Musicians

[pop_54]

I play the one string fiddle a lot... and I'm pretty good at playing the pink Oboe But other than that I did tinkle the Ivories as a youngster and got quite adept at it, even wrote my own music with all them squiggly things and lines, now I'm just a bit crotchety all round.

Crap these days the old fingers are buggered up with years of work abuse and just aren't flexible enough.

 

[Guest]

Crap these days the old fingers are buggered up with years of work abuse and just aren't flexible enough.

Try me, Pops. P.

 

[upfront]

I play the piano - but classical piano, so would probably be crap in the Lit big band.

 

[Cherrie]

Believe it or not, when I lived in Scotland for a few years I learnt to play the bagpipes. Now I'm afraid, the most I can manage is the Tissue and comb.

 

[DarkLit]

I was compelled to learn the flute in high school as a way to meet girls. Happily, years later, I was able to introduce my girlfriend to the pleasures of double-tonguing...

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

I'm not a musician but i do like to sing

but in the shower

 

[Guest]

I'm not a musician but i do like to sing

Singers are musicians, their voice is their instrument.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

I play bass and a pretty sleazy guitar myself. Also saxophone and clarinet. Have my very own ancient bass clarinet from when I thought I might be a new Eric Dolphy. Put myself through grad school partly by playing in a wedding band (frilly shirts, tuxedos, the works. Union scale: the most money I ever made in music.)

I keep on thinking about buying a string bass (I played in HS), but lately I've been seized by an irrational desire to learn to play the bassoon...

Maybe it's time I increased my medication?

---dr.M.

(I'll increase mine, as well.)

I play and I sing. I have multiple degrees in performance and education in voice, French horn and piano.

This means at parties I can accompany myself on the piano when I sing (until I get too drunk and then I can't play for shit).

 

[yui]

I can play a samisen if the focus of enough familial pressure, but if you are starting a "Literock Band", I don't have much to offer. In fact, I'm afraid that everyone would need serious medication after my obligatory lead-samisen-player solo...

Yui ^_^

 

[Belegon]

Call me a passable guitarist/bass guitarist with delusions of grandeur. I still play on very rare occasions.

I can sing; that is, I know some of the mechanics of it due to musical theatre and the tutelage of my high school best friend. Those of you in NoCal, he used to be the Choir Director at Grace Cathedral. He taught me to carry a tune. Now, is my voice worth the effort of the carrying, that is debatable.

I'm going to Lauren's site to listen to Liar...

edited to add: Awright! very atmospheric and very cool!

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'm going to Lauren's site to listen to Liar...

edited to add: Awright! very atmospheric and very cool!

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

Singers are musicians, their voice is their instrument.

Perdita

True

 

[Mhari]

Piano and clarinet here. Voice too, I guess.

I can tune a guitar, but I've forgotten everything I learned about how to play it!

 

[Guest]

Just checked in here cos I saw Mhari's name. Zdrast!


I wish people would say a bit more than merely list the instrument.

What do you play on it? What kind of voice do you have and what do you sing?

Perdita (sans any musical ability)

 

[Liar]

I have a guitar. I have been told that it is a good guitar. Like, really good. And try as I might, I can't play it. Not even half assed. How's that for annoying?

Edited to add: Didn't read perdita's post until I posted this. But she's right. I'll elaborate. (not about the guitar though, it's embarrassing)

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

let me see what kind of voice? Soprano/alto course I can't go up as high on the notes as Mariah Carey can but hey I try

 

[minsue]

I'm going to Lauren's site to listen to Liar...

edited to add: Awright! very atmospheric and very cool!

Yes, it is! I already knew that part, dammit! Where is Liar's song???? Please help the blonde goose!

 

[RenzaJones]

I can sing and play the gutair and half ass my way on the keyboard.

 

[Xelebes]

I played the viola, the piano and I took choir in High School. Right now I'm a basement musician surrounded with electronic gear making various forms of electronica. I'm working on expanding it so I have a second synthesiser, a second cpu, another microphone to record vocals in stereo. Currently working on a demo cd... I'm such a sound geek, lol.

 

[Mhari]

Zdrast', Perdita!

Hrm, what do I do with those instruments? Not much, these days. I really should get back into playing the piano, though. I do pop-y stuff mainly now, though I used to do classical and jazz.

Clarinet...well, whatever we played for concert and marching band, which was just about everything. One of my favorites was getting to play the solo for Bolero.

And voice...alto, I suppose, since a lot of male tenors can sing higher than I can! Been a long, long time since I've really done anything with my voice, either. Used to sing a lot in the church choir and was in all the school musicals. (I also played handbells for church!)

I can see that I really need to re-enter the musical world!

~M

 

[Guest]

One of my favorites was getting to play the solo for Bolero.

Ta bolsh! I am so impressed.

Perdita

 

[BohemianEcstasy]

Hehehe, I've played piano since age 7 (putting it at 13 years, now). I'm not that GREAT at it, but I really enjoy playing Beethoven and Brahms. My crowning pianistic achievement was my senior recital two years ago. Since then, I haven't played much at all.

My other musical stuff isn't as fun. I play trumpet, and I LOVE my horn, but I'm not in an ensemble right now, and I've always had insecurity issues regarding my range and everything. Not a very good personality for a trumpet, personally. I played in the concert band and have some experience with the jazz band (I was first trumpet my junior year!). I did well at state for solos and such, but not as well as I wanted to.

I play guitar, but that's mostly for when I need to bring an instrument with me somewhere just to slake my musical thirst. It's good for playing worship music and country songs, that's about it. And I LOOK as if I should be an acoustic guitarist, frankly.

I sing, too, (alto, and you wouldn't wonder if you've ever heard me talk) but not often. Again, I'm not in an ensemble right now, so it's tough to maintain it. I was in like six choirs at a time in high school and got way too burnt out. I'm starting to miss it, again, though.

 

[Belegon]

I wish people would say a bit more than merely list the instrument.

What do you play on it? What kind of voice do you have and what do you sing?

Perdita (sans any musical ability)

'Dita, sorry 'bout that, of course you were looking for something more insightful than a list...

I learned guitar in high school and had visions of being the next Hendrix but instead found that I enjoyed laying the basis for other's forays into artistic expression. I took up the bass. I like to show off now and again but most of the time I'd rather hang around the edges and guide. I played(play) mostly swing or cool era jazz and heavy metal. Can't explain that juxtaposition, so don't ask.

Voice-wise I'm a baritone and aside from alone in the car I've done a little musical theatre in high school and college and I do enjoy surprising the kind of people who assume a sports geek can only croak out ESPN approved pop. I sing-a-long with my kids quite a bit.

Guess it is just a general personality trait that I like the edges with brief forays into the center to get an attention fix.

 

[Liar]

Ok, elaborating

When I was an angry teen I playedthe bass (badly) and then the drums (better) in an angry teen punk rock band that gained local notoriety by playng louder than everyone else.

My own singing is done mostly. The voice is a very unschooled midrange-somewhere one, but I use it as much as I can. It is definitely good enough for performing as troubadur or in musicals, something I've done most of my life too.

Most music of mine is done tinkering on a keyboard and programming sequencers and drum machines in my home studio though. I got a friend who sings a hell of a lot better than me, and together we've got a two man band together in the electronica/introspective alternative pop/blues/what have you genre. (The sample on Lauren's page is by my band.)

#L

 

[raphy]

So, um, what qualifies as a sleazy guitarist?

I'm an ex-classical guitarist that discovered rock and roll and never looked back. Nowadays, Paganini sits right next to Stevie Ray Vaughn in my repertoire. Been playing since I was 11. I've pretty much played every single day at least once since then.

To answer 'dita's questions about how I play and what I play..

I pride myself on being a versatile guitarist, able to live at home in any genre, be it classical, jazz, blues, rock, folk, you name it. I used to work as a session guitarist, which was excellent training for being able to cross genres, because I never knew what the next band that requested my services would want me to play on.

I've never really had any musical training to speak of - Everything that I do I do by feel. I've done the garage band thing, and I've played in front of 2000 people. I still don't refer to myself as a real musician. I'm a hack. I'm just a hack with tens of thousands of hours of experience.

Guitar is my first love, and will always be my one true love. But as befits a rock musician, I can hold my own on the bass and drums, and I play enough piano to be able to write on it. I'm very good at writing piano pieces that I'm not good enough to play. I'm presently playing percussion/snare drum for the local community band.

That's a different experience for me, because I'm surrounded by real musicians, and it's more than a little intimidating.

Oh, and under duress, I sing, but I'm a much better backing vocalist or harmony vocalist than lead.