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Can you play an instrument?

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    #32
    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,905 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Clarinet, recorder and tin whistle.

    I haven't played the clarinet in years, and I've gotten really rusty at it, almost forgotten how to read music. I really regret not keeping up with it more.


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    #33
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Bodhran. I dont know if that even counts :(


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    #34
    strobe
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    Play(ed) guitar. Got really fcking good at one stage, but play far too infrequently now and anytime I pick it up it just irritates me that I'm so rusty. Must just stick it out and get back into playing regularly. Used to happily play away for hours at one stage and feel as mentally refreshed as if I'd taken a good solid 10 hour sleep afterwards.

    Would love to play violin. Bought one. It hurts my face though. The way you have to hold it. Gonna try and invent my own non-face hurting way of holding it I think.

    Have a keyboard. But it's a cheapo one. Can play a little, but really want to get a proper one with weighted keys. I think I'll do just that.

    Can play a couple of tunes on the recorder. What an awful sounding instrument. Who the fvck invented that thing?


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    #35
    AnonoBoy
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    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    Bodhran. I dont know if that even counts :(

    This is a thread about music.






























    So no. No it doesn't count.


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    #36
    ROAAAR
    Registered Users Posts: 316 ✭✭ROAAAR


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZPE_PWNx3s

    That's certainly one way to sex up the thin whistle!


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    #37
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,761 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I picked up the guitar once.




    And put it back down again...


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    #38
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Classical guitar to degree level. Also rocky bluesy jazzy stuff on electric. Pro/semi-pro for quite a few years. Also bouzouki, and trad flute, although I'd be better described as a flute owner than a flute player. Tin whistle. Can bluff on piano. Mess about a bit on mandolin. Have recently acquired a guitalele. Sure I can play the tiny little fecker, but can't figure out how to hold it...


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    #39
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    Bodhran. I dont know if that even counts :(

    Nope. 'Fraid not. Marks for effort though!

    :pac:


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    #40
    AlteredStates
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    Not to harp on about it.. but I love sax, playing with flutes (seems to be pop here) and partial to a bit of fiddle / triangle. Fav tho has to be the French horn :rolleyes:

    So yes I love playing with instruments.


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    #41
    Yakult
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    Stopped playing guitar due to my g-string breaking while fingering a minor.

    Was one of a kind.


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    #42
    Lollipops23
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    Nope, but really wish I could. :(


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    #43
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    Nope, but really wish I could. :(

    What's stopping you?

    :)


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    #44
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    endacl wrote: »
    What's stopping you?

    :)

    Ha, I think I'm prob past learning from scratch at 27!


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    #45
    obriendj
    Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭obriendj


    I have been playing Guitar on and off the last few years. I am ok but can't seem to step up to playing songs in full. perhaps i need some professional lessons but must say youtube is brilliant!!


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    #46
    everlast75
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSjA3xzHUKE


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    #47
    endacl
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    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    Ha, I think I'm prob past learning from scratch at 27!

    Me hole. I've a student at the moment who picked up the guitar at 53. Three years in and he's flying along. Think about it. By the time you're the age he was when he started, you'll have been playing for 26 years.


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    #48
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    obriendj wrote: »
    I have been playing Guitar on and off the last few years. I am ok but can't seem to step up to playing songs in full. perhaps i need some professional lessons but must say youtube is brilliant!!

    YouTube won't spot the simple little change that's holding you back...


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    #49
    Banjo String
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    Whistle, flute, uillean pipes (constantly learning, but getting there)

    Guitar (badly)

    Oh and the Banjo obviously.


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    #50
    obriendj
    Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭obriendj


    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    Ha, I think I'm prob past learning from scratch at 27!

    I only started in my 30s

    It's definitely never too late


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    #51
    obriendj
    Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭obriendj


    endacl wrote: »
    YouTube won't spot the simple little change that's holding you back...

    But if I go to professional lessons - I will be lambasted for all my bad habits.
    - Only use my thumb and first finger to play
    - Not using a pic
    - Also I think i move my wrist more than I should

    If I had to correct that it would be like starting all again.


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    #52
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    obriendj wrote: »
    But if I go to professional lessons - I will be lambasted for all my bad habits.
    - Only use my thumb and first finger to play
    - Not using a pic
    - Also I think i move my wrist more than I should

    If I had to correct that it would be like starting all again.

    No it wouldn't. It'd be adjusting things as you progress.


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    #53
    Skylinehead
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    Bass. Easier to play than a guitar, harder to master ;)















    .....haven't got round to the master bit yet.


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    #54
    Magnate
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    obriendj wrote: »
    But if I go to professional lessons - I will be lambasted for all my bad habits.
    - Only use my thumb and first finger to play
    - Not using a pic
    - Also I think i move my wrist more than I should

    If I had to correct that it would be like starting all again.

    I'm pretty much the same way as you, self taught but don't use a pick. Strum with thumb & first finger for chords but play fingerstyle normally. Nothing wrong with moving your wrist a lot, sure look at Rodrigo y Gabriela :P



    My point is it's okay to have your own unique style and that may not necessarily be what's limiting you.


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    #55
    Mr. CooL ICE
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    Bass. Self taught and been playing 14 years and am considered by my peers to be rather good. The reality is that I'm actually pretty bad and pretty damn talentless, but do the best I can to hide that fact. My knowledge of music theory is dodgy at best, overall technique has enormous holes and my ability to improvise is based on one simple blues pattern played in slightly different ways. I don't practise nearly as much as I should. My live tone is awesome though, but that's just down to the equipment I paid money for.

    I really mean it when I say it; If I can play an instrument to a proficient level, anybody can.


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    #56
    Ghost Buster
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    Im either a very very talented musician or very very average.
    I can sorta play loadsa instruments but would only consider myself good on one -................... ukulele.
    Im an ok guitarist. Grand for crunching out sing alongs at a party...'Youre my wonder wallllllllllllllll!!!!"

    Can bang out a few piano chords
    Can play harmonica about as well as Bob Dylan...so not great
    Can wrestle out a tune or a few chords on banjo and mandolin as they are tuned the same.
    Ok on bodhran in a pub session
    Ok on spoons...yeah...spoons.
    Can kinda drum
    Ok singer

    National school level tin whistle...The dawning of the day...

    But deadly on......ukulele;)

    Oh yeah. Wonderful kazoo player!!


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    #57
    Mesrine65
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    Banjo String wrote: »
    Whistle, flute, uillean pipes (constantly learning, but getting there)

    Guitar (badly)

    Oh and the Banjo obviously.
    I still have my grandfather's full set of chanters stored away.


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    #58
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    I still have my grandfather's full set of chanters stored away.

    Get them out. Somebody should be playing them.


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    #59
    Aphex
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    Playing guitar about 18 years now.
    I'm currently learning to play piano and read sheet music.


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    #60
    Bongalongherb
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    I play the classical & acoustic guitar, have done for years but I find the classical much better. Still learning as I go though.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26HLgXWF-Co


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    #61
    JaseBelleVie
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    Yep. Guitar (electric and acoustic) mainly. But I've also tried my hand at and been pretty ok at bass guitar, piano and the flute.

    Have actually tried to relive my teenage years recently and formed a band with my friends again. It's a lot of fun, especially seeing as we're no longer relying on lifts from our parents to get to practice!


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