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Musical Instruments you play

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Do you play a musical instrument? If so, what? Do you do it for school or in your free time?

I attended piano lessons when I was seven and then did so for about five years, then I didn't do it again until I reached highschool, where I've been doing it on and off - mostly I don't have time to practice and we only have a crappy digital keyboard. I don't enjoy it much any more.
I'm also teaching myself how to play the harmonica on a little harmonica my boyfriend bought me. I keep running out of breath xD Then there's the really basic rock beat that I know on drums, though I'm not very good at it.
 
Trumpet. This is my fourth year playing and I luffs it. <3

I also took piano lessons when I was younger, but I didn't take very many. Recently, though, I've been playing the piano a lot more (mostly one-handed stuff, but I like to think I'm fairly good at the one-handed stuff, for what it's worth). I taught myself some of Fur Elise and composed a version of Happy Birthday using a lot of chords for my sis' birthday.
 
instrument||||amount of time playing||||estimated skill level

trombone||||||nearly 4 years||||||||||||7.5/10
guitar||||||||||1.3~ years|||||||||||||||7/10
drums||||||||||a few months|||||||||||||5/10

a 10 being professional level of skill.

i am really tired of trombone, though.
 
I'd love to play an instrument, I really admire people who can play instruments well, but I've never had the money for lessons. I tried to learn the guitar once, but I just couldn't play right-handedly. I have terrible coodination at the best of times.

I can play Old McDonald on the piano with my nose, though :D
 
Used to play clarinet, but I was never very good and I'm probably even worse now. And then there's drums, but come on, anyone can do that with a little practice.

Since this is as good a place as any to ask... Does anyone here know how to play the violin - or, more specifically, how difficult it is to learn?
 
Dannichu said:
I'd love to play an instrument, I really admire people who can play instruments well, but I've never had the money for lessons. I tried to learn the guitar once, but I just couldn't play right-handedly. I have terrible coodination at the best of times.

I can play Old McDonald on the piano with my nose, though :D
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Aww, why didn't you try left-handed guitaring? D: I play left-handedly, but I'm managing to get round it. I have a left-handed electric guitar - you could even just get an acoustic guitar and restring it seeing as you hold it the same either way round. :3 It's really annoying playing left-handedly when my left-handed-for-writing dad and brother play right-handedly. >_<

So yeah, I play guitar. I only started learning a few months ago and so far it's been very slow because I don't have much time to practice; exams. So instead of jamming loads of information in my head I'm just preparing by doing finger exercises whenever I can.

I might be allowed to have guitar lessons at school next year! :D I've always wanted to play violin though...
 
7 years of playing cello culminate in 8 notes of Pachelbel's Kanon. Over and over and over again.

And apparently I'm going to have to learn how to play piano as well if I want to major in music (which is only a back-up plan for college, but still).
 
i have played the alto sax for 3 years, and in fourth grade, i played the drums...but i sucked.

when i was 9, i played the paino, but i sucked at that, too.
 
I've been playing the piano for around...five years, I believe. I'm not execllent or anything, actually VERY far from it, but I have leaned a good roster of songs, ranging from simple to somewhat hard.

I play guitar for jazz band, and at home. Four years.
 
I've played piano for over six years, and started French horn about two years ago. I'll be quitting the French horn soon, though; my high school doesn't have a band. I'd like to learn percussion, but I'm not very motivated, so I probably never will. :/
 
Well, I've actually played a lot of instruments (some very crappily >.>) but most of them were only like one or twice in a music lesson, so I'm not sure they count.

I've been playing guitar for 3 years now, so I think I'm pretty okay with it. I absolutely fail at making good improvisations though >.> And in music, I've been playing on the piano, bass, and drums a bit, though I'm not too good at anything else besides guitar.
 
i've been playing guitar sporadically for two years and seriously for about a month. i feel like it's easy, but everything i'm practicing is stuff i taught myself when i played sporadically.
 
I play the TUBA. Yeah. For 6 years, and I usually get into the Solo festival. On a tuba.

I also play the Euphonium (Trombone, but rolled up like a tuba) for the school's Jazz Band. I've only been playing it for 6 months, but it's the same as the tuba an octave higher.

And I know how to improvise on Cm on the Pianp and play various songs.
That's about it.
 
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