[Closed] Musicians

I play guitar and bass, also a little drums. I love to write and record my own songs. It's a fun hobby that's tremendously satisfying too.

Hi Zoe,

I play the drums for my own entertainment and I find it relaxing doing drum covers for my favourite tracks.  I haven’t drummed dressed, maybe I should give it a go on Green Day’s King for a Day.

Jessica x

I don't really  play any instrument exactly  (guitar a little) but I do make my own music on my computer using samples I either find or make with my own voice. I tend to have mixed results.

Nice to see this posted. I play alto sax, but I can't honestly call myself a musician. Severe overbite prevents me from a proper embouchure, and the same problem made playing trumpet impossible. Still, I enjoy what I do, and I play pop and 20's jazz.

<p style="text-align: left;">Same! I mostly play bass but a little bit of everything else in the rock cannon. Mostly space rock, loud psychedelic folk, and post-punk. Ideally all at once. Always imagined playing in a short length, long sleeved dress. One day!</p>

Years ago I saw Paz Lecanchin when she was in Entrance and she was wearing loose- fitting long-sleeve dresses like that with her legs all bare and uncovered. She would stand there on top her her massive stack barefoot with her long black hair in her face and all I could think was “that must be the best feeling.” If I had even a little bit more money then I would have gotten myself a dress like that and probably wear it every day.

My most recent music project was about 3 years ago. I was guitarist in a Black Sabbath tribute band. And a Who tribute band at the same time!

I've done so many musical things since age 6, it'd take hours to write this post!

Other instruments: Piano, keyboards (electronic keyboards are very different to play, and I have also played organs, like church organs, which are awesome beasts), violin, recorder and bass.

I had most affinity with bass - I just play naturally whatever feels good, without such nonsense as theory getting in the way.

I have a degree in music, so my theoretical knowledge is quite good, but I've always taken the attitude that you learn theory to understand how it works, you do composition assignments to prove it, and practical examinations to demonstrate that yes, you know the theory, but you also get how the whole musical thing works.

Playing comes from the heart, but with no study, it's gibberish. Music is a language - a means of communication.

It's fundamentally sound organised in time, so maybe gibberish isn't the right word.

An untrained player will communicate with the equivalence of a young child. The less study that is pit into music, the harder it is for others to interpret, yet it may still sound beautiful, or communicate something.

A highly skilled player is just as capable of communicating gibberish - the overload of techniques can overwhelm the average listener, who may not have progressed past Coldplay.

Doh!

That always happens when I start writing about music - I don't want to stop!

Love Laura

Love this post! I have been involved with music to some extent as longer than I have dressed. My grandmother started teaching me piano around 6 yrs old, and my grandfather started teaching me violin just a few years later, when I was old enough to hold a full size violin. I played classical violin in a youth orchestra during my teens, concurrent with playing flute in the high school band. Though I studied classical violin for a time, I never took piano lessons beyond what my grandmother taught me.

Due to pressures of work, I didn't play much for some years, and an injury to my left wrist made it very painful to play violin much. So I went back to piano.

Then I started taking lessons, and play at a grade 9 to 10 level, though I've never gone through been tested for which RCM level I'm at. I play Romantic classical, which is late 19th and early 20th century, and some Jazz, the odd pop song, plus some of my own compositions.

Have practiced at home as Amy, but never been out and performed en femme. That would be neat, but I'm a nervous performer at the best of times, and that would up that factor by quite a bit, I think.

I still have my grandmother's piano, an upright which dates from 1911, and had restored a few years ago for my daughter, who has it now.  I play on a baby grand these days.

Amy

nice to know there are many musicians in our group. Great news!! I just became a member in a local band. I’m so excited.

Do the grades go up to 10 these days?

When I was 15, 8 was the highest.

I have grade 8 piano, voice and theory and definitely would have continued if there was anywhere to go- hence the degree.

I'll look it up - could do with honing my skills

Love Laura

I play bass and key boards. Was in a band years ago but we split up and I took up DJing.

Yes, at least here in Canada, and I suspect its' everywhere.

Amy

I play 6 string acoustic guitar as well as I feel I need to, but would never be able to do so in public.  I do it to relax and let the daily stress melt off.  I am slowly (read as VERY slowly) learning 12 string.  I can read music from playing coronet in school, and just love how simple guitar tab is.  It is just my natural low talent that keeps me out of the studio, LOL

Now, give me a nice stereo and I can play anything from ABBA to ZZ Top, and make it sound goooood.

PaulaF

I did once attempt to learn the guitar, but sadly I gave up.

Am a DJ though.

Roxy641