Do you play an instrument?

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Used to play a decent amount of bebop on the sax (tenor, baritone, and currently alto), helps TREMENDOUSLY. Keyboards my #2, and that has it's obvious uses. Guitar, mainly bossa nova/flamenco type stuff, clarinet, flute, trombone, I was definitely a band geek .

Always wanted to learn drums, though. I think live recording into a dnb track would be the tits.

yeah man, the manipulation of breaks in DnB, from a drummers perspective, is amazing.

beast;


http://www.youtube.com/user/Jungleritter
^ brilliant channel, lessons for people who are trying to play DnB/ Jungle beats on a kit.

DAMN thanks for that channel, I knew someone must've been doing it!

no worries, jojo mayer is a god too.



Note to self - Save up for a drumset

[deadly_habit]

heh wait till macc posts
between him and kj best drummers in dnb

[zuta]

Indeed! Segovia is awesome. Bream is pretty great as well, and John Williams of course. I had a masterclass with Xuefei Yang last year, she's incredible, have you heard her play? Watch this and be amazed. (She's a hottie too.)

You make my day man i love this song , she is good indeed , too much passion

i like Paco de Lucia too , is great

[deadly_habit]

[deadly_habit]

even though i don't play drums anymore buddy rich is my don
jazz seems to produce the best musicians

pure audio sex and heaven

[AllNightDayDream]

The Legend...

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[deadly_habit]

The Legend...

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jean baudin i think is the name comes so close with his 9 string bass

[AllNightDayDream]

The Legend...

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jean baudin i think is the name comes so close with his 9 string bass

Yeah he's actually a real good songwriter, his original stuff is great.

Buddy rich probably takes the crown, but i'm a gene krupa kinda guy... Just look at his face!
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[deadly_habit]

heh they're all massive speed addicts though before it became a drug

this is the guy who gives the best advice
been trying to get a usa tour for ages
eu im jealous

[deadly_habit]

god bless doa and the fact i upped this, think he said on here this was his first live gig

[DJ Crackle]

I played a lot of trumpet throughout school years. Got big into playing jazz. Dropped it for a bit, and unfortunately, it's not an easy instrument to pick up again instantly like some of the others. Couple that with the fact that it's not easy to just start jamming some tunes out whenever I want as I can't just instantly drop a band together (and playing with backing tracks just isn't right...), and I don't really play much anymore.
Still play guitar all of the time though I've never really had any classical training on it (though maybe that's why I still play... lol). Big into folk music. M. Ward, Conor Oberst's new stuff... that kinda shit.
And I play enough piano to get by. I won't impress anyone who plays piano, but it's enough for me to do with it what I need for my own musical purposes.
And I've had a fair bit of theory training.

And tbh, while I wish I could say it's helped, most of my ventures into EDM have been fairly unintelligent, strictly "hype" shit.
Haha.

[paravrais]

I used to play a lot of guitar but probably wouldn't be any good these days. I've been looking into getting piano lessons and learning music theory but I'm sorry kaiori breathe I totally disagree that the more theory you know the better tunes you will write. All of the best things I've written be it on guitar, piano pieces or dance music have all been written through grace and 'feeling' the notes and the melody out rather than going 'ok so this is a C so i'll move to an F#' or whatever. My last couple of songs I've just felt out and they have been so much better than the things I was writing in the last couple of months where I was trying to use scales I'd looked up etc.

Learning theory won't do any harm providing you take it all with a pinch of salt and realise that nothing is gospel. If you take it too seriously your making music inside a box. I think that if you really practice an instrument and learn how to play it by yourself you can become an astonishing musician with very different ideas perhaps to if you had been classically trained.

If your the kind of person that struggles to write a melody then learning theory will be a big help to get you on your way. If it comes naturally to you then don't stifle yourself by looking up 'rules' etc.

EDIT: Though I have to say learning guitar and writing melodies on it definitely gave me a leg up when I moved to electronic production and writing on the keyboard.

But to get back on topic. I sort of play guitar and piano and can beatbox reasonably well too. Trying to learn to sing but I don't think my voice is really cut out for it, occasionaly rap too but haven't had the courage to spit over one of my own tracks yet

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Learning theory won't do any harm providing you take it all with a pinch of salt and realise that nothing is gospel. If you take it too seriously your making music inside a box. I think that if you really practice an instrument and learn how to play it by yourself you can become an astonishing musician with very different ideas perhaps to if you had been classically trained.

Well said!

[AllNightDayDream]

Conor Oberst's new stuff...

Really? Everything he made after lifted seems so much less original to me...

[DJ Crackle]

Conor Oberst's new stuff...

Really? Everything he made after lifted seems so much less original to me...

I've liked a lot of his stuff for a long ways back, whether it be him, bright eyes, or desaparecidos. And yeah, I'm a bigger fan of some of the older bright eyes albums (although i loveddd the sister albums in 03... don't remember their names right now). I was just referencing his newer stuff with the mystic valley band as having that folky sound I play a lot.
Idk, it just seems more fun to play to me.

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Soundcloud

that sort of thing from a drummers perspective is belting.
What seems like a rudiment/ syncopation practice, being transformed into a full track is quality.

So much from so little.

[AllNightDayDream]

Conor Oberst's new stuff...

Really? Everything he made after lifted seems so much less original to me...

I've liked a lot of his stuff for a long ways back, whether it be him, bright eyes, or desaparecidos. And yeah, I'm a bigger fan of some of the older bright eyes albums (although i loveddd the sister albums in 03... don't remember their names right now). I was just referencing his newer stuff with the mystic valley band as having that folky sound I play a lot.
Idk, it just seems more fun to play to me.

ahhh, kudos for knowing desaparecidos That album was sooo underrated.
I listened to a taste of cassadega and I guess it was just too different for me, I guess I can't expect him to make the same music for 10 years

[DJ Crackle]

Conor Oberst's new stuff...

Really? Everything he made after lifted seems so much less original to me...

I've liked a lot of his stuff for a long ways back, whether it be him, bright eyes, or desaparecidos. And yeah, I'm a bigger fan of some of the older bright eyes albums (although i loveddd the sister albums in 03... don't remember their names right now). I was just referencing his newer stuff with the mystic valley band as having that folky sound I play a lot.
Idk, it just seems more fun to play to me.

ahhh, kudos for knowing desaparecidos That album was sooo underrated.
I listened to a taste of cassadega and I guess it was just too different for me, I guess I can't expect him to make the same music for 10 years

Fuck yeah. Read Music | Speak Spanish is one of my all time favorite albums. Would do nasty things to get them back together for one more.
Yeah, I hated Cassadaga at first, to be completely honest. It grew on me. I think it was the tinge of country that started to leak in really hard that had originally scared me away. I like it, but I don't listen to it like I do his other stuff.
Mainly, I was referencing his work with Mystic Valley Band though, and some of the Monsters Of Folk stuff.

[Mortal]

got to grade one in guitar...seven years ago...i can still play the first 6 notes of jingle bells

[hurlingdervish]

guitar, keys, sometimes trumpet. mostly use guitar as an "idea pad" rather than recording it, although when i do you wont recognize it from all the processing
drummers have all the power. embrace it. (assuming you have the funds to maintain a kit, transport it and find rehearsal space... )