Musically inclined.
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Who here is musically inclined? Specifically, who here plays an instrument or has in the past?
I have played the trumpet since 7th grade and I still do to this day (well yesterday).
I played all through grade school, in college for the university for a year then in a rock band for 3 years. After I got married I started playing in church and have done so for almost 10 years. I even played for 3 years with the Huntsville Brass Band, a local semi-professional not for profit organization of about 35+/- people.Just out of high school I went with the Georgia State Big Band to europe. We went to Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Belgum, Luxembourg (briefly
) and Denmark. Not in that order. This is where I learned to drink and play at the same time which I can tell you takes skill. And my one claim to fame... I was playing the solo to "In the Mood" when the Queen of Denmark rode by in a parade.Currently I play with a Trumpet trio and a Brass Quintet at my church and whenever my dad wants me to play either at his church or any of his recitals, he is a retired engineer and opera singer... go figure. I have 4 horns, a Bb Trumpet (Yamaha), a Bb Flugelhorn (Yamaha), a Bb Cornet (Yamaha) and a Bb/A/G Piccolo Trumpet (Stomvi). My next "toy" will be a C Trumpet (Yamaha Xeno hopefully).
So let's hear it, what do you play, or did you play?
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I play didgeridoo,and make them
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Does beeing a DJ count?
Because if so then I play:2 CDJ-1000MK's And a DJM-1000
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I believe it takes dedication and quite a bit of musical know how to make those things work as well so I say yes. Get me in front of that set up and I will just break it, and I am not talking about break dancing.
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I've been playing piano since I was 4. I played all the brass instruments in a brass band and I also learnt guitar but I don't play it now.
Ivica here's one of our best didge players
cheers
john -
@Boo:
Yeah it requires a good feeling of rhytm and understanding of music, 4 beat - 16 beat - 64 beat, you got to feel when the next 64 are coming in. And you got to line up the speed of the 2 records on sound alone. And after that you have to sync em up. So quite a bit of technique is involved.
Though I must say those setups are basically bastard proof. I often abuse the cue and play buttons and they can take it without a problem. So you wont break it, you will just look at the shitload of buttons and sliders and have no clue how it works and how you can get a decent mix out of it.
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Thanks James for this song.I show respect to this guy because he makes some extraordinary things with didg and i know how hard are they to learn.
Currently I am mastering plastic didgeridoo I also made from fat plastic 2 meters long and one person cannot cary it because it is way to heavy.but it makes incredibly deep bass and I like that because I always try to make didg sound that got some trance rhytms.
Anyone who did not try to play didgeridoo should try it.I try it and I cannot see myseld whitout it,especially when you learn circural breathing,then nothing cannot stop you
BTW, Djalu Gurruwiwi is master of all yadiki players -
I suppose I should be musically inclined, it runs in my family pretty strong. I've got 3 uncles, one who plays the drums, and teaches at the musicians institute in Hollywood. Another, whom has his own line of guitar amps, and a few patents on guitar/banjo/sitar technology. And my last uncle recently won a lifetime achievement award, for running the best high school band program in the country for the last 10 years.
I...can't play anything though! lol
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@unknownuser said:
Currently I am mastering plastic didgeridoo I also made from fat plastic 2 meters long
I once made a didge out of two pieces of plastic downpipe where one slid within the other so you could tune it. In recording the didge with a band it's often hard to get the damn things in tune but the variable length tuneable didge seemed to work.
here's a track I recorded where the didge was around 4 tones lower than the track - we slowed the multitrack recorder down to meet it then bought it all back up to speed. It took a lot of breath to play it that slow.
the artist is Troy Cassar Daley.
cheers
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I've played the piano by ear for years, since I was about 12. Picked up an acoustic guitar 5 years ago and love it. I have a good ear for music, but as for playing technically I'm pretty poor. Nevertheless I enjoy it even if no-one else does
. My brother is a VERY good guitarist- he must've got our mother's musical genes, she was a singer. I sung in a university choir when I lived in Sweden a few years ago though I must confess it was mostly to meet girls 
. I can't read music so I had to listen to everyone else a couple of times and then sing by memory.One of my lifetime ambitions is to learn the Great Highland bagpipes- I will get around to it one of these days.
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Argh bag-pipes! There is a time and place for them. So annoying when I pass people busking with them as you walk by Waverley Market or down Sauchiehall Street. GRRR!
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I play the accordion, and have done for about 10 years. That probably puts me on a similar level to the Edinburgh bagpipers, though I don't tend to inflict my music on anyone who hasn't specifically requested it
AJ
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@dzinetech said:
Argh bag-pipes! There is a time and place for them. So annoying when I pass people busking with them as you walk by Waverley Market or down Sauchiehall Street. GRRR!
haha, I agree! The worst thing is how bloody bad some of these street pipers are- it's mean-spirited I know, but there's a blind piper in Edinburgh- his pipes are never in tune. I often think how irritated I would be if I worked in shops near these guys. As for the "Inca" pan pipes bands, don't even get me started. How come they always have thousands of pounds worth of studio equipment?
Still, having lived away from Scotland and returning I do find the pipes very evocative.
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I actually bought a Bagpipe chanter and tried to learn to play. I quickly learned that I did not have the patience for it. Plus, playing trumpet all my life, anything past 3 fingers (occasionally 4 on my picc)... I just cannot do it.
As for the accordian, I have a special place in my... well I cannot say heart. My best friend's father (full blooded Italian) plays. When we were growing up he would get it out and play all the time. Especially if I spent the night in grade school, he would walk around the house at 6AM playing.
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my mother, being the wonderful artist she is, is also a muscian.
here are a few of here songs...
she plays a 1951 Martin 00-18 and the piano
this is a story about a friend of my step dad who wanted to go to Viet Nam but was turned down, he died in a drug deal gone bad... he spray painted on a WWII memorial... "I love Stacy - C.H. Jones"
http://www.aboveallhouseplans.com/BrendaRand/Brenda%20Rand%20-%20CH%20Jones.mp3
and here is another song...
"are you there"
http://www.aboveallhouseplans.com/BrendaRand/Brenda%20Rand%20-%20are%20you%20there.mp3
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I play a couple of instruments.
In College before I transfered into design I was a Music Performance Major - Concert & Church Pipe Organ (for Cathedrals and such). I had meant to get back into playing but only just started playing church services again after 25 years
. Where does the time go?I also play 12 string acoustic, banjo and am now learning Mandolin.
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Acoustic guitar and a mean blues harp.
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Try playing these
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