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For those of you who play an instrument
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How did this come to be?
LIke, did you just decide one day to pick one up, signed up for lessons by parents, etc...
Also , how old were you and would you recommend an 18.5 year old to pick up a guitar?
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7404978 - 09/13/07 04:16 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I started violin in third grade, which is when you could start in our school for orchestra, and trombone in 4th, which is when you could start band. I choose to play and what to play, I don't remember why. I picked up Tuba and Baritone in high school to fill in important parts in the band if need be.
And sure, why the fuck not? Just make sure you practice, it's much harder to learn instruments when you're older for the most part.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: jewunit]
#7405004 - 09/13/07 04:23 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Go for it. You're never too old to play an instrument.
I started playing drums when I went to a friend of a friend's house. We smoked the worst weed I have ever encountered and he broke out the guitar. On a whim, I sat down at the drumset and jammed with him, fell in love with the drums, the rest is history.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7405025 - 09/13/07 04:30 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I started playing piano in the first grade, because I showed an interest and my parents supported me and paid for me to have lessons. I took lessons for five years, and then in 6th grade I started playing percussion. I fell in love with percussion and after a few years I got a drum set. I joined the marching band in high school and played bass drum, lead snare and lead tenors (quints).. unfortunately there was no band, nor marching band, at the school I attended my senior year. I started playing harmonica around this time. Then I graduated..This is when I picked up a guitar.
It's funny how it happened.. I was 18 too, actually. It was the first time my brother and I had ever tripped together. He's about 9 years older, and has done lots of LSD, and has been playing guitar for many years. I asked him to show me some simple chords, and he ended up giving me a spare guitar he had. Since then I've played guitar almost every single day.. and since then branched out to the banjo.. and just recently the violin.
And YES! I would definitely recommend an 18.5 year old person learning to play the guitar. If you have any interest in it at all, please, please pick up an instrument!! Playing music is primal, in my opinion. It can take you anywhere you want to go. You won't regret it! Just make sure you stick with it.. and never let it frustrate you.
For me, it was relatively easy to pick up the guitar and be able to play well. And even easier to pick up the banjo. I'm not sure if it was easier because I'm older now, because I've had experience with other instruments, or because I learned tripping.. but I remember having a rough time learning piano (i played by ear) when I was young.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7405076 - 09/13/07 04:42 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't even remember...
I would've been into the grunge period at the time, so as a youngin I would've been idolizing Bush and Silverchair, etc.
All I really remember is asking my dad for a guitar for my birthday and he got me one. I've since given that guitar away and purchased 4 more
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: adamj]
#7405100 - 09/13/07 04:50 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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My Dad played guitar, so they were always around the house and he was always telling me to keep my hands off of them. I convinced him to buy me my own when I was 8. It was a cheap half-scale acoustic, with a promise of a full scale if I progressed within a year.
Well, I did, and the next xmas I got a full scale Ibanez EX-140. It's still my favorite guitar although it desperately needs new frets.
Since then I've played trumpet, french horn, harmonica, alto sax, clarinet, violin, and bass guitar. Trumpet and french horn I played in school band, the rest I picked up on my own after high school.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7405178 - 09/13/07 05:10 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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My dad was a musician, so I was always encouraged to play. I took piano lessons for a few years when I was in elementary school, didn't like it very much, and quit (wish I hadn't now!). I got an electric guitar for christmas when I was 16, and since then I've been playing guitar almost every day. I've always been into percussion, but I never had a trap set. I've owned lots of random percussive noisemakers though, and I love them all.
Currently I'm trying to figure out a childs' accordion that I bought for $16.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: lukeboots]
#7405228 - 09/13/07 05:17 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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My dad is a fairly good piano player and I remember when I was 4 or 5 (an on) that he would get drunk and entertain some guests or whoever was left at the party with piano tunes, and people loved it.
So, when I would try to mimick him on our piano, my parents started paying for lessons which lasted for a few years until they divorced when I was 11 and I moved. Later I picked up lessons again and got more into recreational/entertainment type playing and more away from classical composition. Then I went to college for theory and composition and got some jazz theory under my belt and then quit, so I have pretty much just been ok with my piano skills.... If you want to hear them, listen to this weeks composition contest under the song "Clef Hanger".
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: lukeboots]
#7405529 - 09/13/07 06:24 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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jonnywax said:Currently I'm trying to figure out a childs' accordion that I bought for $16.
hell yeah. that's the kinda shit i like to see!
keep on rockin' in the free world!!!


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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7405542 - 09/13/07 06:26 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hyper_Panda_GO said: How did this come to be?
LIke, did you just decide one day to pick one up, signed up for lessons by parents, etc...
Also , how old were you and would you recommend an 18.5 year old to pick up a guitar?
do it. stick iwth it, it will be frustrating at first, but you will not regret it.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Syle]
#7405620 - 09/13/07 06:39 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well my dad always wanted me to play piano so I was taking lessons as far back as 1st grade I think. However at the time I wasn't really interested (Something I regret to this day) and he stopped taking me to lessons. I can still mess around on the piano however, I've written a few songs with it, but I won't say I'm really GREAT!
7th grade I started to learn how to play Trumpet because I wanted to be in our marching band. I taught myself how to play saxophone that year as well (Although I'm sure I'm pretty rusty on that one)and my trumpet playing got me a scholarship at this college near here. About a year ago after I left that school a friend of mine tried to help me learn guitar because I really wanted to learn how to play it. He had to move about a month after however (He just graduated), but when he left he gave me a guitar I only know about 6 chords on it though....
So yeah man pick up and guitar and get to rockin'! It's hell on your fingers at first but you get used to it and you're never to old to learn something new, remember that.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Mocha Bear]
#7405692 - 09/13/07 06:50 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was round a mates house who was a bit of a flashy git. He was well into his guitar but I had no interest whatsoever, I just thought fair play to him, ya know?
One day I was round his house and we were very bored, he said have a go on my guitar. I said, nah not interested, and I wasn't at all. But he kept on and on and eventually I said OK, lets have a go.
It was one of those golden moments. All I did was strum the open strings, but what I heard was on orchestra. I've never looked back!
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7405702 - 09/13/07 06:53 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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pick an instrument that everyone and their sister doesnt play.
the guitar is so cliche and just reeks of only wanting to do it to get laid and look cool.
there arent enough great bass players out there, or drummers.
if you generally just want to get into music, piano is the gateway. It is easier to develop rhythm and learn theory than any other instrument. Once you have piano as a foundation you can use it to translate, or relate to any other instrument.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: SneezingPenis]
#7405728 - 09/13/07 06:59 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I agree that piano is the gateway to good musicianship, but why avoid something just because it's a cliche? The guitar is a really versatile instrument, it's fairly cheap to get started with, and it's an easy way to pick up the basics. Starting with bass might be hard for a lot of people - it's not best played on it's own (though it can be great), and the heavy strings can be frustrating for a beginner that isn't used to it. The drums (if we're talking trap) are really, really fun to play, but they're a total inconvenience to everyone around you - especially when you don't know what you're doing.
Pick whatever instrument appeals to you, and don't give up. Eighteen is a fine age to learn any trade, including music.

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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: SneezingPenis]
#7405737 - 09/13/07 07:01 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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if you play the guitar... and you REALLLLY play that shit... then everyone will know EXACTLY why you're playing it. and it sure as hell won't be to get laid or look cool. but i mean, apparently that happens to some people.. not me though..

bass guitar might be a little easier to start out on, like Yawning Anus suggested and plus you can fucking tear a bass up.. the lows are so fucking LOW do i hear some Parliament in the back ground??

playing percussion helped me out immensely with every other instrument
you'll really get caught up in the rhythms.. the notes.. the harmonics..
*cough*psychedelics help*cough
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: SneezingPenis]
#7406104 - 09/13/07 08:18 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I know what you mean and I've heard the same advice given to me for piano, but the thing is I live in a dorm
I like the idea of a drumset, but at the same time it won't fit, and bass...I dunno man, isn't it barely noticeable anymore?
Or I dunno, could you recommend some music that;s bass heavy?
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7406120 - 09/13/07 08:21 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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You could probably fit a keyboard and a pair of headphones into your dorm just as easily as a guitar =]
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: dirtworshipper]
#7406134 - 09/13/07 08:23 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anyone who's picking up guitar to look cool or get laid probably won't last 6 months on it. It takes years to be good enough to actually impress people, including other musicians.
For me its all about the buzz I get during and after a jam with other people that happened on the fly and happened to work out wonderfully.
18 is a great age to start out. I started at 15, now I'm 22. In the last seven years I've gotten good enough to steal the drummer from a band that gigs regularly in my area, yet I had no band at the time for him to join.
Its really fun at first learning to play simple songs (for me it was Bob marley and Sublime stuff, easy reggae rhythms, no unusual chords, easy to sing over)
Frustration is inevitable, you just have to remind yourself that every minute of practice is making you better and better. So when it gets too frustrating, you put down your instrument and pick up again tomorrow. It works if you love music.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7406157 - 09/13/07 08:27 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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im sure your school has some sort of music hall, and it might even have some drums, piano and other assorted instruments. Just sneak in there at night, or waltz in there and act like you are a music student.
At my old college, our music hall was open 24 hours so that music students could practice whenever they could get it in, and it was a huge auditorium with two full sized grand pianos tuned every 2 weeks.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: SneezingPenis]
#7406168 - 09/13/07 08:29 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I hope my school has something like that....
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7406212 - 09/13/07 08:35 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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unless you go to ITT tech then it should have something.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7406246 - 09/13/07 08:39 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hyper_Panda_GO said:Or I dunno, could you recommend some music that;s bass heavy?
Parliament and the Funkadelics, for sure.

Yonder Mountain String Band Railroad Earth Dave Matthews Band
there's a lot of bad ass bassists out there!
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: SneezingPenis]
#7406248 - 09/13/07 08:39 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'll have to check with the music coordinator
There probably is something like that around here but it may not actually include instruments
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7406344 - 09/13/07 08:57 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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well, just stay away from those dirty, hippy drum circles. They wont teach you anything but how to use a deodorant crystal.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: SneezingPenis]
#7406359 - 09/13/07 09:01 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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 apparently you haven't been to the right drum circle
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: dirtworshipper]
#7406524 - 09/13/07 09:34 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I started on the guitar when I was in grade 6, so about 11 or 12 years old. I then moved on to bass guitar, and I just recently purchased a piccolo. I realize it would probably help to learn flute first, so I might purchase myself a wooden flute just to practice and play while tripping.
I'd like to pick up a hand drum so I can do some percussive shit, and I've also been thinking of some kind of electronic equipment, but I probably don't have the patience for synths and sequencers and stuff.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: mentalIMAGE]
#7406586 - 09/13/07 09:46 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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the only instrument I really want that I dont own is a singing bowl.
Me and my buddy were tripping in the park a year ago... I mean, tripping really hard, we split a half oz of mushrooms... and my buddy wanders off, and as I start to realize that he is probably in jail or dead, I see him walking over with the white version of George Clinton...... this 60 year old hippy playing a flute and a singing bowl and the sounds were melding together and creating this surround sound of harmonics. He let us play with the bowl for about 2 hours before my friend pissed him off by somehow smoking a cigarette through his flute.... Im not sure how that happened.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7407097 - 09/13/07 11:56 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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You can just get a keyboard man. Shit, that's probably more practical for a dorm room than a guitar. And yes, the piano is a great choice. For one it will seriously give you a huge base of knowledge for all music and all instruments. You will learn chords, keys, how to read both bass and treble clef, all sorts of shit. You will also be able to play the coolest stuff. Piano and guitar are by far the two most versatile instruments, and also... I don't want to say easiest, but I don't know a better word so, the easiest to play awesome sounding stuff i.e. really fast licks or shit with a huge range.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7407104 - 09/13/07 11:58 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh, and...
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Hyper_Panda_GO said: Or I dunno, could you recommend some music that;s bass heavy?
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones!!!!!!!!! Victor Wooten is pretty much the only bass player alive worth listening to when it comes to solos.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: jewunit]
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oh come on.
I run sound for The Wooten Brothers every Wednesday night (everyone but victor, futureman comes in usually) and the bassplayer they have, Keith Horn, is better (IMO) or atleast just as good. In fact their rotating cast of bass players are all great, Steve Forrest and John Billingsworth (who can tear up an aqua pedal). Jaco Pastorius, Tim Smollins, Mingus....BOOTSY! the list goes on.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: SneezingPenis]
#7408297 - 09/14/07 09:33 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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just check out this bad ass..
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: dirtworshipper]
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Oh hell yeah...him, Mingus and Flea are probably my favorites.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: slackophage]
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flea = poo. edit your post so those two names dont appear in the same sentence.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: SneezingPenis]
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I said alive  Jaco is dead 
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of bass players that can lay down the groove, but more often than not bass solos are fucking boring and unoriginal in my opinion/experience.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: SneezingPenis]
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: dirtworshipper]
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Yeah man go for it, I was 17 when I picked up my friends guitar and started messing with it and 18 before I got serious about it and bought my own. Its been a little over two years for me and I am already better than most people i know who have been playing for seven or eight years. I'm not bragging I'm just saying it all depends on how committed you are. I practiced four to seven hours a day over the last two summers and at least a couple hours a day during the school year. I love it, so it's not hard for me to sit down and do it, it all depends on how committed you are. Also I don't think lessons are a necessity either, if you can find a really great teacher then awesome but a bad teacher (most guitar teachers imo) could actually end up slowing you down. The internet is all I have ever used, but a good teacher would have been very nice to have occasionally.
Plus Frank Zappa didn't start playing till he was 18 and he was fucking amazing, of course he lived and breathed music 24/7. It's all about the time and commitment nothing else matters.
Plus you should note that most professional guitarist really aren't that good. Watch them in live shows, in the studio they do take after take after take to get things right, live they only have one shot and most of them fuck up A LOT. Nothing against them, musicianship in popular music went out the door at the end of the eighties and hasn't come back yet.
That doesn't mean there aren't still good musicians. And you can be good too if you want to be, it just takes some hard work. It won't come by itself.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
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One day when I was about thirteen, my friend called me and said his brother (a ten year old kid) was having a "60's flashback", listening to the Beatles and The Doors and stuff, 24-7. I went over there and I heard Jimi Hendrix for the first time. It blew me away and I wanted an electric guitar.
My dad kept encouraging me to get an acoustic, but I wanted an electric, and I had no money. I also just assumed it was hideously expensive for a decent guitar. I had failed to learn piano a few years earlier, and didn't think I had any decent music in me. I just listened to the music for a few years, then I finally got one for christmas one year.
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Hyper_Panda_GO said: I know what you mean and I've heard the same advice given to me for piano, but the thing is I live in a dorm
I like the idea of a drumset, but at the same time it won't fit, and bass...I dunno man, isn't it barely noticeable anymore?
Or I dunno, could you recommend some music that;s bass heavy?
Play the instrument you like the sound of most. If it's a guitar, get a guitar. If it's keys, get keys.
Don't buy a bass if you don't want to emulate the bass in the music you like. That's what my friend did. He played it a few times and, after having it sit in his basement for 5 years, he gave it to me.
I was 18.5 when I started playing guitar. When you're 25, you'll have 7 years of experience.
People start when they're 40, and they're ten-year veterans when they're 50. There would be no good reason not to start playing music even if you were 70.
Do it now, you'll have a 50-year head-start.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7411338 - 09/14/07 10:36 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was about 12 or so when I started to play the drums, and I literally did it for the women. Ironically, the drums have not helped me get a single one. My gramps, him being very spiritual and has traveled around the world, plays pretty much any hand drum and he makes them too. I sucked for a year or so before I got really determined to get better. If it wasnt for my gramps and him taking me to reggaefest and chillin with all his rasta-like friends, my life would be a lot different.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Rastaimposta]
#7411346 - 09/14/07 10:38 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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i think its much more of an appriciation of music rather then fascination with the instrument itself.
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: BoneMan]
#7412605 - 09/15/07 10:00 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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BoneMan said: Anyone who's picking up guitar to look cool or get laid probably won't last 6 months on it. It takes years to be good enough to actually impress people, including other musicians.
For me its all about the buzz I get during and after a jam with other people that happened on the fly and happened to work out wonderfully.
18 is a great age to start out. I started at 15, now I'm 22. In the last seven years I've gotten good enough to steal the drummer from a band that gigs regularly in my area, yet I had no band at the time for him to join.
Its really fun at first learning to play simple songs (for me it was Bob marley and Sublime stuff, easy reggae rhythms, no unusual chords, easy to sing over)
Frustration is inevitable, you just have to remind yourself that every minute of practice is making you better and better. So when it gets too frustrating, you put down your instrument and pick up again tomorrow. It works if you love music.
Exactly! Very well put.
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My parents signed me up for piano lessons when I was in 2nd grade.
I picked up trombone in 5th grade...quickly dropped it....and then started playing guitar when I was 14.
I don't play a whole lot anymore, but once you get to a certain level of mediocre-ness, you can basically just start playing guitar again at any time in your life and still be pretty good. Which has been my route. It's just nice that after all those years practicing and getting better, even though I've more or less lost interest when I just feel the need to jam or sing corny folk songs, I'm capable of doing so without much effort.
18 definitely isn't too late. Get an acoustic (that way if you want to switch to electric it will be MUCH easier). practice alot until your fingers hurt beyond belief, then do the same thing tomorrow and the next day.
If you want to know how to read music, form chords, etc. (which definitely isn't a requirement)---it might be boring, but START learning it from the very beginning! Piano is awesome, but to be honest it's a lot harder than guitar, in my opinion. Or perhaps, guitar seemed easy to me because I already knew piano?
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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: massromantic]
#7421202 - 09/17/07 08:09 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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It is never too late to learn.
You need patience, and support can be good.
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