Musicians - what do you play?

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I can't select multiple instruments so I chose piano over guitar. I prefer acoustic guitar over electric guitar but I'd have to say piano is my favorite instrument. Basically, I'll sit there for an hour and fool around with the keys. I've created some pretty cool stuff. Eventually I'd like to get around to actually composing, but right now I don't really have the time or the motivation.

We've got ourselves the worlds first Aspie orchestra ~ complete with theramin for that spooky sci fi mood music.

Has anyone's Dad got a giant barn we can practise in?

I'm good with percussion...

Most forms like Xylophones and most drums...

I used to play the drums. Not very well, and my technical abliity was never good enough to play consistantly in a band. But I do like to figure out and play complex beats. I have a set of bongos that I keep around to just goof around with. And I may set up the old cheap drum set I had, and work at it some more.

Currently I am just trying to learn Polyrhythms. I just tap out a beat anywhere, on tables, my legs anything really. I also have a practice pad I am using. I have 2 over 3 polyrhythms down pretty good. Working on 3 over 4, which is actually pretty easy once I got 2 over 3 down.

I am also working on understanding 5 over 4. Now this is going to be a bit harder, I have the basic beat down. But filling stuff inside of the 5 is going to be hard. It took me forever to figure out how to play triplets inside of the 3 over 2 polyrhythm (effectively 9 over 2). And now playing eighth notes and higher inside of the 5 over 4 is going to be just as difficult. But I find this fun, and I can practice it at anyplace anytime.

When I was in 5th grade we were allowed to play a musical instrument. I chose percussion just because i didn't want to work at trying to play any instrument. I was good at it. But once I continued with it, I chose to not do well with rudiments. I was a percussionist for about seven years.

I took up piano in 6th grade, but my grandparents taught me how to play two years earlier. I still continue to play piano.

Going back to percussion. I only enjoyed playing the timpani and mallet percussion because i was the only person in my percussion section that could read piano music. I could do all the other instruments as well, but I just could not play the snare drum.

Also, I can't play the drumset. One of the only hand-eye coordination tasks that I can't do. I've had lessons before, and if my teacher was still doing it, I might continue taking lessons, but I can't do two or more rhythms at the same time. Ironic, isn't it!

What instrument(s) do you play?

Why did you choose to start?

How long have you played for?

Is it a passion? A pastime? A profession? An outlet for emotions, or an alternative means of self-expression?

I play tuba (oompah!). I started band is 6th grade and the teacher thought I sounded best on tuba (yay!). I might give it up because I can't afford one of my own, but my school is getting new ones, so hopefully I can buy an old one for cheap. I also played baritone for a while, but didn't enjoy it. I've played tuba for 5 years now and baritone for 6 months. I also fool arund every now and then on my electric piano I got for Christmas. I consider music to be a passion of mine and possibly a profession. On tuba, I can play most music you put in front of me.

learing baritone both Treble and Bass clefs now.

I play the guitar but the playing is off and on.
I once dreamed of making it big and wrote my own songs almost all the time - at one point I had a catalog of about 300 songs, many of which I could play on the spot from memory. Whenever I played in live situations I did either really well or really bad. Things were just On and I held the audience in the palm of my hand and other times I drove them out of the room. Nowadays I cannot remember many of the songs I wrote - I can remember the chords but not the words. I wanted to play more electric but never seemed to have the money to buy the equipment. But I have a really sweet Alvarez acoustic. I was chuckled at a previous poster who said he would get stuck in playing the same tune over and over - I do that myself - just a handful that I made up, know how to play - sometimes I try to put words to them but the words are not memorized. Sometimes I don't touch the guitar for months because I'm into photography or writing prose, but then I'll just get Into the Mood to play and I can't put it down.
I'm still researching Asperger's - I'm pretty sure I fit a lot of the criteria but have not yet been formally diagnosed.
Feel like picking up the guitar right now, mater of fact - actually the strings need changing - they are practically ancient.

What instrument(s) do you play? Drums

Why did you choose to start? Me and Danny decided to start a band

How long have you played for? About a year now

Is it a passion? A pastime? A profession? An outlet for emotions, or an alternative means of self-expression? All of the above


See www.thefinalcause.tk for more details, including some more band members (as a key note, all but 1 member of our band has AS)

I suppose I should update my gear list with my recent acquisitions, and I don't even care if anyone cares or not;

(engage flash mode)

Ibanez TS-808 resissue
MXR Phase 90
Z Vex Seek Wah
Boss MT-2 Metal Zone
Pro Co Rat
Fulltone Distortion Pro
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi
Boss DD-5
Line 6 DL4
T.C. Electronics SCF Chorus
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress
Keeley Compressor
Digitech Whammy
Prescription Electronics Experience
Demeter TRM-1 Tremulator

(disengage flash mode)

An EQ and a noisegate are next on the list (DOD FX40B and ISP Technologies Decimator probably respectively), followed by a Z Vex Fuzz Factory and T-Rex Replica I reckon (you can't have enough fuzzes or delays I always say , and there's a Lovetone Meatball on ebay that's tempting the old fancy...... Auto-wah me baby..... Ahhhh.... that'll ease thoughts of the horrors of my day to day existence for at least a little while I suppose.....

I began to teach myself guitar back in '83. I can also fill in with a bass, and I can fumble around on a piano. In the past few years however, I started to play drums ( pretty much out of necessity when mic'ing up a drumkit, and found that I learned how to drum quite quickly. I think at some point after I get another guitar rig, I might get a drumset as well. --It seems to be a good stress reliever as well.

Gear I've had in the past (from first to last)

Guitars:
Kent Les Paul copy
Squire Stratocaster
Yamaha SBG 500
Acoustic Black Widow
Guild X-79
Hagstrom Swede
Washburn A-10
Fender Esprit
Ibanez Telecaster copy
Gibson Les Paul Junior (1958)
Washburn Les Paul Copy
Gibson Les Paul Custom
Gibson Les Paul Special
Gibson SG

Effects:
Ibanez Digital Delay (forget the model, it was Pea Green)
Ibanez Super Distortion
Chandler Tube Driver
MXR Analogue Delay
DOD Flanger
DOD Anologue Delay
ART ProVerb
Alamo Spring Reverb
Boss OD-3 Overdrive
Boss Graphic EQ
Unicord Tape Echo

Amps/Cabs:
Sound City Mk3 100 watt/Acoustic 4x12
Lectrosionics 20watt practice combo from 50's-60's (found in the Garbage!)
Orange OR80 80watt/Orange 4x12
Fender Twin2(head)/Orange 4x12
Marshall JMP 50 watt 2x12 combo (1981)
Marshall 4140 100 watt 2x12 combo (1979)- See review @ http://www.harmonycentral.com
Laney Custom 50 1x12 Combo (1979???)
Line6 Pod.

I play...
Wait for it... *Takes a deep breath*

Piano
Keyboard
Harpsicord
Violin
Acoustic guitar
Bass guitar
Electric guitar
Drums
recorder
panpipes
tin whistle
clarinet

and I sing and compose my own random tunes.

*faints from lack of breath!! !* lol

you play far to much. Especially with danny