What instrument do you play?

i just realized how good dennis chambers plays the drums

look for his "in the pocket" drum video -- its insane

and drummers aren't stupid (contrary to those jokes tcon put up) lol

Hyper, I've been playing for 16 years, I've earned the right to call us stupid. I have that Dennis Chambers "In The Pocket" video ... the right hand speed is ludicrous.

i play alto sax

I've played piano for nine years, trombone for six years, self-taught drums for a year and a half, self-taught bass for a half a year (i'm pretty good for half a year, I can play to Rush and The Who), and i have recently taken up guitar.

i wish ppl would stop saying drumming is easy try playing in 5/8 or 7/8 or 5/4 even, which is even harder. Listen to the drum duet on lerning 2 fly on the album delecate sound of thunder by pink floyd and then say that that is easy. But piano is harder followed by drums then guitar then bass and dont dissagree because i play all of them!

5/8, 5/7, 5/4, no offense, but learn to count.

Try playing 29/8 Bacchanal.

I refuse to believe you can learn Classical Gas and Master Of Puppets, playing guitar 5 days. After 3 years of playing guitar I still struggled playing, only after 6 years of playing guitar can I say I can play Classical Gas and still not to the standard of Clapton. Master of Puppets is relativly simple, but you cannot pick up that kind of speed picking in 5 days either

Originally posted by tomrbland

i wish ppl would stop saying drumming is easy try playing in 5/8 or 7/8 or 5/4 even, which is even harder. Listen to the drum duet on lerning 2 fly on the album delecate sound of thunder by pink floyd and then say that that is easy.

After 16 years of playing, plus a minor in Percussion in college ... it is NOT hard. So there. Just face it, some are more skilled than you are -- it happens.

Originally posted by Iman

5/8, 5/7, 5/4, no offense, but learn to count.

Try playing 29/8 Bacchanal.

Nice google search for the 29/8 ... so tell me, what value is a quarter note given in 29/8? Of course, 29/4 was only used in "Sultry" by Kyle Gann, the next used of a "29" value was 29/16 in "Death Blooms" by Mudvayne. Bacchanal was never really noticeably played in 29/8, so quit being uppidity -- it is not flattering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wo ... res#29.2F4

Originally posted by Edge

I refuse to believe you can learn Classical Gas and Master Of Puppets, playing guitar 5 days. After 3 years of playing guitar I still struggled playing, only after 6 years of playing guitar can I say I can play Classical Gas and still not to the standard of Clapton. Master of Puppets is relativly simple, but you cannot pick up that kind of speed picking in 5 days either

Of course not Edge, he is lying. Hence why I dropped the challenge on May 20th which said:

Originally posted by TConwell

^ Hey dragon, record the 5 day chops and toss them up here man!

We all know he is full of crap ....

-Drums when I was like 5. Never really continued...
-Cello 4 or 5 years.
-Piano 3 or 4 years, with a long break. Going back to it... right now I'm learning the Minute Waltz. I don't like how jumpy the left hand is.
-Guitar (self-taught) a month or two ago...actually only played 4 or 5 times. Is it just me, or is guitar really hard and boring? I don't know if I'll continue.
-Recorder in school. I know recorder sucks and shouldn't count as an instrument, but I outplayed my teacher in 6th grade.

yay weird time signatures

lets all listen to maha vishne (sp?) orchestra and try to count the times 9/16 anyone?

or the insaneness of "pick hits" by gary granger and dennis chambers

[jayman]

i circuit bent the pcm chips in my old casio sk keyboards and now i get rythm patterns that can't be assigned numbers. my tr-505 is next. you'd also be suprised how well a hacked texas instruments speak and math can keep time, sometimes a soldering iron is my primary instrument.

Originally posted by Edge
I refuse to believe you can learn Classical Gas and Master Of Puppets, playing guitar 5 days. After 3 years of playing guitar I still struggled playing, only after 6 years of playing guitar can I say I can play Classical Gas and still not to the standard of Clapton. Master of Puppets is relativly simple, but you cannot pick up that kind of speed picking in 5 days either

The rythym guitar part in Master of Puppets is really not that hard. I don't believe you could play it after five days but it would not take that long to learn. I could play stuff like that after a few days because I had already had experience from the bass.

lol. I swear many of those were originally VIOLA jokes....

How are a violist's fingers like a lightening bolt?

They never strike the same place twice.

[jayman]

^ who cares.. why would you bother. someone else already wrote, aranged and recorded that song.. if you wanted to hear it perfect, play it on your stereo, in the meanwhilst, noone but you should really care if you can copy something note for note... that's called "practicing' ..write your own peice of music , and if you can't, find a way to play what you've learned with your very own personal touch, preferably one that shows that you can come up with something of your own.. ..i'm a music snob, if you couldn't tell. but i really do think that measuring someones artistic worth based on how well they copy someone elses work is bullshit , and people who do base it on that are being lame when they do so. sorry .. my two cents.. sorry. i was just responding to the bragging that was going on, i hope that each of you who has chosen music as your life, find something that fills the part of you that says "this is mine.. "
p.s.i didn't post fast enough to say how much i liked the violin jokes those are the reasons why i like strings .

In HS and college I played trumpet. I picked up fluegelhorn in a jazz band in HS for awhile, then a few years ago went to a G-mellophone in a drum/bugle corps (senior corps). I still play from time to time.

My current instrument of choice, though, is handbells. I direct a handbell choir at church, and occasionally do solo work on them. If you are not familiar with handbells, they are a set of tuned bells, one for each note in the scale. My choir has 4 octaves of bells. The challenge is getting 12 people to play them as if it were a single instrument. Everyone has two main bells, plus the two flats (or sharps) that go with them. Those are the only notes you play... and you have to play them exactly on time, in the right style, and with the same flow and feeling as the other bells playing around you. It's a supreme bitch.
The easiest way I can describe it is this: you and 11 friends are all at a piano, each of you with one finger on a key. Now, all of you work together, just using your two assigned notes, and play that piece of music on the stand, but make it sound like just one person playing. Yeah, it's just like that. Sick.

OH, and for you DCI fans... see if you can score a videotape of the 2000 finals. The Cavaliers' final number has to be seen to be believed. The horns line up shoulder-to-shoulder, reach their right hand under their left, and work the valves on their NEIGHBOR'S horn while still playing their OWN. Wicked.

And if "Blast!" happens to come thru your area, SEE IT! The dvd is good, but it just doesn't compare to the live show. It's like drum corps on crack.

[jayman]

? bitchen!

That is a very cool visual, but, well, that is really no different than drum lines playing on each other's drums -- has been done for ages, and is not a new thing. So much so, that our trombone and trumpet sections used to do that in parades in high school. By the way, I graduated in 1990, and I know we did not invent it.