Are you a musician? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Cello, bass guitar, proper bass Smile

, and I play the keyboards really poorly occasionally...

I'd love to learn to play crazy percussion. Or french horn.

I sing a bit, play guitar and am working out some bass lines, however, I don't consider myself a musician, just a player. A musician has to have a certain command of the instrument, which I don't feel I have as yet.

Eddy wrote:

i would like to be a producer. i love making music. but i wouldnt think i would play that well. i have a hard time remembering things.

Thats actually what I plan to be professionally! Hope I can get into a good engineering school

I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die.
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I am not a musician (just use a flute almost as a toy) but 2 of my sons are.
They play in a Heavy Metal band in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (Veuliah) that is soon releasing the first CD, Deep Visions of Unreality!
Download and listen to the song Black Spirit to understand why am so proud of them!

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I'm a bedroom acoustic guitarist in the three chords or nearest offer sense of the word - I don't play much prog stuff though, more folk and acoustic rock. I can also manage a bit of gob iron and mandolin.

My other half is a highly accomplished singer, pianist and flautist who can also play just about anything else you could care to mention reasonably well. We tried playing together years ago, but she gets frustrated with my limited, or in her words non-existent, musical ability.

'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom

Ive been playing drums/percussion since i was 4 or 5. My brother started teaching me snare very early. I joined the school band from 1st-10th grade. I started taking drum set lessons when i was 8 and have been playing every day since then. I also play Tuned percussion

Other instruments

Gutiar - 4 years seriously

Bass - 3 years seriously but the bass is my 2nd favorite instrument. I love jammin on it.

Piano/Keys - My brother grew up as a piano player so i learned alot from him. A few things i can play are Close to the Edge by Yes, Heart of the Sunrise, Siberian Khatru, Some Mars Volta, a very limited ammount of ELP(its hard to follow Keith unless youve been playing seriously for awhile). I try to play piano @least once a day and use it as my main music writing Tool.

Brass Instruments - I also have picked up some things on Tuba, Trumpet, and Trombone(trombone mostly)over the years.

String Instruments - I taught myself Amazing Grace on the Fiddle a few years ago

Thats about it. Id also love to learn the Sax but i dont think its gonna happen.

Used to play keyboards/piano when I was 8, and I took lessons for 3 years...then I promptly forgot them because I had no drive to learn. Then, in May of 2004 I picked up the bass and started playing thru the "Bass Guitar Primer Book" with Burt Casey. When I finished that I moved on to playing "The Wall" (pretty simple, really) and then the tougher "Thick as a Brick" bass parts (I never did get that last section down pat). Then I learned "Gates of Delirium" and "Close to the Edge," and started playing normal guitar only two weeks ago and I can already play Steve Hackett's "Horizons." Once I learn Steve Howe's "Clap," I'm gonna start a band.

Yes, for my sins. I've played drums now for twenty one years, guitar for fifteen, and the spoons for three months. I also sing a bit.

I used to be in a prog band called FREEFALL back in the 80's and I'm in another prog band now called TINYFISH (for my sins).

I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill

Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Organ... I like to dabble in it all. Most interested in getting a lap steel guitar and a mandolin at the moment, trying to broaden my horizons.

I have dabbled with keyboards and drumkit - So a sort of musician, if not good enough to be in a prog band - although I have created some ambience with synths that TD fans may sort of appreciate.

Poll Question: are you a musician?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Yes	46	[86.79%]
No	7	[13.21%]
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