Play good or just play?

In my younger days (gods, that sounds wrong to say even though it's right) I played trumpet and baritone, and could probably pick them up again fairly easily. I also used to play a bit of piano, but that would take me a little longer to get passable at again....

I can 'fake' drums and percussion, even though I never had any formal training in that area.

Last summer at a ren faire I picked up a reed flute (in the alto range) that I practise on from time to time. It came with a fairly simple instruction booklet, that's really not written for someone with my mindset. It doesn't tell me what key it's in so I could get music to play, although I think it's C key, but could most likely be wrong.

http://myanimelist.net/anime/27989/Hibike_Euphonium You might be interested in it with your background with that instrument.

Me too, but I'm the driver so too bad for them.

I cannot play any instruments or sing. I have absolutely no musical talent at all.

Moonshine jug and spoons. Oh, I can slap my leg. I try not to limit myself.

I've been playing piano all my life and was classically trained right up until college.


I'm also pretty good with the trumpet; I play first trumpet in pep band.


Next best intrument is the guitar, but for some reason we can't say that.


After that, I'd say I play the harmonica all right. And ocarina.


I also taught myself some basic violin, though I mostly just fiddle around.


And finally, I'm a pretty good singer. I sing at my hometown's summer festival, if that's a credential.


I really love music. It's one of my passions. Though it is just a hobby. I don't think I could do it as a career. I like to rack my brain with science and medicine.

This. Both of this.

I'm cursed. I'm right handed but play left handed so I'm very limited in what I have access to.

Been playing guitar since I was 9 (35 years) but I also play keyboard and bass. I was in a band for 16 years straight back home in NJ.

I would love to learn how to play a pedal steel, banjo, and violin/fiddle but finding any of those left handed is impossible.

Dabbled in drums and I was fairly good but I never wanted to invest in a set of my own. Back then I didn't have the room or privacy to practice anyway.

And yet I bet you enjoy music, even so

Hay I was going to say that!


I used to play bass but I broke two fingers and hand bones on my left hand and they are a bit stiff now.

I love music and always listen to it. But performing it? I am totally inept.

Everyone is, at first. You just have to persevere and endure being pretty crap for a period until you develop some skill.

Indeed. Skills take time, practice, and perseverence.


I'm svcktacular at music though, as it's much like a language on its own accord. I played bass guitar for about 8 years, self taught (that is self taught from scratch, I didn't have any music training on other instruments or anything - I knew someone who said she was self taught on bass but she had been playing guitar and had lessons in guitar since a kid. That's not self taught in my books. Anyhoo...). I can write music and have some songs that did ok on the local circut (I don't have recordings though) but I'm rather robotic when I play it. Music was not really a big thing in our family, we didn't have records, the radio wasn't played, and we didn't sing together as musical families do. Despite that I got really into it and started playing as a teenager and going to see lots of local bands and that kind of thing and really wanted to play in one, it looked like so much fun. But I was missing something.... the knowledge of music as a language, the musical grammar, if you will. Because of this I was never able to just sit and jam with people which is what seemed like the best fun thing to do, the musical collaboration.


Then I broke lots of bones in the last two hand bones and fingers of my left hand so I lost the strength and dexterity to chord and use the Frets properly.


C'est la vie.


Maybe one day.

Thats not a guitar? I was messing around with a weird clay/rock ocorina at one time......but nothing sounds better to me then some nice spanish guitar playing. flamenco is great!

Video games and mayonnaise. I don't care what Squidward says, it's an instrument.

Keyboard. Mostly classical stuff. Not played for ages though. I would like to get back into it.

Guitar. Fiddled with drums and brass for a bit, tried piano.


I can't read sheets, my vision is too bad to read them from where they're supposed to be.


I used to do electronica as well, usually remixes of existing songs.


Now all I do is make jewelry and try to learn Swedish. Not going so well so far.

Many... many years ago, I played the trombone for the better part of a decade. 20 years later, I knocked the dust of of the old King Trigger, played the B flat scale and ran through the baritone solo of 'Tiger's of San Pedro'. All 15 seconds of it.

My lips blew up like a Kardashian Lip Challenge and I walked around the house for the next two days talking like Mushmouth form Fat Albert.

That was my last concert. I thanked the fans for coming and bowed out into the shadows.

I'm sorry, Senor, but this just got me rolling! I am a-feared to try and pick up a tuba again after (mumble counting) 33 years. I know exactly what you went through there

I've been playing guitar for almost 15 years, and now rocking the keyboard after a year and I don't even know how to read music period.

When I play a guitar I focus on my playing and not reading music (because I don't know how to), so having bad eye sight shouldn't stop you from playing music completely.


I couldn't play with an orchestra for example (unless I was leading and they were following), but I can get up there and jam some megadeth guitar solos or nightwish piano solos. I got enough music knowledge to play with a rock band, but that comes from experience and being able to 'feel' the music, rather than know when I'm supposed to change tempos and whatnot.

I can't play by ear, everything from guitar was learned from tabs and committed to memory.


I had a band in high school. So there's that.

In my earlier contribution I totally forgot that during the mid 1970s I was heavily into 'early' music (Baroque, Renaissance, medieval) and took up the recorder. I practiced it hot and heavy for less than a year, but during that time became good enough to play (or play at) mid-level sonatas and other works. Not at a public performance level, but easily well enough to please myself. For good or ill I entered a period when I simply could not devote time to practice it, and never afterward resumed serious study. I retained much of my 'chops' for some years, and for a brief period even played duets 'for fun' with a trained flautist. (I suspect she did so to humor me. I was certainly nowhere near her level of proficiency.) I still have my cheap Yamaha plastic alto record, but can't do a thing with it anymore. (I also have a cheap wood tenor, but my hands are too small to adequately span its finger holes.)

That's awesome.

It's amazing what someone who knows what they're doing with a Tin Whistle can actually do.

I had one but my daughter liked to play it as a kid and began to teeth on it. Really should pick another up sometime.