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Post by ET had AIDS on Nov 12, 2018 13:07:35 GMT -5
Was curious. WF member screech and I have made about 80 recordings, 2 that went top 20 on the intellectually- disabled person charts. I just took my guitar to the shop to be fixed today--finally--and also recently had my synth patched up. I was curious if anybody else was into making music, for fun or otherwise, or if you played an instrument or instruments? Figure it has been asked before but I don't remember too many musicians on here besides maybe Suckasays I guess.
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Post by screech on Nov 12, 2018 13:25:00 GMT -5
paging bad bill 428
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 13:54:32 GMT -5
I've been a drummer for 20 years
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Post by Stuart? on Nov 12, 2018 13:56:15 GMT -5
I've been playing guitar for 5 years! I own a Fender Modern Player Telecaster and an Epiphone SG, both are great guitars. I'm 100% self taught other than the one lesson I got when I was 11 after which I gave up for about 4 years. I got really into playing when I started watching Patty Walters' (the dude in my avatar/sig) cover videos on YouTube. He really inspired me to start playing seriously and I can't wait to tell him that in person when I meet him and his band As It Is later this month.
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Post by K5 on Nov 12, 2018 14:41:27 GMT -5
clyp.it/wnvwuxc0 I’ve been doing the music thing for quite some time. that’s a demo from my recent band’s we released a few months ago.
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Post by ET had AIDS on Nov 12, 2018 15:17:04 GMT -5
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Post by ET had AIDS on Nov 12, 2018 15:35:48 GMT -5
I've been playing guitar for 5 years! I own a Fender Modern Player Telecaster and an Epiphone SG, both are great guitars. I'm 100% self taught other than the one lesson I got when I was 11 after which I gave up for about 4 years. I got really into playing when I started watching Patty Walters' (the dude in my avatar/sig) cover videos on YouTube. He really inspired me to start playing seriously and I can't wait to tell him that in person when I meet him and his band As It Is later this month. Nice, I like Fenders and Teles. I use to have a Jagstang but it was destroyed. This is my current guitar, in the shop for a quick fix, then it'll be up and running again!
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Post by LuisTX on Nov 12, 2018 15:42:02 GMT -5
When I was in middle school, I started 1 year late with the band and they already had too many sax players, which is what I wanted to play. So I was told if I played clarinet, I could easily transition to a sax when/if possible. So I did, but I got so good with the clarinet, I played that the entire rest of my time in middle school and high school. But when I got to high school, I joined the jazz band where I got to play a tenor sax finally. During concert seasons, I would switch to a bass clarinet, and then my senior year, I got to play drums during marching season cause they'd always sit the clarinets next to the drumlin in the stands at football games and I learned how to play but watching and seeing the drums. Outside of school, I don't play any instruments now.
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Post by K5 on Nov 12, 2018 16:35:12 GMT -5
I've been playing guitar for 5 years! I own a Fender Modern Player Telecaster and an Epiphone SG, both are great guitars. I'm 100% self taught other than the one lesson I got when I was 11 after which I gave up for about 4 years. I got really into playing when I started watching Patty Walters' (the dude in my avatar/sig) cover videos on YouTube. He really inspired me to start playing seriously and I can't wait to tell him that in person when I meet him and his band As It Is later this month. Nice, I like Fenders and Teles. I use to have a Jagstang but it was destroyed. This is my current guitar, in the shop for a quick fix, then it'll be up and running again! fender is my preferred guitar as well, although I’ve never played a rickenbacker. I just sold an MIM Fender Cabronita and am going to upgrade to an American standard tele soon.
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Post by adzy on Nov 13, 2018 8:30:52 GMT -5
Got a Roland electronic drum kit nearly 2 years ago. Only get a couple of hours on it a week but fairly pleased with my ability. Can't play anything too crazy but I'm at a level where i can genuinely enjoy it and it's always satisfying when you improve. Put some vids on Instagram and YouTube that get a few likes here and there so I guess I'm not too bad.
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Post by bad guy™ on Nov 13, 2018 18:00:27 GMT -5
Clarinet, saxophone, flute, trumpet, guitar, piano (well, keyboard), and I can keep a beat on drums but I wouldn't consider myself a good drum player, beginner at best.
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Post by Nivro™ on Nov 13, 2018 18:01:52 GMT -5
Clarinet, saxophone, flute, trumpet, guitar, piano (well, keyboard), and I can keep a beat on drums but I wouldn't consider myself a good drum player, beginner at best.
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Post by ~*Young $ Money*~ on Nov 13, 2018 18:06:58 GMT -5
Clarinet, saxophone, flute, trumpet, guitar, piano (well, keyboard), and I can keep a beat on drums but I wouldn't consider myself a good drum player, beginner at best. How did I know it would be you with that joke
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Post by Seoul Survivor on Nov 13, 2018 18:08:03 GMT -5
I started playing guitar about a year ago. It’s been my therapy in a way, getting me though some pretty rough patches. I’ve wrote a couple songs since then, and a ton of lyrics just waiting for the right chords, saved in my phone.
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Post by bad guy™ on Nov 13, 2018 18:10:43 GMT -5
Clarinet, saxophone, flute, trumpet, guitar, piano (well, keyboard), and I can keep a beat on drums but I wouldn't consider myself a good drum player, beginner at best. Eh, joke all you want ya old dog. Got me a scholarship being able to play all those instruments. Band geek. They needed deeper brass sound for our concerts since we didn't have anyone wanting to play trombone or tuba, so I focused more on my tenor sax, but for marching it really depended on what we were performing. Usually flute or clarinet for basketball games, trumpet or sax for football. I have a gift for picking up instruments quickly. Always have. Drums and keyboard I picked up by ear on my own.
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Post by Valbroski on Nov 13, 2018 19:20:46 GMT -5
is mayonnaise an instrument?
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Post by ET had AIDS on Nov 13, 2018 22:48:46 GMT -5
I started playing guitar about a year ago. It’s been my therapy in a way, getting me though some pretty rough patches. I’ve wrote a couple songs since then, and a ton of lyrics just waiting for the right chords, saved in my phone. Way to go, man. Keep it up. That's the way to do it positively.
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Post by ET had AIDS on Nov 13, 2018 22:50:57 GMT -5
Eh, joke all you want ya old dog. Got me a scholarship being able to play all those instruments. Band geek. They needed deeper brass sound for our concerts since we didn't have anyone wanting to play trombone or tuba, so I focused more on my tenor sax, but for marching it really depended on what we were performing. Usually flute or clarinet for basketball games, trumpet or sax for football. I have a gift for picking up instruments quickly. Always have. Drums and keyboard I picked up by ear on my own. Drums are fun, even if it's just keeping a beat. I'd strongly recommend getting more into them if you have the chance to! A day doesn't go by where I don't miss playing, but I haven't room for a kit where I reside now, and my old kit was left behind in a move. Only have my snare and its stand now. But drumming can be really great under the right circumstances. I was self-taught (picked up by ear, on top of the fact I'm an autodidact in general so that couldn't have hurt) when it comes to guitar, bass guitar, and drums. I'm not so great at keyboard, but I know a bit about using analog synths and what they do, the different settings, Midi, etc.
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Post by Valbroski on Nov 14, 2018 10:40:59 GMT -5
I was interested in learning to play keyboard a couple of years ago but if I’m being honest with myself, it would probably end up in my closet after a week.
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Post by Midnight-Metal-Master on Nov 19, 2018 10:24:00 GMT -5
Guitar 🎸
Been playing for 18years got my first one in 2000 for my birthday and probably owned at least 20 different ones over the years. At the moment I’m playing on an Ibanez Gio GRG121DX. I like any kind of guitar driven style of metal mostly 80’s stuff.
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