any musicians here?

[Dragline]

Guitar is pretty easy to play, if a drummer can learn how to play i think anyone can learn how to play! I've been playing guitar for a few years now(off an on, my realy passion is my drum set) and Iv'e managed to piece together a couple of little songs(mostly to impress the ladies )

I would agree that guitar is easy to play.... But in a rudimentary way.

Easy to bang out a few Stones tunes for sure...

But, much like painting, easy to get into. A lifetime to realize you will never be its master.

I play on a level that I'll not brag about here. Suffice it to say that, with the odd years I have played, I have gotten to the point where I became aware of what I don't know.

What it is I do not know, is more than all of us combined can ever know.

This is the MAJESTY of music, in any guise, any form.

Think on that a while.

Bob F

[Chuck Most]

Uh... well? Does knowing (sort of) how to play the first few riffs of "Let's get it Up" by AC-DC count? If yes, I guess I could be considered a musician!

[Dragline]

Uh... well? Does knowing (sort of) how to play the first few riffs of "Let's get it Up" by AC-DC count? If yes, I guess I could be considered a musician!

How can it be anything else but Chuck Most??

Music is many things to many people..

Does it make you happy is the only question that needs to be asked.

Everything else is nonsense.

This is coming from a serious Metal guy, so take it to heart.

Music is in the heart...........There it shall dwell always.

Bob F

PS: If this seems philosophical, good... Music comprises 90% of my waking day in one form or another. If you took stock of your own lives you may soon realize how important music is. For those of you that do recognize this, know something else.

It is only but a fraction of what music truly is and can be in your life. Others have said it better, but with no more passion than I.

Edited July 11, 2009 by Dragline

[Tom Kren]

I play drums started when i was about 3 with my dad played for awhile and gave it up had no room for them when i got hitched Just started up after my wife bought me a electric set for x-mas last year and starting to come back to me!

[jeffb]

i can barly play the radio, but my 20 yr old son just started a band. i was very skeptical, but after seeing them on stage i was impressed.

[J_Mad18]

oh really?????

I hurt my self today, to see how it feels

the needle tears a hole, the old fimilair stink

i try to kill it all the way, but i remember everything

what have i become, my sweetest friend, everything i know goes away, in the end

and you can have it all, my empire of dirt, i will let you down, i will make you hurt. lol!!!!

This is Nine Inch Nails... I know he covered it, but give credit where credit is due haha. I play drums...

[Guest Mustang3.8]

Hey, y'all.

I managed to learn a few new songs: Honey, I'm home, Blue Moon of Kentucky, and Why don't we get drunk. I've also got Folsom Prison Blues, Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgereld, and Jackson pretty much down.

[Nick Winter]

I play a bit of the harp ( not the huge string instrument), I'm not perfect but I'm not terrible.

[LUKE'57]

Hey, y'all.

I managed to learn a few new songs: Honey, I'm home, Blue Moon of Kentucky, and Why don't we get drunk. I've also got Folsom Prison Blues, Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgereld, and Jackson pretty much down.

Playing it is an accomplishment in its own right, but now if you can sing all 154 verses of "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald without crib notes you are my new HERO!!

[simonr]

I had been playing the trumpet profesionally for over 30 years now. I'm also a trumpet teacher and have a master degree on Music Eduaction from the University of Miami...besides...I have had the honor of being playing hot salsa music and hanging out with a famous model cars magazine editor in the San Juan, Puerto Rico are untill late night hours...really, Gregg?...

Simón P. Rivera Torres

[HotRodaSaurus]

Just seen this topic!

I love the piano accordion. I have 3 example, a Laguna 120 base a Frontalini 80 base and a Honer Student.

Cant play any of them though still hope to learn.

I really love the sound of a well played accordion, how you play it can give out emotions and passion. The actual playing of the instrument is like dancing with a beautiful woman held in your arms.

I really would like to play like the old French Bal Musette artistes, that is like the accordionists that would play with Edith Piaf back in the 1940s.

And to Simon(last post), also, I love the sound of a mariachi trumpet, well I think that is the description.

Thanks, John

[The Red Ranger]

I have played guitar for 15 years.

Ken Lawrence Explorer

Schecter C1 Exotic

Squier Strat

Fender Princeton amplifier

[GHoneycutt]

Nothing like a little picking.........................

[Ashhh1991]

I play the drums,

But does guitar hero count?

And if you like oli sykes then you would like suicide silence.

[dencon]

Back in 1979 I heard "My Sharona" from The Knack and wanted to play bass guitar. At the time, because my dad and my older brother played drums and I had my brother's set. I was playing drums. But that song took me to the Bass. I was 13. In the 80s I played in a bunch of metal bands. I never got the band I wanted to form to ever happen. I wanted to do something different and everyone I got a band going with all wanted to do what ever was the BIG THING. I had really long hair and I would not poof it all up and put on make up. OH GOD I hated the hair band days. I was into Anthrax, Matalica, Slayer, Exodus, Accept and anything heavy, fast and angry. But everyone wanted to do Poision. Then out came Winger. I was done. That was NOT Metal!

I still would every once in a wile play my guitars, but the last time I was in a band was 1988. I wish I would have stayed in it, but just never found the right guys to jam with.

Fast forward to a few years ago. With my daughter getting into heavy metal and wanting to one day be in a band. She got me getting more into playing again. 3 years ago she got into playing drums. I got her a drum set.

I have a 57 Fender Strat that I got in 82 and my sister's 66 gibson ES 330. I got that after she passed. It now belongs to my daughter. But I kept my main bass that I used back in the day. I bought it new in 86. I will never part with it. I would love to get a new bass, but what I want is a couple of grand

I still have all of my bass gear in my old road case. I bought a new speaker cabenet a year ago and fired up my Accustic Bass head and is worked. Still had the same setting I put on it in 88. Keeping it in the road case for 20 years kept it in great shape.

I have been learning on guitar, alot of the newer stuff so i can jam with my kid. I love the modern way of playing metal. It is a little bit different then it use to be like with the dropped E string. Very fun to play.

I do not have any pics of my Strat but here are a few pics of my kid and her drum set. One of the pics of her from last halloween you can see that Gibson that I gave her.

If your a Slipknot fan. You will know who her favorate drummer is.