Can you play a musical instrument?

[XmisterIS]

I can play the drums and the didgeridoo.

 

[Kirstie]

I have played several musical instruments: guitar, flute, percussion, piano, singing and accordion. I was a very musical child (and my brother is a professional french horn player), but my musical career was cut short because I lost the use of my arms and hands in my late teens because of a congenital deformity. It was quite a bummer at the time because I was going to take a year out to get my LRAM performers diploma on the piano. It was quite a rare deformity so took five years to be diagnosed. Then I had the surgery, I went back to the piano and discovered I could still play it quite well. However it kind of fizzled out in my 30s, but now I play the accordion. Like Fnaar I can play about three tunes. One of them, however, is Captain Pugwash, which makes it all worthwhile...

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Mine doesn't count really. I can "sort of" play piano/keyboard, by ear - I can't read a note of music, never got my head around it - and I can't use both hands either (that's what sequencers were invented for weren't they? ).

I just wondered if any of you play a musical instrument, and can you read music, or do you play by ear?

Cheers,
Shaun

sounds familiar.

i had piano lessons at ten and ended up hating it, never got music reading at all.

later in life i bought a bass guitar, found i could play by ear, and bought a six string electric.

i was never great, but perhaps good considering i'd never had a lesson.

and i can knock out a one-fingered tune on mum's piano to this day, by ear…

 

[Fab Foodie]

I play the Saxaphone (alto) and am having lessons.
I started with the Oboe as a kid and can just about find my way around most wind instruments. I can play some basic Pianio pieces too.
I can read music having been taught it as a Cathedral choirboy.

Playing music is a great therapy.

 

[fimm]

Grade 6 piano, grade 8 clarinet here. So yes, I can read music! I tried to teach myself to play by ear when I got older but was never terribly good at it, especially on the piano. I was never any good, but I carried on playing well into adulthood. Have not touched either instrument for years now - except a few months ago when we had all the boxes down for some reason and I got my clarinet out and found that I could still play it, after a fashion... I think it would come back to me if I put in the time to practice.

 

[ianrauk]

My father was a drummer, he had a beautiful Gretch kit. (He onced played with Joe Brown). So naturally having a drum kit in the house as a child... one could not help but have a bash. I still like to have a bash now and again on one of my friends kit.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Electric Bass, but I've not gigged in over a year, and next year's plan being to migrate to the upright which seems a bit more dignified for someone my vintage.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Electric Bass, but I've not gigged in over a year, and next year's plan being to migrate to the upright which seems a bit more dignified for someone my vintage.

Dignified a la Lee Rocker...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Electric Bass, but I've not gigged in over a year, and next year's plan being to migrate to the upright which seems a bit more dignified for someone my vintage.

Dignified? In about 15 years of professional double bass playing I have never ever heard anyone associate the bass with dignity!

 

[tyred]

I used to play the piano by ear but my granny pointed out it's easier if you use the fingers.

 

[swee'pea99]

My sister, who had the bedroom next door, said that when I gave up violin, aged 15, it was the best day of her life.

I strummed Bob Dylan, Beatles & Simon & Garfunkel songs for a few years, but I was never much good and I just fell out of the habit. I can still produce a good firm G-D-A on demand tho', which impresses my daughters no end. (They being so accustomed to regarding me as utterly talentless and incapable in every way.)

 

[swee'pea99]

My father was a drummer, he had a beautiful Gretch kit. (He onced played with Joe Brown). So naturally having a drum kit in the house as a child... one could not help but have a bash. I still like to have a bash now and again on one of my friends kit.

How can you tell if the stage is level?


The drool comes out of both sides of the drummer's mouth.

 

[MichaelM]

Self taught bedroom guitarist, I manage to keep myself amused.

If I was more proficient on the p.c., I'd add a bit of reverb/take out the duff notes etc -this was the best of a couple of takes:

Beekman Blues

 

[ianrauk]

What do you call someone who hangs around with musicians?.... A drummer.

 

[SquareDaff]

I passed the LRAM examination in "Voice". Have Grade 5 Theory (which I needed to take the previous) and Grade 4 Piano.