Musicians! show yourself!

I didn't mean your music was bad, but it just got me thinking...

It was really good by the way.
 
i like how people list electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and bass guitar like theyre oh so different. if you play any one of these, youre a guitarist. thats that. you dont get to list three different things.
 
"i like how people list electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and bass guitar like theyre oh so different. if you play any one of these, youre a guitarist. thats that. you dont get to list three different things."

You've never heard any extended range and/or solo bassists before, have you? Check out myspace.com/jeanbaudin. That's not me, but I'm working on getting there. By the way, do you play anything?
 
Ahh, alright. No offense to anybody in particular, but these are two things that have been bugging me.

First: I've been playing drums for 13 years (since I was 5) and I'm emberassed to tell people that I play drums because most people automatically assume I'm just one of the thousands of kids who got a drumset, took no lessons, and started a shitty band.

Second: You can say "oh, my band plays this kind of music", but you're not a true musician if you, as a single person, can only play one or two different kinds of music. Saying "I play guitar and I play metal" or "I play bass and I play punk" just means that you've kept yourself back from learning other kinds of music.

No offense, but that's been bugging me. Take care.
 
I play guitar and i play metal. But all differnt kinds, hXc, thrash and old school. Im abuot as well versed as they come.
 
and im in a band with this kid who taught himself to play drums. Hes so sick, he can play every nirvana song ever written!
 
WOW! i play gui since the age of 6, first i learned classic, reading and all the things that comes with it, then i shitched to electric cause i absolofuckingdutly like metal, but i also take classic lessons, and i also play other kinds of music with the school orchestra or, on my own..
 
yeah, but you where talking like : most of the musicians are wannabies.. and most of the peoples who say they are guitarist can't read music (only tabs) of stuff like that.. :S

peut-etre que c'est juste mon interprétation du texte.. :S:S, if yes, sorry..
 
ohh no no. I was just saying that nowadays, I'm emberassed to say that I'm a drummer, because theres so many people who claim to be musicians and the general public is more likely to see an 18 year old kid as somebody that hasnt been playing and taking lessons since they were 5; they're more likely to think that I'm 'just another kid with a drumset'.
 
True, but how often do you get into specifics about your instrument with a non-musician? Talking to another musician, it's basically told what level musician you are just by the language; and in drummer's language, mostly made up words. haha
 
i'm not a drummer, i don't know a shit about drumm (or i taught..), and at the college's Xmas show, i was playing in the first part, and i was Tec also.. in the break, I told to the others tec : go put the drum on the stage, the guy who's playing is LeftHanded.. and one of them answer: I'll do if, i play drumm for more than 4 years.. and he went on the stage and install the drum, but when i went on the stage to fix others things, i never something like that.. OMG!

another kid with a JammPack..
 
if youre playing a double bass then maybe you can make a claim. aside from that a guitar is a guitar.

and im a pianist and a guitarist... and a few other things that i dont do well enough to claim.
 
i understand where you are coming from, but i dont think being a musician is defined by what music or what instrument you play. if you love music and you play because you love music then its all good.
 
Ya, kinda. My teacher is my dad and I's best friend, so we're always with him and it's kind of like lessons whenever we just sit down and play. I took actual lessons from age 4 or 5 to 13 or so.
 
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