Do you play an instrument?

Good thing for multiple votes.

Drummer at heart. Been playing since I was 10, started on a set in HS. Was decent, fully self taught, but being out at school for 4 years has really stunted my development....
So I picked up a guitar a year ago.

Ronnie Pilgrim wrote: Johnnytuba wrote: Being a band teacher, I can play all instruments listed and then some...except for violin, I am terrible at that.  Bass guitar and Tuba are my main instruments though. Jack of all trades, master of none. We should get together and jam sometime. What do you think - A Passion Play or Thick as a Brick?

Bass, electric/acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano, drums, sax. (mostly self-taught, tho', an uncle helped, initially, with the guitar/bass) 

^ Yes, I love effects also!  Phaser is a great one, but my favorite has to be delay.

Slartibartfast wrote: I wouldn't bother to play electric guitar without some sort of effects box.

 

I play everything on the list except piano, wind instruments, and violin.  I play all other manner of keyboards, but the fully weighted keys of an acoustic piano drive my tendinitis mad.  Been playing keyboards since about 4 yrs old, acoustic guitar since about 10, and picked up drums, bass guitar & vocals in my teens when I started playing in prog bands.  Finally took up electric guitar around the age of 20.

Guitar, kinda. I'd say I'm definitely more than a beginner, but I'm still in the process of learning (I mean, I guess that's not something your really stop with instruments, but you know what i mean). With what I know on guitar I can play a little bass. I can play some basic things on the keys, like chords and stuff, from a couple years of messing around with my keys. I think I would be a great, natural drummer if I had more chances to play/practice. After I get pretty competent at guitar, keys, and drums, I want to learn Violin, Sax, Cello, Trumpet, and a few others.

Love the drums and I like to hammer on them just as much as the next person, but I am not very good in my estimation.
I think I just produce noise. Lol

I played guitar pretty well in my twenties. Since I just did stuff to please myself and it didn't lead anywhere professionally, I went cold turkey and just gave it up to get on with my life. However, taking it up again has been positive way of dealing with my mid-life crisis. I could do a lot worse. In my twenties I was better than I am now with odd time signatures, but I'm much more well versed nowadays with unusual scales. Then as now I was really into experiments with timbre. I improvise constantly. I find it hard to play standing up.

Guitars and Vocals