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Mon, 31 May 2010 10:02:38
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I was really proud this week end when I went to buy the second volume of the Petit Paganini violin method.


I began violin one year ago without any musical luggage whatsoever and I must admit that I was really unsure of my capacity of playing it and more than everything keeping on playing it. I'm quite used of trying stuff and then forget it a few week after, but I managed to keep playing violin (having a private teacher helped a lot though Nyaa)

No need to say, I'm still awfully bad at it. Violin is definitely a really ungrateful instrument. After one year, the sounds I'm able to produce are still not smooth enough to be nice to hear. But well, neighbours are not complaining that much!

And you, are you playing an musical instrument? For how long?

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Mon, 31 May 2010 11:34:04
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I play the drums. On my own buttocks.

It's not very musical but it beats some feeling back into them.

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Mon, 31 May 2010 11:39:53
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Musical instrument? What's that?

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Mon, 31 May 2010 11:41:45
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Does singing count? Well I can't really do that much anymore anyway. I tried playing the guitar, but then a thumb injury and a bad teacher put me off it. Among other things.

I've been playing the piano for some time. I'm not sure how long, but probably not a year. My sister is teaching me in fact, but unfortunately due to various issues she can't give me lessons as often as would be best, and I'm too lazy to teach myself new songs, so things are going slower than they should have been. But still quite fast supposedly. >_>


gamingeek said:

I play the drums. On my own buttocks.

It's not very musical but it beats some feeling back into them.

After the effort of beating the crap out of them. Literally.

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Mon, 31 May 2010 13:09:02
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I own a musical keyboard.  By a rough definition you could consider my use of it "playing."  I guess I started oh 3 years ago but stagnated.  I'm trying to figure out how to progress again.

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Mon, 31 May 2010 14:14:57
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. . . waiting for the obligatory "skin flute" joke.
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Mon, 31 May 2010 14:17:35
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OH HOHOHOOO... DO I EVER! I PLAY THE SKI...

...!

Dammit... Robio...!

Talk about stealing someone's thunder!  Argh!
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Mon, 31 May 2010 14:23:07
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Yeah, that's below the belt Robio.

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Mon, 31 May 2010 14:51:43
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And there I tried to chose my words carefully to avoid the skin flute jokes Grinning And of course singing counts Foolz, you just have to listen to Freddy Mercury songs to realise that voice is really a powerful instrument. I can't use mine though :/

My BF and I bought a digital piano last week, he is a guitar player but wanted to try it. I will try playing it too, it will help me playing violin as I have troubles with rhythm and hand independence.

Still, it's kinda weird to think that I began to play because of wii music and that I'm able to continue playing because of videogames. After all if I'm able to grind monsters for hours to get a particular drop, musical scales should not be much difficult ^^
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Mon, 31 May 2010 15:07:44

i think i'm somewhat tone-deaf.  through the years i've moved away from listening to music by ear and towards listening by the gut.  what i mean is i'm much more interested in beats, bass-lines and atmospheres...  as such i no longer have any interest in any of the "lead" instruments including vocals.  when i was younger i took lessons in playing the classical guitar and was decent enough when I put the practice in but i hated most of the stuff i was having to learn so gave up.

nowadays i piss about with musical software like ableton live (and even korg-10 DS Happy ) though, and at times I wish i was better skilled with a keyboard as that could be useful to me (even as a midi controller).

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Mon, 31 May 2010 21:27:32
I play guitar, just for fun. I know some stuff, but have no knowledge of musical theory or notation. I get by with tablature. Sadly, I lack the time to retake this hobby again. 
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Mon, 31 May 2010 22:07:02

robio said:
. . . waiting for the obligatory "skin flute" joke.

The only reason I came into this thread was to see who made the "mouth organ" joke.

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Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:03:58

Mekere said:


My BF and I bought a digital piano last week,

You mean, a keyboard?

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Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:08:28
I suppose it's the same thing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_piano
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Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:13:47
no it's not the same thing.  the digital piano has weighted keys and foot pedals and plays in effect like an acoustic piano (and oftentimes they are bulky in the same way).  there are many kinds of keyboards but you wouldn't use the term to describe a digital piano.

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Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:13:59
Well very expensive digital pianos mimick the feedback of an acoustic piano's keys etc. and presumably they also require you to play with good technique to get a good tone (no idea how that would work, though), which is not the case with keyboards as far as I'm aware.

Edit: so what he said? Nyaa
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Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:42:06
Yes, what they said!
Apparently Keyboard in French is what I call "Synthétiseur", I didn't buy that because there is no weighted keys and no difference in the sound if you hit the key softly or not. >_> It's really like a piano but you can play in silence, and that's really nice <3
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Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:25:27
Mind blown.

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Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:26:03
Why don't you post on the News page Mekere?

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Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:37:00
The.. News page? Well, I suppose it's because I have nothing much interesting to say. I'm quite in a boring mood nowadays, hence the silence Hrm I don't even play videogames or follow their actuality... I should start a "Depression age" thread Nyaa

(just kidding, I'm not depressed that much ^^' )

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