Can you Play Musical instruments ?

[DarkhoIlow]

Middle school I played piano for 8 years then Canto in highschool (doesn't really count as an instrument but still).

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

When you say percussion in this context, are you mostly just referring to drumset, the typical concert percussion instruments, or all percussion instruments in existence? My (very biased) opinion on how interesting percussion is might lead to me humbly disagreeing if you're just generalizing all of percussion. (Especially because people almost never know what I'm talking about when I talk about marimba, and random strangers seem almost disappointed when I call myself a percussionist, but don't really play drumset. In fact, before I really went full-on percussionist, I called myself a marimbist because it was more accurate.)

Maybe it's my "I almost got an ethnomusicology degree by complete accident" side of me speaking, but a major reason why I'm a percussionist is because of the sheer variety of instruments I get to explore, not to mention the added bonus of gaining a little insight into other cultures through what they value in their music.

I meant drumset in that post. I'm a pretty big fan of the snare drums and timpani.

 

[Caostotale]

That was absolutely beautiful I wish my teacher had utilized me in that way. Because I know that the bass clarinet can sound so amazing, but she just kept sticking me with the French horns and so on. Now I'm more frustrated, even though this was 15 years ago, or 14 years ago I guess. Still, frustrated now. Ruining a perfectly good instrument like that by not giving it the proper respect it deserved.

To be sure, I wouldn't hold any band teacher responsible for churning out classically-trained instrumentalists, especially for esoteric instruments like bass clarinet, bassoon, baritone saxophone, etc.... From what I've heard from friends in the music-teaching world, operating a school band is kind of a nightmare and almost everything gets smeared by the path-of-least-resistance brush.

I'm with you on the frustrations, though. At no point in my years of guitar-playing, bass-playing, composing, writing, recording, etc... did I ever succeed at finding anything resembling a decent mentor, which is fairly important if you don't want to get into bad playing habits, etc..

 

[A_Parked_Car]

My main instrument is drums, followed by bass and then guitar and piano far behind the first two. I started on piano, but forced classical training (up to RCM Grade 8) made me hate the instrument and I haven't touched it for years.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Yeah, for a long time.

I no longer enjoy it but yet keep doing it.

 

[pearcinator]

From a similar thread about a week ago. Mostly about playing video game music.

I just play piano as a hobby. I'm not professional or anything.

Here's me playing;

Dire Dire Docks (Super Mario 64)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EQVLVYhh0E&list=UUTRMZzoavEMuLpa8jM72fzg[/youtube]

Gerudo Valley (Zelda: Ocarina of Time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfQIeTfnX1c&list=UUTRMZzoavEMuLpa8jM72fzg[/youtube]

Nothing Set In Stone (an arrangement of Stone Tower Temple from Zelda: Majoras Mask) [THIS ONE IS PRETTY OLD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hslA6bdW9ig&list=UUTRMZzoavEMuLpa8jM72fzg[/youtube]

Additionally, I can play 'An End Once and For All' from Mass Effect 3 as well as several other songs not from video games.

You can download them here if you like! They aren't professional but it's only a hobby of mine.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bw5w2vfWAkTmeFNpdGtxN0NGeTQ&usp=sharing

 

[FPLOON]

Well, I self-taught myself how to play my custom-made acoustic guitar, which I got when I was 13... Then again, I can only plays various Gorillaz songs as well as certain hip-hop melody hooks...

Other than that...

Spoiler: Is Fruity Loops a type of instrument?

Is Fruity Loops a type of instrument?

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/55850234.jpg

D'oh!

Also, outside of singing, I can somewhat play the drums, but only if it's setup for someone who is dominantly left-handed for some reason...