Signing in.

[Wat_Tyler]

I've been a drummer, bassist, guitarist, singer, songwriter, whatever was required. I'm currently more involved in writing about than playing music for now, but that will likely change.

[LifeDuringWartime]

1. hey

im a bassist first and foremost, but also play clarinet in school.

[Ron Green]

2. I'm glad to be here.

I'm a bass player, mostly jazz but I like many genres of music and styles of playing. My latest paying gig was last night with a violin and guitar, and my next one is tomorrow night with sax, piano and drums.

[asthmaticeog]

3. Hi, all.

I play guitar, currently for an unholy loud soul/heavy-rock hybrid band. I used to play bass, and I've lately been dabbling in keyboards, as well.

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. Signing in, again.

Home recorder/solo control freak here, mostly on the sub-amateur level. I play guitar and program loops and VST instruments. As far as genres go, I do mostly ambient/noise/minimal/experimental electonic music...but I'm moving into the realm of Rawk now that I just got a gitter.

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. I play skin flute.

And a few other things.

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. You're quite the virtuoso, I hear.

:hi:

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. Yes. I play solo, duet, and ensemble.

[6000eliot]

56. Used to be a drummer

Now I play guitar and keyboards. I also do a lot of midi recording as a hobby. I write my own music and lyrics, too.

[Sparkly]

6. Pianist / Piano teacher here!

:hi:

[FuzzySlippers]

7. Hiya!

:hi: Amateur flutist. Mostly classical. Also play recorder.

[parasim]

8. signing in...

Another home recorder here. I'm basically a multi-instrumentalist that likes to beat on things that make cool sounds. I also dig electronic sample manipulation/looping.

My kit includes, 3 keyboards, a Squire Strat, a set of cheap-ass tablas, bongos, a Roland digital drum kit, african talking drum, a Roland SP808, a Yamaha RM1X, all going through an 8-track MD recorder with final output to a Powerbook G4 running Soundtrack as main looping/composition tool, ReBirth for 808/909 retro sounds, as well as various experimental music software.

On my virus collector (PC) I run Acid Pro and Fruity Loops, but hardly use that platform anymore since I now have Soundtrack (which was written by the guy who wrote Acid, now working for Apple) and generally prefer working on the Mac.

I play mostly improvisational east/west fusion, funk, jazz, avant garde, dub, But will try most anything.

Currently I am trying to get more into the MIDI side of things and am in the process of building experimental midi-triggered devices for recording and performance incorporating animation and video as well...

[bbernardini]

9. Pianist/organist/guitarist/bassist/percussionist/teacher here!

Started on organ, added piano and synths. I play decent rhythm guitar and simple bass, along with various percussion. I'm also a pre-K and middle school music teacher, along with private piano and guitar lessons.

[pdx_prog]

10. Soundman here...

I have been doing sound for bands since late seventies. I play guitar and bass also, but my main love is sound. I have been lucky enough to work for a wide variety of bands including rock, country, jazz and blues.

Among my most memorable gigs were working for the Neville brothers a couple of times, Irma Thomas, Three Dog NIght, and Norman Blake.

[XNASA]

11. I play.

I can play a few instruments. And I sing. And I write, though I'm a better arranger than I am a writer.

But as long as you don't have to blow into it, I can play it.

[Beaverhausen]

12. I'm a performing songwriter

Play guitar and keys and of course sing...pretty well if I do say so myself. I've been performing for over 20 years. Don't make a living at it but I love it and can't seem to stop.

Released one indie CD 4 years ago and really need to get cracking on the next one.

I perform in small clubs and coffeehouses here in LA...I even host a showcase once a month.

Happy to be part of this group.

I am part of a bunch of internet artist groups:

http://www.indiegrrl.com
http://www.femmuse.com
http://www.songsalive.org
http://www.songnet.com

[ronzo]

15. I play guitar and bass.

I'm also an horrendous piano player.

How 'bout it, brothers and sisters... :hi:

[kitchen girl]

16. I sing and play old-time fiddle and guitar...

am learning harmonica, lap steel and Dobro, and am saving up to buy a gourd banjo.

[realisticphish]

17. lifelong musician

all 19 years :)

I've played clarinet, oboe (very well, i might add), marched bass drum and quads, play drumset, and sung in several choirs. Not to mention my mother is a music teacher, so ive been exposed to all kinds of music and musicians


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Misunderestimator]

18. Sing and play piano...

Used to be a pro classical singer...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

19. you still are a pro :)

[johnnie]

20. I play too

I am mainly a singer/songwriter. I play guitar, but I'm not a guitarist. I also play a bit of everything else, but no wind. I have a pretty nice home studio and have worked in there and other places as an engineer/producer.
Been playing for about 28 years or so. I haven't really written much as of late, but that might be changing.
My band is Echo Grove www.echogrove.com and my own page is www.jfxe.com

[LifeDuringWartime]

22. i like the first song...

....on the new cd :headbang:

my band's site is http://www.boxesofsquares.com

were writing material for an album, but as rumsfeld put it, it's a long hard slog.

[slutticus]

21. Hello.

I'm a drummer and I play guitar. I have recently had an interest in learning how to play Flamenco...but I need to save up for a nice classical guitar.

I like to write songs, it's kinda like a journal for me. Nothing serious...just for getting stuff of my chest.

I've had very little time to practice, but now that I'm finishing up with school...i should have more time :)

[no name no slogan]

37. Fellow Flamenco guitarist!

If you're looking for a decent, affordable student Flamenco, check out Córdoba. IIRC Musicians Friend sells them for fairly reasonable.

I picked up a Córdoba F30 a couple years ago for around $550, hardshell case included. It's got a solid spruce soundboard, is great guitar to play, and sounds more expensive than it really is.

You can play flamenco on almost any nylon-stringed guitar, but a 'real' flamenco guitar (as opposed to a regular classical guitar) has a spruce soundboard, and the body is a bit shallower, too. This makes the guitar "project" a lot more, and gives it a shorter decay time. If you're playing with a cantaor (flamenco singer), palmas (hand-clappers) and dancers, you need that 'extra' volume to be heard.

I've got some other flamenco-related stuff, if your interested. Post or PM me if you want! :hi:

[LastKnight]

23. guitar, violin. nt

[Ramsey]

24. Vocalist

I've been singing since grade school, classical, choral, opera, show music and most recently rock bands.

My husband plays guitar and writes songs. We write lyrics together. We have a CD coming out any day now. Actually the CD is mixed, produced and ready to press, we just need some cover art!!

[asthmaticeog]

26. Cover art?

Have you considered recruiting a DUer out of the Graphics Group?

[Fiendish Thingy]

25. I play bass, guitar and have a small Mac/Protools home studio.

I wish Ohio would flip to Kerry so I could spend more time recording and less time defending democracy... ;-)
You can listen to my anti-Iraq war song, "A Lie For A Lie" here

[mitchum]

27. Hi, I am primarily a guitarist/pianist...

playing in a number of combinations in the Athens/ATL area:
guitar/harp/piano in a "dark Americana" duo
guitar and steel guitar in an ambient guitar duo
piano/theremin/morse code oscillator in a noise ensemble
guitar in an electric guitar quartet
play with a number of visiting improv/outside musicians
play solo restaurant guitar "music for your dining pleasure"

I do a fair amount of recording at home, in other's home studios, and in commercial studios

[stimbox]

28. Hello!

I record and perform harsh noise under the moniker "stimbox"

-------
http://stimbox.harshnoise.com
http://www.harshnoise.com
http://www.noisemp3.com

[livinginphotographs]

32. Sounds right up my alley.

Do you have any mp3s posted anywhere? (I checked those 3 links, and couldn't find something specific to stimbox).

[stimbox]

43. Enjoy!

Hope you like the sounds.

[livinginphotographs]

33. Never mind.

Found them. I should probably put forth some effort before just asking... ;)

[Beetwasher]

29. Guitar, Harmonica, Singer-Songwriter

I do the Dylanesque thing with the harmonica brace.

Right now I'm working on an acoustic project with my old bass player from another band (now defunct). We're putting together a duo acoustic set to play around NYC.

I also have a digital home recording studio.

[Tafiti]

30. Been playing guitar for 6 1/2 years (holy shit...

...I really should be way better than I am), and am trying to refocus and really practice more. I've reached that plateau of learning where I'm good enough to emulate just about anything with practice, but I don't know scales very well, etc., etc. I have an acoustic and an electric - Andaluz and Molly, respectively. I also sing.

[livinginphotographs]

31. Piano and home studio-related stuff.

Mostly, I've given up straight piano for ambient/noise/experimental/IDM kind of stuff, but I still play once in a while.

My band page is http://www.soundclick.com/livinginphotographs.

This forum was a good idea!

[no name no slogan]

34. signing in, too

my main instrument is guitar and vocals-- mostly rock, folk and most recently flamenco, believe it or not. I also play (or have played) bass, viola, alto sax, bongos, cajon (Spanish percussion instrument), palmas (flamenco hand-claps, an artform), keys and even synth guitar over the past few years.

I've self-produced/engineered/recorded CDs, even did some digital hard-disk recording about ten years ago, before it was as prevalent as it is today. I've played in the same band for over ten years now, although it's more a hobby than a vocation. My biggest claim to fame was getting played on the local alt-rock radio behemouth back in the mid-90s, when corporate radio stations still cared about local music.

I'm in the process of rebuilding my much-neglected home studio from the ground up, with a mix of vintage and modern hardware. I'm a little old-fashioned, as I haven't jumped on the computer recording/sequencing bandwagon, preferring the 'old-school' way of hardware sequencers and synths. However, I have purchased a portable digital 8-track recorder, so I am moving in that direction.

Great to have a group devoted to all pursuits musical!

[stevedeshazer]

35. Howdy

Trombone through high school and some college

Punk singer

Rock bassist

Industrial drummer b/w magnetic tape

Honky-tonk drummer and singer

Country guitarist

Screaming loud DIY guitar

Happy to meat you all.

[no name no slogan]

36. Awright! A 'boner!

One of my best friends played/plays the trombone. I always wondered how you guys knew how to hit the right notes. Probably a lot like playing a fretless bass, I'd imagine. :hi:

[Zorra]

38. Burned out guitar player/vocalist here.

Still gig occasionally.

[Dukkha]

39. Recording musician for 13 years

god I feel old

Singer, Guitarist, Keyboardist, Bassist, Programmer, Producer, Engineer, DJ

I write Gothic Shoegaze Ambient style music made Six CDs to date

www.joerenzetti.com

[Swamp Rat]

40. Wayat y'all!

Down in New Orleans where the blues were born
It takes a cool cat just to blow a horn
On Lasalle and Rampart Street
The combo player with the mambo beat

Mardi gras mambo, mambo, mambo
Mardi gras mambo, mambo, mambo
Mardi Gras mambo down in New Orleans

[trag]

41. Hello all!

I've been playing bass, guitar, and sax for as long as I can remember (at least 20 years). I am currently playing bass guitar in a three piece band called Knucklehead.

[Options Remain]

42. Hi

Just a dabbler at the moment, been playing guitars and keyboards for years. hoping to start a project this coming spring in the boston area.

[HEAVYHEART]

44. Hello all!!

I can't believe I just found this forum. This is awesome!

I sing, I play guitar, I record, I write songs, I sing covers in addition to originals. I'll tell you more later. I gotta go. I just wanted to say a quick hello to all of you!

Hello!

[HEyHEY]

45. Wat Tyler used to be in "Orange Juice"

Seriously though, I play Guitar, Harmonica, Mandolin...and terrible rifs on the tin-whistle

[bullimiami]

46. hey

i play guitar.
In the past Ive been in rock bands, cover bands, new wave bands, punk bands...playing and some vocals.

Have done the live sound thing some.

Im a recording studio tech for the last 20 years. Just play for myself now.

[MuseRider]

47. Classical musician here

I play the clarinet in our local symphony and do some free lance when it is available. We are a professional orchestra and have grown quite good in the last 15 years. Before that we were just a community orchestra, unpaid and uninspired. Amazing what a great conductor, auditions and pay will do! I have been in the group for about 30 years. :hi:

[BlueJazz]

48. Sax and mediocre Piano

[curse10]

49. violist and pianist

I'm a classical girl :D

[Abelman]

50. Guitar

I have a cheapo electric/acoustic guitar and a cheapo electric guitar. I'm going to be getting a cheap ukulele soon, and I'm interested in learning both mandolin and banjo.

I like to play. But I'm not that good.

[DeepGreen]

51. Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals, Song Writer, Lyricist.

I have played bass. My passion is guitar.

[leftofthedial]

52. singer songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, producer

publisher, exec

Been playing professionally since 1964. (Yup, 1965.)

Mostly a songwriter and running a few music industry businesses these days, although I play out about 5 or 6 nights a month. I also put on 7 or 8 songwriter showcase events a month.

If any of you singer songwriters are coming to Colorado and want to play, or if you are looking for a community "home" on the web, let me know.

[Susang]

53. I'm the one you all hate

I'm the lead singer. }(

[ProfessorGAC]

54. We'd Never Say We Hate You

At least not while you were around! Heehee!

Hey, everyone in my band is a lead singer at some point in the set or other. So, we can't hate lead singers. Just wouldn't be prudent.
The Professor

[musiclawyer]

55. I bet I'm the only one here who wrote a song for Howard Dean

www.garageband.com/artist/tallinndefiant

[Bonhomme Richard]

57. Might as well surface.......

I've played out for years and kind of dropped out of gigging a couple of years ago when I started my own company. Besides, getting home at 3 in the morning was getting old - just as I am. In the band I was the rythum guitarist and lead vocal. I play the guitar, mandolin, harmonica, and can cover my ass ( barely) on keyboards and drums.
Instruments I own - Fender American Strat, Hamer Archtop, Rickenbacker 330-12, Martin D-18, Old Hondo Mandolin, a Dozen Harmonicas, Ovation 1777 Legend, Ovation 1517, Bass, a mongrel drum kit, Hammond A-100 organ (identical to the B3 except it has built in speakers) w/ Leslie, a couple of cheap Cassio keyboards, Roland JC-120 amp, Marshall Valvestate 65, Crate 40 watt, Mackie 800M PA, Shure SM 57's and 58's and sundry other items.
Basically a strait up Rock and acoustic rock player.
That pretty well sums it up and I lay naked here before thee. LOL

[Steve L]

58. Hello all!

Been on DU for awhile but just found this forum. I'm a professional musician gigging 2-5 nights a week and teaching a full load of lessons. I've got a Master's degree in jazz guitar and perform in quite a few different genres. Some of my groups sites are www.thrust.cc www.pretzellogic.org and www.johnslatequartet.com
Glad I finally found this forum.

[Bonhomme Richard]

59. Wellcome...Steey Dan cover band...cool...........

In the last band I was in we covered My Old school and Bodhisattva. Great stuff to play

[name not needed]

60. aspiring bassist

I actually chose my guitar thanks to the help from members in this group.