Can you play an instrument?

Toots · 06-03-2015 04:57PM

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.

Crooked Jack · 06-03-2015 04:58PM

Bodhran. I dont know if that even counts

strobe · 06-03-2015 05:01PM

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?

AnonoBoy · 06-03-2015 05:02PM

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Bodhran. I dont know if that even counts

This is a thread about music.

So no. No it doesn't count.

ROAAAR · 06-03-2015 05:02PM

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

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

whisky_galore · 06-03-2015 05:03PM

I picked up the guitar once.

And put it back down again...

endacl · 06-03-2015 05:03PM

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...

endacl · 06-03-2015 05:04PM

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Bodhran. I dont know if that even counts

Nope. 'Fraid not. Marks for effort though!

:pac:

AlteredStates · 06-03-2015 05:06PM

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.

Yakult · 06-03-2015 05:12PM

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

Was one of a kind.

Lollipops23 · 06-03-2015 05:13PM

Nope, but really wish I could.

endacl · 06-03-2015 05:14PM

Lollipops23 wrote: »

Nope, but really wish I could.

What's stopping you?

Lollipops23 · 06-03-2015 05:15PM

endacl wrote: »

What's stopping you?

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

obriendj · 06-03-2015 05:17PM

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!!

everlast75 · 06-03-2015 05:18PM

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

endacl · 06-03-2015 05:18PM

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.

endacl · 06-03-2015 05:20PM

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...

Banjo String · 06-03-2015 05:22PM

Whistle, flute, uillean pipes (constantly learning, but getting there)

Guitar (badly)

Oh and the Banjo obviously.

obriendj · 06-03-2015 05:22PM

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

obriendj · 06-03-2015 05:26PM

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.

endacl · 06-03-2015 05:31PM

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.

Skylinehead · 06-03-2015 05:35PM

Bass. Easier to play than a guitar, harder to master

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

Magnate · 06-03-2015 06:01PM

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.

Mr. CooL ICE · 06-03-2015 06:25PM

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.

Ghost Buster · 06-03-2015 06:45PM

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!!

Mesrine65 · 06-03-2015 07:09PM

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.

endacl · 06-03-2015 07:31PM

Mesrine65 wrote: »

I still have my grandfather's full set of chanters stored away.

Get them out. Somebody should be playing them.

Aphex · 06-03-2015 07:34PM

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

Bongalongherb · 06-03-2015 07:37PM

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

JaseBelleVie · 06-03-2015 07:43PM

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!

Can you play an instrument?

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