Role Call for Musicians on the SDMB

I play at hoedowns. Can work the saw and the fiddle and the tub. None of them good, but all of them loud! :smiley:

YESSSSS!!!

No sweeter sound in the world, in the right hands. In the wrong hands, well, let’s just keep 'em out of the wrong hands.

Lead guitar–and there is a difference between basic chords and good rhythm guitar, which I don’t play–with total guitar playing time of 22 years, bass, mandolin, vox, and working on piano. I think fiddle’s next, since it’s tuned the same as the mando.

bass guitar was my first love, but i also picked up the ole six-string. To round it out, i picked up a set o’ drums and can actually bang out a fairly solid beat on 'em.

I can play a tiny bit on piano. I’m still working on my violin.

Finally, to make my skills complete, I took up singing, mostly by way of…karaoke.

Now I can jam with just about anybody :wink:

Half-assed guitar player here. If you want to stick to the punk/new wave idiom you can get by pretty easily.

I’ve played both lead and rhythm. Cut my teeth on drums in high school, dabbled in keyboards (it’s a programming there. Or at least it was) and switched to guitar in my 20s.

Heck, I don’t even embarass myself on bass.

Classically trained violinist and cellist. Self-taught pianist and guitarist. Tried to play my brother’s drums a few times, but I have no rhythm. I’m a decent singer - a bluesy alto.

Excelled at music theory - minored in music. Would like to go back and study composition (orchestral and experimental).

I have played trombone for 12 years now, in and out of various school and church bands/orchestras, and played baritone (euphonium) for 4 years before that. I’m currently playing in a ska band with some of the kids in our youth group.

I’m also taking piano lessons, but not up to a level that counts yet, tho. I agree that it is the ultimate instrument–even the short time I’ve been taking has increased my ability to improv on the trombone, much to the happiness of the young-ins.

Trumpet
Bass guitar
Guitar (if you can call being able to move one chord up and down the neck playing)

TMR-

I sure as shit consider being able to hold a bar chord and moving up and down ‘playing’. Have someone teach you power chords sometime. Same basic theory…more versatility.

Don’t let anyone bring you down. Many a great song was written with bar chords and the like.

Heck, there must be about a ka-jillion millionaires in the rock age who stuck with them. And they’re MUCH easier to play if you have to sing at the same time.