Playing/Creating Music

[Aix]

So how many of you play a musical instrument, sing or create music on software or something?

 

I play piano, I've gotten quite far.

[.Rai]

I play the piano and violin to a pretty high level. I can kinda play the flute, and the guitar too, to a certain extent. Lately though, my musical experience has included sound engineering and music software. At the moment, I'm /trying/ to create music for a video game-esque concept. It's vaguely on the way.

[Makο]

I know how to play the bass, mostly. I used to take lessons, but life got in the way. If I would ever want to get back into making music, though, I'd go RIGHT back to my trusty bass.

[L0SS]

I can do a decent Johnny Cash impression, and I'm okay at guitar. I really want to learn to play the piano, though.

[Susie]

I haven't picked up my guitar in a while, though I plan on picking it up sometime, and I like synthesizers, hardware ones, I've tried using software ones but it's just not for me, I'd much rather have real physical knobs, buttons, and sliders. Not saying that software is bad, there's some cool modular softsynths like Reaktor and Max/MSP, but like I said before, software synths just aren't my thing.

[a bad post]

I've a mild understanding of the violin and flute. I've messed around with synthesizers before, but haven't used them all that much. My main area is singing, or remixing songs in Audacity, though I'm trying to get my hands on the beautiful program known as FL Studio. 

[CinnamonStar]

I haven't played an instrument (decently and consistently) for years, though I still take out the clarinet or guitar from time to time.

 

Been focussing more on dancing, if anything.

[ListenToLife]

I play Guitar quite regularly, and am about a grade 6 at rock school, which isn't too bad. I play little bit of piano, bass, drums and such, not as well as my guitar.

 

I'm also starting a Music A-level qualification in September, hopefully, and have just completed a 2 year Music GCSE in the space of 1 year. The Music Gcse also introduced me to a great piece of software for composing music, called Sibelius. I love the thing, sadly I think it's mac exclusive, but it's still amazing. (I'm also quite handy at composing; both my composition scored full marks in the actual grading of said qualification, and I've been told they were quite incredible.)

 

I am sadly pretty useless at any other form of musical software; even Garage band has gotten the best of me once or twice xD I would stand no chance surrounded by a bunch of synthesizers and stuff.

[ImNotKarma]

I know very basic guitar and sing decently Not that great

[Susie]

I forgot to mention that I'm gonna start playing bass guitar

[Enrise]

Avid metal head, I'm quite the guitarist myself. I could dabble in other instruments (like bass, keyboard, etc.), if I really owned any of them, and have an unorthodox way of playing, so it'd be weird. Besides, not enough room in my quarters.

 

I'm starting to pick up my guitar after a long period of waiting, so I can get back into the game and start recording stuff. My only complaint is finding the inspiration to keep doing so. Then again, it's summer, so it must be seasonal depression or whatever.

 

And when you're a metal head, you'll learn how to sing one way or another. So of course I can sing.

[Eury]

Can sing. That's about it really. :L

[ListenToLife]

And when you're a metal head, you'll learn how to sing one way or another. So of course I can sing.

 

I disagree. I'm a large metal fan, and yet no matter how hard I try, I can seem to get myself any singing talent. Little bit of Screaming, maybe, but no singing. I'm just not good at it.

But a slight edit on the statement can make it more truthful: "When you are musical in any way, you really, really wish you could sing, and try to learn one way or another"

[Gospel.]

I play drums. 

[Elijah~]

I can play a flute and an ocarina quite well. I don't play it as often as I used to though. I also play on Synthesia every once in a while

[Mehmani]

I can do a decent Johnny Cash impression, and I'm okay at guitar. I really want to learn to play the piano, though.

 

Likewise with Johnny Cash. I can play piano pretty well, ukulele pretty well, clarinet and saxophone badly, bass okay, dulcimer okay and sitar badly. I can sing baritone, sort of, but blues mainly. The piano's my main thing and I'm getting good enough to play gigs with my band now. I've used Sibelius and Logic for sequencing or composing music and I've written jazz form, romantic piano, clarinet trio, bass concerto and a twenty minute long raga for sitar, bansuri, qawwali singers and tabla. Music's a pretty big thing for me, but unfortunately I can't really pursue it beyond a hobby. I collect odd instruments, and that's getting to be an expensive hobby now.

[BlackRoseQueen]

I once played piano, I really, really need to get back into it. :/ I had some talent. As for singing... LOLOLOLOL. I have yet to find a singer worse than me.

[Hippocampus]

Keyboard is my main instrument, but I also play piano, trumpet, and puccalo (yes I consider piano and keyboard two different instruments), although I'm not really good at any of them. My goal is to learn guitar by the end of this summer. I do compose music/write songs and am currently working on my fourth album, but they're mostly in the genre of "outsider music" because I don't have any good software and my playing and singing are both pretty bad. It's fun, though, and I really love music, so I keep on doing it. :/

[Rapidfire]

Ehhhh. I play the flute and I'm in an orchestra and I did an opera in April. I have this sick classical guitar that I constantly tune, and mess around with but I just don't have the time to practice. I can play it, anyone can but I need to practice so I can handle it better. 

I make a bunch of playlists, and I've been thinking about making some mixtapes. 

Oh and I've been writing too much, poetry in general, but I'm sure I could write a song if I was motivated enough. 

[Dlightgames]

I use music software, any really, and have gotten pretty good at it if i do say so myself, but no where near expert, at least i think....

[Not-so-Radiant Arin]

See, even though I've taken a year of Music Theory and began teaching myself about the better ways of Music Theory afterwards, I still can't play for shit. Even though my friend comments that I pretty much have the greatest music alive (which is false by the way).

 

I can write music. But I cannot play it. That makes things just a TAD complicated.

[.Rai]

[quote name="Arin the Radiant" post="6245718" timestamp="1374812569"]See, even though I've taken a year of Music Theory and began teaching myself about the better ways of Music Theory afterwards, I still can't play for shit. Even though my friend comments that I pretty much have the greatest music alive (which is false by the way).   I can write music. But I cannot play it. That makes things just a TAD complicated.[/quote] From the work I've seen you do, it is pretty awesome. If it's all orchestral, not being able to play. It is an inevitability. I'd love to hire an orchestra to play out scores, but that's silly expensive unless a film or game company give you a budget.

[Aix]

You know, if I wanted to get started on writing music, where do I start?

 

I've got Theory and Basic Harmony under my belt.

[Enrise]

You know, if I wanted to get started on writing music, where do I start?

 

I've got Theory and Basic Harmony under my belt.

 

Depends on what type of music you're writing.

 

But it also depends on the person. I don't know anything about Musical Theory, guitar chords, etc. Call it Music Dyslexia if you want, but I don't know any of that stuff, and I can still play a damn good riff.

 

Really, I just leave it to my ears when it comes to writing music, rather than the head.