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I'm a solo-artist. I do a little bit of everything along with collaberations with other artists and mixing my own stuff on digital studio. My fave is singing, writing songs and performing... Nice thread...So are there any musicians here on RF? If so, what instrument/s do you play, and what kind of music do you play?
I play bass and guitar mainly. I can also play drums (though nothing fancy) and I like to sing on occasion. I have also recently (the last couple of days) aspired to learn to play an old trumpet I had laying around.
I play in a rock band, but I also like to play blues and I dream of some day playing bass in a small jazz group.
So, who else here plays? Id love to start a musicians thread here that we can talk about playing and share stuff.
All I did was join Looperman.com and Reverbnation (all free) uploaded my stuff and you're furnished with an instant player link of your songs (mp3 file) to post anywhere or send to others. They click and it plays. Quite convienient...
) and now I am learning the concept of improvisation using arpeggios instead of just scales and suddenly able to understand chord construction much better. (next I just gotta get an archtop acoustic) Those are pretty cool instruments and look far better than the boring blond and brown flat acoustics IMO. I remember back when I got my first and only acoustic, it was hard to choose because they all looked the same and I didnt really like the way any of them looked . Finally got and all blonde Washburn at a pawnshop.
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Classical/jazz piano. Used to perform and accompany for choirs and shows for years. I was accepted by a piano teacher at 12 who was reputed to NEVER take children as students because he didn't have the temperament. But he agreed to take little me, and gave me a polish to my technique, and taught me how to breathe with the phrasing, to let go and be in the moment, to play!
I kept thinking to myself how great a teacher he would be if kids could get past the "well he's so weird" thing. He couldn't sing worth a darn, but he'd hum and close his eyes while he was demonstrating and breathe deeply and sway his body back and forth and forward and backward. I didn't realize how much I did it until a few years later somebody told me how I don't sit still when I play.
Which would irritate the singers a lot.
So, I played and performed and was featured in a local paper for how I was gifted with this talent (I was already accompanying adult choirs when I was 10). But, problem was, I loved singing too.....
Had vocal training, established my range at 4 octaves, won awards around the state through school (because I had an accompanist for me those times). I loved singing gospel and any soul hybrid of such though. I loved belting out Whitney Houston and Gladys Knight. I surprised the heck out of some of my friends one night on the town when my babies were babies....they didn't know I sang....and after a glass of wine I got up to sing Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On." I was being silly. They asked me if I was signing a label soon.
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Another problem was that I was becoming more and more serious about dance....
By that time, I was slowly giving up my passions in music and in dance to go to Purdue in the pursuit of an engineering degree. After just a year, I couldn't stay away from the arts without feeling lifeless. So I dropped the engineering degree and went back to dance, but performed in musicals and reviews to keep my edge.
I still from time to time sit down at a piano and start playing an aria - they were my favorite to play, and I'll hear how absolutely rusty I am with each measure, and it still doesn't matter because I'm in the moment, eyes closed, feeling the keys, moving my body to the story the song is telling.
I still sing from time to time for an audience, though my most recent performance has been a while - almost 2 years. But like the piano, I'll sing spontaneously.
And my kids are always embarrassed when I do it.
So, how about jazz? I have always loved it and wanted to really learn it, but I have never really clicked with any of the online lessons. They made sense, but I didnt feel it. Only a few days ago I picked the guitar back up (i've played only bass for a while) and suddenly understood keys without any prompting (I could never really grasp the idea for some reason regardless of how simple it is
Looks like the creative spirit came back after all these years
Anyway, im finally learning the jazz style stuff now, and it's sticking. I've had enough of just doing pentatonic ascending and descending to improvise lol
One step closer to that dream of being in a jazz band
It's probably pretty obvious, but im getting a bit more excited about music again
