Poll: Do you play an instrument?
- Thread starter Rule Britannia
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...Do instruments of torture count?
OT: I'm learning bass guitar right now, but I haven't practiced in a while.
Yes, I can play the bass guitar and the 5 string banjo pretty well. Not as well or as often as I used to thanks to a connective tissue disease. I has lessons and everything. I can also play the guitar but not as well. Everyone in my family can play the guitar (most acoustic) because my paternal grandmother was a Guitar teacher for 40+ years.
Played keyboard when I was a kid. When I started listening to metal around the age of 13 I begun growling, though these days I stick to harsh vocals. My regular singing voice isn't that bad, but I don't have enough confidence in it for my own songs.
Played bass guitar in a death metal band for a brief period. Started with no experience whatsoever and came out more than decent for a beginner. Had to keep up with the guitarists tempo and we rehearsed for about 12 hours/week. Unfortunetly the guitarist and vocalist decided to call quits a few months after I joined. Quit playing bass guitar shortly afterwards and picked up the guitar instead. Had bought a new bass guitar just two weeks before the band split up, so I was pretty furious. Damn thing cost me about 700 euro and I've hardly touched it since.
Write and record a lot of songs, though I don't practise anymore. I'm not improving fast enough and without a real band to play with I lack the motivation. Still good enough for basic(read shitty) songs however!
Played bass guitar in a death metal band for a brief period. Started with no experience whatsoever and came out more than decent for a beginner. Had to keep up with the guitarists tempo and we rehearsed for about 12 hours/week. Unfortunetly the guitarist and vocalist decided to call quits a few months after I joined. Quit playing bass guitar shortly afterwards and picked up the guitar instead. Had bought a new bass guitar just two weeks before the band split up, so I was pretty furious. Damn thing cost me about 700 euro and I've hardly touched it since.
Write and record a lot of songs, though I don't practise anymore. I'm not improving fast enough and without a real band to play with I lack the motivation. Still good enough for basic(read shitty) songs however!
Flute, piccolo, some piano, crappy recorder thing, and vocals. I don?t think I was really that good but I did eight years of music.
Clarinet, flute, sax, guitar, viola to some extent, cello to roughly the same extent, and I sing a lot. Like in the shower. Or when no one's around, like right now.
I played clarinet for a few years and stopped after getting kicked out of band for a quarter in middle school and then shortly after that having music almost completely ruined for me. Then I did choir for a semester in high school and music was completely ruined for me from the teacher(in both instances). I also use to be able to play pretty much all the brass instruments(except tuba cause i don't have the lung capacity for it) and the woodwind instruments, and most of percussion(there is some we didn't have so i never got to learn) and i have a recorder somewhere that i learned to play before clarinet.
If you concider a synthesizer to be an instrument: yes.
If you don't think it is: try it out, reality will prove you wrong.
If you don't think it is: try it out, reality will prove you wrong.
Guitar, bass, drums, vocals (I like to think of myself as a mix between Trevor Strnad and Randy Blythe... No, I don't know how to pronounce Strnad), piano, and some weird percussion stuff I can't name but can apparently play.Rule Britannia said:
I'm learning to play the drums, if that counts. I actually got the motivation to go out and buy a real drum kit after about a year and a half of playing Rock Band and kicking its face in. Unfortunately, the cymbal and the hi-hat that came with my kit sound like complete ass, so...
Yeah. I need to buy new stuff so I can tolerate playing the damn kit. :<
Yeah. I need to buy new stuff so I can tolerate playing the damn kit. :<
I play guitar, and I dabble with bass whenever I have access to one. I'm not very good at either.
I played Keyboard in primary, but eventually gave up (no fun anymore when the teacher keeps nitpicking about the "correct" way to have my hands when playing). Picked up guitar, but stopped when I switched schools. I picked it up again the second year of yet another new school, but abandoned music forever that same year.
If I was going to pick up music again, it would be drums, nothing else. I'm great at keeping a beat, and learning how to keep up an increasingly complex set of beats seems far more interesting than spending 3-4 weeks to master simple songs.
If I was going to pick up music again, it would be drums, nothing else. I'm great at keeping a beat, and learning how to keep up an increasingly complex set of beats seems far more interesting than spending 3-4 weeks to master simple songs.
