Do you play an instrument?
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Topic: Do you play an instrument?
Posted By: The Monodrone
Subject: Do you play an instrument?
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 09:42
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Multiple votes are allowed. I myself can play the guitar, bass, drums and some keyboards. -------------  
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 09:44
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Bass guitar (4 string fretted and fretless, 6 string), upright bass, some cello (along with the fact that my fretless bass is normally in cello tuning), trombone.
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Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 09:50
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Flute (thanks to the music of Jethro Tull!!), though I'm going to learn some piano this summer. ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 09:55
| Guitar and bass, and a xylophone-like children's toy. Also very, very poorly the harmonica. |
Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 10:21
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Piano, keyboards, drums, harmonica.
My wife plays Classical guitar
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 10:35
Synth, acoustic classical guitar, and electric guitar. How well is debatable. 
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Posted By: Progist
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 11:03
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Electric & Acoustic guitar and Bass, some Keyboards, but not too well
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 11:17
| Piano and all its derivatives. |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 11:18
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Bass, drums, saxophone and vocals, listed in order of which I'm best at.
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 11:49
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Acoustic guitar, not very well Drums, not very well yet but it's the instrument I'm focussing most on Clarinet/Alto Clarinet - Played it for a few years in school, getting back into it, and despite the gap since I last played I can play it better than either of the other two. I once knew how to play piano, I think I finished grade 1. But I was 8 at the time and have no recollection anymore. Of late, I have really been getting into learning these instruments.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 13:50
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Guitar (acoustic and electric), a bit of bass, a bit of keyboards And the tuba. Why is tuba not an option? |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 14:31
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Electric guitar, electric bass, percussion, vocals. I plan on writing and recording all the parts of a band when I go off to college next fall.
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 14:48
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^I'm doing that at the moment, great fun at times and a pain in the ass at others  Except that I don't do vocals, I'm a pretty good but horribly insecure singer.
These for me as well.
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ptkc123 wrote:Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 15:01
none 
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Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 15:38
That's exactly what I plan on doing! -------------
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Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 15:41
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 15:45
It's a prog instrument 
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 19:09
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I can do all those except flute, trumpet and sax. And do bass and cello really belong in the same category? I can play both, it just seems like an odd combo.
And vocally, I can do a decent Peter Hammill impression.
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 19:10
Same here. Some day I will fix that. |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 19:25
No time like the present!
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 19:30
In the present I don't have one to learn on. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 20:06
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I play more instruments than listed in this poll. Not that I'm particularly good at any of them though. But I don't care. I love all instruments, in a way. If an instrument - even a cheap Casio toy keyboard - inspires you to make just one song, just one unique idea - it's worth the money. ------------- |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 20:20
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Drums/percussion, keybaords...somewhat guitar.
I also play a fine Kazoo. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 22:54
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 23:49
| I can do a decent Mikael Akerfeldt (both growled and clean), I'm pretty proud of that. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 23:56
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Voted piano, I did lessons for about 10 years. 7 years of classical, 3 years of jazz, and then I got bored.
For the past 3 or so months I've been playing guitar for a few hours a day, finally getting less terrible at that. Enjoying it way more than I ever did piano, though. ------------- 
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Posted By: AbrahamSapien
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 09:08
Piano - I'm in 5th class, but also do keyboards in two bands. I skipped one theory class . I play in a fusion band and a more rock-oriented one, but it's still in the process of forming.
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Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 09:31
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Of this list: Flute Trumpet Bass Guitar Guitar Keyboards Piano Vocals Drums ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 12:17
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I used to be worthless at guitar, bass, vocals. I kicked ass on my drum computer though  |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 16:12
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I started out as a guitarist, then started playing harmonica, bass, and drums. Now organ (with synth too) is my main thing. I have a recording with me on my Hammond L-100 and synth in my signature.
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Posted By: Zebedee
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 16:13
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Piano, keyboards, guitar and more recently clarinet.
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Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 16:16
| Piano, keyboards, electric/acoustic guitars, percussion, harmonicas |
Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 17:07
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Drums and Piano. ------------- 
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Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 18:32
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I can play kalimba. Is an african percusion instrument. Prrety strange isn't it? |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 18:48
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Piano! took some classical lessons for three years, some jazz for two and since my teachers became unavailable I've been experimenting and learning by myself... ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com) 
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Posted By: bsms810
Date Posted: May 31 2010 at 09:42
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Only drums for me... begs the question, i wonder if Progheads have a higher proportion of mucicians amongst their fan ranks than other genres ------------- 'when was the last time you had a girlfriend?' 'I dont look at it as when, I look at it as who...and why' - David Brent |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 31 2010 at 09:57
I love the sound of a kalimba. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Johnnytuba
Date Posted: May 31 2010 at 11:05
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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. ------------- "The things that we're concealing, will never let us grow. Time will do its healing, you've got to let it go. |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: May 31 2010 at 12:35
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Oh come on, I'm not the only saxophone player here.
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: May 31 2010 at 12:37
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Drums, keyboards, any sort of percussion
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Posted By: YesFan72
Date Posted: May 31 2010 at 12:46
bassoon ------------- 
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: May 31 2010 at 13:02
Awesome instrument.
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Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: June 01 2010 at 00:21
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Acoustic guitar. Play it everyday....usually a la Opeth (soft and gentle). |
Posted By: squirting
Date Posted: June 01 2010 at 01:35
No you're not. I am awful at it though.
I like the bassoon's traditional name  Awesome instrument, has a friggin huge range.For the record (in order of ability): guitar (rhythm, lead, acoustic, classical, jazz), bass, keys/piano, drums, sax. ------------- "So that's it? After 12 years; so long, good luck?" "Now I don't recall saying good luck." |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 01 2010 at 18:13
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Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: June 01 2010 at 19:40
We should get together and jam sometime. What do you think - A Passion Play or Thick as a Brick?
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Posted By: AgentSpork
Date Posted: June 01 2010 at 23:32
| I've been regularly practicing from my trusty drum throne starting back from about a year ago, but as of right now it's my instrument of choice. If I could choose something else I'd probably try my hand at the keyboards, and as far as stringed instruments go I'd have to choose violin. |
Posted By: Gillywibble
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 02:55
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Piano, drums and euphonium. ------------- There is in fact more earth than sea. http://www.last.fm/user/Gillywibble |
Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 03:50
| guitar !! |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 04:15
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I play the guitar (acoustic). I say 'play', but I really mean just jamming, mucking around so you could say. Some day I'll play something actually intentional, rather than haphazard. I also used to play the violin, but I was quite young and can't remember too much of it. I've also dabbled in Bass, and would like to get into it more, eventually along with electric guitars. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 04:34
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Electric guitar and bass guitar, both of which I'm proficient enough to be able to record my playing of. Acoustic guitar to an extent, but not really with much accuracy or proficiency. ------------- 
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Posted By: JemJem714
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 07:07
| Self-taught flautist from the age of 7, many many years before I got into Prog. I have also played the violin in the past and currently in the process of trying to steal my sister's saxophone (PURPLE SAXOPHONE) so I can learn that too. |
Posted By: deathlifereborn
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 07:13
Tried to learn electric guitar 3/4 years ago but failed epically...i did used to study recorder in primary school and was actually quite good at it  ------------- 'What happened to our innocence, did it go out of style' |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 08:22
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If you mean "obtain sounds from instruments", all of the above. About playing, I would limit to guitar, bass, keyboards and piano. I can do few easy things with violin, flute, sax. I also own some folkish instruments like Oud, Sitar and Balalaika but I'm used to play them as they were guitars. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Tuonela
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 09:13
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Guitar and bass guitar
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 12:55
| Guitar and bass guitar. |
Posted By: Wiktor Hatif
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 13:07
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acoustic guitar and my voice - cannot afford nothing fancier :)
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 14:31
| Drums. |
Posted By: Nilsen
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 14:37
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Guitar (electric and acoustic), drums, piano/keyboards, flute. And bought my first violin 5 hours ago =S. oh.. and the iPhone of course..
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Posted By: EatThatPhonebook
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 15:02
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Drums, but I can also play piano (keyboards) and guitar. ------------- 
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: June 03 2010 at 15:11
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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. |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: June 04 2010 at 12:29
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I play guitar. But you have not given options for my favourite instruments: penny whistle and ukulele. I enjoy playing these the most. I also play mandolin. ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: Johnnytuba
Date Posted: June 04 2010 at 16:07
Why not both? It would be a shame to hold back...... ------------- "The things that we're concealing, will never let us grow. Time will do its healing, you've got to let it go. |
Posted By: nahnite
Date Posted: June 04 2010 at 19:57
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I said drums, but I also play keyboards, piano and all the derivatives. I'm also learning rhythm guitar and bass from my patient-as-hell bandmate.
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Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: June 04 2010 at 22:37
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Bass, electric/acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano, drums, sax. (mostly self-taught, tho', an uncle helped, initially, with the guitar/bass)
Started learning violin at school, but Jean-Luc Ponty was'nt around to inspire me.
 Jamming along to records REALLY helped, tho.....your peers are'nt just there for pressure.
Asthma stops me playing too much sax, these days.....I find it easier to sample individual notes.
I can still blow one at a time.... LOL ------------- "...the thing IS, to put a motor in yourself..." |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 05 2010 at 01:43
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Fretted (Rickenbacker) and fretless (Manson) bass, electric guitar (Les Paul, what else matters?), various keyboards, vocals and allsorts. I've been known to play the drum also, albeit badly. It's wonderfully fun to mike all sorts of things and process them through electronic devices! Children's musical toys, balloons, sheet metal, very large steel wrenches, etc. played through phase shifters, wah-wah pedals and the like. It's amazing the sounds you can generate with that stuff! I once wanted to record an entire piece using nothing but modified toys, but life caught up to me. Someday, the effects just keep getting better and better! |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: June 05 2010 at 07:35
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^ Yes, I love effects also! Phaser is a great one, but my favorite has to be delay. -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 05 2010 at 07:45
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I wouldn't bother to play electric guitar without some sort of effects box. Currently using a Floor Pod Plus. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: June 05 2010 at 10:36
^ I've recently had the same mindframe. -------------
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Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: May 09 2013 at 14:51
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I've been having snare drum lessons at a local percussion group since six years. Even though we're just a small club, we're in the top division for percussion groups in the Netherlands. I've also learned to play some other percussion from playing in the 'ensemble'(as they call themselves). I also like to fool around on my keyboard at times
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: May 09 2013 at 19:13
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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. ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: May 09 2013 at 20:37
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I put down guitar, bass guitar, drums, vocals, and saxophone. I play electric guitar and sing lead for a band currently. I can keep time on drums if required, and I can get by on the bass. The saxophone was my first instrument, played it in the high school concert and jazz band. I don't really like playing it any more though. As for piano/keys, I can't honestly say I can play that, though sometimes I like to bulls&&t my way around the keys and pretend I can play. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: May 09 2013 at 20:54
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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. ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: May 10 2013 at 11:08
| I don't play any instruments, nor will I likely begin to learn one (though that's not entirely impossible). I've got too many other life interests and goals. |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: May 10 2013 at 14:26
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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 ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 10 2013 at 14:30
Don't loose hope, Keith Moon probably started like that too!
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Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 21:52
| 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. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 23:04
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Electric and classical (not acoustic) guitar, keyboards (especially the piano timbre, or "voice", as Yamaha calls it), a bass guitar, a violin, and ... |
Posted By: Larree
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 23:27
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Guitars and Vocals http://www.tunecore.com/widgets/show/62218" rel="nofollow - Larree - First Steps (A collection of instrumental collaborations)
http://www.tunecore.com/widgets/show/62194" rel="nofollow - It's All Grand by Guitar God System - A song by my last band (I am playing guitar and singing the backup vocals on this one.) http://www.tunecore.com/widgets/show/62217" rel="nofollow - Inhabitants of the Western Wasteland - Nobody For President; a cd recorded by my band back in 1992 (Guitar and most of the lead vocals.) ------------- http://larree.ws" rel="nofollow - The Larree (dot) Website |
Posted By: fudgenuts64
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 23:31
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Piano, kinda. ------------- 
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 20:27
| Bass, guitar, and a bit of violin although it's been a while. |
Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 21:58
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I play whatever I can get my hands on, but I'll say my instrument is bass, usually Rickenbacker. I'd like to get a fretless but haven't made that jump. Any suggestions for a Ric player? I've played guitar for 30 years, but when I listen to what I've done I realize that the bass likes me more than the guit. |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 23:36
| Drums is my primary, but I've got piano training as well. Other synths would logically fall under that even though I don't actively use them all that often. I'm about to start learning bass, but I won't add that until I become competent. |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: May 15 2013 at 04:38
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Little drummer boy who creates noise!!! Lol ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: May 15 2013 at 04:58
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mainly a bassist, former drummer, kind of guitarist (barely) and full-time handsome man ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 16 2013 at 08:28
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I play guitar, bass and can sing... Teach guitar lessons at school Also bash drum rhtyhms, tinker on synth and my daughter messes with violin... other daughter strums acoustics musical family! ------------- 
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Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: May 16 2013 at 14:45
| Can arpeggiate chords on piano and keyboards (somewhat), but I have played trap-set drums for 35 years... |