How Many Musicians are On Board ?

Petrovsk Mizinski wrote: Lucent wrote: I played piano first, got really bored of playing the classical works, and I don't think I can really get further than I am right now due to my willingness to play the piano and the fact that I don't like how people tell me to play a specific type of music.  I go to it every day, however, to see if I can find something I like. I played the guitar shortly after, only to quit because everyone else plays the guitar, and it got boring. I picked up the bass a few months ago, and currently it's my favourite instrument to play, due to the diversity and the amount of improvization you can really get away with. I do vocals as a spare thing, but I don't like my vocals.  However, I really like experimenting and improvizing with them, creating my own effect. My equipment: -Roland FP7 -Fender Stratocastor -Yamaha bass (of some sort, it's a starter bass) -Audacity, and some very basic wires to hook my crap up to :3 I'm gonna quit playing guitar too, because it's important to care about how many other people play the instrument, because it makes it boring. I know heaps of people that play bass, I don't understand why you play an instrument so many other people play too.

I am playing keyboards for years and wanna be pro if I can without changing my musical posture. My main bands have always been prog bands and I also take part in various side projects in different genres. I am recording my own compositions in my home studio which are mostly experimental and prog influenced. I have never had a tendency to play other instruments I have always tried to do things with my own mastery (that is keyboards as I mentioned before) and tried to add something using keyboard in my own compositions. When I am playing with bands there I stay in my own field and try to add my music as a keyboardist. My master keyboard is a roland fantom and I use various other softsynths and sound tools. I enjoy working with sounds; creating and modifying them. I have a myspace page however there is a single work for now and that is not sort of tune I've mentioned above. Check it from http://www.myspace.com/philamelian

wrote: Are you a professional musician, semi-pro, wanna-be pro, or an at-home-messing-'round-in-my-spare-time player ? Have you recorded your own compositions ?  Got samples online ? What instrument(s) do you play ? What instrument(s) do you wish you could play ? Do you play Prog or another type ?

1.  I'd say I'm a wanna-be pro, as I'm hoping to get a degree in music performance and/or education sometime in the future.  For now, I'm mostly an "at-school-messing-'round'-in-my-spare-time" player.
2.  Only with some friends in high school, and they are not online.  I'm thinking of getting the video of one of my more random/spontaneous songs which somehow ended up being the only one with a semi-professional music video
3. I play electric and upright bass, as well as trombone.
4. Piano, cello, drums, various percussion.
5. I dabble some in prog now, as well as funk/jazz.

Mr ProgFreak wrote: Maybe you shouldn't spend so much time with music ... you apparently don't like it.

I played piano first, got really bored of playing the classical works, and I don't think I can really get further than I am right now due to my willingness to play the piano and the fact that I don't like how people tell me to play a specific type of music.  I go to it every day, however, to see if I can find something I like.

I'm a drummer and I play a bit of keyboard. I play drumset in a jazz/funk band right now and we play gigs about a couple times a month and we get paid. Experimental/prog jam with my friends when I have the time. I'm in a youth symphony and I do concert percussion. Not really pursuing music as a career though, it's just something I do for fun for the most part. 

It's not braggin if you're just telling the truth.

Edited by Negoba - February 06 2009 at 11:28

I play drums.  A late bloomer.  Started playing when I was 33 years old.  My guitarist buddies say I'm pretty good...yet they tell me they have a hard time playing over the rhythms I lay down.  I'm influenced by Elvin Jones, John Marshall, Robert Wyatt and Ian Paice.

I should be relesing an album of compleatly origianal music sometime in the next few months.

I play and am a bit of a wanna be pro. I jam with friends and am tryin to start a new prog band.

Edited by missiongonewrong - January 28 2009 at 18:51