! shame on me i even listened to permanent waves last week
And prog inspired me to take up keyboards recently my main influence probably being tony banks i am very slowly learning apocolypse in 9/8 and after a month on it i am about 40 seconds in. Well i'm sure i'll get there eventually |
I've been thinking of trying my hand at a keyboard. At the moment I'm 'classically trained' but I really want to at least have a go.
What I wanted to know is whether when us Prog fans take up an instrument, unlike most people who will pick up a guitar and have a mess around with it once or twice, we dedicate ourselves to trying to become the best we possibly can, because most of our favourite musicians are such masters at their instruments. |
I'm a prog-influenced keyboard player too, and I know exactly what you mean. The idea of being able to play like Tony Banks or Keith Emerson is much more interesting than being able to play "Cinema Show" or "Karn Evil 9." Don't get me wrong, though, I'd love to be able to play either of those, too. :p
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Posted By: Mastosis
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 21:54
I started playing guitar about 15 years ago because of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong. It was great for about 5 years until I got tired of the same 3 chords in every song. I progressed (pun intended) from Green Day, to Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, and Pantera to more progressive bands like Mastodon, Neurosis and Melvins. Now, at least 75% of what I play is somehow influenced by Mastodon, Zappa, Rush and King Crimson. I love it!
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Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 22:44
Drummer here, inspired to play after listening to lots and lots of Queen's Roger Taylor. I've played, on and off, for over a decade...never managed to get a band off the ground, however. About a year ago I was forced to sell my 1982 Pearl set to pay the bills, which was more than a little painful. Currently exploring hand percussion and keyboards. We'll see if the latter becomes something more than a passive hobby...
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 24 2010 at 23:27
I started with guitar when I was too young (10) to be influenced by a specific artist. Later I've been influenced by Country-Rock and finger picking and by Greg Lake's acoustic efforts on the first ELP albums. My all-time fav is Gilmour. I later turned to bass and keyboards influenced by Camel and Marillion. I've never been able to play like Trewavas or Bardens, of course. I'm not a musician, just a fan of music.
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: November 25 2010 at 01:12
Guitar, inspired by Martin Barre, Steve Hackett, Andy Latimer, Steve Howe and Robert Fripp.
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: November 25 2010 at 06:36
I took up drums, guitar, and dulcimer at age 7 in 1964 after "The Beatles" made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivian Show. In 1969, age 12, I gave up drums and took up guitar and fulltime study with my father who was a Jazz guitartist in the 30's and 40's. I was inspired to make this decision upon viewing Carlos Santana on the Woodstock film. By age 15, I was studying or learning old Jazz standards and Progressive Rock. By age 16 or 17, I was playing Steve Howe's "Mood For A day" without Classical training. I then decided to study Classical guitar with my father running a course from 7:am to sometimes after midnight. This lasted for about 3 years and during the last year of Classical studies, I practiced electric guitar on the side with a personal interest in McLaughlin, Benson, and Carlton...and sacrificing between 3 to 4 hours on Classical for electric. Eventually both or various styles came somewhat to a head, being developed and at age 18, I left for the road and travelled for 30 years having only small breaks between.. I travelled with musicians and entertainers who were much older than me and taught me the ropes to the music business and schooled me in areas of improvisation and just playing in general. I owe everything to my father and them.
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Posted By: chrijom
Date Posted: November 25 2010 at 13:37
Guitar - wanted to play like Steve Hackett, took my Dad's old steel strung along to the local music school where a very snobby classical musician refused to teach me as I didn't have a nylon string and he hadn't heard of Genesis!
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 25 2010 at 13:53
chrijom wrote:
Guitar - wanted to play like Steve Hackett, took my Dad's old steel strung along to the local music school where a very snobby classical musician refused to teach me as I didn't have a nylon string and he hadn't heard of Genesis! |
That teacher sounds like a waste of time. When it comes to acoustic, nylon string is the best, and you can play it with a pick.
Best to figure out how to play like yourself than how to play like someone else anyway.
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Posted By: Noak
Date Posted: November 25 2010 at 15:39
I've bee playing bass for 5 years. When I started, I didn't really know what a bass was. I had never seen anybody play one and I wasn't sure what it sounded like. For some reason I picked it up and I'm glad I did it.
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 00:40
chrijom wrote:
Guitar - wanted to play like Steve Hackett, took my Dad's old steel strung along to the local music school where a very snobby classical musician refused to teach me as I didn't have a nylon string and he hadn't heard of Genesis! |
The vast amount of snobby Classical musicians and teachers out there in the real world? My God, it's like they are trying to take your soul. My dad was really tough. It was like the military. I would be playing Bach's Corrente while the sun was rising, sleep for 2 hours and then start practicing Segovia'sbook of scales. It did make Hackett and Howe's pieces seem a lot easier to play. Hackett and Howe were not devoted to Classical guitar like John Williams, Julian Bream, and Christopher Parkening. They were 15 hour a day guys and nylon was their complete life as Hackett and Howe (although being great), played in rock bands. When I started performing Classical guitar in mansions for snobby Classical people, I was greatly excepted but, my nerves were shot. I was so drained from the pressures of that audience, I would pass-out in the limo. They were very judgemental. I would see Segovia performing in the White House and he would sometimes play a Classical piece of music that lasted for 15 minutes, played perfectly without an indication of a mistake or a slip-up. A constant flow of notes that would guide the listener through some kind of fantastic journey. I never went that distance and kept classical nylon playing as a side hobby. I loved electric guitar and it drew me away. I wrecked my nerves playing for those people. Half the time I felt like a beachball sweating inside a furnace.
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 02:29
Guitar, inspired by (in this order of appearance): Iron Maiden, Kamelot, Kayak, Arena, King Crimson, Holdsworth, Di Meola, Jan Blok (Jazz-guitar player of Wim Sonneveld Cabaret).
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Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 07:11
Prog inspired me to get a Gong behind my drumset Also got a Triangle!
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 08:00
I really want to take up the accordion but it's way out of my price range. Mind you, a loaf is bread is out of my price range at the moment...
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 08:07
Anirml wrote:
Prog inspired me to get a Gong behind my drumset Also got a Triangle!
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Saving up money for a cowbell?
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Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 09:44
Slartibartfast wrote:
Anirml wrote:
Prog inspired me to get a Gong behind my drumset Also got a Triangle!
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Saving up money for a cowbell?
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Already got one Need another one though now when I think about it!
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 10:03
Anirml wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
Anirml wrote:
Prog inspired me to get a Gong behind my drumset Also got a Triangle!
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Saving up money for a cowbell?
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Already got one Need another one though now when I think about it!
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Nothing goes tok tok tok tok quite like a cowbell.
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Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 10:40
When I started playing guitar (classical), I didn't even know prog existed. Played it for 3 years, stopped having lessons, bought a cheapo Gibson SG copy in 2006, left it in the closet because I couldn't play solos.
Then, in late 2007 (probably after playing Guitar Hero 2) I started listening to Rush. Geddy's tone inspired me to pick up bass. Bought me a Fender Geddy Lee Jazz bass and defretted it after a year.
I'm good at it; I can play all Rush songs from the '75-'81 period, some Jaco Pastorius stuff, and can learn songs by ear.
6 months ago, I decided to take drumming lessons (this time inspired by both Neil Peart and Gavin Harrison). A prog listening background made me go through odd time sigs easily. Learned most rudiments out there, also can learn some stuff by ear, can't play 16th or 32th notes repeatedily without getting tired quickly, except for ghost notes on the snare. Stopped a couple of months ago because I don't have time/money for it, until high school's over.
I plan on learning to play the bouzouki, the oud, mandocello and the baritone guitar.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 14:24
Hi,
Keyboards have been my greatest dream and I have now setup a computer and am already starting to play things on various programs, including Jupiter 8V and some others, off the midi board I have.
I know music well enough, but not well enough. Music theory is by far one of the most boring things ever invented, next to math basics. I can create pieces of music, with two things going, and I can create poetry over it, which I am trying to clean up as I go along. I don't know how to manipulate the sequencer well enough to be able to do more with it all around, but I will get it down sooner or later.
I was once told that if someone had locked me up with a keyboard for 30 days, that I would become really good with it, because I have the ear and the feel for translating what I see inside ... which, I can not translate to music, and is the basis of a lot of my discussions here. But I can do the opposite ... I can create a mood and add poetry to it, and that is nice ... considering how much poetry I wrote by listening to music instead!
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 16:11
I suppose there is no one method that works for everyone. In the end you just have to enjoy the creation of music or just stick to the listening. However if you have become an avid listener, you may want to put your hands on an instrument and see what you can do.
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Posted By: Elderflower Man
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 16:20
To be honest, I never had a particular inspiration to start learning guitar. I was given one for my twelfth birthday, but even so there wouldn't have been a specific guitarist who inspired me. I could learn from David Gilmour, I expect.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 18:24
Don't bother unless you feel the urge to make your own music in your heart and soul because you can always enjoy listening after all.
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Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 12:04
Chris Squire for bass guitar and Ian Anderson for the flute. Peter Gabriel influenced me in my singing but, I started playing because of the Beatles and the Police.
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: November 28 2010 at 08:47
I find it interesting that when I started playing guitar at age 7, "The Beatles" influenced me to want the rock star fame. From age 7 to 18, I secretly wanted that fame. When the real deal made itself available to me at age 18, I then realized that apart from all the shocking criminal activity I witnessed, that this was no different from a normal life. It had all the same disappointments, regrets, and mistakes that any normal kid experiences. So, in that sense...nothing was really different personally. It was an exciting experience to tour with celebrities in the 70's and 80's but your life was no different than the average guy walking down the street. Unfortunately, a few of my long time musician friends didn't see it that way and as a result...committed suicide. Because they were living in a bubble and really didn't know. It was too late for me to guide them in the right direction because they were doing tours like me and sometimes the chances of meeting up again were slim. But that's what it is .....some musicians think that everything is going to be so different when they get a break and it's not. And they are let down because they have high ideals about life. I never fell into that realm fortunately because for years after getting over the Beatles, I studied in a room everyday with my dad and developed an opposite perception about playing music from what my friends had developed during that time. I hope I'm not bringing you folks down. I still think about losing my musician buddies that way and yes! It's sad to see your friends exit like that when you yourself know they were blind and exactly why. Once they were faced with that realization that nothing changes, they started doing hard drugs, sometimes falling off stage and being rushed to the hospital, etc. It felt to me like they died inside and I took it as tragic. It's still hard for me to except it today. It's not a why me? It's a why them. or why does this have to exsist?
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: November 28 2010 at 09:01
JS19 wrote:
I was just wondering if anyone here's love of music has inspired them to play an instrument, and if so what instrument and who was your biggest influence? |
My love of music definitely got me to play an instrument. It would be pretty hard otherwise.
At first I wanted to play drums, but it wasn't practical since it would take up too much space and be too loud. I decided to buy a bass because it fit in with the traditional instrumentation of rock and metal, and every one I knew was a guitarist. I wasn't inspired by any one bass player when I got my first bass. In fact, it was when I started learning the bass that I first really payed attention to bass players. BTW, it was a few weeks before my 16th birthday that I bought my first bass.
I actually finally got a drum kit this past January. I was away for university until June, so I left my kit at my parent's house. It's a Yamaha electronic kit, so noise isn't much of an issue. Again, I wasn't inspired by any particular drummer to start playing. Learning any instrument really helps in paying more attention to what each individual musician in a group is doing, so I was already very much tuned into several drummers.
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Posted By: FordPrefect
Date Posted: November 28 2010 at 17:07
I wanted to learn to play guitar after becoming familiar with Steve Howe's playing. Still can't play like him though.
My first instrument was bass (guitar) but I really wasn't able to play it before I learned the guitar!
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Posted By: benjajl
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 09:35
I've been playing piano since I was a teenager. I'm 32 now. But it's (mainly Ayreon) has inspired me to expand my range into keyboards and synths. Until I listened to some of the older Ayreon albums I never knew you could do all that with a synthesiser. Blew my mind.
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Posted By: Tychovski
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 09:38
I was already playing recorder and clarinet when I heard my first Who album. After that it was all about the guitar and Pete Townshend.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 11:22
Tychovski wrote:
I was already playing recorder and clarinet when I heard my first Who album. After that it was all about the guitar and Pete Townshend. |
Did you actually ever attempt Who on those instruments? Who are you? Toot toot toot toot toot.
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 15:07
LMAO!!
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Posted By: Tychovski
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 17:51
Wow! No I never even thought to try I wish I knew what happened to my clarinet...
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 11 2012 at 14:19
PF's "A Saucerful of Secrets" -> the organ and the voices made me want to write music on keys, especially for the organ. Too bad instead of the classic Hammond B3 I have this lousy Yamaha church organ.King Crimson's "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" and "Fracture" and perhaps PF's "Wot's ... Uh the Deal" -> got me into playing the electric guitar.
PF's "Wot's ... Uh the Deal" -> got me into playing the acoustic guitar.
KC's "Islands" and Chopin's "Prelude in Em (28.4) got me into playing the acoustic piano.
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Posted By: Morsenator
Date Posted: July 11 2012 at 14:28
Mike Portnoy got me to start playing drums. DON'T. LAUGH.
I had already played the oboe for like 6 years then
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 11 2012 at 14:52
I played saxophone in the high school band, but when I saw a close friend of mine play in his punk band at a birthday party, and I saw how much the girls swooned over the guitarist/singer, I really wanted to be that guy. I got an acoustic guitar first, learned all the chords, then got a cheap electric guitar and continued my chord bashing through an amp. Still no girls. But I guess they were the real reason I started playing guitar. Who's with me?
My real inspiration as a musician (if I may be so bold as to call myself one) has mostly come from punk bands (not just the three chord and shouting variety, either. there's some pretty imaginative stuff out there), and not so much from progressive rock. I just feel like that level of technical mastery is beyond me, and I don't have any pressing incentive to prove myself otherwise.
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 11 2012 at 15:33
Mike Giles from Kcrimson got me picking up the sticks when I was around 10, I've always loved his chops and style. Very melodic, jazzy, intense and powerful. My mentor now is Billy Cobham (best.drumming.ever) and I try to use some of his tricks in the deathmetal band I play in now. Very effective I must say!!
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: July 11 2012 at 23:03
I started drums at 12, just because I always wanted to. But fairly quickly I saw that I need to know notation and more musical theory, so I decided to go with bass. Bass was supposed to be a "second instrument" but very quickly it became my main instrument. The fact that I was starting to get into prog helped inspire me to practice technique a lot. I still do practice a lot of technique, it's one of those things that make me zone out, so it's nice. So I have pretty good technique now :D
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 11 2012 at 23:32
JS19 wrote:
I was just wondering if anyone here's love of music has inspired them to play an instrument, and if so what instrument and who was your biggest influence? | it was the other way around for me, my love of playing inspired me to get deeply into music. Biggest pro influence probably Jeff Beck or Randy Rhoads, but my first one was a buddy who could play and taught me a lot.
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Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: July 13 2012 at 10:43
Steve Hackett was my first inspiration for learning to play guitar. Frank Zappa was my second inspiration. I always tried to probe what it would sound like to blend their styles. Very difficult, very different. I was very good at my peak and rather experimental, lots of 30 minute improvs, lots of sound experiments, lots of music theory. I never got a band together, so I went cold turkey eventually and stopped playing. I expect to pick it up again, but I'm actually looking first into effects pedals and racks. It's amazing what is available now that wasn't around in the eighties when I was playing.
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