which one can ya play , i ve been playin guitar from quite a some time , kinda like it !!!

5-string banjo, guitar, dobro, some mandolin, a bit of fiddle, some upright bass and some little bit of almost any stringed instrument.

Baron Max

wow :shock:

do you have a band ?

I play mainly the bass and piano, I also know the guitar (same concept as bass except with chords which I know from playing the piano), played the tenor sax in high school bor a bit in my junior years. I played the bass in my senior music classes. I occasionally hook up with other musicians in my area and jam for a bit, but I do nothing serious. WHen I move away in September to a larger city, I might try to play with a serious group.

Dood, don't be shocked. Once you familiarize yourself with the patterns, and become good with alternate tunings, they are all fairly close. (except perhaps banjo just because of the traditional picking style, but if you finger pick or do classical shouldn't be much of a stretch)..
it's like going from piano to keyboard to harpsicord..
each has it's own intricacies, but they are fairly similar.

BM: on the upright, are you using a bow or plucking/slapping?

I like to fiddle with G Strings! :D

I could blow your mind with some of my guitaring, I could also mesmerise you into Eastern trance with my Tzouras and I would send you trippin' into spaces unknown with my full blown techno/drum n bass/ quasi jazz/funk/rock/fuckyoutype electronic ambience muzak, yessiree!

Geez, I forgot about the piano and blues harp.

I can play marching tenors... does that count?

5-string banjo, guitar, dobro, some mandolin, a bit of fiddle, some upright bass and some little bit of almost any stringed instrument.

Baron Max

Dare I assume that you like bluegrass? Or something similar?

I play fiddle, mostly old-time. And a bit of mandolin.

I could blow your mind with some of my guitaring, I could also mesmerise you into Eastern trance with my Tzouras and I would send you trippin' into spaces unknown with my full blown techno/drum n bass/ quasi jazz/funk/rock/fuckyoutype electronic ambience muzak, yessiree!


I want to have my mind blown! got anything to listen to? Ive been playing spanish classical guitar for almost 30 years thought i sound like maybe its been 15. I played bass viol for 7 years, and play my peavy bass whenever. and hand drums. I have a 2 congas a tumba a remo djembe and a roland handsonic handdrum synthesizer. i played piano for a while when i was a kid too, until my parents got a divorce and the piano disappeared. shrug. mostly a guitar person.

http://myweb.cableone.net/gusvoss/pre3.mp3

prelude 3 by eythor thorlaksson. played by me

Dare I assume that you like bluegrass? Or something similar?

Yeah, good ol' Bluegrass! And also ol' folk and country songs played in the Bluegrass style ...hard-driving banjo and mandolin breaks.

I don't play so much any more, but was the banjo player in a band in the early to mid-70's. These days, it's just too hard to get people together regularly to play and have fun, so I don't play much now.

Baron Max

I want to have my mind blown! got anything to listen to?

Unfortunately, all my stuff is on DAT and I don't have a way of converting to MP3.

nice response , inspiring me to start a new thread asking how many of you guys have a band !!!

I like to fiddle with G Strings! Oh dear *slaps palm into forehead* Such a lame, and old, joke.

I play the guitar, and I used to be really good, but I haven't played for ages now so I'm off form.

i am sure that off form thing must be really sucking for you , as even i dont get much time to practise a few scales lately and its quite frustrating .

I can solo in the blues scale on a guitar. Sounds okay for the most part, but that's about all I can do. *sigh*

Once I got married/children - don't really jam anymore, not that I was really doing anything with it besides musical masterbation.

http://jwesmorris.home.mchsi.com/indianfunkexp.mp3

Unfortunately, all my stuff is on DAT and I don't have a way of converting to MP3.


http://www.voyetra.com/site/kb_ftp/2906022.asp


sounds easy enuf :)

Yeah, good ol' Bluegrass! And also ol' folk and country songs played in the Bluegrass style ...hard-driving banjo and mandolin breaks.

I don't play so much any more, but was the banjo player in a band in the early to mid-70's. These days, it's just too hard to get people together regularly to play and have fun, so I don't play much now.

Baron Max

Awesome! :D I've never played in a band or anything, but I hope to some day... I'm only sixteen, so I figure I've got a while.

Guitar

Been at it 1 1/2 years.....

Bass....since im familiar with the guitar the bass is super easy to get into also.

I love it....self taught, maybe one day i'll be good.

Piano/keyboard since I was about 4 years old (I'm 34 now)
Guitar (since I was about 13)
Harmonica/blues harp
Some percussion

Mostly play blues, jazz, freeform improv and self compositions.

Awesome! I've never played in a band or anything, but I hope to some day... I'm only sixteen, so I figure I've got a while.

Well, it would be my advise that you give up that dream at your first opportunity! Playing in a band usually means working at a job/career all day to make enough money so that you can play in the band during the evening hours ....and playing to people who really don't listen and a good jukebox would serve just as well.

Check out other bands in the area, talk to them, ask them about their dreams of making it big. Then check out the rate of those bands making it big. It's sorta' like little kids wanting to be pro football players .....how many of those kids actually make it to the top of the heap? Odds ain't good, are they?

Hey, think about it .....how come there's only a few OLD bands in the world? And if that's true, what happened to those bands when they were younger?

Go to college, learn as much as possible so you can earn enough money to LATER play in a band for your own enjoyment and pleasure. Don't do it the other way around or you'll be on welfare most of your life.

Baron Max

Well, it would be my advise that you give up that dream at your first opportunity! Playing in a band usually means working at a job/career all day to make enough money so that you can play in the band during the evening hours ....and playing to people who really don't listen and a good jukebox would serve just as well.

Check out other bands in the area, talk to them, ask them about their dreams of making it big. Then check out the rate of those bands making it big. It's sorta' like little kids wanting to be pro football players .....how many of those kids actually make it to the top of the heap? Odds ain't good, are they?

Hey, think about it .....how come there's only a few OLD bands in the world? And if that's true, what happened to those bands when they were younger?

Go to college, learn as much as possible so you can earn enough money to LATER play in a band for your own enjoyment and pleasure. Don't do it the other way around or you'll be on welfare most of your life.

Baron Max

Nah, I don't want to go to college... I want to be a novelist. As for the band thing, I don't have any dreams of making it big, I'd just like to have the experience of being part of a band. Really just being part of a small jamming group would have the same effect. But either is something I could do while writing, so I'm not concerned.

With only one instrument, as a concert I bet it sucks.

Closet: Can you slap?

A buddy of mine strongly recommended that I learn, saying that it will make me much better at the instrument in all aspects and I have to agree with him. Last summer I bought a few books on slap/funk studies and practiced nearly every day and I got pretty good. It made my timekeeping much more accurate.

Best advice I have is to not stop. Play consistently. I find most skills are (at least for me) similar to weightlifting. You don't get good/strong/dexterous doing it. You get feed yourself stimulation and then rest and recuperate. Then you come back, play and find out how much work your brain has done since last time you practiced. Practice regularly.

Slap sounds so cool. Especially when played by someone with good chops and good muting skills.

I play tuba, bass trombone, tenor trombone and baritone. Played tuba at an amusement park for a few years, was crazy enough to want to carry and play (the guy hired to play quit with two weeks left) bass drum for two weeks during one season.
Some day I'd like to learn to actually play bass, since tubas aren't used much in jazz bands, and I'd rather play bass than trombone in a band.

No, I can't, but this one girl the I know at the Kentucky Opera program can play a piano beautifully, just flat-out perfectly.

Electric bass. 30 years on and off. Before that, 12-string guitar.

Piano to a better-than-average standard. Used to play clarinet when I was at school, but don't own one now. Wouldn't mind picking up the sax at some stage. Sing a bit, too.

Guitar, Bass and Piano.

I've been playing the guitar for about a year and 3 months. My brother plays the bass so sometimes I start to play it.

Electric Guitar...(know how to play stairway to heaven completely, nothing else sounds good though :D)...