Musical Instruments

[Sundancer]

What do you play or want to play?

As a kid I wanted to learn the piano. I took a few barebone lessons. Now I have something similar to arthritis. My hands cramp up when when I play Rock Band.

 

[Quasimod0]

I play the drums. My dad taught me how to play when I was real young, and now I play in my church band.

 

[Sundancer]

Just saw Whiplash again. Good movie.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

I received a small electronic piano for Christmas. I'll have to use YouTube instructional videos to learn. There are a few tracks from Castlevania games I want to play... but I guess everyone has to start with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

 

[tzarinna]

I took clarinet, piano and guitar lessons/classes in school. I took guitar pretty seriously and took lessons beyond school and owned a couple of guitars. But I didn't excel in any of the instruments. In my 30's I took violin lessons, and loved it. Now in my 40's I'd love to take drum lessons, which I've wanted to do since I was a child.

 

[Dark Raven]

I play: Piano, guitar, saxophone, clarinet, recorder.

I would like to play: flute, harmonica, bass guitar, drums. I'll get round to some of them at some point, but it's just a matter of when, and whether I have the money. Hopefully within the next year I'd like to play the first 3 in that list. I don't really have space for drums so don't know how that would be practical.

 

[DarkKnight]

I play guitar. Used to play a lot but slowed down over the years. Still pick it up once in a while to play.

 

[Immortalfire]

I can play a mean kazoo.

 

[Sundancer]

Superwoman Prime you can probably learn some tunes by one note at a time and experimenting. Vampire Killer might be a goid one to star. I had a teacher who taught me a simple way to play the Batman TV theme, and i learned the Simpsons on my own....a small part of it.

Dark Raven is it for your own enjoyment or did you play in school, events

Immortalfire. not sure if serious when it comes to kazoos....

 

[Dark Raven]

Superwoman Prime you can probably learn some tunes by one note at a time and experimenting. Vampire Killer might be a goid one to star. I had a teacher who taught me a simple way to play the Batman TV theme, and i learned the Simpsons on my own....a small part of it.

Dark Raven is it for your own enjoyment or did you play in school, events

Immortalfire. not sure if serious when it comes to kazoos....

It's actually a bit of both. I learned most of the instruments at school, but continue to play and develop my skills and perform at events, and learn new instruments. It's not that hard to learn a new one once you know a few, as it becomes mostly about technique or just learning the fingering, unless the instrument is radically different from those I already know.

 

[Spider-Who?]

Been playing guitar for over 15 years. Don't play as much as I used to, but I was pretty good. Here's a video of my old band playing a Peter Frampton tune at a wedding several years ago.

[YT]2ErLyHORL9o[/YT]

 

[terry78]

Haven't played since college, but I know my way around a violin.

 

[Enriquespy]

Anyone can recomend an instrument for a fellow with low dex points? Hand coordination has been my musical bane.

 

[Dark Raven]

Anyone can recomend an instrument for a fellow with low dex points? Hand coordination has been my musical bane.

I'd say the harmonica is the only one I can think of, because people who are experts at it don't even use their hands to play, but have it attached on a frame simply to blow while playing guitar at the same time.

But all musical instruments require some coordination, and with a chromatic harmonica, you'd need to know when exactly to press the button with your hand to make it go up a semi tone, unless you just get a diatonic harmonica in a single key.

 

[Sensi]

I play the piano.

 

[BoredGuy]

I would like to play: flute, harmonica, bass guitar, drums.

if you play guitar, you play bass, lol
And I say that as a bass player

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I play Bass, Guitar, Harmonica and am passable at Drums and while I don't play Piano, per se, I have written some music on the keys

and enriquespy, yes, standard harmonica might work (harmonica is super easy, imo), maybe trombone since it's a slide and it's just about positioning it right...? Idk, most instruments do require some form of hand-eye coordination and dexterity

Timpani, play the timpani.

 

[Sundancer]

Been playing guitar for over 15 years. Don't play as much as I used to, but I was pretty good. Here's a video of my old band playing a Peter Frampton tune at a wedding several years ago.

[YT]2ErLyHORL9o[/YT]

Is that you doing the guitar solo?

 

[Dark Raven]

if you play guitar, you play bass, lol
And I say that as a bass player

.......

I play Bass, Guitar, Harmonica and am passable at Drums and while I don't play Piano, per se, I have written some music on the keys

and enriquespy, yes, standard harmonica might work (harmonica is super easy, imo), maybe trombone since it's a slide and it's just about positioning it right...? Idk, most instruments do require some form of hand-eye coordination and dexterity

Timpani, play the timpani.

Well I don't have a bass guitar, so I don't actually play it. Maybe if I had one I could say I did. But it's like I don't have a tenor saxophone. I could technically play it and pick it up immediately since I play alto and soprano sax, but until I actually possess one then I don't play it.

 

[Spider-Who?]

Is that you doing the guitar solo?

Yeah, I was the only guitarist for that band; it was just a simple three-piece group.