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Any Musicians On Board?

KnifecollectorKnifecollector Member Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
Anyone play any musical insruments? I've been learing to play the banjo for the last couple years.It's very hard for me to learn how. I believe some people just have a natural talent for music. I play three finger ,Scruggs style. I really like the sound of a well tuned and played banjo. Not many people into bluegrass anymore, most like hard rock and rap. I go to the old-time fiddlers conventions on ocassion and check out the local talent. I guess I am a few years behind the times. I play mostly gospel songs.
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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Been playin' drums for about 30 years. Started in grade school, played in the pepband and concert band in high school. My folks made the down payment on a Ludwig Octa-Plus (stainless steel) for my high school graduation. I've had them ever since. I played in a "new-wave" band in Colorado in the early 80's. Just receintly done some studio stuff. Now I play (part of them) in Church every Sunday.

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  • BlokeyBlokey Member Posts: 284 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a bassist myself, although not very good. I play mostly 80's metal/hard rock with a Fender Precision Bass Special and BXR25 amp. Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) and David Ellefson (Megadeth) are my favorite bassists.
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  • groundhog devastationgroundhog devastation Member Posts: 4,495
    edited November -1
    Never had a lesson on any stringed instrument. Learned to play a guitar at about 10 yrs old hanging out in front of a country store on Friday nights with a bunch of 60-80year old men playing bluegrass. About the time I was 14 and they played Foggy Mountain Breakdown and I stepped up and made a run on the guitar (up to that point a guitar was only to back the fiddles and banjos) them old men looked at me like "What the hell is this?" Been playing bluegrass all my life and turned down my chance to go to Nashville in 1982.(bad move) Dan Tymynski of "O Brother Where Art Thou" fame lives in this county and they along with Allison Crouse record 1.5 miles from my house. Keep picking and you'll get it. I can play any of the bluegrass instruments with some degree of decency except the fiddle. I can take a guitar pick and play any tune you want to hear on the fiddle. Just don't ask me to use the bow!! GHD
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    My daughter is one of those "naturals".. She started with piano ,.then keyboard, organ, clarinet, sax, flute, drums... She picks it up and plays it.. drives me batty since I cant read a note of music.. *LOL.. She has 2 degrees in music and teaches it...
    She was in the high school band, the jazz band, then moved on to the symphony (sp).. and to top it off, she sings too...

    Still drives me batty that I cant read a note... grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    One woman's opinion
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I play the clarinet professionally. Sometimes the sax and piano also.

    "The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
    -James Madison
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Took guitar and piano lessons as a youngster....now I just sing in the shower...
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Been playing guitar for well over 30 years. Play about 95% acoustic. Mostly fingerpicking. Also play some banjo, mandolin, keyboard and I've been playing trumpet since I was 10 years old (1958). I also do a pretty fine job playing the radio.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i play a pretty mean fm radio- mostly country western.
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • tin22tin22 Member Posts: 731 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, I always wanted to play the guitar. I knew someone who could play the keyboard beautifully. He played by ear that's how he learned. He is very talented, I miss hearing his music. He was pretty talented.
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I played guitar as a teenager until I broke my left hand in a fist fight. Now about 25yrs later I finally don't have the pain in that hand any more. Now I'm trying to learn the mandolin. The learning would go a lot faster if I had the same spare time as an adult as I had as a kid.

    Woods

    How big a boy are ya?
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My advice to all you folks who want to learn, or are in the process of learning an instrument.
    BUY A METRONOME, AND USE IT RELIGIOUSLY. DOes not matter what instrument, or what kind of music you are playing. A metronome will help you learn music MUCH FASTER than without one.
    If your practice time is limited, you will get the most accomplished if you are using a metronome during that time.
    The beat is the most important element of music, and if the beat is not being focused on, ALL OTHER ELEMENTS SUFFER.

    "The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
    -James Madison
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  • Ms. BeastMs. Beast Member Posts: 496 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to play the flute in school. I sold it because I couldn't play anymore. The rest of the family plays everything!! We have trumpet, guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, piano, accordian and they can sing......we have our own family band. I am the cheerleader, stand in the background and yell!
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  • thelaresterthelarester Member Posts: 22 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've been a guitarist for over 20 years now since I picked it up in Jr. High school back in the early 80's (great era to get started !!).

    If you're interested, I have a website you can check out:

    http://www.larryguggenheim.com

    Enjoy !

    Support the US, our economy as well as the 2nd amendment, buy a gun !
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  • thelaresterthelarester Member Posts: 22 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've been a guitarist for over 20 years now since I picked it up in Jr. High school back in the early 80's (great era to get started !!).

    If you're interested, I have a website you can check out:

    http://www.larryguggenheim.com

    Enjoy !

    Support the US, our economy as well as the 2nd amendment, buy a gun !
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  • thelaresterthelarester Member Posts: 22 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry for the double post !

    Support the US, our economy as well as the 2nd amendment, buy a gun !
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I started asking to learn the piano when I was 5 years old, prompting the folks to put me into classical piano lessons which lasted 10 years. In high school, I promptly became a rock n roll keyboardist and I've been playing in bands much of my life on weekends.

    You have to learn to dodge the ones that are egotists, druggies, drunks, or lazy, which is quite a significant percentage. If you can manage that, and find good players with good voices who want to play the same kind of music you do, it can actually be fun. Oh yes, and then you have to find an audience willing to pay you good money to hear the kind of music you like to play. That's a pretty tough puzzle to put together.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

    Edited by - offeror on 06/24/2002 23:43:54
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  • thesoundguy1thesoundguy1 Member Posts: 680 ✭
    edited November -1
    Guitar.I played semi-professionally,then professionally for a time,
    thenI learned at the level I was at,the soundguys were making all the money.Now I'm a professional audio engineer/consultant/installer,and couldn't be happier.Band politics suck!
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Years ago my older brother was getting piano lessons. His teacher heard me playing with the piano and said I was a natural. Never did get lessons, like BlackRoses I can not read music, even though I took clarinet in school. But if I sit at a keyboard, or get a guitar in my hands, and have heard the music, we can wail pretty good. I guess they call it playing by ear. (space here for "ear getting tired" joke). I could listen to my son play the keyboard for hours, classical, rock, country, etc., and he makes up his own. He can not read music either.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • rscoleman88rscoleman88 Member Posts: 4,250
    edited November -1
    Tryin to learn banjo. Play a decent harmonica.

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