Thinly veiled I play a musical instrument thread (Sponsored by Jeremy Clarkson)

[leedsrevolution]

So I think I'm going to buy this soon:

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£446.00 which seems a nice deal.

[Baz]

I have 2 kazoos and am a dab hand at playing them.

One at a time, of course. My speciality is Rock Around The Clock.

[mugbull]

£400 range is a good deal?? Holy fuck, I mean I don't know anything about drumsets, but that seems insane

[mugbull]

I think it's prime time to buy an Ableton Push. Looks like this



The world of dynamic percussion is opening its arms to greet me To be fair that is around $350, which kind of negates what I said above, but that drumset converts to over $600 so i still feel good about myself

[Giggles]

£400 range is a good deal?? Holy fuck, I mean I don't know anything about drumsets, but that seems insane

I don't know the make but if they're good the £400 isn't bad. Mine were over IR£700 when I got them over 20 years ago.

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Also, it's drumkit. Drumset sounds retarded.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I play the piano, but these days I can't be arsed with reading music, so it's just in a sitting down and bashing out a tune by ear sort of thing. Like those savants, but about 1/1000th as good. Nailed a Mr Bojangles completely at random just now

Also play the guitar but I have a very low ceiling with that because my fingers can't deal with barre chords.

[leedsrevolution]

£400 range is a good deal?? Holy fuck, I mean I don't know anything about drumsets, but that seems insane

£400 is expensive? I would say for example; I spent £150 on a night out on Friday - this seems cheap. Although, I don't know about the exact makes etc. My previous kit started as a Performance Percussion £100.00 set that became insane by the time I added everything.

[Boydy]

I can't play anything.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Get a keyboard and learn that.

[Boydy]

Keyboard isn't cool though.

[Magic]

You can immediately tell Mokbull is a classless cunt.

Drums are made from wood. Wood is expensive. There are many different types of wood.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ukulele? Otherwise you're fucked.

[Boydy]

Ukulele? Otherwise you're fucked.

Too whimsical.

I tried self-teaching guitar a bit when I was younger but I couldn't get my hands to do the right things at all. I reckon some sort of wind instrument would be easier.

[Pepe]

I play the (classical) guitar but I am still not very good at it. I think my guitar was $800, which is as low as it gets for a luthier-made guitar as opposed to a $100 Yamaha shitbox (I have one of those too.)

[Reg]

I play guitar but I'm not particularly good.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've been thinking about learning to play the piano.

[leedsrevolution]

Thinking about learning something is the most negative sounding thing I've ever herd.

[mikem]

Too whimsical.

I tried self-teaching guitar a bit when I was younger but I couldn't get my hands to do the right things at all. I reckon some sort of wind instrument would be easier.

Then you probably want to go with woodwinds. Brass instruments generally have fewer positions so technique matters more at really basic levels.

I can play a half decent stride piano and a fairly crap trumpet.

[Gray Fox]

Needs more cowbell.

[Vim]

I'm considering taking my drum set to my dorm room, it's been sitting at my parents' for two years. There's not much space but I might be able to make it work. I miss playing a lot, I actually played live last month at some open stage night here, it was really fun even though I hadn't practiced in about two years.

[Davgooner]

Still rolling with the Axe-Fx II for pretty much everything now. Guitars I'm now exclusively PRS after fucking up the head on my old Gibson. Got my eyes on a second hand, American-made PRS Tremonti that a friend of a lad at work is selling. Charcoal burst.

If any of the guitar players want a decent cab then I'm selling a Mesa 4x12.

[Magic]

I'm considering taking my drum set to my dorm room, it's been sitting at my parents' for two years. There's not much space but I might be able to make it work. I miss playing a lot, I actually played live last month at some open stage night here, it was really fun even though I hadn't practiced in about two years.

It's drum KIT, nerd.

[Boydy]

I think it's prime time to buy an Ableton Push. Looks like this



The world of dynamic percussion is opening its arms to greet me To be fair that is around $350, which kind of negates what I said above, but that drumset converts to over $600 so i still feel good about myself

[Pepe]

Tricot.

[phonics]

I tried to learn the Guitar when I got into music but the guy teaching me had me learning Good King Wencelas when I wanted to learn Red Hot Chilli Peppers and I was on bass for a while when I thought being in a band would be cool. Once I got into Hip-Hop I realised I was the most off beat mother fucker alive and got into organising and promoting people who were actually good at it instead. I've always had an ear for it so my job at a gig would mostly be having a go at the sound engineer for red-lining everything.

[Kikó]

I play guitar infrequently. Cannot find the time to play it and I don't listen to music enough to play newer stuff.

[leedsrevolution]

Wait, what was this? I remember it . . . . Was it bop it on crack or something?

[mugbull]

£400 is expensive? I would say for example; I spent £150 on a night out on Friday - this seems cheap. Although, I don't know about the exact makes etc. My previous kit started as a Performance Percussion £100.00 set that became insane by the time I added everything.

150 for a night out? Jesus, is that mainly the booze or the cover or what? The most expensive night out i've ever had was $150 (or 100 pound), and I felt like a piece of shit about it the next day.

Things in Europe are so goddamn expensive

[igor_balis]

I played bass for about 6 months when I was 14. Still remember loads of Pixies bass lines though because they're really fun and really easy. Kim Deal is a classy broad. Kinda wanna learn guitar, but I think I'm more enticed by how cool jaguars and jazzmasters look, rather than any real artistic ambitions.

[Reg]

Jazzmasters are extremely cool.

[leedsrevolution]

150 for a night out? Jesus, is that mainly the booze or the cover or what? The most expensive night out i've ever had was $150 (or 100 pound), and I felt like a piece of shit about it the next day.

Things in Europe are so goddamn expensive

Taxi was 20. My better half drank 20 quids worth and the rest was booze for me. It was 8 quid for a double whiskey. Which is steap.

[Adramelch]

I have this.

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Much like everyone else, I'm not that good.