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how many of u cant play music instrument? (pg. 3)
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| Takkra |
| heer heer pianoroll.:o |
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| Djyoungsta00 |
keyboard/piano,drums
and the turntables (well they are a musical instrument):haha:
i tryed classical NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!NEVER (so anoying)
cant remember my grade for keyboard/piano i will have to go though my paper work.i think it was around 7/8 not to sure could have been higher.im not one for remembering grades i cant even remember my GCSE's at all.
drums learnt them all by my self LOL! (come on if you can play the piano you can play the drums its not that hard)all you need is a sence of timing plus creativity. |
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| Djyoungsta00 |
| i do know i got a crap grade in english lol (oh sh*t i am english how did i get a crap grade LOL!!!!!!!!) :clown: |
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| Foecunditatis |
| my self grade 2 piano and just started learning saxophone... i heard playing classical is good to improve your harmonical hearing and feeling.. my self grade 2 piano and just started learning saxophone... |
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| J.L. |
been musically involved most of my life...
10 years of classical violin (grade 10)
6 years of jazz trombone,
3 years of guitar |
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| *InVeRs3* |
oh, I can play a recorder! I remember learning to play it, but I suddenly forgot how to play it.
I mostly played Catholic Church choons on it. I played 3 years of the recorder lol. |
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| dj jasonF |
| i almost learned to play the flute (or some version of it) at school when i was 10 or something but i didnt really like it so i gave up. i forgot everything but the major scale lol. i was learning the drums for a few moths when i was 15 but i got bored of it really fast too. then after i starded producing i wanted to get a keyboard which i finaly did and now i have 2 and im to learing. im also gonna take lessons after christmas.... i hope. :D |
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| DigiNut |
I'm pretty sure there was a thread about this around a month ago... I'll say what I said before:
Instrumental (or vocal) skills aren't critical to music production, but many people including myself will tell you that it's not hard to spot the difference between music produced by musicians and music produced by computer geeks. Not that one can't be both of those things, but with the latter I'm referring specifically to those with no musical training.
Listening to music is a bit like reading a book. When you read a book you can often tell whether or not the author likes people. Sure, all authors know what they like and know what they want to write about, but a "people person" tends to pay more attention to the little things, to the subtleties, to dynamic and 3-dimensional characters. Likewise, producers who are also musicians tend to use a much wider dynamic range, develop more complex harmonies and progressions, and create more interesting and less repetitive tunes in general.
Ironically, the people who most often can't seem to tell the difference are the producers with no musical training. Ordinary Joes without musical background can tell, and musicians with or without production background can tell, but the "technical" producers often don't see why or where a track should have more variety or dynamics.
Of course this is all just my opinion and I'm sure there are some notable, well-known exceptions, and I'm sure many will disagree. That just happens to be my perspective and it seems to get reinforced fairly often. |
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| SpecRadio |
I don't know the music theory...but i've played the trumpet for 6 years now and just recently have I quit and sold my trumpet :p
I can read music, but I have absolutly no clue what the note letters/names are. Like if the teacher asked me what the name of the note was I'd be like "omgwtf". I'd just know how to play the notes based on where they were on the scale. |
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| PutBoy |
Nope. Can't ;D
Weel, I can play a tad little guitar and piano, but not much at all so it doesn't count. |
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| Since Forever |
wow, I cant believe how many of you don't play any instrument. How do make chord progresions and melodies?? a matrix editor?? I've been playing guitar off and on for a long time and have been playing it consistantly for about 3-4 years now, mainly lead guitar type stuff(blues/rock/metal). I think Im gonna learn how to use a slide real soon. I also took a piano class that I dropped out of because I kept playing all the songs with a jazzy kinda feel, the teacher liked it but said it wasn't the way the songs were ment to be played, and I also took an "electronic music" course where all we did was input notation the whole semster :(
I just bought "...voice leading" by Aldwell for 4 dollars used so I plan on learning some more theory from that. Oh, and for some reason I have been wanting to learn jazz flute lately, I guess I need to quit listening to dungen's " Solen stiger upp" and jethro tull, haha..
so yeah, thats my musical experience in a nut shell :eyespop: |
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| RichieV |
| quote: | Originally posted by Since Forever
wow, I cant believe how many of you don't play any instrument. How do make chord progresions and melodies?? a matrix editor?? I've been playing guitar off and on for a long time and have been playing it consistantly for about 3-4 years now, mainly lead guitar type stuff(blues/rock/metal). I think Im gonna learn how to use a slide real soon. I also took a piano class that I dropped out of because I kept playing all the songs with a jazzy kinda feel, the teacher liked it but said it wasn't the way the songs were ment to be played, and I also took an "electronic music" course where all we did was input notation the whole semster :(
I just bought "...voice leading" by Aldwell for 4 dollars used so I plan on learning some more theory from that. Oh, and for some reason I have been wanting to learn jazz flute lately, I guess I need to quit listening to dungen's " Solen stiger upp" and jethro tull, haha..
so yeah, thats my musical experience in a nut shell :eyespop: |
you don't need to play an instrument to be able to understand how music works. It helps but it isn't essential. And that book you bought is awesome. |
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