What instrument do you play? What instrument would you like to play?

I play drums and guitar. I've played bass guitar on some of my personal recordings and in a couple of "jam sessions" but I'm definitely not a talented bass player. Would love to play piano, although I should probably work harder at guitar & drums before moving on to another instrument. I do have pains in my fingers which makes it hard to play guitar at times, and also caused problems with playing drums live when I was in a band.

I play the clarinet, saxophone, flute and piano. In fact, I studied music at university and played professionally for several years. I would love to learn the cello because it has such a beautiful mellow sound, and the music written for it is amazing. I have a zither which my husband bought me and I'm trying to teach myself to play it, but it's incredibly difficult!

I don't play any instruments. I would love to learn how to play the piano one day. I've always loved piano music in particular. I would also love to learn how to play the guitar. I started learning years ago but just didn't hang with it long enough. Great topic!

If I could play an instrument it would be the drums. I have always wanted to be a drummer. I like the way drums bring beats to the sounds in the music. I had tried to learn before, but gave up too quickly.

For me, I can play the piano/keyboard and guitar; however, I only formally learnt how to play the piano while I picked up the guitar from my friends. I started to play the piano since I was very young (about 4 or 5 years old I think) and I progressed since there. However, I started to lose interest with formal piano lessons because I feel really bored being restricted to exam pieces, scales and sight reading for most of my lesson. As a result, I stopped after my exam at Grade 7 (the last grade in piano is Grade 8). People have told me that it was a waste that I didn't take the last grade since I was so close to finishing, but since my interest was gone, I thought it wasn't a good idea to continue because it cost my parents a lot of money. So I continued playing the piano on my own, and I actually have mastered the art of playing by ear! On the other hand, I learnt to play the guitar from friends when I was in secondary school. My passion and motivation to learn a new instrument after piano was so strong, that even though I struggled with the guitar at first I persevered. Now I can strum quite well and I can play bar and power chords, but I am still learning to play the plucking style as it is much harder. I am actually quite interested to learn the violin and drums, but unfortunately I didn't have much time on my hands. But anyway, I guess there's always a next time. Learning to play musical instruments is a wonderful experience and I certainly want to learn as many as I possibly can!

I can play a few instruments. My main instrument is piano and keyboard (well, they are the same aren't they). Other than that, I can play flute, piccolo, some percussion instrument (mainly traditional instrument). Actually, it is not hard for me to pick up any instrument as I do know how to read the scores and have reached certain level in music theory as well. But if I have the chance, I want to learn violin.

i play flute sometimes when i feel bored becoz i have only a flute at home and no other instruments to play, but i would love to try them too.

Hi, beckslash. Welcome to myLot. I commend you for teaching yourself to play the guitar. It is not an easy thing to do. I play the piano but I wish I were much, much better at it. I also play the flute. I confess to being quite good at that. I love the sound of a well played, resonant sounding flute. I have a desire to learn to play the guitar. My 5 1/2 yr old son wants to take guitar lessons and I believe I will buy myself a guitar and learn with him. Music has been a means of bonding for the two of us since before he was born and I hope it will be throughout life. I agree with you on the violin, it is a beautiful instrument. And as you refer to the voice as an instrument, I play that one rather often.... though out of consideration for those around me I try to keep it to singing in the car and the shower. Nice discussion.

I play the piano. I had lessons on guitar and drums when I was a kid but I am admittedly not good at any of them. I just know the basics because when i was a kid, I easily get bored so I try out new things immediately. Now that I'm a bit older, I would like to know how to play the violin. I like how classic it sounds.

Two years ago I decided to learn to play guitar because I wanted to form a band with my friends. That's how I started to play acoustic guitar. It was going pretty well, I realized that I'm talented for music, rhythm exactly. After one year playing acoustic guitar I deserved electric guitar so I bought it (standard stratocaster copy:). Now I have a band but not with the same frends I wanted to form a band with. All at all I learned to play guitar by myself too, and I really enjoy in playing it which is very important for musicians:).

I do not know how to play any instruments, but I would love to learn the guitar or the piano.

I play the Piano/Keyboard every now and then. I would like to try playing the drums someday since the percussion is a vital and important part of music. I play the piano/keyboard every now and then. I learned a little bit when I was in high school. I had a music teacher and all the student's had keyboards to each desk. I thought it was kind of cool but I couldn't say I learned or advanced much from being in that class, although it did help and that is what's important.

When I was 3rd year high school, I bought a bamboo flute for only ten pesos, arournd 20 cents in US$. I wanted to learn a lot, so I never stop playing it. On the second day, I was surprised that I was able to play any song I would like from then on. Recently my sister bought me a guitar which I do not know how to play. Just like you, I don't have enough time to learn it. May be in the future. By the way, for me violin and piano are my frustrations. I want to learn how to play them and to have them. But for now, I prefer to play confidently my flute.

I play a guitar and sing too. I would love to be a multi instrumentalist somedeay.I want to be able to play the piano and drums too as then i would be able to record musis all by myself.

I play a bit of everything. I play the drums, the bass guitar, and acoustic guitar, and have tried to play electric guitar as well but prefer acoustic to it. As far as skill levels, I am pretty good at the drums, I am ok at bass guitar but mostly all I can do is slap pop kind of things on it, and Im pretty bad at acoustic/electric guitar because I have never taken lessons and havent really had any patience to teach myself anything. I like playing them all, they are all different but fun in their own ways. And if I could choose an instrument to learn, I would like to have guitar lessons.

I only know how to play Guitar and that too Classical guitar.I just read the tabs and practice playing everyday for at least one hour.It really amuses me to play the guitar when I feel alone or when I get stressed up.I love music a lot and listen to the songs which have the rhythm of the guitar.I also love to play Congo but I lonly know the basics in it.

I used to DJ back in the day. I played at small-time venues and friend's parties, ut nothing serious. It was really good fun and I'm looking to get back into it actually.

I play the flute and a little bit of guitar. I chose to play them because they're what our family already has plus flute is an easy instrument to play (for those without respiratory problems). I'd like to learn to play violin and piano someday.