Musicians on the bbs?

I play the piano and sing for a living. At my work I also have to play the drums and the bass, but I'm not very good at those.

 

I'm not sure if you really meant to say this... unless there's something that I missed all these years.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skin+flute

 

I've always taken it to mean masturbation, not giving blow jobs. Or maybe it just has different meanings for men and women.

 

Oh, I did....

 

I learned some basic piano when I was around 8, and I found that I could hammer out pretty much any tune, so I have a decent ear for music. I too wish that I had been given lessons because I think I could have been a fairly decent piano player.

After playing Guitar Hero, I really rediscovered my love for music and wanted to pick up an instrument again.

Shan bought me an electric guitar for my birthday a couple months back and I love it, I had never played Guitar before, and at age 24 its a little late... but I'm learning slowly.. its a lot of fun.

 

I'm a decent guitarist. I've been playing for 26 years albeit not seriously...just as a hobby. By hobby, that translates into maybe 5 - 7 hours a week of playing whatever. Whenever I try to get serious on the instrument, I don't find/make enough time and regress. I'm good enough to learn and play songs by ear or tab but don't really read music. I spend most of my guitar playing learning/playing covers. I try to get into new stuff. I've made it a ways into "Cliffs of Dover" by Eric Johnson but I can't play it as fast as he does. But, just being able to play it at any tempo is an accomplishment in my book. Learning the notes is half the battle. I like a lot of the slower solo work by David Gilmour in a lot of Pink Floyd songs. I break out the laser work projected on the wall and play to "Shine on you Crazy Diamond", "Comfortably Numb", "Marooned", "Coming Back to Life", etc. . Heehee. Currently learning/playing new Metallica ("The Day That Never Comes") by ear...which is fairly easy but rocking. Recently learned "Sultans of Swing" and that's a good song to play to unwind to after a long day. I also like to play a lot of the guitar battle between Ralph Macchio (faker) and Steve Vai from the movie "Crossroads". It makes for good finger exercises and warm-up. I would like to spend more time working on picking techniques, arpeggiating, sweep picking, etc. . I'm thinking about joining one of those guitar tips site just so I can work on individual instructional exercises and chops...versus trying to learn from music theory books (boring).

 

Long time guitarist here. Heck, my first guitar was an 18 in. red Roy Rogers guitar.

Played in my share of bands, traveled and when I went accoustic only, my voice started to get into the act. I have a couple of hours on college radio stations too. I started writing about the time of the switch to accoustics, which happens to be the reason the college stations wanted me (certainly not for my voice only ).

The casa is filled with guitars, banjos, mandalins, ukaleles and one piano. Of course there is an assortment of percussion toys (mainly for the youngster to join a jam session).

Name of first band: Silver Sunshine (guess the decade )

(this might be a good topic for a new thread: first band name/experience,etc.)

 

Have played piano since I was 12 ... and I never really learned how to sight-read properly, since I developed a good ear at a very early stage. Love playing jazz. Working on my organ skills lately to improve the arsenal of playing styles. I play some acoustic guitar from time to time, but the piano is my first love.

 

I bought a electric guitar about 6 months ago. I think I'm learning at a good pace. I wrote a couple of songs and have skeletons for a few others. I know the major scales and I started playing various chord progressions a month or two ago. I'm trying to teach myself some solo style noodling.

 

I played sax for 15 years.

I'm teaching myself guitar.

I can sing.

My dad was a band director.

If this is in response to a certain drummer sucking, yeah: I have a frame of reference. Edit: And so do a lot of us.

 

I sing, play the clarinet, guitar, and some piano.

And as far as piano translating into guitar, it really doesn't except for finger dexterity. However, most piano players are better than the average bear in music theory and that does translate well in the guitar. You konw how chords fit together and how to transition into other key etc.

 

I play the PropellerHead. Therefore I am.

 

I've played guitar for more than 20 years and have played classical, although my music reading sucks and I haven't read sheet music since I was an undergrad in college, Jazz, blues, rock and for the last 3 years have been playing in an Irish punk band. I play bass every now and then too along with singing for the band and am my band's songwriter.

I've got a link to my band's myspace page in my sig.

 

I make Beats, use a 61 key MIDI controller, I have all the Triton,Fantom,Motif sounds loaded in my sampletank. Im not really a trained pianist, but I can come up with a few melodies here and there.

 

Can this really be done? I mean, can we actually cut a song long distance like this? I'm still in the analog era of music so I'm pretty ignorant of the digital possibilities.

I like the idea IROC it. Sound like a whole lot of fun.

(sorry if I got way ahead of everybody )

 

Absolutely. It's done all the time nowadays. But I'm like you....give me a reel-to-reel with 2" tape, and I am in heaven.

 

There’s a drum bbs I visit that has a thread called “community drum solo”. The moderator put an ostinato pattern mp3 on the site and everyone recorded a 16 bar drum solo against it, then emailed the mp3 back to him.

The moderator put it all together and posted it at the end. The result is a 10 minute drum solo featuring everyone on the site who emailed their solo mp3. Pretty cool.

It can be done. Although I have no idea how. Hell, I'm still trying to figure out how to change the time on my clock radio since getting power last week.