I was just wondering how many of you guys can play instruments or write songs or sing.
I play the guitar, I can play a couple of songs on the piano and I sing.
At 16 i used to play local places like at school end of term things and at the local leisure centre which was opened for teenagers to go to and keep out of trouble.
Anyway i don't really play for people as much now, i'm not one of those people who record a video of themselves singing or playing and post it on the internet, i just do it because i enjoy it, i don't want it to be some sort of career.
I was wondering how many of you can play music just for fun and how many of you actually want to try and have a career from it?

Was that not a bit awkward.

Piano - 7 years
Bass - 5 Years
Guitar - 4 years
Cello - 1 year
Vocals - undetermined, I don't claim to be good, quite the opposite. It's like Conor Oberst crossed with a sarcastic and British teenager.

I'm a keyboard geek, if anything. I own too many of the things, ranging from (the infamously lino-hated) toy keyboard, to vintage 80s synth, to standard models, to a warbling MTF organ I found at a carboot sale and picked up cause I thought, just one day, I might use it, or circuit bend it at least.

I've gigged shitloads, from small pubs with no audience and the regular bar flies paying no attention, to large festivals, recieving a lot of attention. All are nice, I suppose.

I record by myself. I have all my instruments and equipment, but few songs rarely get passed the demo MP3. I'm a lazy, lazy person. I have a backlog of 3 albums to record, with 1 out ("A True Friend Will Stab You In The Front" /wrists), 1 EP out ("Showing Off My Skeleton"), and one half finished ("Will You Hold Me Down") which has been as such for a good year and a half.

Also on the list, are several tiny EPs which make no sense. I have a written list on my (outdated) MySpace, if I recall... http://www.myspace.com/sirensandsounds

So yeah, I also write music, have been for a good few years. My "creative writing" so to speak, I portfolio'd recently at: http://werewords.deviantart.com

I'm far more into actually writing and constructing music than playing or appreciating it. I'm backwards. I just love writing, then I love thinking of all the means which create a solid and interesting song. But I don't enjoy playing.

I'm such a backwards musician...

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Been playing the guitar for around three years now.

I have instruments. I can't play them. I do play them.

My guitar is downtuned from E to Drop Ab.

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I've been playing drums since I was 10 (I am now 21). That is definitely my main instrument. I also have been playing guitar and bass for about 4 years, but have developed a kind of idiosyncratic style that is difficult to fit with other things. Hard to explain, but definitely not a mark of proficiency on my part. I can play piano marginally well, so I usually use that to compose chordal stuff and whatnot; it becomes a good default writing instrument, but I definitely am not great at it by any means. And I sing, but I have so many lung issues at any one time that my voice is basically eternally out of order. But I can do a variety of extreme vocals as well, which you don't need good lungs for. But that's basically cheating.

I play the bass fairly well. I absolutely love Flea! I can play some simple drums, quite a few chords on guitar, a bit of keyboard and I can belt out a verse if I need to.

Oh yeah I forgot vocals.I guess I'm ok at singing but I've got a pretty mean death growl, a decent black metal screech (I speak with a higher inflection but my actual voice is a baritone so I can scream like a five year old), and my death metal scream is pretty good too, I have a crazy one on the last song of the demo.

'f'I was you I'd probably get EZDrummer. But then I have EZDrummer, so you know. Either way.

I play the keyboard & sing, and write strange lyrics. Mostly about god or people I know, but with an abstract twist. Song titles include such hits as My Menstrual God.

The keyboard part is highly uncomplicated, and just kinda acts as a back drop. I'd like to record something and post it up here but I haven't got any such equipment that would enable me to do so :(