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Another piano/bass person here. I took classical piano lessons for about 13 years and have been playing for almost 30 years now, and then I picked up the bass at some point and am entirely self-taught with that, and that's been about ten years with that. The past few years have been kind of on and off, more off than on lately, especially without people to play with to motivate me, but I still have both of them around and take care of them and make sure I haven't completely forgotten what I'm doing so I can get back into it more regularly when I figure out exactly what it is I do want to do.Kadoodle said:
Guitar, I try to play lots of genres and never sticking in the same stuff. I learned power chords in a class I took when I was 14 and the rest I learned it on my own, although I cannot read music.
I used to play guitar, but I wasn't very good. Then I heard a song called Orion, then I picked up the bass. I'm much better with the bass.
I chose other as my favorite to play is the mandolin, but I also play the guitar, bass guitar, harmonica and piano, though I'm not particularly skilled at piano.
I can play the Clarinet well for my age. I've been playing it for 3 years now. I can also play the Melodica and Piano but only with one hand at a time. I feel guilty about quitting piano. I want to play songs like Around the World but I can't because I'm restricted to one hand. And on a whim, I can also play the Peruvian Wolfwhistle and Windchime Whistle thing.
I played Tenor saxophone through middle and high school, and I took piano lessons for a few years though I cant say I'm all that good. On my trip to china this summer I picked up a kind of Chinese flute called a 葫芦丝(húlúsī
and I find it quite fun to play, though that probably stems from the fact that its nice and small so I can play it right at my computer desk.
and I find it quite fun to play, though that probably stems from the fact that its nice and small so I can play it right at my computer desk.
Piano and Trumpet, although I'm way better at Piano, as I've been playing it for 9 years - 2 years more than the Trumpet, and because I had a restrictive couple of years of Trumpet due to braces.
Piano, though, I adore. It gives me so much joy to be able to play some of the beautiful music written for the instrument.
In fact, I'm the opposite to you OP, as my love for the piano has been waxing, rather than waning, over the past couple of years. I changed teacher a couple years back, and I got massively into Chopin from learning his Nocturne in F-Minor, Op. 55 - to the extent that I now have the majority of the pieces he ever wrote on my iPod, often with multiple recordings of each piece. What I love about Chopin is that in nearly every piece there is at least one moment of breath-taking sublimity, which often literally makes me stop what I'm doing through sheer ecstatic catharsis. On top of this, with Chopin you feel that it's never difficult for the sake of being difficult - or for the sake of showing off - like with, for example, Liszt (not to say that I dislike Liszt), but because it's exactly how he felt the piece should sound. That and his obsessive perfectionism is probably what led to him being famously quoted as one of the three composers who never wrote a bad piece, along with Beethoven and Bach; a statement that I whole-heartedly endorse.
Ugh, sorry, I apologise for the massive fanboy rant.
Anyway, I'm currently learning a movement of his first Piano Concerto (The 'easy' one, Mvt. 2, in my opinion one of the most incredibly written and...well, I've run out of synonyms for beautiful, but I was gonna end with 'ever'), which I hope to play in January.
Wish me luck guys...
Piano, though, I adore. It gives me so much joy to be able to play some of the beautiful music written for the instrument.
In fact, I'm the opposite to you OP, as my love for the piano has been waxing, rather than waning, over the past couple of years. I changed teacher a couple years back, and I got massively into Chopin from learning his Nocturne in F-Minor, Op. 55 - to the extent that I now have the majority of the pieces he ever wrote on my iPod, often with multiple recordings of each piece. What I love about Chopin is that in nearly every piece there is at least one moment of breath-taking sublimity, which often literally makes me stop what I'm doing through sheer ecstatic catharsis. On top of this, with Chopin you feel that it's never difficult for the sake of being difficult - or for the sake of showing off - like with, for example, Liszt (not to say that I dislike Liszt), but because it's exactly how he felt the piece should sound. That and his obsessive perfectionism is probably what led to him being famously quoted as one of the three composers who never wrote a bad piece, along with Beethoven and Bach; a statement that I whole-heartedly endorse.
Ugh, sorry, I apologise for the massive fanboy rant.
Anyway, I'm currently learning a movement of his first Piano Concerto (The 'easy' one, Mvt. 2, in my opinion one of the most incredibly written and...well, I've run out of synonyms for beautiful, but I was gonna end with 'ever'), which I hope to play in January.
Wish me luck guys...
i taught myself guitar and piano, i can read music a little bit, but i mostly go by ear. i took drum lessons as a kid, so i picked that one.
Right now I only have an Ocarina, though I rarely play any instruments nowdays because my mom yells her lungs out at me if I make any sort of noise ever.
My old flutes are collecting dust, forever alone in some closet.
I can play guitar as well, though and a teensy tiny bit of self-taught piano.
My old flutes are collecting dust, forever alone in some closet.
I can play guitar as well, though and a teensy tiny bit of self-taught piano.
Keyboard, but I really want to learn guitar. My problem is I have long slender fingers (girly hands) and I'm not sure they are the type that could handle a guitar. They are however really good for keyboards.
I play drums, no limits pretty much as far as genres go, but i guess i prefer to play metal-ish songs. here's a vid of one with my guitarist, it's kind of sloppy one-take thing just so we wouldn't forget the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN6mvny6C3c
I've been playing guitar for 9 years now, I also have a bass guitar and keyboard and have been playing them for a few years now too. I'm not as good as I am on guitar on those but I know enough to play some decent stuff and incorporate them into any music I make.
I'm a *pretentious cough* percussionist.
No, really. I've got grades in Timpani!
Ha-ha. I'm a drummer. I've played drums (i.e kit) since I started taking lessons when I was 13. I've been in the pre-requisite collection of high school/uni covers bands aaaaand...well, mostly I picked drums because they were big, loud and they weren't a guitar. Because everyone else and their dog was learning to play the guitar in 1993 so they could pretend they were Slash/Kurt Cobain/Chris Cornell/Kirk Hammett/Stone Gossard. Which I guess would make my role-model equivalents Matt Sorum/Dave Grohl/Matt Cameron/Lars Ulrich/Dave Abbruzzese.
As one of only two drummers in my year at school and even shorter supply come university, being the drummer brought a bizarre form of popularity. Frequently I was approached by music teachers desperately needing a drummer to step in at short notice for some school production. Once not even in my school. My finest hour was accompanying the school orchestra on tour to Prague, ostensibly to play timpani. As it transpired we couldn't fit them on the bus, so I got to hang around, do nothing and get drunk on gloriously cheap Czech beer.
No, really. I've got grades in Timpani!
Ha-ha. I'm a drummer. I've played drums (i.e kit) since I started taking lessons when I was 13. I've been in the pre-requisite collection of high school/uni covers bands aaaaand...well, mostly I picked drums because they were big, loud and they weren't a guitar. Because everyone else and their dog was learning to play the guitar in 1993 so they could pretend they were Slash/Kurt Cobain/Chris Cornell/Kirk Hammett/Stone Gossard. Which I guess would make my role-model equivalents Matt Sorum/Dave Grohl/Matt Cameron/Lars Ulrich/Dave Abbruzzese.
As one of only two drummers in my year at school and even shorter supply come university, being the drummer brought a bizarre form of popularity. Frequently I was approached by music teachers desperately needing a drummer to step in at short notice for some school production. Once not even in my school. My finest hour was accompanying the school orchestra on tour to Prague, ostensibly to play timpani. As it transpired we couldn't fit them on the bus, so I got to hang around, do nothing and get drunk on gloriously cheap Czech beer.
Bah, percussion! Learn to play a real instrument </typical-orchestral-attitude>trouble_gum said:
Musical jokes aside... Piano. I've played since I was about... *thinks back*... 8 or 9, so basically almost 20 years on and off. I don't have the space for one in my house any more though, but you'd be amazed at how you can keep up with a decent keyboard, and a copy of Synthesia. Especially after spending a few hours transcribing sheet music into MIDI, and importing it.
Also...
Probably because the mandolin is closer to a guitar than it is a piano. You'll probably find that after playing guitar for so long, that you'll pick up fretted strings faster than most other instruments.DustyDrB said: