So, what instrument do you play?
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Topic: So, what instrument do you play?
Posted By: Metalbaswee
Subject: So, what instrument do you play?
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 11:26am
And how long have you been playing?  I play guitar, and i have been for almost 3 years. |
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 11:49am
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Guitar for about nine years, bass more actively for four years and drums actively for a year and a half or something. I've also got a keyboard but I don't really play it. I've never really practiced anything, just played what I'm able to, so my development hasn't been too fast. If you like you can check out some of my instrumental tracks from the link under that green thing in my signature, I play all four of my instruments there. ------------- http://iamthreepeople.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow">  <- Click on this!
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 11:50am
I've been playing bass for almost 9 years, though at times it may not show.  I purchased an electronic drum set in December, but left it at my parent's house while I finish my last few months university. Though I only have about 1.5 days experience on that kit, I've been playing my practice pad for about 4 months. |
Posted By: IknowSATAN
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 11:54am
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Electric guitar, for about 1.5 - 2 years with big pause gaps. Still learning though.
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Posted By: Sleepwalker
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 12:05pm
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Guitar for 3 years or so and bass for half a year. I also try to play harmonica a bit and I'm able to make sounds out of children's toys.
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Posted By: Wolves With Hats
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 1:49pm
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Drums for quite some time.
Keys for a couple of years.
Trying to learn guitar.
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Posted By: NJCat_11
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 2:04pm
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Guitar for 6 years. I pretend to know how to play piano sometimes too. ------------- http://www.chess.com/members/view/NJCat?ref_id=1432587 - Come and play me at Chess.com http://www.youtube.com/user/NJCat?feature=mhw4 - Homepage |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 2:22pm
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Keys for a few years. Alto Sax for a few years. ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: NJCat_11
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 2:26pm
I played alto sax while I was in the school band long ago... Never could tongue pick ------------- http://www.chess.com/members/view/NJCat?ref_id=1432587 - Come and play me at Chess.com http://www.youtube.com/user/NJCat?feature=mhw4 - Homepage |
J-Man wrote:Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 5:34pm
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I play the violin since I was 5, so it will be 16 years of practice this year.
Don't laugh, the violin f00kin
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 5:47pm
Violinse is brootal!!! I play the death rattle and various instruments of [aural] torture. I also play the trumpet and one day would like to start an extreme death metal Miles Davis tribute band. -------------  - -brutalogan
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Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 6:01pm
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 7:08am
I�ve played guitar for about 20 years. Took leasons for the first two, but I�m mostly self-taught. I never had much talent for playing but I�ve composed from day one. I used to play in a death/ doom metal act called Last Abide ( http://www.myspace.com/lastabide - http://www.myspace.com/lastabide ), but we disbanded many years ago. Creative differences and that sort of thing. Besides that we simply weren�t good enough on our instruments at the time to get anywhere. It�s quite nostalgic to listen to those samples now and again though. For the last 10 years or so I�ve been working with a friend of mine who plays the synth on a progressive rock project. We might release something someday. You know when there are two mondays in a week . When my kids grow older and I�ll have more time to practice again I might start up a metal project again, but playing most types of metal that I enjoy takes hours of practice every day to learn how to play, so that�s a project for the future when I have more time.------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 7:28am
| Piano and Guitar, mainly, but I try to pick up other things now and then. My first instrument was the accordion and I have had a little experience with Tenor Sax, Marimba and Violin. I'm currently teaching myself the Clarinet. |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 12:58pm
| I'm a vocalist (the human voice is an instrument if one wishes to make it so) Have been singing (specifically to progress vocal ability not 'just because I could') for 11 years. Started at 7 still going strong on my journey at 18. Now embarking on prog and jazz vocals, quite testing actually. |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 6:43pm
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I've had a guitar/bass for more than two years, but only started taking it seriously three or four months ago. I have a drum set too. I'm self-taught. |
Posted By: MrEdifus
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 7:19pm
| Guitar and vocals. |
Posted By: coorpz
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 7:57pm
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I play a few instruments. I am not notably fantastic at any of them, but I play them well enough to my pleasure nonetheless. A rundown: -Harmonica (first instrument) -Guitar/Bass (more so guitar) -Drums -Timpani -Xylophone -Alto and Tenor Sax (prefer tenor) -Clarinet (beginner / average, but hopefully I can buy a decent clarinet soon) -Piano (beginner, I'm still learning) Pseudo-instruments: -Programming music -Vocal (Scream/Growl/Sing...but I generally dont do much of the first 2) -Recorder (if that counts LMAO) Primarily I stick to guitar or the tenor sax. I am trying to learn violin, which I took lessons for in grade school briefly. |
Posted By: kshskang
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 11:38pm
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Been playing guitar for five years, heading on six in a few months. I guess I can play some basic bass too. I used to play the piano but I quit in fourth grade after moving on to a rather boring teacher and environment after moving to the States from Korea. I think I had talent and I wish I could have nurtured my potential for playing the piano  . |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 7:11am
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Piano for 41 years, singing for 39 years, bass guitar for 27 years and lead guitar for 7 years.
...and it really doesn't show.
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 3:54pm
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Guitar for 23 years I think.
Bass for about 12 years serious enough to perform.
Keys enough to play pads and basic stuff.
Vocals starting from absolutely nothing about 18 years ago...I'm a passable 2nd / backup singer now.
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Posted By: Harry
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:53pm
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Electric guitarist first and foremost. Electric Bass as a close second. I noodle around on acoustic guitar, but I'm not particularly proficient at it really. Plan on possibly picking up vocal abilities later too |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 6:40am
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Piano for about 8 years, guitar for about 6 months now, acquired an acoustic guitar about 2 weeks ago. I'm absolutely horrible at guitar, though. -------------  
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Posted By: idiotPrayer
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2010 at 8:26am
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drums - i do not own a kit but i sometimes jam around with my friends who all are very musically gifted guitar (i have a crappy japanese off-brand guitar that my uncle owned in the 70s, but i guess it counts), i have been playing quite passively for about 1 year, and still suck. also i make kinda experimental ambient/drone music using various sound sources and then processing them. haven't yet got a myspace or something, maybe sometime in the future... ------------- "Good taste is the enemy of creativity" -Pablo Picasso |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2010 at 3:11pm
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I've been playing piano for about 12 years, but I'm still not all that good.
I've been playing percussion for about 7 and I love it. Best section ever. ------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: angelo
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2010 at 12:23pm
| I've played a bit of guitar for 20 years now, picked up the bass 4 years ago. In between, I have 10 years worth of piano lessons, and 6 months ago I started singing. None of this in a metal context though. |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2010 at 5:15pm
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I play the guitar - 18 years now - I also know my way around a drum kit (but I'm by no means a drummer) and I can play the bass too. I'm in a blackened death thrash metal band, a melodeath project, a couple of prog metal and prog rock projects.
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Posted By: coorpz
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2010 at 7:55pm
| Ahh, maybe you'll post some links up so we can check those bands out! Spread the word, bother. |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 4:11pm
We're recording some tracks in the blackened death thrash band, Grimmthurs, these days (they also have a couple of tracks out on some compilation discs from before I joined them). The other projects are still at, hmmm, project state, although I've written some material for the melodeath-thing (I just have to find some musicians... and some time; I've found a vocalist though). I did play the guitar in a thrash band called Erector back in the day. We recorded a demo (which I haven't heard in, like, 10 years and I just can't find a copy of it anywhere), and we had one track on the "f**k You, We're From Denmark, vol 4" compilation (yup, the one that sucked, but at least our track was not bad for a bunch of teens). -------------
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Posted By: hirszu
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 2:26pm
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Keyboard for about three-four years. I didn't take any classes, I'm a self-taught player. Currently my band broke up, but it's not sad actually - the guitarist was really mad! Now I'm working on some new songs and I plan to start a new band in a few months. I compose instrumental metal tracks with some progressive influences. Wish me luck! |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 4:34pm
| Guitars for 12 years now and Keyboards for 10... Also, I know to play bass and do it eventually... now I'm focussing in drum proggraming and layering with keyboards... |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 5:22pm
| I've been playing keys for 12 years (I'm now at concert pianist level YAY), guitar for 4-5 years and drums for 3. I'm learning bass and sitar at the moment (god's honest truth, coolest instrument out there). |
Posted By: kogaionon
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2010 at 10:57am
| i'm playing guitar for almost 4-5 years, but also played drums for 2 months (i learnt the basics of it) and sometimes i play bass too |
Posted By: Ulfednar
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2010 at 3:47am
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Synthesisers, keys, guitar, the usual. In that order of experience, starting at highest. |
Posted By: thrashy
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2010 at 9:25am
Guitar and bass for to many years, and it dosent shows
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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2010 at 8:00am
I beg to differ  -------------
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Posted By: thrashy
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2010 at 7:24am
Ha ha ha ha ha im just hiding my mistakes very well champ
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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2010 at 5:01pm
And that requires great skill ;-) -------------
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Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2010 at 3:25am
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i play bass, have for about 5 years, performed playing jazz and metal and other music . trying to learn the feel for synth.. |
Posted By: Andyman1125
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2011 at 10:07pm
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Drums, and I also pretend to play guitar and piano. I'm not so good at the latter two, but am quite proficient at the former ------------- http://bit.ly/kZR7BC" rel="nofollow">  http://andywebb.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - My Bandcamp
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Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 4:34pm
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Of the instruments I play I'm the best on, and focus on playing the most, sax. I also pretend to play keyboards.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 10:02pm
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Since my initial post I've picked up drums... I've been playing since August or so.
------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: Phonebook Eater
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 2:08am
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I play drums, Synth, keys, and very little guitar. But my main instrument is definitely my drum set. ------------- 
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 2:13am
I took drum lessons too when I started playing music and while I�m definitely no rythm shark, those lessons gave me a good basic understanding of the technique behind playing drums. I think all musicians could benefit from a few drum lessons. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 2:53am
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Drummer at heart and always will be. I hope one day (sooner rather then later) to have the money/space for a drum set. Used to just play on my schools.... Since I've been out of HS I like to BS on and off with guitar. Not very good. ------------- Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal! Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
Posted By: paroxix
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2011 at 9:27pm
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Drums 2 Years TAMA :D
Piano/Synth 1 Year
Bass 4 Months
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Posted By: arcane-beautiful
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2011 at 3:35am
| Guitar, piano, drums, mandolin, bozouki, seraphim, banjo and anything else I can get my grubby little hands on |
Posted By: Sachiyo
Date Posted: 01 May 2011 at 3:10pm
| I play piano since 10 years and Cello since this year |
Posted By: DeepBlueMajesty
Date Posted: 03 May 2011 at 9:26pm
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Piano, hoping to learn synth sometime soon . I've played for 6/5 years.
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Posted By: Xaxaar
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 12:51am
Drums...only drums. Strings are confusing.  But hey, not complaining, they still get me paid (to a certain extent).------------- 
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Posted By: boysmithers
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 10:34am
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I play bass and have done so for 17 years. I've played guitar for 15 years, but only for the purpose of writing music! Inspired by John Paul Jones, I took up the mandolin about 7 years ago but I'm past the stage of my life where I have time to spend practicing for hours a day...
Neither of these things is half as much fun as playing the bass though, that's my first love! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/c210344/?chartstyle=basic10" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Phonebook Eater
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2011 at 9:56am
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I think I'll start a bit of guitar, only because it's a good instrument for writing songs like boysmithers said. -------------
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Posted By: SolarLuna96
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2011 at 6:56pm
| I've played guitar for a couple years, I played alto sax a few years ago, but then quit. However I am going to get a tenor sax soon, and I might learn a little piano |
Posted By: Wilytank
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2011 at 8:22pm
Bass player. Not totally passionate about it because there's no one to play with that shares my tastes. Though on a certain Facebook group, we're planning a collaborative metal album that I offered to play bass (and maybe try black metal vox  ) for.------------- 
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Posted By: S33T
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 9:41am
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my parents are really into music, when I was young I had to learn some instruments right know : Guitar electric . Guitar Acoustic < Classic music.. Drum. Bass. Piano. electric Orgel. *church thing* < Quit it a long time ago... Alt Sax. accordion. and Operah singing (: ------------- 192 juicy bodies of children. I'm a sadist. |
Posted By: genghiscon
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 9:44am
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Drums. While I often dream about picking up the guitar, I know my true passion lies with drums. ------------- I got Rock N Roll to save me from the cold, and if thats all there is, that aint so bad. Rock N Roll! - Lemmy |
Posted By: S33T
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 10:29am
maybe you should give it a try (: You have never give to give up your true passion ^^ ------------- 192 juicy bodies of children. I'm a sadist. |
Posted By: bartosso
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 12:09pm
 wow, that's impressive------------- http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: S33T
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 3:30pm
impressive, and sometime frustrated. Cause my parents can really go on my nerves with it You need to practice! BLA BLA BLAAAA! ------------- 192 juicy bodies of children. I'm a sadist. |
Posted By: Woutjinho
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 4:52pm
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I only play guitar. Never had a lesson. I can play some Slayer, Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Anthrax, Annihilator, etc etc. So I'm happy about it. Want to practice some more and start a band if I had the time. I had to refuse to start a band with friends because of my study...
But I play guitar for 7 or 8 years now. -------------  |
Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2011 at 12:01pm
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Drums... I started drumming at Christmas 2002. I started drumming seriously for gigging bands in Summer 2003 for four solid years. I stopped drumming seriously September 2007 after moving country for University. I started seriously drumming again in October 2010 and continue to the present day.  Pearl Export Elx 5 Piece Cobalt Fade + Hardware (12�x9″ Tom, 13�x10″ Tom, 16�x16″ Floor Tom, 22�x18″ Kick) Plus extra: Pearl Cowbell. -------------  My Blog: http://kingcrimsonprog.wordpress.com/ |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2011 at 2:40pm
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Mad angles with the toms there. Looks like a nice kit to bang some metal with  ------------- http://iamthreepeople.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow"> <- Click on this!
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Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 11:41am
Yeah, a lot of my childhood friends and adult acquaintances all preffered vertical toms. I like mine so diagonal they're practically horizontal. ------------- My Blog: http://kingcrimsonprog.wordpress.com/ |
Posted By: tao2stauw
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2012 at 4:05pm
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Self taught guitarist for 10 years, bass for 5, electronic programming for 15, and some banjo for 3. ------------- 
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Posted By: IMPF
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2012 at 5:33pm
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Posted By: Nick Dilley
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2012 at 10:09am
| Been playing guitar for 15 years. Bass for 7. And Erhu for < 1 year, lol. For real. I play Erhu. It is badass! i do a little singing, but haven't been good enough until about a year ago to actually say I sing. |
Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2012 at 10:13am
i actually had to look up what an erhu was. Looks sweet.  -------------  
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Posted By: IMPF2112
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2012 at 10:31am
 seems legit |
Posted By: Nick Dilley
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2012 at 11:24am
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Check this out, a little erhu and metal! I whipped this together in like 15 mins. so it's sloppy. srry. http://snd.sc/MlVBBI |
Posted By: FallingxSkies
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2012 at 2:32am
| I'm at the moment learning Bass guitar. been playing for about a month ^^ |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2012 at 2:58am
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Good thing. There are way too many guitarists out there. Bassists are always on demand. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2012 at 1:59am
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I first played the drums when I was 5 years old... never stopped.
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2012 at 4:01am
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I so wish I hadn�t given up drumming...it�s probably my favorite instrument...and I�m a bit tired of playing the guitar these days...I don�t know what it is, but it just doesn�t give me the satisfaction it used to. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Iwan Ruby
Date Posted: 03 Aug 2021 at 1:48pm
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i'm currently active in two bands! first (Colderra, Power Metal) vocals! second.. (Hutan Hujan, Pop Folk) vocals and guitars! but is vocals an instrument? what do you think?
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Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 03 Aug 2021 at 4:51pm
Very much so.  I also sing (badly) in a choir. I have an acoustic guitar gathering dust in the corner at home on which I can almost play Yankee Doodle, and I learned some of Yellow Submarine on recorder when I was a kid, but that's it for me.
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Posted By: BitterJalapeno
Date Posted: 03 Aug 2021 at 10:27pm
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From secondary school to early university, I played guitar and sang back up vocals in a pop punk band, something I miss more and more as I progress through my thirties. If anyone wants a laugh, check out the song "Joker" on the following link: https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandID=414600&content=overview Horrendously bad vocals but considering the fact we were all 15 when it was recorded, I look back on the music with nostalgic pride. Also used to play piano and trombone which again, I miss greatly. Haven't played anything properly for over a decade... ------------- Star baby, did you deep fry a piece of the Great Barrier Reef? |
Posted By: Iwan Ruby
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2021 at 12:55pm
when i first learned a musical instrument, i learned to play the drums.. and until now i never managed to play it! i learned to play the guitar because i overheard a conversation my ex-girlfriend at the time told his friend that a guy who can play guitar is cooler!
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Posted By: Iwan Ruby
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2021 at 1:01pm
right, nostalgia for the past is something really fun to talk about! joker song is cool, but if i had to choose i would prefer 'Dream On' |