Does the Escapist Play a Musical Instrument?

[I Stomp on Kittens]

I play guitar and not just on Rock Band

 

[kemosabi4]

Pretty self-explanatory. I play an alto-sax, myself.

Ditto. There's a guy right next to me playing a bass guitar right now, actually.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

i play bass guitar

here's my baby ^_^

<img src="http://www.majormusiccenter.com/Gitarlar/BC%20Rich/bas/Products.aspx_files/NT%20Beast%20Bass.jpg"img>

*Drules* I want your baby!

Anyway I currently play alto sax,Tenor sax and a bit of barri sax, I'm learning to drum and I want to learn to play guitar and bass.(Music is a big part of my life)

 

[Toty54]

I play 3 percussion instruments (Drums, Timpani's and Marimba) and the Piano.

 

[Spacelord]

I play the guitar, the bagpipes (THAT'S RIGHT), and I sing in the shower (that counts as an instrument, of sorts).

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Hey, sorry I'm late!

I play bass, studying popular music and performance and I play in a funk/R&B band (should get some songs up soon).

Few questions for my fellow musicians here (in order to get some discussion, rather then listing how awesome you are)

Theory? Yay or Nay?

What do you all think? I've heard so many arguments about this (mainly at uni). Personally I think theory is important to have, especially if you plan on taking Music seriously. Without theory I believe you are limited in what you can do, it makes it so much harder to play with other musicians, its harder to write songs and its harder to understand them. I'm not saying you can't enjoy music without theory and I'm not saying you can't play music with theory, I just think it makes everything run smoother.

To my fellow Bass Players

How do you approach writing lines to a new song?

This year at uni has been pretty tough because they pretty much told us "Okay, you have 8 weeks till your gig, write 7 songs" and I haven't had a lot of experience doing this (all my other bands have just done covers). It took me awhile but I think I have finally found a solid way to look at it. As a bass player do you try to support the drums or the guitar, do you look to be felt rather then heard and do you like complex stuff or simple, laid back lines?

Also.. what the shit is with all the pointy basses on this pages?? Not cool.

Thoery is deffinitely important if you want to play in a band, it also makes it much easier to learn new instruments and play peices on them. And while I think it's important, I also think it's incredibly boring = |.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I sing.
Badly.

 

[ThreeWords]

Yo, Drums!

[sup]That's it...[/sup]

 

[Aloran]

I play the drums
Screw all you string playing pussies!

 

[Captain Pancake]

piano and guitar. mostly guitar at the moment...

 

[megatron2.0]

I'm quite good at clarinet, I play a little piano, and I play a very little bit of drums.

Yay for clarinets! Yeah clarinet, guitar, bass, tin whistle.

clarinet ftw.... i play clarinet

 

[Lordmarkus]

My epic skills is blessed on trumpet, electric guitar and tuba.

 

[Lordmarkus]

And before there's a smartass who comments on acoustic and electric guitar not being any different, you are talking out of your arse, good sir and forward slash or madam. I'm not talking about playing an acoustic guitar like an electric guitar, I'm talking about playing stuff so it sounds good on an acoustic. For an electric guitarist who's not had much experience with acoustics, making every note clean and ring out can be much more difficult, and for an acoustic guitarist, playing an electric guitar can be frustratingly easy, and as such they find their fingers slipping from strings, or they lack good dynamic control.

This man is speaking the the truth (Kudos!) I'm good at electric guitar but if someone gives me an acoustic I just try some chords and starts to play solo like I do on my electric. Let's just say that it sounds like a stick up your arse...

 

[walkingdead127]

electric/acoustic Guitar, bass guitar, drums, and piano for a short time. Trumpet is my specialty, I've been playing it for 8 years.

 

[Metric Monkey]

I'm currently playing the Bb clarinet in my school band. I'll probably stop once I get to highschool.

 

[El Poncho]

I sort of play the guitar.

 

[zen5887]

Thoery is deffinitely important if you want to play in a band, it also makes it much easier to learn new instruments and play peices on them. And while I think it's important, I also think it's incredibly boring = |.

Haha I don't find Theory boring at all (most of the time anyway). I love learning about stuff that breaks all the rules, then watching the Classical people freak out.

 

[RobCoxxy]

Guitar, Cherry Red SG <3

 

[Asciotes]

piano, guitar and vocals

 

[McNinja]

Drums right here