Play an instrument?

Thought it would be cool to have this thread

I play guitar, have done for about 4 years. Play mainly metal, blues, rock.

I play bass ... since I was about 12/13 ... only just got back into it seriously, though ... im into the same things ...

I play bass as well, been playing about 5 years or so, but seem to have stopped almost completley since i came to uni, which is a shame

I wanted to learn to play piano, so I bought myself a keyboard and never got around to it.

Then I wanted to play guitar, so I bought myself one of those...and never got around to it.

never rlly got into playing music i got as far as keybaord in school but never really enjoyed playing music.

CLARINET!
I'm so cool.

my 9 year old brother playes the clarnet. lol he aint bad ither good instrament he scares the cat by blowing really loud down it lol.

I'll tell you what I did when I first started to play. I used to take the top bit off, the bit with just the reed in, and follow my brothers around blowing down it, purely for the annoying loud squeaky sound.

You should suggest that to your brother.

I also suggest he moves onto Sax because it's more fun and less people play them for some reason.

yh my parents want him to play the clarinet for a bit longer to make sure he has mastered it and you he does the ennoyign sqeaky sound all the time in my bloody ears!!

not many people play sax because its one of the most overly complicated instruments to play.

the sax is cool though ... almost as cool as the bass guitar ...

yh sax is cool its made cooler by the simpsons go bleeding gums!! woop!

eveyone knows bass is the coolest instrument there is... unless your playing indie or emo

Watch, or even just simply listen to, Muse and tell me bass is the coolest instrument. He is the dullest musician I have ever seen and seemingly does fuck all to the music. Seems that in most band situations bass is simply overlooked, unless you're someone like Jamie T or Primus and then it's a matter of...

"I'm the singer, and I play bass. ALL songs will have impressive bass, you guys play backup for a change."

you'll be suprised how much a bass adds


I can play the guitar and bass

and over the summer i'm thinking about borrowing my sisters keyboard and learning to play that

well get you, rodders, arent we the talented one?

He doesn't say how well he can play them. Maybe we just get a bunch of "Three Blind Mice" in different instrumental forms.

And yes, I am aware that bass adds to an overall song, I'm just saying that it's normally not the most impressive part.

Got a guitar... can't play it though.

Depends on what you want to listen to..

Bass stuff tends to more rock/ metal etc

where as the guitar is normally chillout with a bit of acoustic rock/ alternative (depends on how i feel)

i would have said that bass is a lot more funk and jazz than rock and metal

I play a Epiphone Les Paul Standard with white Emg 81-85
A Cort XTH also equiped with a Emg 81-85 sett (acctually a pretty awsome guitar for the price).

I have a Vox 30w valvetronix
For distortion i use either a Boss Metal Zone or a Boss Metalcore
I also have a Boss Cromatic tuner (which is fun to play with from time to time).
Also use a 1.14 jim dunlop tortex guitar pick.

Ive played for about 4 years, play mostly metal and play in a Deathcore/metalcore/death/god only knows band.

b0ring wrote:I wanted to learn to play piano, so I bought myself a keyboard and never got around to it.

Then I wanted to play guitar, so I bought myself one of those...and never got around to it.

ditto, just replace piano with cornet