What else do you/did you play?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 6987 posts since 20 Jan, 2008
I used to play bass for the money (there's always a gig for an able and willing bass player)
I'm a fair keyboard player and actually have survived playing paying gigs but I don't love it.
I learned tabla and drum notation on various 80's/90's drum machines
Used to play the harmonica and uke.
Everyday is a linnstrument day. I study from piano lessons and try to transpose for the linnstrument.
I'm a fair keyboard player and actually have survived playing paying gigs but I don't love it.
I learned tabla and drum notation on various 80's/90's drum machines
Used to play the harmonica and uke.
Everyday is a linnstrument day. I study from piano lessons and try to transpose for the linnstrument.
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- KVRAF
- 2809 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from Central NY
Like most guitarists, bass of course. Also some keys. But both of those just in the studio.
Live just vocals & guitar.
Live just vocals & guitar.
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- KVRist
- 196 posts since 15 Nov, 2020
I'm not great at anything, but I can quickly pick up just about any instrument and compose something within a few hours. Easy to pick up things, but no motivation to get really good. Mostly guitar, but also bass, some keys, I have a water phone and a Theremin, mandolin, bouzouki, lap steel, various Jews Harps. I dabble with those now and again. I was a decent flutist in high school... I should have kept that up, since I could read music for it, but alas.
- Boss Lovin' DR
- 13777 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Bass (in the Lemmy/Peter Hook stylee, though I have my, errr, 'funkier' moments.. )
Drums, although this is debatable now since I haven't sat behind a kit for over 10 years. I imagine I would now be a) crap, and b) quite knackered, if I played.
The crooning.
Drums, although this is debatable now since I haven't sat behind a kit for over 10 years. I imagine I would now be a) crap, and b) quite knackered, if I played.
The crooning.
- KVRAF
- 10913 posts since 31 Aug, 2013
My first instrument was my father's accordion. It was bigger than I was. He taught me basic theory when I was around 6, and could play a couple of marches and xmas carols.
Then, when I was 9, and my parents felt guilty for the ongoing destruction of our family, I received an Orcana double register reed organ with chord buttons to the left. It was a great xmas present for a 9 year old!
Within a year I was playing Beatles from an ez piano book, as well as other pop tunes like Both Sides Now, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head, etc, from another contemporary 'hits' book. My best friend was learning piano at 8-9, as well, and I'd bang away on his piano.
I had a guitar given me by my brother when I was around 12, but a tuner was broken and I was actively discouraged from learning the guitar because 'of the trouble rocknroll/guitars brought to our home.'
It wasn't until shortly before my 14th birthday that I bought an Aria 12 string off my brother for 50 CAD.
I didn't play a bass until I was 19, I think. And made a fool of myself blatting the opening guitar triad of Purple Haze out in a jam with musicians far better than I.
So, now. Guitar, bass, keys, Irish Bouzouki and Appalachian Dulcimer, the latter 2 in the last 8 years or so.
Then, when I was 9, and my parents felt guilty for the ongoing destruction of our family, I received an Orcana double register reed organ with chord buttons to the left. It was a great xmas present for a 9 year old!
Within a year I was playing Beatles from an ez piano book, as well as other pop tunes like Both Sides Now, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head, etc, from another contemporary 'hits' book. My best friend was learning piano at 8-9, as well, and I'd bang away on his piano.
I had a guitar given me by my brother when I was around 12, but a tuner was broken and I was actively discouraged from learning the guitar because 'of the trouble rocknroll/guitars brought to our home.'
It wasn't until shortly before my 14th birthday that I bought an Aria 12 string off my brother for 50 CAD.
I didn't play a bass until I was 19, I think. And made a fool of myself blatting the opening guitar triad of Purple Haze out in a jam with musicians far better than I.
So, now. Guitar, bass, keys, Irish Bouzouki and Appalachian Dulcimer, the latter 2 in the last 8 years or so.
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- addled muppet weed
- 107612 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
banjo to begin
then guitar and a bit of keys.
short lived metal vocalist.
later in life, went to college then uni, 6 years in all, where i had to learn piano to at least grade3, but ended up at 5.
played xylophone on a friend's album.
now guitar and noodling on telephone exchanges.
failed at didgeridoo, got the sound going, but years of excessive weed inhalation, meant it was short gasps.
same with flute.
hoping to "learn" hurdy gurdy.
which im sure the neighbours will enjoy as much as me.
then guitar and a bit of keys.
short lived metal vocalist.
later in life, went to college then uni, 6 years in all, where i had to learn piano to at least grade3, but ended up at 5.
played xylophone on a friend's album.
now guitar and noodling on telephone exchanges.
failed at didgeridoo, got the sound going, but years of excessive weed inhalation, meant it was short gasps.
same with flute.
hoping to "learn" hurdy gurdy.
which im sure the neighbours will enjoy as much as me.
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- addled muppet weed
- 107612 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 6987 posts since 20 Jan, 2008
Accordions are far underrated for their capabilities and skill set required to play them effectively.
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- addled muppet weed
- 107612 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
you know who says that?tapper mike wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 5:47 pm Accordions are far underrated for their capabilities and skill set required to play them effectively.
accordian players.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 6987 posts since 20 Jan, 2008
Because no one else would dare try.vurt wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 5:48 pmyou know who says that?tapper mike wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 5:47 pm Accordions are far underrated for their capabilities and skill set required to play them effectively.
accordian players.
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- KVRAF
- 2809 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from Central NY
the secrets to old age: Faster horses, Richer Women, Bigger CPU's
https://soundcloud.com/cristofe-chabot/sets/main
https://soundcloud.com/cristofe-chabot/sets/main