Out of Interest - How many musicians we got?

hugh · Post by **hugh** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:57 pm

I played the recorder in primary school does that count?

Coppola · Post by **Coppola** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:57 pm

I play the saxophone, about grade 4 or 5.

jalfrezi · Post by **jalfrezi** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:19 pm

used to play guitar before i got into production and just made myself forget all the theory knowledge I had so as to learn the sound of drum and bass.
now i wish i hadn't done cos i'm trying to re-learn everything I purposely forgot. clever.
nowhere near as good as i was, i now just play in 2 bar loops. any longer that 4 bars and i'm lost.

paravrais · Post by **paravrais** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:55 pm

Played guitar for like 4-5 years obsessively. Pretty competent at keys but never really tried to learn em, just picked things up from my mates. Only just starting to move into electronic music production even though ive been into dubstep for ages (the amount of times ive been listening to dubstep and then picked up my guitar and just found no way of replicating the same feel lol)

rugged163 · Post by **rugged163** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:57 pm

guitar since way back

-dubson- · Post by **-dubson-** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:59 pm

played guitar for 6 years now

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:06 pm

playing percussion and drums is my 'day job.'

having a knowledge of how keys/scales and rhythm work will always help you work faster... ie, knowing how to structure the chord you think you want to hear, or where various rhythmic elements go in the beat that's playing in your head.

as far inspiration goes... not necessarily.

gars · Post by **gars** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:44 pm

been playing drums and guitar for 14 years in various bands, mostly noise, punk and hardcore...

pyro_racy · Post by **pyro_racy** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:46 pm

I play quite a lotta guitar, used to be into a lot of fast rock stuff

jah know · Post by **jah know** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:28 pm

Started on sax at 9, moved into all brass instruments, drums, and bass in HS. I feel I can play almost anything, cept. double reeded instruments and flutes.

Drummin is my ting to do.

rickyrich · Post by **rickyrich** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:52 pm

played guitar for years in different bands

now also play drums at home

still jam in the garage a lot with my house mates

jolly wailer · Post by **jolly wailer** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:32 pm

same as Macc. drums for 17 years -

ELLFIVEDEE · Post by **ELLFIVEDEE** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:37 pm

Hugh wrote:I played the recorder in primary school does that count?

yes yes!!!

Recorder in primary school, Started playing drums in a marching band when I was 13

, Then drums from there, and bass from my 15th birthday!

Always wanted to learn to terrorise a piano properly though, but never tell anyone. Be a nice party trick

lewisr · Post by **lewisr** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:51 pm

I play albino

beerz · Post by **beerz** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:19 am

Legendary wrote:
bEErz wrote:grade 5 pianno clarinet and guitar. nt reli helped me much tho i dont think
Isn't grade5 quite high? That shit could help making some real nice melodies and basslines, surely?

erm.....nt reli it goes up to grade 8 in guitar and clarinet and grade 5 i think is the highest in the jazz piano grades (which is what i did) but then i juss kinda stopped it all for like 5 years. it prob helps subconsciously but i duno how to compare my brain with sum1 else's

duskky · Post by **duskky** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:40 am

bEErz wrote:
Legendary wrote:
bEErz wrote:grade 5 pianno clarinet and guitar. nt reli helped me much tho i dont think
Isn't grade5 quite high? That shit could help making some real nice melodies and basslines, surely?
erm.....nt reli it goes up to grade 8 in guitar and clarinet and grade 5 i think is the highest in the jazz piano grades (which is what i did) but then i juss kinda stopped it all for like 5 years. it prob helps subconsciously but i duno how to compare my brain with sum1 else's

i'm pretty sure even the jazz grades go up to 8.

I played saxophone for about 9 years, got to grade 8. the computer's managed to squeeze it out of the picture though.

mycota · Post by **mycota** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:04 am

played guitar for about 11 years now, keys for 1 1/2, a little bit of ukulele.

also play the circuit bent furby

just quit my band to focus on dubstep

mr. messiah · Post by **mr. messiah** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:10 pm

I can't play any instrument.
I can only fold a prison break crane.

beerz · Post by **beerz** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:53 pm

Duskky wrote:
bEErz wrote:
Legendary wrote:
bEErz wrote:grade 5 pianno clarinet and guitar. nt reli helped me much tho i dont think
Isn't grade5 quite high? That shit could help making some real nice melodies and basslines, surely?
erm.....nt reli it goes up to grade 8 in guitar and clarinet and grade 5 i think is the highest in the jazz piano grades (which is what i did) but then i juss kinda stopped it all for like 5 years. it prob helps subconsciously but i duno how to compare my brain with sum1 else's
i'm pretty sure even the jazz grades go up to 8.

I played saxophone for about 9 years, got to grade 8. the computer's managed to squeeze it out of the picture though.

depends wt board u do them on. i did mine on abrsm so there's only 5. maybe trinity go to 8 i dont know...if u live in america well

Mad_EP · Post by **Mad_EP** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:07 pm

It is interesting to me - as an American now living in the UK.

In the US, we don't have any of these grade levels... we prove ourselves in different ways. For me, I won competitions and won auditions... and by the time I was 14, I was well-known as being one of the top 5 cellists in my state. I also went on international tours with orchestras, was taking university-level theory and composition while still in high school and received various recognitions for it. I went on to get my university degree in cello performance and started my producing career with the Chicago Symphony.

Now that I am in the UK... and teaching cello lessons, I find this whole "grade" level thing so cumbersome. On the one hand, I don't want my students to feel like they don't know where they stand compared to this bullshit national "standard" (especially cos the parents find the ABRSM grading the only way to judge how their student is doing)... but on the other hand, the requirements from one level to the next (at least for cello) are not consistent at all... and to me, proves absolutely nothing. It is all pants and I can't believe such an asinine system has been allowed to take over this whole country.

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