First Touch With Music

[sycododo]

I started learning the piano at the age of 5, and I'm still stuck at grade 4 for both theory and practical. But I've stopped practical.

 

[ahkiatt]

started bass 9 months ago. no other.

woah i also learn bass for 9 months.

 

[letterhead]

43 this year, started playing guitar at 12 , still learning now

thats the spirit... 31 years... double my age man... woohoo! haha... dun give up playing the piano... it helps u with ur other instruments like mad, seriously, i love piano

 

[fenderrules]

first played the recorder since my primary school days which was about 6 years.....and the only song i know how to play now (probably forgotten by now) is "kueh pisang" :lol:

at the same time i was learning violin in grade 1. i didnt like the instrument as i thought it was silly holding a miniature 4 stringed "guitar" under your chin. it felt very uncomfortable and my mom had to put a sponge at the uhm....body so i felt more comfortable. i stopped learning in the end. i was primary 3 at that time.

i started learning guitar when i was sec 3. played acoustic guitar initially by borrowing my uncle's guitar and buying a chord chart and chord book. i switched to electric when i was sec 4. i have been playing guitar for a total of 3 years already. picked up bass last year and recently played drums.

 

[17wil]

never picked up piano or violin or the 'usual' instruments.
failed at the recorder in school.
have 0 musical talent
picked up elec guitar 2 years ago
stopped learning for about 7-9 months.
recently picked it up for a performance in june.
still learning the basics.
probably trying acoustic guitars in November.
hopefully to move on to bass and drums.

 

[ahkiatt]

recorder pawned all of us la. i think it's the toughest instrument in the world to master. XD

 

[letterhead]

yeah... right... the recorder sucks... rememer how saliva drooled out of the other end when we blew it too much... , those were the days man

 

[bin4christ]

i wonder y MOE makes us learn the recorder in primary skool..it's the instrument tt will make small kids hav a bad impression about music man..

introduce kids to guitars or drums or piano or something..like my bro's primary skool in jakarta..

 

[Mobius]

speakin of recorders, I stilll remember my primary sch teacher who use to pinch and pull my ears whenever I play wrongly. I can still remember her face ...hahah :lol:

 

[fenderrules]

introduce kids to guitars or drums or piano or something..like my bro's primary skool in jakarta..

wow....that kind of system exists in jakarta?? so far ive only heard of most american and european school systems having that kind of musical education, but im quite surprised that it exists in asia as well.

 

[cold_static544]

i learnt guitar since 11. havent learnt anything else since.

 

[Narcoleptia]

took up guzheng (chinese instrument if u dunno) during pri 1, solo concert when i was 16 -damn nerve wracking

organ/piano when i was 7..gave up when i was 13 at grade 7. im a wasted person

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

7yrs - 12yrs: recorder

13yrs - now: Acoustic guitar

16yrs - now: bass (but still cannot make it)

17yrs - now: Electric guitar

17yrs - now: mandolin

18yrs - now: blues harp

 

[letterhead]

blues harp? nvr heard before, care to explain?

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

Think Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Muddy waters... and some of the blues greats. The blues harp is like a harmonica except it is played within the blues context. The main diff is in technique where the notes are sucked rather than blown.

The 'sucking' of the notes allows for a technique which the player uses to bend the note. Notably... the blue harp is a diatonic one.. not a chromatic harmonica.

 

[DoubleBlade]

15 years old : Guitar

15 years old till present : Piano

 

[Cloudsky]

Hmm.

Think Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Muddy waters... and some of the blues greats. The blues harp is like a harmonica except it is played within the blues context. The main diff is in technique where the notes are sucked rather than blown.

The 'sucking' of the notes allows for a technique which the player uses to bend the note. Notably... the blue harp is a diatonic one.. not a chromatic harmonica.

Where to buy and how much?

 

[Freeko]

harmonica is cool i wonder how that blues harp thingy sounds like...

 

[Mobius]

Where to buy and how much?

Sweelee and rankin has. The diatonic ones are 30+ if I not wrong and the chromatic ones are >100