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DaCheese
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 Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject: Musicians? |
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Yesterday I bought myself a rather nice bass guitar. Can't play it yet but then I wouldn't expect to be able to. Playing an instrument is all about having the commitment, or something like that presumably...
Anyone else here play something?
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Pepper
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I was used to play guitar for a while but well... a girl and TM came in my life and... well the girl has gone now, but fortunately, TM is still there. 
But no more guitar, i sold it for money.. for the girl lol. |
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DanTheMan
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| Peter Starbuck wrote: | I was used to play guitar for a while but well... a girl and TM came in my life and... well the girl has gone now, but fortunately, TM is still there.
But no more guitar, i sold it for money.. for the girl lol. |
How much did she cost you???
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Middenrat
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up until five years ago i would dabble intermittently with a 12-string acoustic guitar. In the final phase I perfected a 4-course fingerstyle heavily influenced with jazz colourings. The ancient (Ibanez Humming Bird copy) guitar was by then way past its best, having seen service with me on the London Underground during the 1980s during which time it was re-fretted at home, so it was 'upgrade or get off the stage', and I chose to rest the guitar playing indefinitely. I got a PC 
DaCheese if you can stomach the, er, cheeseiness, I recommend getting the Abba Gold songbook for Guitar and Vocals. These perfectly crafted songs will inform your playing for years to come and employ many chromatically advanced passages which will teach you volumes on music theory without laboriously going through the rudiments.
Good Luck, the bass is a deceptively tricky instrument to play, harder than 6-string when it comes to theory. The last 20 years has seen a dropoff in the quality of bass playing in popular music with the development of sequencers and the rise of the (no-talent) DJ. But as 'live' drummers now feature prominently once again I live in hope that the beautiful colourings and imaginative basslines which flourished up until the late 80s will also be soon returning to 'pop' music.
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DaCheese
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| Middenrat wrote: | | Good Luck, the bass is a deceptively tricky instrument to play, harder than 6-string when it comes to theory. The last 20 years has seen a dropoff in the quality of bass playing in popular music with the development of sequencers and the rise of the (no-talent) DJ. But as 'live' drummers now feature prominently once again I live in hope that the beautiful colourings and imaginative basslines which flourished up until the late 80s will also be soon returning to 'pop' music. |
Not convinced that I'll be able to help that return of the bass, at least not for a large number of years, but I intend to stick at this like I was never convinced I could have done. My decision to go for bass was influenced by the fact that JGG has a normal electric guitar.
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I do a mean dead kennedys on guitar hero 
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Aaron_LC
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I tried playing acoustic guitar but I was no good.
| DodgyGeezer wrote: | | I do a mean dead kennedys on guitar hero |
I good at La Grange on Guitar Hero 3 
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HotSWAT
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i play the Kazoo, professionally
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DanTheMan
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I once new a girl who played the pink oboe
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JawZ
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i jus play with myself.
most my songs have a beat but very little vocals...
i purely blame this because i live with my parents
and i only gt musical at night... 
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i have a pair of Technics 1210's, not strictly a musical instrument but to be any good you have to understand BPM, timing, beatkeeping, volume, bass etc.
one of my friends is into guitars, he's got an acousic, a 12 string acoustic (that sounds class), a Gibson Black Beauty and a Fender Telecaster. |
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mark-s
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[quote="evil_homer"]i have a pair of Technics 1210's
snap mine have been under the bed now for a while kids decided to put the stylus on the slipmatts and spin them, ripped them clean off |
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