any piano players out there in litland?

[Bert Notorius]

how did you learn?
why did you want to?
how did you not cut your fingers off in dismay?

 

[Not Normal]

I'm more of a piano owner that a piano player. That said, I played my acoustic piano for about an hour today, playing around with a jazz/fusion thing I'm working on.

I took lessons as a kid for a year or so, but I never put the time in that I did on drums and percussion.

If you PM me I can give you a couple good teacher's contact in our area.

 

[Bert Notorius]

I'm more of a piano owner that a piano player. That said, I played my acoustic piano for about an hour today, playing around with a jazz/fusion thing I'm working on.

I took lessons as a kid for a year or so, but I never put the time in that I did on drums and percussion.

If you PM me I can give you a couple good teacher's contact in our area.

i bought a low end yamaha that has about a million voices.
maybe i need those stick-on letters.

 

[Not Normal]

i bought a low end yamaha that has about a million voices.
maybe i need those stick-on letters.

once you're comfortable knowing that one to the left of two black keys is C and one to the left of 3 blacks is F. Just count from there.

 

[stickygirl]

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/db/79/78/db7978198d5db82ca3ed55bb83cb2b33--playing-piano-men-pics.jpg

I'd like to see your fingering

It was easier than a cello and I got to play the organ

 

[Hypoxia]

I trained on typing keyboards, not musical keyboards, although I can play a few chords and riffs. I'm into fretboards, tuned in fourths and fifth mostly. My analog (Moog, Roland) and digital (Yamaha, Casio) synths see occasional use. We sold the Wurlitzer church organ and turned down the inheritable Steinway piano because no space here.

EDIT: We've turned down TWO pianos, a grand and a spinet that belonged to my partner's piano-teacher mother.

I've several fretted instruments here in varied stringings and tunings. Right now I'm consumed with a 6-string tenor 'uke setup as a Venezuelan cuatro, a real inversion. Standard 'uke stringing has high strings on top and bottom, lower strings in the middle: gCEa. The Vz.cuatro has low strings on the outside, higher strings inside: GceA. Chords are much the same; technique is quite different.

I've just resuscitated my Puerto Rican cuatro, a quite different, larger axe, its five doubled courses tuned in straight fourths (BEADG) below a guitar's (EADGBE). And there's the Oaxacan cuatro menor, like a 12-string 'uke, but that's another story.

Oh, the digital keyboards? Set them up to play rhythm and bass lines, then jam on a fretboard. The little Casio VL-Tone is great for that. Fits in a back pocket, too.

 

[Bert Notorius]

the only thing
oaxacan
in this house
is mezcal.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I don't play but I've been kinda fascinated by these ROLI Seaboard youtubes.

video 1

video 2

video 3

video 4

video 5

video 6

 

[Aphro]

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/db/79/78/db7978198d5db82ca3ed55bb83cb2b33--playing-piano-men-pics.jpg

I'd like to see your fingering

It was easier than a cello and I got to play the organ

Holy shit. I would play his organ.

 

[Bert Notorius]

that's not the least bit
sanitary.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Nope...never learned the keys.

I'm a strings/woodwinds guy.

 

[Not Normal]

Nope...never learned the keys.

I'm a strings/woodwinds guy.

Woodwinds, too? I've seen you post about guitars and stuff, but not reeds. Which do you prefer?

 

[Hypoxia]

that's not the least bit
sanitary.

One word: skin flute.

 

[Dinosaur1]

Never played. Always wanted to learn. When I bought this house, there was a piano and a small organ in the shed out back. Both very old an dirty. Not knowing how to tune them for proper utilization, I cleaned out the dust and cobwebs before donating them to charity. I was told they were valuable and worth lots of money. Should have done some research and sold them to a collector.

 

[quietlylooking]

........

 

[Bert Notorius]

i now have
one whole song
in my repetroir.

 

[stickygirl]

i now have
one whole song
in my repetroir.

You should feel proud! I can manage one song well on my guitar, but only on a good day when the fingers are behaving.

 

[Bert Notorius]

You should feel proud! I can manage one song well on my guitar, but only on a good day when the fingers are behaving.

i only learned guitar
to pick up chicks.

how about you?

 

[stickygirl]

i only learned guitar
to pick up chicks.

how about you?

It was a substitute for the cello, which is awkward to transport and a bitch to play well. She plays better than me, so maybe it's a thing?

 

[Bert Notorius]

It was a substitute for the cello, which is awkward to transport and a bitch to play well. She plays better than me, so maybe it's a thing?

oh.

the joke's on me.

plus when you play
the cello, it looks
like you're trying
to hump it.

 

[OldJourno]

My dad was quite the musician. As a child I took singing lessons for a year before he was convinced I couldn't sing, and I endured several years of piano lessons which I hated. He also brought me home a Fender Stratocaster (he owned a music store), the kind that really appreciated in value. I never really learned to play it.
True story: My only gig was in junior high, a Saturday night in a church basement. The leader of the band taught me to play "bass" on the Stratocaster on two or three songs, my younger brother played guitar and we had a really good drummer.
The leader played guitar and sang.
My bass, as I remember, consisted of playing the same four notes over and over again on "Gloria." I probably did the same on the other songs on our limited playlist.
Years later my younger brother pointed out that our leader, Michael Hedges, had become somewhat famous before dying.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Woodwinds, too? I've seen you post about guitars and stuff, but not reeds. Which do you prefer?

Clarinet, started band in 6th grade, went through HS, did the bassoon my Jr/Sr year though.

Now it's just the clarinet.

Do you play any of the more traditional or "classical" instruments?

 

[Bert Notorius]

the bassoon
looks like a bong.

 

[Queefer]

Tubby Checker.

 

[Queefer]

My dad was quite the musician. As a child I took singing lessons for a year before he was convinced I couldn't sing, and I endured several years of piano lessons which I hated. He also brought me home a Fender Stratocaster (he owned a music store), the kind that really appreciated in value. I never really learned to play it.
True story: My only gig was in junior high, a Saturday night in a church basement. The leader of the band taught me to play "bass" on the Stratocaster on two or three songs, my younger brother played guitar and we had a really good drummer.
The leader played guitar and sang.
My bass, as I remember, consisted of playing the same four notes over and over again on "Gloria." I probably did the same on the other songs on our limited playlist.
Years later my younger brother pointed out that our leader, Michael Hedges, had become somewhat famous before dying.

Are you still in Sacramento?