Do You Play an Instrument/Sing?

I play trumpet in my jazz-fusion garage band and I sing in the shower.

Thats about it other than the noodling I do on my cheap casio keyboard and the four guitar chords I know.

Do you play an instrument/sing? Yes. Also sing a little bit.

If you play an instrument, which one? Piano, Various keyboards, a bit of guitar.

Have you received training? Yes. 7 years classical training, 1.5 years jazz training.

How often do you often sing/play Progressive Rock? Rehearse with my prog rock band twice a week plus and currently play 1 show a month.

What are your favourite songs to play? General Jazz and Fusion jazz  like Chick Corea's spain or dave brubeck's take 5. Currently I play/compose my own music more than play others'.

Do you play an instrument/sing? yes/yes

If you play an instrument, which one? piano/flute/guitar/taking up sitar soon hopefuly!!

Have you received training? piano lessons when i was about 7 or 8, helped me get the basics but never needed anything further!

How often do you often sing/play Progressive Rock? every day

What are your favourite songs to play? Stagnation for one, knowing tony banks solos and the entire song on piano, and the flute parts at the end...loads of fun to play, emotional!  after that, just tons of great early genesis, moody blues, YES, renaissance, focus, spirit, hot tuna...oh man, LOADS of stuff!  I learn songs by ear in a heart beat so i just play everything i like

hegelec wrote: This is something of a bizzare thread; I'm not sure where to put it . . . I've always wondered how many prog fans are musicians themselves and what they play.  The stereotype of the Prog world is that we are all cape-wearing keyboardists who studied musicology with the Royal Conservatory, but I'm sure this is not the case. So, I pose the questions: Do you play an instrument/sing? If you play an instrument, which one? Have you received training? How often do you often sing/play Progressive Rock? What are your favourite songs to play?

Here are my answers:

1.  Yes, I play instruments and I sing.

2.  My primary instruments are a synth (a KORG X5)  and a piano.  I also play guitars (acoustic, electric, and bass), softsynths, drums and percussion (percussion usually utilized are 5-gallon blue drinking water bottles which have a nice tone by the way, a shaker and various kitchen items), a kazoo and a soprano recorder.  I also record, sequence, mix and produce my own works via my PC, which you can check out at http://music.download.com/sterilium.

3. My musical training and knowledge is largely self-taught though I had piano lessons at the age of 11 and guitar lessons from the age of 12 to 15; afterwards, everything I know is self-taught.

4.  Majority of the music I make and play is progressive rock though I occasionally write some classical, jazz and a few radio-friendly tunes here and there.

5.  My favorite songs are of course my own, where my focus is currently into.  As a warm up, I like playing Bach's 2-part Invention in C major and the first few bars from Chopin's Etude No. 12 Opus 10 for some left hand action.  Some of the prog songs (though I play only bits and pieces of each) that I love playing are some Dream Theater lines, some riffs from Yes's Heart of the Sunrise and King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man," and a few Rush riffs here and there.