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Post subject: Besides Guitar...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 2:45 pm
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What instruments besides guitar (or bass) can you play? If you can't play any others, what would you like to be able to play?

I can play trumpet, piano, harmonica, and mandolin. But I wouldn't exactly call myself very good at any of them :lol:


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Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 2:55 pm
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Guitar--fair to good.
Slide Guitar--good.
Bass--meh.
Harmonica/Harp--good to real good.
Mandolin--meh, two songs, I just bought it a little while ago.
Vocals--People say I'm good but I'm not sure. I lost a lot of range a few years ago because of some surgeries.
Piano--terrible.
Possessing more instruments than I need--PERFECT!

I would like to be able to play the piano and the Hammond B-3 (yes, they are different instruments). My older brother was a natural at piano and could play those boogie-woogie barrelhouse rhythms awesomely, but for some reason he just quit and never started up again. I don't even know if he can even play anymore. I think his wife didn't want him playing in bars with me.

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Post subject: Re: Besides Guitar...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:03 pm
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Bass-Only fair
Drums-Better than bass!

Oh! I forgot, I'd love to be able to play the piano! :wink:


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Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:07 pm
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Play is a pretty strong word.
I attempt to play harmonica and keyboard (not very well I might add).
I am also a wanna be dummer although I have no kit. I find myself tapping beats on everthing from the wall to shelves to my belly!

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:11 pm
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well my guitar playing is okay-ish I guess. I play clarinet pretty well, I took place in a solo thing and got a superior rating which is the highest possible but from what I gather it's not that hard to get a superior rating. I haven't played my clarinet really for a while.

I would like to play trumpet and I have one that I got really cheap off a friend but never really learned it, I tried teaching myself but can't do it. I know the B flat major scale on trumpet and that's it.

I would also like to play guitar better, and drums but I don't have good enough coordination for it.

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Post subject: Re: Besides Guitar...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:33 pm
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drums. i wanna learn banjo.


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Post subject: Re: Besides Guitar...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:43 pm
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i want to learn banjo, blues harp, and slide fiddle.
then me and jeebus can start us a new band,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgLSowrU ... re=related

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Post subject: Re: Besides Guitar...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:44 pm
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guitar-i guess i'm alright
bass-not bad
drums-i can keep a beat but i can't do nothing fancy
i play the portuguese cavaquinho reasonably well (chords)

i dream of playing harmonica (always have), and something like the violin or the cello a classical stringed instrument, and maybe piano


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Post subject: Re: Besides Guitar...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:52 pm
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ralfcaetano wrote:

i play the portuguese cavaquinho reasonably well (chords)



what is that?

oh, i think a sax would be killer to play too.

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:54 pm
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Piano and Violin. Still in the beginning stages of those, but progress is progress no matter how slow it is or how bad it sounds ^^

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Post subject: Re: Besides Guitar...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:06 pm
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way cool jr wrote:
ralfcaetano wrote:

i play the portuguese cavaquinho reasonably well (chords)



what is that?



besides my band, i'm in a portuguese folk band where i play my nylon string classical guitar (kinda works as a bass in this type of music but contrasts along with the higher note strings) and i learned to play cavaquinho along the way with them... it's a small four stringed instrument that kinda plays like a ukelele... this instrument is only played using chords and as far as i know requiers little tecnique...

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Post subject: Re: Besides Guitar...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:28 pm
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that thing is funny looking. :D

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Post subject: Re: Besides Guitar...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:29 pm
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Location: Just South of the North Pole in a land full of hairy men and scary women.......
STrings - guitar, bass, mandolin(ish), piano(ishier)

Woodwind - recorder(descant, sopranino, tenor and treble), oboe(not for a long time), playig recorders and oboe mean,apparently, I could bluff the clarinet and saxes though have never tried a single-reed instrument.

Percussion - drums, tuned percussion(gloc, xylophone, marimba etc), tympani

other assorted stuff- played lead tip in drum corps and pipe bands as well as tenor and bass drums, started learning chanter although I never progressed to pipes, can make a reasonable sound on most percussion instruments

Yes it is a large list.............. :oops:

I am one of those lucky/annoying people who has been reading and playing music since before I started school and can pretty much make a musical sound on most things - I've never tried brass though..............I left that one to my sister who plays most brass instruments and is unbelievably musical. SHe also got the vocal talent in the family............... :( I love singing and can hold a tune, just not very tunefully........ :wink: :roll:

I have been in two bands where I was willing to do backing vocals but actually had the mic taken away from me!!!!!!! :(

Edit due to wookee's inability to hit a keyboard correctly.............

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:42 pm
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Guitar #1 :D
Harp #2 :o
Piano #3 :roll:
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:52 pm
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Besides guitars, I hack away at keys, lap steel, mando, accordian, vocals, harp
and sometimes use my Hohner melodica.

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