Poll: Musical instruments

[trouble_gum]

Bah, percussion! Learn to play a real instrument </typical-orchestral-attitude>

Musical jokes aside... Piano.

Pfft. Only the percussion section gets a musical score with cannons in it!

 

[Futureman]

bass three years, i play in a jazz/rock/folk band. guitar for about a year, i like playing classical and gypsy music and then ive been playing mandolin for about a little over a year and i play bluegrass and jazz on that

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.

thats almost the kind of fingers youd want for guitar

 

[dimensional]

Played drums for about 8 years when I was younger but havent played in a good 5 years so I am probably pretty rubbish now.

Just started learning guitar a few months ago and can play a few simple songs although it took me ages to get the chords right as my fingers are quite thick. My main problem is finding simple music I like and can recognise to play along to as although I like playing songs I usually dont like listening to them.....weird.

At the moment I am playing along to some simple classic rock songs some video game music and the odd jrock song but it is a hobby of mine so it tends to lose out when push comes to shove.

 

[The Last Nomad]

I play Harmonica a bit, or at least I'm trying to learn at the moment. I can't exactly play any songs on it, but its pretty easy to just make up some pretty good stuff on the spot.

Also, I didn't vote in your poll because I don't believe 'other' should ever be a valid option, it just skews the results. If you add harmonica to the poll I'll vote that though.

 

[Memoriae]

bass three years, i play in a jazz/rock/folk band. guitar for about a year, i like playing classical and gypsy music and then ive been playing mandolin for about a little over a year and i play bluegrass and jazz on that

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.

thats almost the kind of fingers youd want for guitar

Depends really. If they're like mine, long fingers, and soft skin, then you're going to cut your fingers to pieces after a couple of months. If you can bear that pain for a little while, and the skin hardens, then you'll be rather well set to start properly. The only problem is that if you do have particularly tough skin, then you tend to lose a lot of flexibility, and if you go back to a keyboard instrument after that, then you might struggle a bit in some more technically "quick" pieces.

 

[doggy go 7]

the motherfucking trombone bitches. You may now blow my phallic symbol

 

[Lawyer105]

I had to select other, because I play the piano, pipe organ, violin, trumpet and guitar. Working on adding cello to that.

 

[floobie]

Keyboards and guitar quite serviceably, bass as well as any guitar player can play bass.

 

[FamoFunk]

I play Piano, I have done for 10 years now.

 

[perabalaofmystery]

i happen to pla the viola

 

[deathspa202]

Trombone, baritone, tuba, and other brass instruments for 7 years. Why? Because they freaking rock!

 

[Duffeknol]

Been playing guitar for 8 years now. Really, really fanatically. I've got five of them, including a 7 string. I mainly create loud noise that gets me like 12k hits on youtube.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I play the Spoons, cause Im hipster like that.

...

but no, I really do play the spoons. mostly cause its something interesting.

 

[DanielBrown]

Guitar. Love jamming on it, but I hate practising... which is probably why I never get any better.
I also play bass guitar and sing. Played piano/keyboard when I was young. Don't remember shit from it however. Singing is my favorite actually, though I wouldn't consider it a musical instrument so I went with guitar. ;P

 

[drmigit2]

I play piano, compose my own songs, play stuff like requiem for a dream, etc etc.

 

[The Virgo]

I play piano and have started taking guitar lessons recently.

Sadly, there's something wrong with my fingers because they are always sort-of stiff (when I stretch out my fingers, it feels like my nerves are stretching. It's weird.) so even though I've been taking piano for 5 years, I'm not very good. Don't get me wrong, not "struggling to play 'Twinkle, twinkle little star' not very good, but not where I would like to be. Also, I find that more percussive songs like the "Maple Leaf Rag" are easier to play.

Guitar is more fun for me, because it's not a matter of dexterity and I can just play chords.

 

[Dargocitfer]

I taught myself to play the guitar, which was a mistake, because I didn't know how to play it. So I was a crappy teacher.

I would never have gone to me! (Shamelessly stolen.)

All seriousness aside, I don't really "play" anything, at least not well. I have an acoustic guitar, but it's gathering dust. I've tried the drums, bass, piano, guitar, harmonica, trumpet, ocarina, and even bagpipes! I just don't have the patience to sit down and practice, I guess. I love music, but just not the... *process* of making music.

 

[toolateforsundown]

I hope I'm not the first one to point this out: it's spelled "saxophone".

I also play guitar, but I'm not very good at it. And by that I mean I could play rhythm for just about everything I listen too; that stuff usually isn't nearly as hard as it sounds...

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I play the violin and have been for about 15 years now, and I just play in the community college orchestra just for fun. Every once in a while I will play duets with a friend of mine just so I don't get rusty.

I'm learning the cello at the moment, and it's a lot of fun. The only shitty part is mentally 'un-doing' a lot of violin techniques while playing that beast, who just recently got a name, d'oh well.

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

Guitar, bass and piano. A lot of drum machine and synth coding as well, but I don't know if that counts.