#47

it’s a fair cop to be honest

#48

I can sing pretty well.
I can play guitar okay
I can play drums pretty badly
I understand enough about music and keyboards to use them but I can’t do much more than Neil Codling in Suede level.

#49

Despite how bad I am at drums, I’ve played drums live in at least 5 different bands and a few times on record. I really don’t know how this has happened.

This is me playing drums on a track my dad wrote:

I actually recorded my part in 2003ish when the only other instrument was him on acoustic and vocals, which is why they’re so busy. If I’d known he was going to layer so much other stuff on top I might have rolled it back a bit…but then I’m shit at drums :smiley:

#50

Yeah this one took me by surprise. I thought that impersonating early-era Slow Club had stopped being a thing about five years ago, but no! Some cunts still think that folk instruments are an effective means of selling things. (See also: poetry)

#51

And banjos.

#52

what music things would people most like to be able to do? I would love to be able to do this mandolin ‘duo style’ tremolo picking and chord arpeggios at the same time, seems impossible, actual magic

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#53

Average guitarist reporting in!

#54

I’m good at guitar despite being self taught and trying to sound like Johnny Marr in everything I write, but that’s basically all I want, and I’m good at theory and improvising. Also in the last few years become a lot better at speed being in hardcore bands. So ‘good’.
I have a lot of fun playing bass but probably sub average. This is solved with fuzz and delay.

Can’t do anything else

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#55

This is a weird answer but I’ve never wanted to play like anyone or anything else. I’m perfectly happy to play bass like only I can and if other people appreciate that then that’s cool.

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#56

That is a good approach, I am sort of similar but more through not really putting in the effort to learn (can’t play any covers all the way through) rather than setting out to do my own thing, kind of stumbled on my own thing which I don’t mind but it doesn’t seem to work playing with anyone else which is a shame

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#57

This is not really meant against you and I don’t necessarily agree with it, but I once listened to an amazing diatribe by this mandolin player I know (possibly the best musician I’ve ever met) about how people who claim to have their own unique style are all just incapable of playing things right. He had this electric guitar out and someone was playing famous guitar solos on YouTube and he’d replicate them perfectly and shout “EXACTLY THE FUCKIN SAME”. Guys a legend to be honest

#58

Phenomenal at: Sibelius. I cracked out loads of musical bangers on that in the music technology room at school. £500 per year or something to have at home though :frowning:

Can play, terribly: keyboard, piano (did lessons for about 8 years but only completed grade 2. learned the pieces for grade 3 but never ever practised.), voice (we had to do singing assessments in front of our whole classes for 2 years at school - got Cs in the ones I took seriously, but got an A when I took the role of Pumba in a group rendition of Hakuna Matata because I “led the group with energy and enthusiasm”)

Own but can’t play: ukelele, electric guitar - would like to play both but never had lessons and incredibly un-dextrous/musical (I can’t tune either with specific electric tuners for each instrument. one or two of the notes always sounds wrong.) :frowning: Will be happy to learn Wonderwall and then give up, I think.

I’m also very good at drumming tabletops with my fingers in an accurate and rhythmic impression of my gerbils having a stamping tantrum.

#59

Could get one of these automatic tuners https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00ON9WQ1A/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485475484&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=roadie+tuner&dpPl=1&dpID=31UwPzjShNL&ref=plSrch

#60

Can convert tabletop finger drumming into actual drumming with one of these (via a computer or smartphone) probably the most fun thing I’ve ever bought https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B004M8UZ0G/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1485475667&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=nanopad2&dpPl=1&dpID=31eExEps68L&ref=plSrch

#61

If there’s anything that can’t be solved by fuzz and delay I’m yet to find it.

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#62

Oh, I’d be the first to admit I can’t play things “right”. Any well-taught musician could play all around me. I like the way I play and continually try to improve but I’m never going to be great so I take solace in what I can do. My friends fucking terrify me as to how good they are tbh. (Sorry, only remembered this post now so came looking to respond to it a few weeks late!)

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