Are You Musical?

I can play a little piano, the traversal flute, and that's about it.

If I could play an instrument well, I'd learn to play the harmonica. I've been thinking of picking one up in the key of C to start, but I'm kind of busy and too shy to teach myself.

 

I've been playing guitar for a whilel now. Dont really remember how long exactly. I think like 5 years or something. electric and acoustic. two different worlds. love them both though.

I played sax for a good while in the jazz band at my school, and I can somewhat sing. no one else in my family is musical though, which kinda sucks.


I've always really really wanted to learn the piano super bad, but there is no way I could afford one...

*sigh*

 

John...

I'm disappointed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O4X-L9z2VM

toy? that's pure soul brotha!

 

Trivium isn't my thing.

I'm more into this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuMLIHatC9E

 

yeah that's bomb, but I dont play bass.

 

Eh I've learned to respect all players, and really learn to love what they play. When I first got into Led Zeppelin, I only liked the solo's and such. But John Paul Jones's keyboard skills are amazing once I wised up and listened, same with Bonzos solos.

 

I'm more interested in musicals. Like Hamlet 2.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ACSlH9PSo7g

 

I'm like that too, but I'm just not a bass sort of guy.

can't really get into it. I can appreciate the skill though. Just not my thing.

 

You're going far.

 

im play geetar and im quite good. Give it 2 more years and ill be getting paid for it.

 

I love singing and I'm not too bad to be honest.

I can also strum along to quite a few songs on the guitar, but I would never call myself a guitarist. My brother is though, and earns his living from it.

 

I want to hear your brothers story now

but I'll have to wait till tomorrow I guess

 

i just hope i can earn my bread with my music someday.. sooner than later

 

Well, he started messing around with a guitar when he was about ten and it just seemed to come naturally. He joined a band at about 15 and used to play around the local scene quite a lot. The trouble was only him and the bass player had any sort of ambition/dedication.

Anyway, he always busked around the city streets doing a mix of covers from blues to well-known irish songs and a few of his own too. So this guy who owned a bar on one of the holiday islands saw him and asked him to come and play in his bar for a summer season. Well, he did and loved it.

He ended up going back there for a couple of summers in his late teens, playing for a couple of hours every night, either alone or in a duet with a mate he made over there. Then he decided to move there permanently and now, is married with a couple of kids. He plays every night for about 9 months of the year. It has become just a job and seems to have drained some of his passion for music but he'd still rather do that than anything else.

I'm unsure as to whether he still has any ambition to ever record a proper album of his own although he has played as a session musician on a couple of obscure albums for others.

 

You heard me, a toy.
Ever seen, say, I dont know, Paco de Lucia play Flamenco on acoustic? Or perhaps, Segovia play some Albeniz or some Tarrega? Or Steve Howe play The Clap?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RYkz30RL_GU

 

Or wait, even better
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q9vNSA0WNlw

 

Relayer was that you on the speed metal tune?

 

What the! What speed metal tune, the one neodude posted?
My man, no offense to peeps out there, but I wouldnt be caught dead playing or listening to metal, or even most hard rock, unless I was really drunk, and I would be smashing the guitar into my own head afterwards :tongue: Im into classical, flamenco, world jazz, hip hop, and other things but metal is definitley not one of them :tongue:

 

Unless you classify Hella or Lightning Bolt as metal, but they definitley are noise rock, except very loud so I guess some might see it that way...

 

There is a lot of amazing metal out there John.

Some of it is almost in the same league as Yes within its own genre... I dare say.