I've always wanted to play...but I've never taken lessons. I was thinking of buying a keyboard and learning that way. I don't think I want to pay for lessons right now...because I don't know if I'll like it enough to want lessons.
Anyways, what's the best way to go if let's say I want to play like Fryderyk Chopin? :paranoid
I had actually started learning to play last year. Was working on it pretty good for about 3 months but it ended up taking a back seat to other priorities like drinking, footaball, pr0n and teh internets. Now that it's the offseason I'll probably pick it back up.
I can play the theme song from Star Wars and Livin La Vida Loca. Fear me.
Nope. I played the tenor sax for years.
Stick to the skin flute Chuggie.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on February 09, 2007, 08:59:22 PM
I had actually started learning to play last year. Was working on it pretty good for about 3 months but it ended up taking a back seat to other priorities like drinking, footaball, pr0n and teh internets. Now that it's the offseason I'll probably pick it back up.
I can play the theme song from Star Wars and Livin La Vida Loca. Fear me.
Dude....you know a Ricky Martin song?
Musical training has been tied to an increase in children's ability to learn, understand and excel in math. Plus its farging music. It makes the world more bearable. I will never understand how musical aptitude ever became synonymous with being some sort of sissified girliman.
Having said that I reserve the right to make fun of any of you for any musical talents you may possess.
I used to play the alto sax in grades 4-7...I learned how to mix (a little) in highschool....and I've had an itch for the piano, guitar and violin...ever since.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on February 09, 2007, 09:04:46 PM
Quote from: Sgt PSN on February 09, 2007, 08:59:22 PM
I had actually started learning to play last year. Was working on it pretty good for about 3 months but it ended up taking a back seat to other priorities like drinking, footaball, pr0n and teh internets. Now that it's the offseason I'll probably pick it back up.
I can play the theme song from Star Wars and Livin La Vida Loca. Fear me.
Dude....you know a Ricky Martin song?
Yes and I'm going to use it to lure lovely latina honeys into my bedroom. If you're nice, I'll let you watch them leave.
:-D
You're such a swell guy, Sergeant Ricky.
That's Sergeanto Ricardo to you.
Senor! Si, senor!
Nope.
I just inherited my mom's keyboard (my dad had it in his house after she passed). It's pretty cool, and I'd love to learn how to play it well. I only know a few things from reading self-teaching books a long, long time ago.
(http://www.turkmidi.de/roland/roland_bilder/album/roland_e-70_foto1.jpg)
Dude your mom died. That sucks. I'm sorry.
I had a keyboard when I was little and learned to play it pretty good. I can still play a little bit... and by little bit, I mean I can play that song Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia played in "Big" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSRAw_MleY).
... and don't make me bust out "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on dat ass.
Thanks, Dio. It was a couple of years ago. Lung cancer. Hardest thing I've ever done having the nurse unplug her and let her expire. It was my mother's fear to go that way, because that's how her father went. And now it's my fear.
I got the keyboard because I father passed at the end of December. It was oral cancer for him. He refused treatment, and it took him several painful months to finally die.
Cancer sucks.
Can't sympathize with the dad part. Never had one to give a shtein about, even though I do know the guy.
Makes me want a cigarette though. I deserve a slow painful death if anyone does.
I learned to play Dueling Banjos and Lean On Me. That's as far as my keyboard/piano experience goes.
I know ya'll are going to jump on the faggy...but I've always wanted a bagpipes funeral (im half mexican, half Salvadorean...and born here) and I've always wanted to learn how to play as well.
I'd be happy to just be thrown in a hole and forgotten.
I'm learning a little bit as my daughter is learning. It's amazing how fast she learned how to read the sheet music. Dookette's only six and she picked it right up. I sit there and stare at it and have no farging clue what the hell it's supposed to mean.
Thank god she got her mama's smarts.
Not a tough guy, but I played piano (took lessons) from the time I was 6 years old until I was 15.
I barely remember any of it, but my sister said that once she started learning the music again, it came right back to her.
This kid is amazing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ezXfkLb6oM). He plays a little bit of everything if you can find his other stuff.
Quote from: SD_Eagle on February 10, 2007, 08:40:18 AM
This kid is amazing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ezXfkLb6oM). He plays a little bit of everything if you can find his other stuff.
That shtein was unreal. He actually made a Tool song tolerable!
:-D
(Seriously, though... that was awesome.) :yay
Quote from: Jerome99RIP on February 10, 2007, 09:06:18 AM
(Seriously, though... that was awesome.) :yay
Here's all of them. (http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=thumphrey05)
Quote from: PhillyGirl on February 10, 2007, 08:29:24 AM
Not a tough guy, but I played piano (took lessons) from the time I was 6 years old until I was 15.
I barely remember any of it, but my sister said that once she started learning the music again, it came right back to her.
My mom was like that. She learned as a kid and played keyboards in her church. She didn't play again for many, many years. But one day she got a little Casio type keyboard, and picked right up again. She kept getting better keyboards, and while she had a couple of paying gigs, she loved to play free gigs for the public in the summer evenings.
Anyway...right now I have her keyboard, a couple of ukes, an acoustic Gibson (mine since high school), a new F-type mandolin. And I don't make the effor to play any of them. :(
I also have my son's old beginner drum set that I'd like to get rid of.
Learning piano (again) myself. I learned a little in HS but was primarily a brass instrument guy (trombone, baritone, tuba) then...was pretty decent but decided against majoring in music in college because, well, I wanted to make more than minimum wage. :-\
Quote from: SD_Eagle on February 10, 2007, 10:07:47 AM
Quote from: Jerome99RIP on February 10, 2007, 09:06:18 AM
(Seriously, though... that was awesome.) :yay
Here's all of them. (http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=thumphrey05)
thank you. thank you. thank you. :o
ive been watching that piano dude all day, amazing. check this guy out, vocals and piano!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_uR2ePrUU
stylishly dressed young mans
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 10, 2007, 07:22:16 PM
stylishly dressed young mans
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a29/Mega91/9820fcc2.gif)
two g's is racist
Does that go for all the racist "gg" words, or just the ones you want to use?
see you can pick your words and you can pick your friends but you cant find a word that rhymes with orange
... or month.
Quote from: SD_Eagle on February 10, 2007, 10:07:47 AM
Quote from: Jerome99RIP on February 10, 2007, 09:06:18 AM
(Seriously, though... that was awesome.) :yay
Here's all of them. (http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=thumphrey05)
awesome
Quote from: mussa on February 10, 2007, 06:34:32 PM
ive been watching that piano dude all day, amazing. check this guy out, vocals and piano!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_uR2ePrUU
Now that was farging amazing. Playing the song on the piano and singing lead vocals??
Amazing.
I hate talented fargers like that.
Quote from: rjs246 on February 09, 2007, 09:09:59 PM
I will never understand how musical aptitude ever became synonymous with being some sort of sissified girliman.
Elton John......Little Richard..jk.
I think it sucks Little Richard isn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Good Golly Miss Molly will still be played after we are all dead.
Quote from: Jerome99RIP on February 10, 2007, 09:40:45 PM
Quote from: mussa on February 10, 2007, 06:34:32 PM
ive been watching that piano dude all day, amazing. check this guy out, vocals and piano!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_uR2ePrUU
Now that was farging amazing. Playing the song on the piano and singing lead vocals??
Amazing.
I hate talented fargers like that.
me too. i love music, but have zero musical talent. i suck
I bought my wife a real upright piano a few years back and I was running through a teach yourself CD. Was going well. Other stuff became a priority.
I do play a little guitar a lot of Bass guitar. Singing is my best instrument though. Wish I could sing and play an instrument better though I'm convinced it just takes time and who has that?
Self-taught myself some piano a few years ago. Never got too good...Hardest thing I can probably play is Canon by Pachebel but not the low-octave chords with the left hand. I gotta use both hands to play the melody of the song basically. I was a drummer throughout elementary/middle school, so I never learned how to read sheet music, just the beats. whole notes, half, 4th, 8th, 16th, etc.
If you're gonna teach yourself an instrument, learn guitar. I've been self-taught for about 3 years now, and it's definately a fun instrument to pick up. If you get lessons, you'll probably end up being better at shredding, as they teach you the different scales which is what most solo's are made out of anyway....just simple scales. I'm still kinda slow on shredding, but that's also because my electric is shtein so I always play on the acoustic, and mine won't let you get much farther then the 15th fret. I'm gettin a 250-300 dollar electric with income tax refund though.
Learning guitar is much easier if you're going to self-teach because there are guitar tabs all over the net which don't rerquire you being able to know how to read sheet music.
I actually was an excellent piano player circa age 13-14. I actually went so far as to perform "Flight of the Bumblebee" rather flawlessly in a recital. I tried to play it last time I sat down at a piano. Not good.
So much for that. I guess if we ever get a piano in the house at some point, I'll dabble a bit.
i was quite the tombonist as a young'n
won the 6th grade talent show with a jazzed up version of when the Saints Go Marching In.
i got so much snatch after that, it was sick.
Quote from: FFatPatt on February 11, 2007, 08:41:47 PM
I actually was an excellent piano player circa age 13-14. I actually went so far as to perform "Flight of the Bumblebee" rather flawlessly in a recital. I tried to play it last time I sat down at a piano. Not good.
So much for that. I guess if we ever get a piano in the house at some point, I'll dabble a bit.
For some reason I feel like you'd take that piano in your house and learn Vanessa Carlton with it. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Quote from: SunMo on February 11, 2007, 08:43:23 PM
i got so much snatch after that, it was sick.
Your moms doesn't count, dook.
Quote from: Munson on February 11, 2007, 08:44:30 PM
For some reason I feel like you'd take that piano in your house and learn Vanessa Carlton with it. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I'm more into Tori Amos. Because I'm gay, right? RIGHT?!? Yes! Totally!
Quote from: FFatPatt on February 11, 2007, 08:51:27 PM
Quote from: SunMo on February 11, 2007, 08:43:23 PM
i got so much snatch after that, it was sick.
Your moms doesn't count, dook.
Quote from: Munson on February 11, 2007, 08:44:30 PM
For some reason I feel like you'd take that piano in your house and learn Vanessa Carlton with it. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I'm more into Tori Amos. Because I'm gay, right? RIGHT?!? Yes! Totally!
Well, duh. Total fag.
I'd bang Fiona Apple.
Quote from: FFatPatt on February 11, 2007, 09:01:35 PM
I'd bang Fiona Apple.
I'd like alica keyes tickle my ivory. Though I heard she was dyke. Which would make sense.
Quote from: SunMo on February 11, 2007, 08:43:23 PM
i was quite the tombonist as a young'n
won the 6th grade talent show with a jazzed up version of when the Saints Go Marching In.
i got so much snatch after that, it was sick.
laughing, laughing...well played