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Post by El Regulus on Dec 5, 2011 19:59:31 GMT -6
Hm. Sort of. It depends, really.
I took organ lessons around the age of 7, and despised every minute of it. I learned nothing by way of theory, and taught myself certain songs by listening rather than reading sheet music. Gave it up after a couple of years.
Played harmonica. Badly. As in, recently-dumped-lover-picking-up-an-acoustic-guitar-for-the-first-time-in-their-life-and-writing-a-laughably-bad-love-song-in-order-to-get-their-significant-other-back bad. It mysteriously disappeared soon afterward.
I got into choir around 8th grade, continued it into high school and college. To date, I've been in six different choirs. I took several years of music theory along with performing. I also played around a lot with an electronic keyboard I had, ranging from church songs to popular songs to songs I just pretended to know how to play. Whatever.
Now, you could say I am more into percussion. Mostly because I suck at rhythm and picking out most percussion related things in a song, and hope that being into this stuff will help me not to suck. I play zills/sagat (finger cymbals) when I dance. It sounds simple, but trust me, sustaining a triplet pattern (or any other rhythm) while dancing to the beat can be quite the bitch.
I also own a darbuka (middle eastern goblet drum) that I practice with. I'm not very good at it, but then, I just don't have the time right now. Once I get enough hours, I intend to take some days off of work to devote to improving my skill.
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Post by AbsoluteZero255 on Dec 6, 2011 9:12:57 GMT -6
Piano since 2002. Taking a little break from lessons and am now self-teaching myself some pieces.
Trumpet since 2009, mainly because of PopTart :3
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Post by torjuz on Dec 26, 2011 13:00:19 GMT -6
I'm probably a musician, even if I'm only 15 years old. I have played the Euphonium (Tuba) since 6th grade and Baritone since 2nd grade. I'm really into music and sheets etc. I read G clef, and I can read F and C clef along with some other I can't name in English. I'm also thinking about going on a music school on collage, this year. I can play Euph/Baritone/Tuba and I know how to play the Guitar, different percs and Piano. I'm also often transposing stuff or re-writing stuff to friends, like a big orchestra piece I'm going to use on a project at my school. I also make YTPMVs, which probably mostly everyone in this forum knows about.
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Post by dulcie493 on Jul 28, 2012 22:06:08 GMT -6
I have been a guitarist for 5 years. I play metal and nothing else. The reason I compose on mario paint is actually because some of the music I compose is too difficult for me to play on guitar.
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Post by wingeddragonra75 on Jan 29, 2013 19:28:47 GMT -6
I mainly played keyboard for a while, but by ear. I didn't read sheet music, I listened and played stuff on there (mainly music I like; rock and stuff like that ). And then I got a Flying V guitar for Christmas and have been callicising my fingers on it ever since. I also like to sing, and sometimes, I will even bang away on a drum set
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 0:28:18 GMT -6
Piano for 6 years. Bass for 2 years. Guitar for 4 years, until I quit 2 years ago. Violin for 3 years. Trumpet since last week.
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