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chocolateandvodka
chocolateandvodka Posts: 1,850 Member
edited October 12 in Social Groups
do you play any? for how long? skill level? recreational or professional? genre(s)? influences?
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  • SimplyShanRunning
    SimplyShanRunning Posts: 885 Member
    Only sing....more bluesy folksy....meh.....some acoustic guitar
  • Stacera
    Stacera Posts: 347 Member
    Piano-19 yrs I'm all right, probably a little rusty right now..
    Flute- 7 yrs, weirdly enough even though I've gone many years without playing when I picked up one at the beginning of the summer I wasn't bad.
    Guitar-13 yrs... I'm a rockstar ;) okay again, I'm not bad.. I've been playing more accoustic lately
    harmonica- 8yrs b/c you never know when you'll need to join a band on the street who needs a harmonica player
    about to learn violin b/c my g-pa left me his in his will.

    and um... skin flute.. professional.
  • skittybang
    skittybang Posts: 1,525 Member
    Guitar for 15 years - love it - but solely for myself - I love to play the songs I love.
    I know the logistics for piano but i'm absolutely amateur
    I sing - more churchy soprano **** - I used to do weddings and christmas shows, blah blah
  • Stacera
    Stacera Posts: 347 Member
    Guitar for 15 years - love it - but solely for myself - I love to play the songs I love.
    I know the logistics for piano but i'm absolutely amateur
    I sing - more churchy soprano **** - I used to do weddings and christmas shows, blah blah

    I'm alto... sometimes raspy.. wanna start a girl group??
  • skittybang
    skittybang Posts: 1,525 Member
    Guitar for 15 years - love it - but solely for myself - I love to play the songs I love.
    I know the logistics for piano but i'm absolutely amateur
    I sing - more churchy soprano *kitten* - I used to do weddings and christmas shows, blah blah

    I'm alto... sometimes raspy.. wanna start a girl group??

    You *kitten* know i do!!!! damn woman.
  • Cakepiebeer
    Cakepiebeer Posts: 392
    Guitar 23 years
    Played professionally since age 15. Passed on playing lead guitar for the Deftones in 92 back when they were just another local band. Kinda regret that, but oh well

    Went on to study composition. Played in several jazz, latin, rock, metal, funk bands.

    Self taught the Clarinet.

    Sang as a Baritone for a choir and as a Bass in a Mens Ensemble.

    Currently looking to form a heavy rock band
  • chocolateandvodka
    chocolateandvodka Posts: 1,850 Member
    Guitar for 15 years - love it - but solely for myself - I love to play the songs I love.
    I know the logistics for piano but i'm absolutely amateur
    I sing - more churchy soprano *kitten* - I used to do weddings and christmas shows, blah blah

    I'm alto... sometimes raspy.. wanna start a girl group??

    You *kitten* know i do!!!! damn woman.

    dude for reals????

    i've been singing since i was 4!!!! my friends and family have been begging me to stop... but i think i need to be part of this group for reals!!!
  • LaPistolaSexola
    LaPistolaSexola Posts: 243 Member
    do you play any? for how long? skill level? recreational or professional? genre(s)? influences?
    skin flute.
    as long as it takes
    probably wouldn't charge for an audience
    recreational for sure.
    i don't discriminate although right now i prefer Hawaiian.
    influences - my loins.
  • LaPistolaSexola
    LaPistolaSexola Posts: 243 Member
    i've always wanted to play the piano. ever since i was a little girl.
    my grandfather used to tell me he'd buy me a piano when he won the lottery.
    me, not understanding how unrealistic that was, would ask him every week if he'd won yet.

    so...while my friends took piano lessons, i'd watch sometimes.


    one day a salesman came around our neighborhood and offered a 6 week accordion class.
    it was sorta close to a piano in my eyes, so i begged my parents to let me do it.

    after the 6 weeks were up we had a recital. i invited my 2nd grade teacher.
    we were offered to enroll in further instruction and i talked my parents into purchasing that big huge honkin' pearly white accordion. then i quit the class.

    that is as far as my instrument history goes.
  • juleseybaby
    juleseybaby Posts: 712 Member
    I sing... alto - sometimes tenor.

    Vocal performance major in college... I took piano and guitar lessons all through college but I did not stick with it. :grumble: I can still play a *few* things on the piano... ZIP on the guitar. I am a leftie and I just never got it all figured out.
  • rudegyal_b
    rudegyal_b Posts: 593 Member
    turntables!! and produce jungle/dubstep/anything bass heavy
  • ifeelsqueaky
    ifeelsqueaky Posts: 193
    I've played guitar for over ten years now and have gradually become almost competent! I play in a band called Wrapped in Plastic - you can check us out at http://www.facebook.com/wiplastic
  • Jon_Rod
    Jon_Rod Posts: 158
    I sing and play the piano, I do not read music, I play from my heart, I hear it and then i can play it, It took years to learn how to do that and im still learning everyday : )
  • JustEllieK
    JustEllieK Posts: 423 Member
    Piano-10 years:)
  • drblythe
    drblythe Posts: 163 Member
    Drums (kit) for 16 years, and vocals too

    Also teach children drums, vocals and how to play in bands
  • auticus
    auticus Posts: 1,051 Member
    I'm a drummer. Played for 18 years now. I play piano and guitar as well as do some vocals. I play in heavy metal bands mostly and have a studio at home to record with.
  • sandislim
    sandislim Posts: 264
    I've played guitar for 19 years, Saxophone for 23 years, Piano for 8 years although I've dabbled in piano for 20+ years. I'm now studying for advanced performance in piano and teach, music theory piano and saxophone. I love teaching and playing - I don't really have any desires to go pro though.

    I would like to go to uni and finish my music degree.

    I like most music, jazz, classical, rock/metal, contemporary and experimental. I like writing music too.

    I also dabble in flute and double recorder playing LOL
  • HeelsAndBoxingGloves
    HeelsAndBoxingGloves Posts: 916 Member
    Piano for 20 years and I was in choirs all the way from elementary school til college. I don't play so much any more (major lack of time tho I miss it a lot) and was a music major (piano/msuic ed) for the first 2 years of college. I also played Violin for awhile in Middle school and tried out the Harp for a sememster in college
  • skinnybearlyndsay
    skinnybearlyndsay Posts: 798 Member
    I took a year of piano when I was 9 (I was pretty bad), then I took up the flute when I was 10. I played that (and the piccolo) pretty much throughout high school and part of college. I haven't played since I graduated college (I miss it). I'd love to find a working adult group in the DC area that doesn't mind someone who is really rusty. :)
  • legacysh
    legacysh Posts: 464
    Piano, since I was 10, I both read music and write music, but I also play by ear. Keyboards/Synth 5 years, but After playing the piano for so long, I find it feel like cheating to only play portions of songs.

    I also sing (front a couple of cover bands and back-up vocals in the recording studio)

    I do have a guitar and bass, and I am better at bass than guitar, but not proficient at either.
  • lorals05
    lorals05 Posts: 47
    I taught myself how to play piano 15 years ago from an encyclopedia. I'm not very good but also not bad for self taught;-) I taught myself how to play alto saxophone when I was 12 because I wanted to join the school band and I ended up sitting first chair by the time I was a sophomore. I taught myself how to play clarinet when my brother started playing it for band. I don't play much anymore but I only did it for funsies in the first place. I've always wanted to learn guitar but thats something I haven't attempted... yet....
  • purplebabe2025
    purplebabe2025 Posts: 383 Member
    Drums, used to sing.
  • yesiamaduck
    yesiamaduck Posts: 531 Member
    Vocals & Bass primarily (only just started just over 1 year doing both really, though I always 'sang' with my favs

    Extremely novice at drums and guitar, hey I'm learning!
  • ohpiper
    ohpiper Posts: 697 Member
    Hello all,

    I'm a bagpiper and I absolutely love piping and Celtic music. I enjoy the various gigs that come up. Last summer I competed at the World Pipe Band Championships in Scotland where our band made the prize list. I've performed on stage with the Chieftains and also did once opening for Rod Stewart. It's a fun ride and I'm looking forward to seeing where else it takes me!
  • missyyclaire
    missyyclaire Posts: 572 Member
    Piano and Keyboards professionally for musical theater, US, Canada and China. I'll be going on my 9th tour in January
  • david581c
    david581c Posts: 337
    about a year ago I taught myself acoustic guitar, it started w/ literally a neck and beat up body.

    I've built this guitar to be a slightly less cheap guitar, it's a hodgepodge of stuff I've found.

    the tuning nuts are spare parts I found, the neck is glued with some epoxy I found, and the saddle is some metal tube I found, along with some improvised support. so far so good, I can't name a more than 6 chords but I can make her sing.
  • yesiamaduck
    yesiamaduck Posts: 531 Member
    Realised I already posted in this thread:) (deleted post)
  • paul_draper
    paul_draper Posts: 91 Member
    Melodeon (diatonic accordeon) and whistles. Mostly in pubs so not very helpful for the diet but I manage.
  • david581c
    david581c Posts: 337
    wouldn't that be funny if we all recorded something and made a song based on what we knew?

    like a rhythm track on guitar followed by a stairway to heaven like pipe play?

    and so on.
  • dubist
    dubist Posts: 279 Member
    I spend most of my spare time playing music.
    I play bass in a live band called the "Thunder Puppets"
    I play piano drums guitar and flute mostly in my home studio.
    I like to write Neoclassical music on my computer as a hobby with dreams of an orchestra playing them someday.

    Biggest influences:
    Stanley Clarke, Squarepusher, Maurice Ravel, Kurt Cobain.


    here are some sounds

    Live
    http://snd.sc/qqVmFs

    Electronic
    http://snd.sc/v4xRvO
    http://snd.sc/vbfpFG

    Neoclassical
    http://snd.sc/sE7SRm
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