Instruments/Music Thread

[Mr1337Duck]

what music do you listen do, what instruments do you play?

I like heavy metal. In school I play sax because it lets me skip one class. At home I play guitar, getting an electric this christmas. Until then I've been using an old acoustic guitar.

[shinken]

i pay sax too, pretty much same reason, plus i need to have a fine arts credit and this is the easist way to get it

[Onizuka]

okay here we go:

i play the sax, clarinet, piano, guitar (okay i basically only know some chords) and yes recorder. (i aslo play other things just not well)

i really know how to play the recorder very very well. i have a tenor alto soprano and sopranino recorders.

i have a soprano and alto sax and a b flat clarinet (soprano)

i also write music... not rock and roll but inventions four part pieces, choral and orchestra stuff.

music is definetaly my biggest talent. i love it.

i taught myself piano totally..... i remember when i was little i went through the primer book in a day and the 1st book in like 3.

i also have perfect, or absolute pitch. if you dont know what that is, it is the rare ability to hear a note and tell exactly what that note is like on the piano, WITHOUT hear it in relation to another note. about 1 in 10000 people are said to have it.... guess im lucky.

but perfect pitch doesnt really help me much, i mean id like to be a good drawer and be able to paint like 1 out of 10000 people are able too. oh well, just how the cards were drawn

[xuur]

I have 5 guitars, 2 keyboards and a banjo.

I cant play a lick.

dont care...its fun

[1024]

I play and have been playing the drumset for about a year or two now. I'm pretty good for my age (15).

Almost everythign i listen to is indy rock.

[BUGGER]

Piano, trumpet, drums, harmonica, the lil ocerania flute thing (ya kno from Legend of Zelda, the lil flut thing Link plays with), som sax, an some guitar (tho 1 string is broken). an now i want to get a turntable or sumtin....:D


the main music i play would be jazz (even tho i listen to hard rock and som rap) since my piano teacher was a jazz player.

piano was my first, got teached till last year when i started to do trumpet for skool band. i was ok, but the songs we did ofcoarse sucked, so i screwed band an learned off som music books, still trying to learn the star spangl banner.... i also learned the drums from a friend cuase he got 1 big ass set. i learned som sax from another friend. an guitar i'm trying to teach myself with my mom's old guitar with a broken string.....tho i dont kno how to read the notes, so i'm just making stuff up. harmonica i play few songs from a lil book, an i just make stuff up there and then. an the lil flute thing i just try to copy the songs from the game....tho i kno how to play rudolf the red nose raindeer!:D

[1024]

heh.....idea!

PSU, the band


:lol:

[The President]

Ok here it goes...I listen to Punk rock, Indie, Emo, Hardcore, and a whole lot else

and I play Guitar ( Black on black Cort Performer Series and a Epiphone Les Paul Sunburst) and I sing.

-The President:sniper:

[BUGGER]

speaking of singing, i also want to take vocal lessons....:rolleyes:

[JonnyK]

I listen to all types of rock, i tried to learn guitar for one year, but then i gave up. it got me all confused.

[JLeeAZN]

I'll listen to anything if it appeals to my ears --
I play the electric guitar:
Ibanez GAX70
Thingking about buying a Stratocaster or a Telocaster(old style) - or I might get a Fender or sumthin tizzight like that

[The President]

A fender Strat?

-The President:sniper:

[Sandman]

Death metal, gothic rock, some punk

[shinken]

i listen to whatever, but my favorite band right now is the arrogant worms, thats the only thing i like from canada

[Jaged]

I play the Clarinet and listen to rap and some hip hop.

[1024]

Originally posted by Jaged
rap and some hip hop.

bah.

[BUGGER]

^my thoughts exactly^

[shinken]

ah, no one said anything about my wierd taste in music, any one here listen to They Might be Giants (particle man rocks)

2 posts till commander yay

[Mr1337Duck]

The guitar book I'm learning out of has the music in two forms. Tableture and treble clef. Tab is designed for guitar music, instead of notes it's actually written in fingerings, for example:
1
-
-
-
-
-
Would mean you play your highest string (highest pitch, not physically highest) and hold down the first fret.

But really, guitar is a way more interesting instrument than Alto Sax. I mean, you can't exactly join a heavy metal band with a sax, you know?

[Onizuka]

wow geniuses must write some of those heavy metal songs... yeah lets see we need a guy that cant sing shouting, three simple major and natural minor chords to switch to, and a guy that can keep a beat on the drums.... wooopie

[Onizuka]

Originally posted by Mr1337Duck
But really, guitar is a way more interesting instrument than Alto Sax. I mean, you can't exactly join a heavy metal band with a sax, you know?

a.heavy metal sucks
b. sax is more interesting than you think it is. it can go EXTREMELY high and has a very vocal and flexible voice.
c. guitar (other than classical) is the instrument all the people who jsut want to play rock with pick up...

[Kaltagesta]

i play drums in a punk rock band. when i say punk rock, i mean all the new punk-pop stuff, like NFG and that kinda stuff. and we have a girl basist, what a novelty! we might turn into a ska-punk band if we can get some horns, like a LTJ cover band.

[Mr1337Duck]

Good sax music is good, I'll give you that. My experience with sax hasn't been very good, though. I've really only played Shitty School Band crap, nothing good. But I've had more enjoyment with guitar in the time I've had it than I've had with sax. Maybe I should drop by the music store and grab some music.

[Onizuka]

thats the problem, for a few years of playing the sax you dont realize what it really is... its just another stupid instrument that a lot of people use in jazz... the sax has always been looked down on, partly because its so new.

sax quartets and ensembles are really a blessing to listen to, as are other classical things.

its a shame that on the classical music stations, they play complete shit. i mean its a light boring crap. some of the early classical/renissance (sp?) pieces are superb, with different parts doing completely differnent things.

My favorite types of music are jazz and classical, but only certain classical pieces.....

[Marsman]

Well I'm been an off and on professional musician since 1978. I started out playing piano when I was young (self taught) - played drums in school - even did a little sax senior year for fun. Joined a classic rock band in 78 as a drummer, switched out and played some bass for a while (had drummers to spare. no bass players) bought a keyboard a while later and played bass with left hand and keys with right. Finally bought an Ensoniq EPS keyboard and have played keys ever since (although I occationally drum for a song or two every once in a while). I got done with my last band last year after about a 7 year run. Have done the club scene for years - been all over my state. Been in the studio a couple of times as well. Played mostly classic rock, but have played everything from country to jazz to blues to well a little of everything. Listen to general rock - not real fond of rap, hip hop, or opera - can handle about anything else. Interesting to see so many musicians in the community. Too bad we all couldn't lay down a track and assemble it somehow. The PSU band would rock!! :D :cool:

[NeoTassadar]

I try to play drums. The easy school band shit is nothing, I have arguments with my brother (who thinks his trumpet is harder to play), they ended when my friend up with the sheets for bands like...Megadeath, System of a Down, Rammstein, etc. Hard as hell.

[Hamma]

I suck at being talented, dont play any instruments.

[1024]

Originally posted by Call-The-Gestap
i play drums in a punk rock band. when i say punk rock, i mean all the new punk-pop stuff, like NFG

punk sucks. especially the new shit.

ban.

[eXoSloth]

Originally posted by Hamma
I suck at being talented
:rofl:

I play Clarinet and Mallet Percussion (Xylophones and stuff like that). I play clarinet in my regular school band and I play mallet percussion in my school's indoor drumline. Indoor drum line is by far my favorite of the two.

Indoor Drum line is a fairly new spin-off of Drum & Bugle Corps. It prety much the same except no wind interment(we get electric guitars instead) are allowed and we play in a gym instead of on a football field. Usually Indoor Drumlin shows will have a much more exaggerated "theme" than Drum & Bugle Corps. For instance, last year one of the upper level lines did a show that followed a fictional persons life from Middle School until he dies. Another line did a show about AI.

Indoor drumlins consist of two parts; the Pit and the Battery. The pit is all the stationary stuff and the Battery is all the marching drums. The battery does all sorts of cool formations. Last year one group built a fifteen-foot tall pyramid out of wooden X's and played on top of it.