So which instruments and how long?
*boot heels clack as Die Grammar Nazi enters the room*
Are you asking how long our instruments are, or how long we've played them?
-Duxwing
Piano (since age 5), xylophone, clarinet, oboe, pipe organ
^^ those are the official ones, but I can usually pick up something and make a decent noise with it
"For a piccolo, that looks pretty big... but for a bassoon it's rather embarrassing."![]()
That's the widest sousaphone bell that I've ever seen! I bet that I could climb in that thing and build a house.
-Duxwing
I bet you've never seen sousaphone dentata before!
No, but I know that's why your concert hall is empty!-Duxwing
Nice new avatar.
-Duxwing
Thanks. I have a collection of Death avs. This one has real spunk.
Death? Do explain.
Drums 10+ years.
- Der Grammernazi probably more believable. Die is feminine at any rate (methinks). Der is neutral (no french equivalent), while Das be masculine. They tend to group nouns together into big long words.*boot heels clack as Die Grammar Nazi enters the room*
- AH HA! Piano! Since age 5 you say? You would be a statistic in favour of my theory I think.Piano (since age 5), xylophone, clarinet, oboe, pipe organ
^^ those are the official ones, but I can usually pick up something and make a decent noise with it
- "spunk" is rightThis one has real spunk.
- Probably uses the golden ratio at some point. I know that on a guitar, the 12th fret is supposed to be some ratio of this to that and the other thing.I have played the violin for about four years now. I have never measured the length of my violin however![]()
Can't speak for Lithuania or Georgia, but in Canada there is basic music education in elementary school (K-6). Band is an option from that point onward. Students here learn things like musical scales (chromatic and major at least), basic notation, time signatures, intoductory singing, and usually a variety of beginner-level instruments with a specific key signature such as a recorder, xylophone, bells ...I have played clarinet and piano since age of 11, I think. Few months ago it was my first time trying flute, I don't play it often so all I can play is 4 notes.
Anyway, just how they teach musical instruments in USA, Great Britain...? I mean, in every country except Latvia. Is playing musical instruments a part of regular education or there's special schools?
I'm just curious about musical education systems in other countries, that's all.
- whoop whoop! I would trade five years of guitar knowledge for the ability to move all four limbs at once without looking retarded. I would trade the other five years for the ability to keep time properly. All guitar players wish they could play drums.Drums 10+ years.
That is what I was hoping for by starting this thread.I think we've got the beginnings of a rock band covered.
Who feels piano is the best way to start out? I think once a good theoretical basis is built up in a budding young musician they could learn literally anything else.
The semitones on a guitar are based on the exact same chromatic scale as a piano (12 semitones to an octave).
- whoop whoop! I would trade five years of guitar knowledge for the ability to move all four limbs at once without looking retarded. I would trade the other five years for the ability to keep time properly. All guitar players wish they could play drums.
- AH HA! Piano! Since age 5 you say? You would be a statistic in favour of my theory I think.
I think the instruments have two different feels. I can't say I'm interested in learning guitar at all, but bass maybe one day. Maybe because as a drummer I focus on groove and rhythm more than melody, I play to the bass-line more than the melody.
I got a bass for x-mas this past year and I'm trying to learn it, but it's really nothing like guitar. You can't just play a guitar riff because it's boring and doesn't sound right. Definitely can't strum. The finger-picking skill has been acquired from guitar so at least I'm doing that.
I completely agree that D&B go together.
That all said, I can't read music for shit. Although I know what it all means, I've just never practised reading and playing to it. Practice for me is self-made, I find something that I can't play and then I learn how to play it. Break it all down in my head and then play the beat. I find that because my approach is so individual, so is my feel. I think that when seasoned musicians turn their head when they here a unique sticking that you created on your own kit and go, 'that was tight' you know you're on the right track.
I would suggest that rock stars are just another type of professional musician. Even if they think in terms of fret#s and not notes.
Anyway I dropped out of school band, I couldn't stand music theory. I use music as a means to express, not impress. I always play for the song, the groove, preserve the feel of it. Watching another drummer get totally locked into a groove, hitting all the right ghost notes and accents, gives me goosebumps.
Incite to copypaste this paragraph to thread "what moves you" by Dux.
When I'm playing sometimes, it's probably the closest thing to an orgasm I could have without having one. I laugh uncontrollably when I play sometimes, the feel of the music just comes out of me.
/end gushing
Montresor said:I got a bass for x-mas this past year and I'm trying to learn it, but it's really nothing like guitar. You can't just play a guitar riff because it's boring and doesn't sound right. Definitely can't strum. The finger-picking skill has been acquired from guitar so at least I'm doing that.
I would suggest that rock stars are just another type of professional musician. Even if they think in terms of fret#s and not notes.
Re: laughing uncontrollably - drummers are crazy man!
I love my drummers. They're just so freakin' crazy, I get high just watching them...![]()
Probably worth watching the entire video, but go to 7:56 if you want to see a killer bass solo.
Fripp can read music, Belew can't. He told me he wouldn't even recognize a single note except for maybe a middle C. Neither approach is better, it's just different and they're both very unique.
Au contraire ... tone death is the ultimate form of confidence.
Montresor said:Couldn't locate the link.
Sorry to sum everything up in one sentence, but I would be inclined toward Fripp's approach as both a student and a teacher.
Relative pitch has more practical use than absolute pitch I would add
Was it hard to play with all the people stuck around you?I played all 4 years of high school and my first year of Collage.
What note is that?I am tone death so I never truly had any confidence in my ability to play either.
Was it hard to play with all the people stuck around you?
Did it feel like you just didn't fit in?
What note is that?
I'll remember to keep my ears plugged when in your presence
*Hopes someone chuckles when reading this*
Was it hard to play with all the people stuck around you?
Did it feel like you just didn't fit in?
What note is that?
I'll remember to keep my ears plugged when in your presence
*Hopes someone chuckles when reading this*
I guess I never felt the need to fit in. Therefore your question is irrelevant. I am not sure if I fit in or not. However, if I didn't it really never seemed to bother me.
people talked to me and I responded with nice pleasantries. Beyond that I am not really sure nor do I (nor have I) ever really cared about this.
- whoop whoop! I would trade five years of guitar knowledge for the ability to move all four limbs at once without looking retarded. I would trade the other five years for the ability to keep time properly. All guitar players wish they could play drums.
I won't deny it was irrelevant, but the reason why is not that you never felt the need. Therefore all dogs are canines.