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Just wondering. And maybe put how long you’ve been playing and what music you’re working on now. Also are you in an ensemble, and if so, what kind?
For me:
Instrument – Piano
For how long – about 12 years
Working on – Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin; a prelude by Debussy (don’t remember the English name ’cause it’s in French); Sonata in C Major by Mozart; and Prelude & Fugue in C minor by J.S. Bach.
Ensemble(s) – IUS (Indiana University Southeast) Orchestra, IUS Concert Band, and my church praise band.I compose with a keyboard/piano, but I’m not all that great at playing it (been playing for around 8 years, and I STILL can’t do much with my left hand. DOH!).
I play bass/suprano clarinet, also, and I’m much better at those 2 instruments than anything else (which is pretty damn good, if I may say so myself)
Also, I would LOVE to have and play a duduk. It’s one of the most beautiful sounding instruments in the world.
Piano – (played it for 25 years, but only 1 semester of formal training) right now writing a flute sonata on it, and working on a demo CD as well as teaching beginner piano.
Bassoon – (16 years with formal training) used to perform in the University Of Mississippi Orchestra and the Corinth Symphony Orchestra.
Saxophone – (14 years, but no formal training) used to be in a Jazz group called ‘Green Eggs And Spam’ where I was mainly the Keyboard player and songwriter. I had two very close Saxophone buddies who I used to write for in High School and we performed a few of my Saxophone Quartet pieces (with me on Bari Saxophone)
Trying to teach myself Violin – my Great-Grandfather used to make fiddles and I have the last know surviving fiddle that he made (his name was Homer King).
I’ve played a little bass guitar, but my brother is the guitar person (he was the bassist in GEAS as well as a few local bands), now he is a sessions bass player, and one of the bands he played with CDs is about to be released ‘Reaching Jane’. I would like to take up the guitar as well since I would have a wonderful teacher in my brother.
I have also taught trumpet and trombone lessons, although I only know the fundamentals (it was mainly music reading and interpretation that I was teaching). I do however own a trumpet and trombone so I could practice before I taught.
Nat
i play , clarinet (10 yrs), bass clar. (
alto sax(7) , ten. sax.(5) bari sax(5) sop sax (3) , trombone(5) bassoon(5) oboe(3) guitar(11), bass guitar(5) and piano (10)and now im working on tuba and perc. ( im 17 by the way )i play in my school symph. band , Westwood Winds( quartet) Clarinet Ensmbl. , Green and White Brass , Sound Wave Jazz Band , All-Shore Jazz , Regions Jazz , regions orch. All-State Orch. Shenondoha U Summer Theater , LB Community Theater And various pit bands for High Schools in my area.
right now im a musical director at a local Methodist church ( i think im roman catholic but im not sure… lol). How i got this job i forget. but i play organ and direct the chior .i started composing 2 years ago and i just finished my first piano concerto. Its in C minor and with out a name. I do alot of arraging for my Clarinet esemble and wood wind quartet. I give lessons to little kids over the summer with my mentor Timothy Ford ( a WONDERFUL horn player , he was in the Philli Orch. and he is a band called SPIFF check em out
) uh io think thats it …… yeay music!!!Stephanie
Holy crap! We’ve got some talented people here! I suppose since Stephanie went ahead posted enough for two lives (LOL, no offense, you’re awesome) I’ll go ahead and say I graduated last year at 15 and am a full-time Music Performance major at IU Southeast, now 16 (yeah, I know, here I go bragging, hehe).
By the way, Nat, my mom plays the violin (awesome at it, too). She has a Becker violin. That’s so cool about you’re great-grandfather! I bet it isn’t easy to make a violin. And it sounds like you’ve got a well-established musical life, too!
Haha, look at all the band nerds (american pie ruined my life, by the way).
Trombone (8 years)- My primary instrument and the thing that got me into music in the first place. Last year (my last year of high school) I placed second chair in the Nevada All-State jazz band, which is the solo chair, and the year before that I was third chair in the Nevada All-State Orchestra in the orchestra winds section.
Euphonium (5 years)- my secondary, but I’m just as good if not better on it than t-bone. 3rd chair Las Vegas honor band.
Guitar (7 years)- I just play it whenever I can. I used to take lessons and such, but now all I have is an ability to play it.
Bass (??)– I dunno, I can play it though. I used to play bass in a ska band called The Peanut Gallery. I was originally on T-bone, but the bassist quit.
Tuba (2 years)- I suck on Tuba.
I wish I could play either the zither (the third man) or piano. I know pretty much anyone who knows anything about music can play piano, but I want to play it REALLY good to where I look all sexy and stuff and chicks want me.
“…but I want to play it REALLY good to where I look all sexy and stuff and chicks want me.”
Like Liberace.
Nat
Flute (many years, competent, but hate the thing); piano (many years, very very poorly). Always wanted to learn cello but don’t get the time.
Noone’s yet said they play the fool…
Guitar – 11 years (Played in many bands but quit because I hate people dictating how I am going to play)
Electric Bass – 9 years
Piano – 7 years
Drum Kit – 6 years
Percussion – 13 years (Orchestral and Ethic, I actually played it professionally for a ton of orchestras all over southern California)
Violin – 1 year
Cello – Next on my listKnight (I didn’t acually get into orchestral music until about 4 years ago, so I was all about metal and grunge hehe)
Drumkit and misc percussion: 14 years
Guitar: 13 years
Banjo: 2 years
Electric bass: 5 years on and offI know my way around a keyboard well enough that I can write, but not perform. I used to play piano when I was reeeeally young, but I lost touch with it.
Next on my list are tabla, which are so damn complicated that they don’t count as regular percussion.
Burt
ive been playing the violin for 8 years now. i’m just playing Bruch’s violin concert.
and i compose since i was 10 i think. thus 6 years…oh my goodness…i’m gettin old…Damian
I played flute from 5th grade to 10th grade, when I stopped and taught myself the bassoon. I of course fell madly in love with it and played it until “graduation” (my high school story is a bit more complex than most, but for the purposes of this post, the grades I’m dealing with are the grades I would have been in had I not taken the rest of my classes online and graduated early). For my “senior” year I also picked up the sousaphone/tuba for marching band. Now that I’m in college training exotic animals, there is no way in hell I’d ever be able to find the time or money to play an instrument again, but I miss it terribly. Sometimes listening to music will just kill me inside because I’m not playing anymore
Buuuuut . . . if I could wave a magic wand and make myself the greatest player in the world on any instrument, or go back in time and pick up another instrument (and be good at it), it would be the horn.I forgot I also just started playing percussion (just simple stuff) this year for concert band, since I don’t always have a piano part to play on every piece. Being influenced by my dad, I also played trumpet for about year when I was in 6th grade, but decided that two instruments was too much for me and just stuck with the piano.
I’m sixteen and a junior in high school Piano (8 yrs) formal tr., Didgeridoo (6) formal tr., Clarinet & bs. Cl. (6) formal tr., Flute (6), Saxophone s/a/t/b (6) formal tr., Mallet percussion (4) formal tr., Bassoon (3), Oboe (2). Nevada All-State 1st Chair, Washoe Cty Hnr. Bnd. 1st chair, Marching bnd (drum major), Honor Jazz Bnd, Pep Bnd, Musical (Music Man, Les Miserables (keyboard 1), Pirates of Penzance (bassoon)), Percussion Ensemble, Winter Drumline. Composer/Arranger for 3 yrs. I use a Korg N1 synthesizer, GigaStudio 160 Sampler, Cakewalk Sonare Pro 2.0 for production.
“The music directors put me where they need me.”
dude, you guys beat me
but I’m still young and I have alot of years to go lolPish! I’m just going to walk away now. Slowly, dripping with envy. I can’t play anything–never could, never will. Nuts to that. (I’ll silently root everyone else on, though, if that means anything).
Piano: 16 years
Oboe: 13 years
English Horn/Bassoon/Mallet Percussion/Alto and Soprano Sax: 6 years for all
French Horn: competent; I”ve fiddled around on it for the last 5 years
Just within the last year, I’ve been teaching myself the accordion.
What I’ve always wanted to play but don’t and really can’t:
Cello (I’ve always been told that my hands are too small…and truthfully, my hands hurt from stretching when playing the English horn and Bassoon. I can reach a 9th on the piano with much discomfort – it’s a curse, not a blessing. Rolled chords are my friends!)
I could list my professional ensembles and the like, but I don’t find that to be terribly important.
Oboe and English Horn are my main instruments. I spend about 3 hours a day playing those and extra time on the weekends working on piano. Roughly once every two weeks I’ll get serious and spend a lot of time with the sax, bassoon and/or French horn. And I’m spent…
-E
Classical Voice – Major. Currently training at Qld. Conservatorium of Music. 8 years.
Piano – Secondary. 14 years.
Cello – Secondary. 10 years
Mallet Percussion – Self-taught – 4 years
Alto Sax – Self-Taught – 1 year
AND of course, composing, which I’ve been doing for 8 years (I’m nineteen) and Uni is FINALLY letting me take a vaguely composition-related course: Orchestration and Arranging. Waves angry fist at Uni for making me choose a major.
Ensembles: too many to list. Highlights being major roles is music theatre and operetta and composing the score for and leading the ensemble for the film Suspect.
I wish I played: French Horn, Bassoon, Bass Clarinet and Bass Guitar.
And as for that, SleepyHello, My brother is gutarist/backing vocals in a band that used to be called The Peanut Gallery… I believe your band is the reason they had to change their name to The King George Affair
(I also play cello and keyboards for them when they need me).“I can reach a 9th on the piano with much discomfort”
Dang! I can reach a 15th without much discomfort!
Knight (Who is acually really tall so that is why. Eat fast food, that is all I ever ate!!! Oh, and start smoking!)
Knight – lol. If I had fast food all the time, I’d look like a basketball…which isn’t exactly the look I’m trying to cultivate. I do smoke cigars while playing poker, though. Maybe that counts for something.
-E
I play around with my keyboard sometimes
HAH! I can reach a 16th!! … But with some discomfort.
Clarinet. I’m pretty good, too. A lady in my church just came up to me today and asked me if I wanted to play some offeratories with her.
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