What's your favourite instrument and why did you pick it?

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DM60 said:
Acoustic guitar. I state this as electric and acoustic are not the same. I've been messing with acoustic now for about 30 years. Still can't play it well, but I still play it.
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I'm the same, I love my acoustic because it sounds so awesome and allows for no error...it's so much harder to pay than my electric but it's so rewarding when you nail it. Depending on my mood, I'll pick one or the other, but my heart will always belong to the one that gave me callouses. :)
 
i liked guitar from the time i had every beatles album and nothing else

i polluted my collection with jimi hendrix and otis redding live at monterrey

changed my life
 
My fav these days is the bass. 5 string mainly. Gettin the accuracy and gettin it clean kinda jacks me up. Played it with a pick for about 25 yrs or so but started all fingers almost a year ago. Never looked back. I get some cool tones with the fangers.

Before that was drums. Love the drumbs. Gettin the finesse as well as the hard hitting during a goof off tracking session started more than one song. Got a new band all set up in my room now and my set stored away so not much drumming from me these days.

Before that was keys. Keys are cool but I'm still not a great player and it was mainly a fill instrument anyway. Have a couple songs where keys are the main but not many.

Before that it was definitely guitar. Crunchy and grinding. ;) Still play it from time to time but since we have 2 guitarists, I stay on my bass.

Started in grade school with clarinet :o , then sax :) then trumpet :confused: then my bro started playin guitar, blew it off and I picked it up. Been playin one thing or another ever since.
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i had guitar and piano lessons at 8 yrs old

i love having drumsets

i have a fiddle and a coupla mandolins

and harmonicas i love harmonicas
 
Dogbreath said:
My fav these days is the bass. 5 string mainly. Gettin the accuracy and gettin it clean kinda jacks me up. Played it with a pick for about 25 yrs or so but started all fingers almost a year ago. Never looked back. I get some cool tones with the fangers.

Before that was drums. Love the drumbs. Gettin the finesse as well as the hard hitting during a goof off tracking session started more than one song. Got a new band all set up in my room now and my set stored away so not much drumming from me these days.

Before that was keys. Keys are cool but I'm still not a great player and it was mainly a fill instrument anyway. Have a couple songs where keys are the main but not many.

Before that it was definitely guitar. Crunchy and grinding. ;) Still play it from time to time but since we have 2 guitarists, I stay on my bass.

Started in grade school with clarinet :o , then sax :) then trumpet :confused: then my bro started playin guitar, blew it off and I picked it up. Been playin one thing or another ever since.
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I have learned to appreciate the bass here recently. As I started making my own music, I felt something was missing (and not just low end as I can fill that with a synth). So my neighbor loaned me his (Jazz Master, hard as hell to play when you have small hands) but it was what was missing. Getting that groove in between the beats. I still do not play it well, but I am learning the fine art and difference between pick and fingers. Pick for fast attack, fingers for a different vibe and better groove. Bass can really make a good song great with the right groove.
 
fritsthegirl said:
I'm the same, I love my acoustic because it sounds so awesome and allows for no error...it's so much harder to pay than my electric but it's so rewarding when you nail it. Depending on my mood, I'll pick one or the other, but my heart will always belong to the one that gave me callouses. :)
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If you want to get more out of your acoustic, pick up a Bluegrass style playing book (for some good tips and runs). Even if you are not a Bluegrass fan, they really know how to get an acoustic working that gives you good dynamics. There are some good tips for a little more speed, but not for being fast, but so a unique sound. I stay towards the head a lot for the sustain. I love the capo to give me a wider variety of keys as I like using open strings and don't like alternative tunings.

I use the acoustic as my primary instrument and use it with a lot of more modern sound (I keep the acoustic pretty plain). It just really makes the song have personality.

And yes, you you know you are playing enough when your finger tips sound like drum sticks when tapping them. :guitar:
 
DM60 said:
If you want to get more out of your acoustic, pick up a Bluegrass style playing book (for some good tips and runs). Even if you are not a Bluegrass fan, they really know how to get an acoustic working that gives you good dynamics. There are some good tips for a little more speed, but not for being fast, but so a unique sound. I stay towards the head a lot for the sustain. I love the capo to give me a wider variety of keys as I like using open strings and don't like alternative tunings.

I use the acoustic as my primary instrument and use it with a lot of more modern sound (I keep the acoustic pretty plain). It just really makes the song have personality.

And yes, you you know you are playing enough when your finger tips sound like drum sticks when tapping them. :guitar:
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Ah yeh, I'll give that another go. I was into Piedmont blues for a bit, must admit I don't do much training of the fingers these days.
 
Dogbreath said:
My fav these days is the bass. 5 string mainly. Gettin the accuracy and gettin it clean kinda jacks me up. Played it with a pick for about 25 yrs or so but started all fingers almost a year ago. Never looked back. I get some cool tones with the fangers.
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I can't play with a pick. I think it's pretty safe to say I'll never get better with a pick than I am with my fingers. I can strum with a pick, but it sounds weird and all the strings get plucked too loud. I know that's technique. It was really just laziness that got me into using my fingers. If I don't have a pick within a foot of me, I use my fingers. Immediate gratification. :D
 
fritsthegirl said:
I can't play with a pick. I think it's pretty safe to say I'll never get better with a pick than I am with my fingers. I can strum with a pick, but it sounds weird and all the strings get plucked too loud. I know that's technique. It was really just laziness that got me into using my fingers. If I don't have a pick within a foot of me, I use my fingers. Immediate gratification. :D
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Kind of funny you should say that. Chet Atkins did an LP "If Pickers Ruled The World" and he says in the words to the song that David went to play for God and didn't have a pick and that's when the picker was born. Something like that. I like to hear a good picker. I can't play without one.
 
ha! i want to try all the reeds at the store before i buy one

i forgot abt my banjo!

my beloved banjo!
 
groovyisland said:
ha! i want to try all the reeds at the store before i buy one

i forgot abt my banjo!

my beloved banjo!
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I got a banjo too, but i don't really know how to play it. I just bought it because it was heavy and loud as hell and so it seemed like I was getting a lot for my money.
 
I had quite the love affair with guitar for about 3 or 4 years, but then it seemed that all my friends began to play it too...they played nothing cool, just chords. Not even very well. They were like soul-less chord-strumming robots...didn't even have a groove. And that just kinda made me not practice as much because I hate mainstream trends. I would say playing drums gives me the most satisfaction currently, but bass feels really good too. Or if I'm rocking out on a synth, just kinda hovering in the background with some angelic sounds...that's nice too.
 
guitaristic said:
OH GOD you're one of those people!!!!!!!!!! :eek:


respect for the flamenco though :D
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I don't sing. :D

Considering it's a small campus, everyone knows me and a lot of people like my playing because I am awesome. Many students only listen to pop and they could never have conceived of hearing a guitar play the kind of stuff I play.
 
fritsthegirl said:
I got a banjo too, but i don't really know how to play it. I just bought it because it was heavy and loud as hell and so it seemed like I was getting a lot for my money.
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I had a banjo, but I left it on the back seat of the car with the window down ................. When I came back there were 2 banjos.

Alan.
 
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