Poll: Musical instruments

[Cuddly Knife]

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

 

[Trucken]

No, I don't play an instrument. I tried to play guitar a few years ago, but... it was just so damn difficult to hit the right strings. It required too much finesse, and I just don't have it.

 

[Zeriah]

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.

 

[trouble_gum]

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.

 

[Memoriae]

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.

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

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...

I play guitar (ten years), piano (six years), and mandolin (one year). I enjoy guitar the most. I'm actually better at mandolin than piano. I don't know why, but I just cannot seem to get good at the piano.

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.

 

[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.

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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