Reason you play your instrument

Well, i had a lot of friends who played, played it one night, and really liked it. I looked into it like 5 or 6 years ago, really with i would have started, as i'd be very good today. I hate the guys who play and learn daughters by john mayer as their crown achievement, and think the chicks will just flock to them.

If i get chicks then i get chicks, but guitar's always seemed cool (believe it or not i thought about getting a turntable once...imagine what my music choice would be like...!) and my dad really loves blues. He seems really proud that i'm starting to listen to blues now and i'm quicker to say who the artist on the radio is than he says it occasionally.



so, what about you guys?

I don't play aything right now. I bought a guitar with every intention of learning, but I just didn't have the time, and unfortunately now I just have no interest. I have an urge to play drums, but that's only because of all the fantastic drummers I listen to.

I was always interested in music. So I started at a young agte with piano, then school orchestra with the cello. Finally I got into guitar because I thought it was the cool thing to do. I am best at guitar basically because it's the only instrument I've owned consistently. Guitars are pretty cheap comparitevly. I bought my first guitar for about $200. To get a cello would cost me about $800, and a piano is pretty similar in price. Currently I own 4 guitars ranging in price from $150 - $5,000 and an old upright piano.

I also just got a hold of about $500 worth of peruvian mahogany (exact same wood PRS uses) to build a few guitars out of. Should be fun. I actually got it from a guy that sold wood to PRS, this was all left over chunks.

I play the guitar, but mainly because my dad does classical guitar and stuff, Also it's fun :)

I play drums. and i love it.
Its pretty expensive though. Last saturday, i bought a crash cymbal, a stand for it, and a double pedal, and it ended up costing me 400 euros.
And its pretty damn noisy. especially with the rock/heavy metal music taste. its alot of fun though.

and girls like it ^_^
and we are also setting up a band with some friends.

I've played guitar for 3 years now.
I was taught for the first year, but i didn't try, and for the last 2 years i've had no tutoring.
Only in the last year have i Actually Tried though, and through that i'm not likw... at a playing abillity of a grade 6-7 ^^

Err yeah.. but i learnt to play guitar when i saw other guitarists doing shit and though. Dang namit i dion't wanna listen to music ii wanna play music!

I pretty much grew up around classical violin, and was introduced to it at an early age. I've been playing for 9 years now, but I actually quit last year.

As for piano, I liked it and took lessons with my sister but after 3 years I found out that really wasn't for me.

And guitar...I got interested in playing when I started listening to and experimenting with other genres of music.

I play traditional malay percussions. Kompang, angklung, gendang, bongo, but i don't play drums, because the drumset is like RM1500, and the kompang is like RM15.

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Originally posted by Dale@2 Hours Ago
I've played guitar for 3 years now.
I was taught for the first year, but i didn't try, and for the last 2 years i've had no tutoring.
Only in the last year have i Actually Tried though, and through that i'm not likw... at a playing abillity of a grade 6-7 ^^

Err yeah.. but i learnt to play guitar when i saw other guitarists doing shit and though. Dang namit i dion't wanna listen to music ii wanna play music!

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*slap* Don't diss 6th graders! :angry: *triple slap*

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Anyways.....

I also have been playing guitar for 3 years, and I play in the mad l33t jazz band at my school (only band I can play guitar in :lol: can't play in any real bands with my friends because they don't play any instruments or anything)

I'm not like one of those n00bs who buy a guitar, learn one song, and don't even know how to really play it. I know who to sightread music, play chords, I know how to work out how to play chords like "Gm9 (add 5)", etc. B)

The first guitar I ever got is an acoustic guitar when I was 8. I also now own an indigo electric guitar and a magenta electric guitar.

I'm starting to play the french horn too, so I can get out of chorus next year. :D (I cant play guitar in the regular school band for some reason.... :blink: ) Chorus is boring and too easy, plus there are no french horn players in my grade, so I'll be the best one even though I suck. :lol: Band rocks. B)

band=sucks, chorus=sucks, we have a general music class at my school. You watch movies on like beethoven, the teacher pwns, and it's a fun class.

Anyways, you'll be glad you started so early when your friends and guys start in their teens to impress girls, and you just own them.

Makes me wish I joined jazz band at school..too late for me though.

I don't play many instruments :) Just piano. I started when I was 4 with my sister, but she got way way way way too good and I dropped it by the time I was 12 lololol.

Er..... In guitar, GRade 6 doesn't mean 6th grader, it means... well Level 6 basically XD

I play the piano because I am forced to by my dad.

started young with violin, but then i started playing it like a guitar, then i got one ^^

unlucky xtreme ur egg is a duff, hahahah

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Originally posted by half-life man@2 Hours Ago
I play the piano because I am forced to by my dad.

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HaHa hit him :huh:

I don't play any instrument im not that type of person

guitar - cos i like the sound
saxophone - cos i like the sound
bass - cos our band needed one :D

I play the guitar for many reasons.
I won't go into detail because my mom is ushering me off of the computer to go to school.. so I'll asplain when I get back.

This is just a little compilation of some songs.

http://adam.cavanaughclan.net/compilation.mp3

Jeff Buckley - So Real (intro)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life
Generic fill

The recording quality is complete crap. I just plugged my little fender 15watt amp into my laptop and recorded with windows sound recorder, which apparently can't save to mp3's at any decent qaulity. So all the cords sound horribly muddled together, and everything sounds distorted, you'll just have to put faith in the fact that the guitar sounds clean in real life, heh.

Anyway, the point is. That So Real intro is basically the reason I play guitar, those kinds of sounds keep me coming back.

yeah there are some nice acoustic songs and classical stuff which makes me want to play the guitar and the beginning first few lines of so real and wish you were here are the kind of sounds which are so nice

That's awesome stuff 43. I love stuff like that too, the kind of stuff that you just picture someone sitting alone with just his guitar, playing.

well i play around.....14-15 instruments, most of them by ear.

I play guitar cuz i just love learning new songs and playing in general. It's one of the most inportant things in my life i'd say.

I play drums because it's hecka cool lol and really fun....great stress reliever

And saxophone mostly because i got one for free so meh what can ya do. lol :lol:

lol..
btw, school banders arent losers, thats a sterotype. :D

^which means you ARE a school bander, therefore look forward to anything band related, therefore ARE a loser.

yes, i'm a school bander... jazz bander...
jazz bands arent geeky.
i'm also in a proper band, go to member pics page.

Give me a link and i'll check it out. I'm lazy. EVEN BETTER pm me a link ^^

i would love to play saxamaphone :o

it's so classy plus i love jazz an blues and so on.. :D

i'd like to play...



grade 8 triangle. I bet i'd pick up The ladies (( even more so mwuahahaha .. actually .. at that party i could've got with 4-5 girls that were 2 -3 years older then ,e. I haev a gf though (( loyal ))))

Lol.

I play the saxophone. I haven't really kept on it, I'm EXTREMLY rusty on it. I played last night, and I couldn't remember the notes. I really want to learn how to play over again.

I started at school, and I became pretty good, I can still pay the theme to Titanic. xD

I like playing it, more of the blues/jazz. It's quite enjoyable.

i play none, but if i was to learn i would prob. be the piano or guitar. id play for poon. hendrix guitar style or some blues.