EDF MUSICIANS THREAD (Guitar/Piano/Singers/etc...)

[spamhead]

I've been playing Trumpet for 30 years. Went to Eastman in Rochester.

I also play keyboards/record and have a vintage set up in my basement that includes:

Roland Juno 106
Roland Jupiter 6
Sequential Prophet 600
E-mu Emulator II
Kurzweil K250
Novation Drum Station
Novation Bass Station Rack
Sequential DrumTracks
Clavia Nord Lead 3
Korg M1
Yahama TX-7
Roland D-50
and lots of other stuff/gear that I can't remember.

[jzpiano]

Began playing piano at 4 and took private lessons at 5. Parents forced me to play, but I eventually loved it and wanted to continue on my own. Put on a couple of my own recitals (still have recordings of) and went to college to be a piano performance major. I went to study with a professor who holds 2 degrees from Juilliard and one of the best in chamber and solo performance. Freshman year worked on some major concerts practicing 6-8 hours a day and was a week away from a major competition and suffered some severe pain in my right wrist. Needless to say that ended my piano career just as it was beginning. Don't ask me what I have, I've seen the one of the best specialist in music injuries and she was unable to diagnose me with anything. I still ended up majoring in music with a piano emphasis, but struggled the whole way through. I just recently picked up the Grieg Concerto in A minor, because its on the easier concerto side, and although I know I can't work it to completion I'm going to try my hardest.

So I now just play piano more for fun and relaxation. I still like to play jazz and listen to it in every free moment I get. I think I'm going to start teaching private piano lessons again in the next month or so after we move so I'm really looking forward to that.

I also play French Horn and love to sing so I'd be happy to talk about that as well.

[ScottySo]

Only being playing guitar for about 7 months, really kind of just getting to the stage where I'm good enough that practicing is actually really fun because I don't spend hours switching from chord to chord. So ya, i still suck but I'm having a blast doing it.

ps my guitar is my dad's old taylor which I think is really nice but I honestly know nothing about guitars so it could be a real POS.

[shakermaker3]

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shaker, I listened to the band you play in and its not bad but it sounds rather generic and boring. Maybe it just needs to be mixed but I don't hear that extra something that makes bands like this big.

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thanks for the feedback JaBlue... it was recorded on a shoe string budget with pretty w/ crappy mic pre's , mics ect ect... I think it would do the song alot more justice recorded on a nice console like a neve to give it that big landscaped sound. The song is pretty good imo, but thanks for the feedback it's an ongoing battle w/ songwritting always trying to get better . cheers [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Renixe]

ive been playing guitar since late high school, but never got any type of formal training until my second year of community college where i took some beginning guitar and jazz improv classes. i really loved it, so much in fact i switched my major to music after being accepted into several UCs for business econ. i'm completing my first semester of the music program at pasadena city college, which actually has a great jazz program. i'm going for a degree in jazz performance.

i'd love to talk to others here who are into jazz (or starting to get into jazz).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on9s5QQu8Sk - my first performance as a music major

[Xanta]

I've taken a pretty big interest in classical guitar but I really don't know where to start in picking it up. I can read sheet music for piano and I can read tabulature, but I'm not yet able to fluently play guitar from sheet music. Right now I'm working off of Mel Bay's Classical Guitar Masterpiece's in Tabulature, but I'm looking for somewhere new to go from there. Anyone with any experience in classical guitar, next steps would be greatly appreciated.

[AceLuby]

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I've taken a pretty big interest in classical guitar but I really don't know where to start in picking it up. I can read sheet music for piano and I can read tabulature, but I'm not yet able to fluently play guitar from sheet music. Right now I'm working off of Mel Bay's Classical Guitar Masterpiece's in Tabulature, but I'm looking for somewhere new to go from there. Anyone with any experience in classical guitar, next steps would be greatly appreciated.

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Lessons, but make sure he/she knows what they are doing.

[SL__72]

Anyone have any advice on picking a teacher?

[Ben Young]

my first instrument was piano, which I took lessons for probably 6 years, and I quit around age 12 or 13. During piano I also picked up flute but that didn't last very long. Around 14 I started learning bass on my own, and at 15 started taking lessons, which lasted about 4 years. I took a little music theory in HS and outside of school. While I was taking piano I had a very hard time reading music, and the same was true when I was taking theory classes, bass lessons were mostly in tab but we discussed theory and tried to work on reading music, but it just didn't stick. I was in a band in HS and another one in college. HS was rock and college was some form of metal or hardcore, we couldn't make up our minds. My college band has a video online if anyone is interested in seeing it, but imo it's pretty bad. However, I did play better then than I do now(this band ended about a year ago, I'm still in college). I was out of practice for a while because my band ended because our drummer dropped out and the singer fell out of a two-story room, and then dropped out. Right now I am playing bass with my parents' youth praise band and adult praise band, which is fun despite me not being a christian. What I really want to do is start a band or learn instruments myself and record things along the lines of Bright Eyes, Elliot Smith, The Decemberists, and or Margot and the Nuclear So-and-So's. These are my favorite non-rap(I do like rap) artists, along with Smoosh, and HORSE the Band, and probably some others I've forgotten.

if anyone is interested in jamming sometime, I'm in the SJ/Philly area until january, then I'm in Pittsburgh

[AceLuby]

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Anyone have any advice on picking a teacher?

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They should ask you where you want to go w/ lessons, goals
Should walk you through how you are going to meet those goals.
There should be a good mix of technique, theory and learning songs.
They should write stuff down on the first lesson. If they don't they aren't treating you professionally and you should go elsewhere.

This should give you some basis on what to look for.