Actual musicians

I used to play drums. Never played prog though. Didn't know anyone who would have a) wanted to b) have been capable of playing it..

Snow Dog wrote: Played drums once, my band even had a proggish, Rushlike "epic"..wot I wrote........ok co wrote. It was about an evil wizard, a victimised populace and a trapped army in a valley.

I didn't know you were a songwriter Snowy. Does this epic exist in MP3 format for us all to hear then?

I started on the piano aged 4, and to the best of my knowledge was singing from about age 6 - at least, that's when I was joined into the church choir by my mother.

I obtained grade 8 piano aged 15, grade 8 theory a few months later, and grade 8 singing aged 17. I also took some exams on other instruments, but I've forgotten what I got.

I upgraded my grade 8s to a B.A. in music, plus teaching diplomas in singing and piano after a few years gigging in various bands after having taught myself guitar and bass guitar.

I've also been in various choirs and performed recitals of "classical" and old-time music hall, for which I have a disturbing passion.

My favourite "performance" was doing the music for a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", in which I was acting as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and had recorded much of the backing music onto tape, but also encouraged the actors to get into the vibe and sing a capella - which I thought worked really well.

I'm still bashing out tunes in a studio with a work colleague - some of which are on MySpace.

I just can't stop writing... but I won't give up the day job just yet

sularetal wrote: BebieM wrote: I've been playing the oboe for about 6 years now, and also started playing tenor sax this year. Obviously that doesn't make me an actual musician, but I do know how to play some stuff. I'm playing in a "teenager" rock/metal band. I've been playing drums for 2 years and have this band for 2 months. You can find samples in: http://www.soundclick.com/shatteredsanity (please dont throw rocks) I'm slowly convincing the other members to play more prog stuff and we 're gonna try Prison Sex from Tool and Windowpane from Opeth

Pretty good.

I am a drummer/percussionist/piano player.  I am self-taught, with 15 years of drumming behind me.

I have a three man band with no drummer ejejeje, but only we cant find one. We are a singer who writes most of the lyrics, a bass player/second guitarrist and me, the main guitarrist and music composer. We have made enought songs to make an album, but until we dont have a drummer that cant be...and a keyboardist would be great too!

We are called Son of none, we only do original songs and are hard prog...in the vain of Rush I guess...but less drumms and not much of virtuosim bass ether jejejee No I guess that a good thing is that we dont sound too much like any band because we are influenced by a lot of great bands...such as, well Rush, I like to think we have some Yes, maybe some Crimson, definitly Led Zeppelin, Genesis also and some metal...some Metallica maybe...early Metallica that is!

I think our music is pretty good...well we dont create masterpieces, after all we are jsut three young boys, me being the only one over 18!

Currently we are doing an epic...uuuu, will se how that comes out!

I played Drums in a Rock Band in the early - mid 70's. Never did anything remotely prog though.

I currently play at the piano & make music on my computer & put out CD's that noone buys. I'm not terribly gifted as a keyboardist, being essentially self-taught & lacking in large part any self-discipline. But I can write music with the assistance of my PC.

You can find my Instrumental Rock stuff at http://www.soundclick.com/aardvarktxusa

& my Classical/New Age stuff at http://www.soundclick.com/polaristxusa

I play sax in a brass band!!I'd like to play some jazz or prog music!!

But at the end i like the music I play!!