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Rooh
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Wild Bill63 said :
Oof sorry about the repeated posts. Thought my computer was frozen so I hit enter a few times.

No problem, removed some to tidy up ;)

One of my regrets is never learning an instrument. I had a few half-hearted attempts but never got anywhere.
My brother and sister are both musical but the "musical ear" seems to have skipped me :P
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22-Feb-2021 15:07:53

Brigantia

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I went through a phase in my earlier 20s where I really wanted to learn the harp. However, I have absolutely no musical talent despite trying a few different instruments in my life.

I also could never learn how to read music to save my life so I think music is just a lost cause for me lol
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22-Feb-2021 16:02:09

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I play the clarinet, and have done that for 22 years. As for advice, practice is what makes you good. How good you become depends on how much you practice. There is no shortcut around that. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin

27-Feb-2021 21:58:55

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When I was a pre-schooler I was learning the piano. When we moved to another state, the piano (an upright) was sold because of lack of room and to help finance the move.

In High School, I learned the Clarinet, but had to drop out because my grades weren't high enough to continue. We had to maintain at least a B average. I dropped down to a C average.

Now, in my adulthood, about 12 years ago I learned the electronic organ with a double mantel. About 4 years ago, the orchestral part of the organ quit playing. I tried to find someone who could fix it. The closest repair shop is about 100 miles away, so it sat. I played it occasionally without the accompaniment, but it just wasn't the same. For background, all I had was drums, no instruments. Trying to play my favorite songs with nothing but boom-boom-snare in the background turned me off.

About 3 months ago, I put the organ in another room. A few days later, I was playing around with the different buttons and discovered my orchestral panel started working again. Since I didn't have anything in the background, I hadn't been playing chords. Much to my surprise, I found there's a lot of chords I've forgotten. Back to the books.
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28-Feb-2021 08:58:55

CM Nick

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I play quite a few! I started playing music when I was 13 and got my first guitar because I wanted to be in a punk band. At 14 I started a punk band! Then after about 3 years, our bassist left and I learned bass and took over. That band broke up about 2 years later and I started doing my own thing and went back to guitar and learning how to actually sing beyond backup vocals.

About 8 years ago, I started messing around on drums and eventually became the drummer of my good friend's band without having ever really played drums for a band, and have been playing ever since. In that time I've also done keyboards, bass, backup vocals, and auxilliary percussion for bands, and learned the mandolin, ukulele and banjo.

These days I have my own project, play just about everything myself on the recordings, and then get good friends to support me instrumentally when I do live stuff (which, sadly, these days is not at all due to the pandemic...)

Basically at this point, I love to pick up anything and figure it out, music is sincerely one of the most rewarding and wonderful hobbies :) Community Manager for Jagex

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