Do you play an instrument?

[Guest The Rising Star]

I could play the guitar on an amateur level, but have forgot most of it.

Can you play more than one instrument?

[spiny norman 0]

I can play guitar, piano and harmonica, all quite badly.

 

But I'm a pretty good bagpiper, if I may say so myself.

[Guest I Got Banned for Sucking]

Electric guitarist for three years.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Guitar - Black metal / metal style with no real classic ability. My god's name is Powerchord..

 

Drums - Fast and loud, pretty out of practice

 

Vox - Layne Staley-ish clean/ uber hell screamie style.

[The Czech Republic 0]

I play the trumpet and piano. I prefer jazz to classical.

[Internet Warfare 0]

~Flute~

[Perfxion 0]

Drums and I am a DJ so of course the turntables(if you want to count that, most non hip-hop fans don't).

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

It counts.

 

I play a lot of different things. Bass guitar and guitar are my best, but I'm passable on drums, and have a pretty threatening growl, though I have a lot of trouble on my annunciation. I can also play piano, harmonica, autoharp, a LITTLE bit of banjo and mandolin, and I'm learning to program beats.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

Bassist for quite a while, that's my main one but I'm embarking on a music technology degree in september, I hope to pick up piano/keyboards along the way if nothing else.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

After I pick up on programming a bit, I want to try my hand at classical strings. My goal is to be pretty good at several instruments, and a virtuoso on just a couple.

[Guest macheteofodin]

I can "play" any instrument placed in front of me. Whether it sounds like "music" I do not know, haha.

 

I am a decent guitar player. 8 years and counting...same crappy equipment.

 

I own a set of drums and a couple keyboards, but I'm not that good at them. I don't practice often. My mind wanders so drumming is not the best thing for me to do.

 

In terms of "singing," all I've got is that medium pitch scream/bark/snarl that most hardcore "singers" have. I kill my throat if I try to do death growls and necro shrieks. Actual singing is basically impossible.

 

Once I get some money I'm going to pick up a decent bass and amp. I'm making it so if I want to record music, I don't have to rely on anyone but myself.

[The Decemberists 0]

Guitar, Bass, Piano (just).

 

And I can programme a drum machine if that counts

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I fiddled around with a keyboard back in my youth.

 

I was able to play the Thompson Twins' "Hold Me Now" and I tweaked some auto-beats to where I got it to sound like wipeout.

 

Then I hit that glass ceiling other people know as talent and stopped...

[Murmuring Beast 0]

I know my way around a piano quite well and reached an decent standard.

 

I can play rudimentary drums and rhythm guitar.

 

I'd like to be able to play some more instruments, perhaps banjo or mandolin, and definetely bass guitar at some point in the future.

[ArkhamGlobe 0]

I'm a passable guitarist and a rather lousy pianist. I also used to play trumpet when I was 10, but now I doubt if I could even make rhythmic noise with it (of the good kind, at the very least). I can also fake my way through some very basic bass guitar stuff.

 

I'm currently looking to improve my guitar playing and I'd also like to learn some other instruments (mandolin especially).

[Bruiser Chong 0]

I come from a pretty musical family (my mom and dad met while working in the same music story way back when), but I've only tried the drums, which I haven't played in a couple of years. I wasn't too bad, but I didn't have the interest in it to invest the time needed to become great at them. Everyone else in my family plays many instruments well, though. My dad played guitar, piano, accordian (that was always the embarrassing one), and several more, while my mom, who's a music teacher now, plays the piano and guitar. My younger brother is great at the sax and has been playing piano and guitar for about a year now.

[jimmy no nose 0]

I play the drums, I've played in a couple OK metal bands. I play pretty loud and I'm always breaking sticks and cymbals. I can barely afford to keep up with the rate my cymbals get destroyed.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Guitar for a little under four years. I'm not as knowledgable in theory as I like, but my technique is well played.

 

I will pick up the piano soon, if only due to the fact that theory-wise it's similar to the chords on a guitar and what-not. Technique is a whole other story obviously.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Guitar, bass, minimal keyboard instruments, minimal drums, vox (growls and screeches and the occasional clean vox, but I sound like an asshole clean), and the spoons.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Primarily vox (sang since I was around 5 or 6, stopped for a while picked up again during the last couple years of high school), then drums, then guitar. Trying to become real good on guitar and always trying to get my singing to be better.

 

For me drums was pretty natural and simple to pick up. Lot of fuckin energy though.

[Guest JebusNassedar]

I play the bass guitar. And clarinet. And belly drum, seeing as I'm about 60 pounds overweight. Like a bassless bongo drum.

[Guest OldSchoolCarnage]

I've been playing guitar for ten years now. I can also play bass, and mess around with drums here and there.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Not enough people here play the king of instruments.

[godthedog 0]

After I pick up on programming a bit, I want to try my hand at classical strings. My goal is to be pretty good at several instruments, and a virtuoso on just a couple.

um...how hard do you plan to work at this? most go their whole lives without gaining true virtuosity of even one instrument.

[Guest I Got Banned for Sucking]

After I pick up on programming a bit, I want to try my hand at classical strings. My goal is to be pretty good at several instruments, and a virtuoso on just a couple.

um...how hard do you plan to work at this? most go their whole lives without gaining true virtuosity of even one instrument.

Yeah, but that also depends on what instruments he's talking about and how good he is right now.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

electric/accoustic guitar, bass

 

Played in a band for awhile but that didn't last long and we weren't too great

[justsoyouknow 0]

I have a Fender Strat signed by George Lynch, and I attempted to learn how to play it, but then I realized that it took a lot of effort. Then I made a sandwich.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

After I pick up on programming a bit, I want to try my hand at classical strings. My goal is to be pretty good at several instruments, and a virtuoso on just a couple.

um...how hard do you plan to work at this? most go their whole lives without gaining true virtuosity of even one instrument.

Ego, and the fact that I spend all of my free time with an instrument. Literally. If I'm not working, or attending to some physical need, I'm playing. It's pretty much what I do, and doing it professionally and masterfully is my only real long term goal.

 

I'll settle with "really fucking good," though. Since I'm not entirely sure what you mean by a true virtuoso.

[godthedog 0]

a true virtuoso would be a hendrix or a clapton or a coltrane, a member of the pantheon. there's a big gap between "having a really good working knowledge" of an instrument (which is i think what you mean) and real virtuosity. if you compare them to the good multi-instrumentalists (prince, paul mccartney, brian jones, etc.), there's a pretty large difference. i can't think of any real renaissance men in the field off the top of my head, but if you want to be the first, that's a noble and bitchin goal. it'll just be really really really hard to pull off.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I don't see myself as a poster and t-shirt holy guitar trinity kind of guy. More of a Robert Fripp or Frank Zappa, if things pan out how I want them to. Fripp's the best guitarist I've ever heard, but is also incredible on the violin, wind instruments, anything. Zappa could also play anything you gave him, as well as compose and conduct. He does both the guitar and bass tracks on "Friendly Little Finger" and makes an example out of just about anyone who's ever picked up either instrument.