What Musical Instruments do You Play?

[brad.dude03]

We might have had a few of these threads before, but to hell if I care.

My instruments:
Drum set: 5 years
Snare Percussion/Band percussion: 3 years

Gonna start learning guitar soon, as well.

Note: Guitar Hero/Rock Band don't count as you aren't playing REAL instruments

 

[HINDYhat]

Hrm.. Piano (3 years), Drums (3-4 years), Guitar (2 years), Acapella Viking Opera Singing (forever).

 

[HappyTauren]

Piano (6 years)

 

[Kwaliti]

Guitar, 6 years.

(Did you finish a music school HT?)

 

[robot-dude]

Guitar For 3 years then stopped because the F'ing teacher stopped coming and he still made me pay >.<''

 

[Steel_Stallion]

I had to pick something for school for 2 years. I picked trumpet. But i dont play anymore. The horrid tunes are still in my head...


YMCA!


oh god....

 

[HappyTauren]

Kwality, just to finish this one xD

 

[Kwaliti]

I did 'em all! It was kinda boring on the solfege and music theory classes.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

The triangle... For 7 years

 

[HappyTauren]

kwality, its quite fun out here because we have awesome teachers who have fun with us (yes they are bored to).

 

[Oziris]

I am gonna start learnig to play a guitar and i am going to be in some band for a long time...

 

[Technomancer]

Trumpet: 7 or 8 years
Drums: 2 or 3 years, maybe more
Singing: 1 or 2 years of lessons, but I sang before I got lessons as well

Out of the three, I'd say I'm probably best at Singing, because supposedly I have a good voice (bass ftw) and because its the only one out of the three I do any proper practice for . Second would be Trumpet, then Drums.

 

[mato]

i play bass in a band

 

[GST_Nemisis]

ive been singing everyday since i was 4, doesnt mean im any good tho.

 

[DaedraEater]

Instruments = None, but I'm hoping I can learn to play the drum or guitar.

Also, I sing. Some people think I'm good, others don't. Meh, I don't care (check me out at kareoke! )

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

I play guitar for nearly 2 years.I don't have a teacher,my father used to be in a rock band and he played bass and he also knows guitar.So he teaches me a bit.Mostly I play alone and learn songs.
I wanna be like Pete Townshend from The Who.

 

[WEIRDZYMBOLZ]

keyboard
drums

 

[Samuraid]

Piano - about 15 years (and still playing)
Drums - no lessons yet, I just make noise currently

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

Drumming is not about lessons,you gotta have it inside yourself.Like Keith Moon did..

 

[ZypherXII]

Piano: 5 years..
Guitar 3-4 years.. Never had an teacher.. learned myself.. Currently using this site: http://www.justinguitar.com..

 

[brad.dude03]

Drumming is not about lessons,you gotta have it inside yourself.Like Keith Moon did..

No. Don't give me any of that crap.

You NEED lessons to establish how to play the drumset. Dave Grohl (Drummer for Nirvana, Drums/Sings for the Foo Fighters on their CD's), was self-taught. But it took him most of his years as a teenager just to do so, and even around the time of Nirvana his drumming wasn't very complex at all.

If you look at the best drummers in the world (Neil Peart, Danny Carey) they not only took drum lessons, but they take jazz courses, theory classes of all sorts, and practice for rediculous amounts of time.

You can't pick up the drumset and be good at it, it takes a lot of time.

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

Actually I know lots of drummer that were learning how to play alone.
Ringo Starr is one of them.He got his first drum kit in the age of 18 and he is one of the best rythm drummers ever.

 

[brad.dude03]

No he's not. Ringo Star was an alright drummer, but he certainly wasn't anything special at all. To call Beatles drumming anything more than simplistic is a lie.

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

True,very true.I just heard that he was playing oh his own.He made an excellent perfomance n Strawberry Fields Forever.

 

[Samuraid]

I fully agree and support Brad.dude on this one.

You may be gifted to play, and you may be able to learn without needing lessons. But, if you take lessons from a good teacher, you will learn much more efficiently. You'll waste less of your time doing things wrong. You get the advantage of years of experience at your fingertips without having to figure it out all for yourself by trial and error (read: reinventing the wheel for no reason).

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

Seems I've been outnumbered.I still think you can play drums alone.

 

[brad.dude03]

You can, but you'll never be as good, and it'll take you way longer than, anyone who has lessons.

 

[madcat2]

Adult pro pianoist when i was 11 x) i quit tho
working on learning guitar.

 

[brad.dude03]

It's pianist >.>