If you could play any instrument, and play it well, what would it be?
@eslproofreader (517)
United States
19 responses
@96vidalias (344)
• United States
30 Jan 07
Years ago I tried to learn to play the flute. I wanted to be able to take over on Jethro Tull numbers. However, it turns out that I have absolutely no aptitude for it.
I expected to have to study, not just pick it up and play, but after months of practise and taking lessons from a friend, I was still looking at the sheet music and saying: "That's a G, so that's an A and Oh wait. Was it flat?"
I felt that at some point it should start to come more naturally to me, but it didn't.
@eslproofreader (517)
• United States
30 Jan 07
I have to tell you, I saw Ian Anderson this summer with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, performing Jethro Tull stuff. It was great! I'd seen him a few years before (well, maybe 5 or 6), and I was disappointed that he wasn't really able to sing. This year, though, with the arrangements, I was blown away. He also had an italian violinist perform 'Kashmir' by Zeppelin, very Middle Eastern/Indian style. Too bad you didn't surpass him! I'd have paid double...
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@eslproofreader (517)
• United States
30 Jan 07
I wasn't really looking forward to the show at all, but I left impressed and bubbly!
@96vidalias (344)
• United States
30 Jan 07
That sounds gorgeous! Someone else said that Ian Anderson's voice was not good now, so I'm glad to hear that his flute is still going strong.
@habichuelo (3100)
• United States
25 Jan 07
well this is a good discution,,,i play drums and piano,,i recently enrolled in a school to learn "cuatro" its my country native cultural instrument,,im starting those classes next saturday at the capital of my country 1:30 hours away from home
i hope we could play those intruments togheter someday,,,music is the language of the universe!!
@eslproofreader (517)
• United States
25 Jan 07
what is cuatro? What kind of instrument is it? Wind?
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@toonatoons (3737)
• Philippines
29 Jan 07
funny, i can play the piano, but would also love to learn the guitar? can we swap talents? lol!
i tried studying violin, but i could never quite get the hang of it, so i stuck it out with piano.
@eslproofreader (517)
• United States
29 Jan 07
I wish I had some talent to swap! I've only been learning this past year.
@eslproofreader (517)
• United States
25 Jan 07
You know, I also love the sound of that instrument. I have an aquaintance who plays rather well. What I've been pondering lately, after a year of guitar lessons, is how difficult the banjo must be- and it's written off as some hick instrument. It must take real talent to do suck quick picking and strumming. I guess anything from the south of the U.S. gets a bad rap; you can play the violin as if you'd sold your soul to the devil, and you'd be called a 'fiddler'.
@VKXY62 (1605)
• Australia
27 Dec 06
I'd really like to be able to read and write music, I'd like to play the harpsichord. I love the tang quality in the notes it plays. I can play the didgeridoo though. I've been able to play it fairly well since I was about ten. I remember watching Rolf Harris explain how to play one on the television, so I grabbed one of Mum's vacuum cleaner pipes and away I went, I got the circular breathing down pat first time.
@meeoww (1174)
• United States
30 Dec 06
Circular breathing. Isn't that what Kenny G does? He's amazing.
@eslproofreader (517)
• United States
21 Nov 06
I was waiting for someone to respond "cowbell" or something like that!
@guitarchick88 (46)
• United States
2 Feb 07
i already play d guitar.. but aint dat gud yet...i just play sum chords.. one day i wanna learn how to do soloing too, but aint have a chance to practice is as i dnt have an electric guitar at home. i wanna learn how to play d drums too.
@alpha_scan (353)
• Philippines
1 Feb 07
I want to play the guitar. I just find it hard to play it. It's too heavy for me. I want to play the classical and the electric one. I really want to learn. Playing the guitar was really cool for me.
@ButtrflyDreams (1139)
• United States
5 Dec 06
I can play the piano pretty good. I'm not the greatest at it though. I would love to learn the guitar though. I also want to learn how to play the flute. I think the flute is such a beautiful sounding instrument.
@meeoww (1174)
• United States
30 Dec 06
I plink on the piano, I play clarinet, and I've made what I think is a natural progression to want to play the sax. But I want to learn the fingerings and learn to play it by ear. My problem right now is that I can play only if I have the sheet music. I would like to learn sax by ear and associating it with the fingerings, so that way I can learn to play songs when I hear them.
@OtongLennon (37)
• Indonesia
26 Jan 07
I'm learning piano.. but I'm able to play guitar, keyboard, and synth