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Creative Arts and Media => Music => Topic started by: Moongaze on March 11, 2010, 07:27:04 AM
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Since I'm new I thought I'd share something to better introduce myself. I'm terrible at introducing myself in thread form... There's something about the lack of immediate responses and feedback when you talk to people in front of you... I digress.
Anyway, since there is a forum dedicated to music I thought i'd share that I am a hobbyist musician. My main style (genre) is heavy metal. Heavy metal alone doesn't do it for me anymore so I began to dig into the sub-genres of death/doom/black/progressive/melodic metal. I like a balls to the wall heavy song as much as the next person but I like expressed musicality and mood more. B)
I own two guitars a Schecter C-7 Hellraiser (tuned to either B standard or half step down) an Ibanez SA series (always kept in standard). I use my Schecter for heavy down tuned playing and some melody. If you're unfamiliar with tuned down guitars the bottom B note has a very low-end bass-y growl when distortion is flipped on.
My main focus is more progressive writing... So experiment with both my guitars a lot. I'll usually make a riff and take the root note and play it the riff on different octaves. Based on how it sounds I'll form the song around it.
I also have a Takamine G series acoustic guitar because you absolutely can't have progressive/black/doom metal without eerie acoustic riffs as mood depressors. ;)
I love taking a melodic, somewhat heavy riff and just depressing it. Reverb in front more, dark acoustic playing. My acoustic is either tuned to standard or open D tuning.
Currently I have a lot on my work in progress list. My last song I wrote lyrics for is just doom metal nonsense. They make no sense at all but the music I have planned for it will make sense because I need the mood in my music. I like to have feeling in my work.
Another one is called "Twilight Melancholy" which... Actually has some meaning. The setting is a bleak forest that a tormented soul is wondering through and he speaks to the spirits of that land and is finally granted eternal rest after learning that he is really dead and there's no purpose in him wandering the forest looking for his people in his life.
Once I buy Reaper (a very high quality recording software) I can post samples for you guys :)
Lastly, my influences (metal heads feel free to toss in your input as well!) include a lot of European death/black metal. They include: Opeth, Amorphis, Borknagar, Dimmu Borgir, Amon Amarth, Moonsorrow, Agalloch, Wolves in the Throne Room, Dream Theater, Nevermore, Iced Earth, (one more) and Necrophagist. That's only a fraction of what I listen to. But many of them influence and inspire me.
And that's my wonderful world of music! ^_^
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Ye gods I'm glad I don't play guitar... To much tuning & theory type stuff. I play Alto & Baritone saxophone. Wack the mouthpiece on & get the jazz started... Need to get a job so I can get my own Bari rather than than my music centres rickety old thing. I've got a standard second hand Yamaha YAS-275 which does me fine (despite the broken alternative high F key). I like playing most stuff. Swing, funk, bluesy type stuff, latin, anything. Though I don't know anything about metal, your tastes seem rather narrow. Or is that just what you play? 'cause, as much as I would love to you can't play Drum & bass on saxophone...
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Cool! I think the woodwind and brass instruments are cool. There are countless instruments I want(ed) to learn how to play, but time money and complexity really kept me away. I really like old folk type music and wanted to get into the flute, and the violin. But... The violin takes years of practice to get the theory down AND develop substantial intonation. The flute just never happened.
Metal is just what I play. I've been looking to get into jazz guitar because I can use that influence for so much. Funk guitar I like, I just don't like playing it. Blues I suppose I can get into every here and there... But it's a mood thing.
I actually have a laundry list of different and diverse influences that I include in my playing. It includes variations of: jazz, classical, folk, acoustic, and too many bands to count... But the bands I listen to make up a lot of my influence because I can emulate different sounds and playing styles.
The guitar is hard, but once you really get disciplined with it, the theory just becomes second nature. Chords, scales, perfect 5ths, progressions, etc... What I struggle with is sheet music. Tabs are a crutch I have but for now it works. I have to right down the tempo and the pattern underneath so I don't forget the rhythm, but it works until I can get sheet music down.
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I do play the guitar and bass, i have a gibson epiphone special, in white....and also an epiphone acoustic, and third is a danelectro u-57 reissue i think.... 50's style guitar.... its beat up. and as for the music i play, usually its alternativeish, more towards punky metal.... aka grunge if we were still in the 90's.
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Ooooooooooooh! Musicians!! Yay!
I play the Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Piano, and some Guitar! I arrange music by ear, and I'm currently involved in a city Band program. ^_^
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I'm in the middle of my music theory class... and I only have experience with tenor sax and bassoon, I played the clarinet the first time I played any instrument, but those skills went down the gutter the instant I got on the saxaphone :P
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You can play a Bassoon?? That's so cool!!! Also, which Saxophone do you play??
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You can play a Bassoon?? That's so cool!!! Also, which Saxophone do you play??
I do believe I said tenor...
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You can play a Bassoon?? That's so cool!!! Also, which Saxophone do you play??
I do believe I said tenor...
Whoops! Sorry! I guess I wasn't paying attention very well..that's cool that you can play a Tenor Saxophone though! ^_^
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I'm hoping to move on in music. I play guitar, bass and drums, although I'm not really being tutored so my music theory is... WAY out. Currently learning how to read some sheet music though, not really sure what to do as I... don't have a tutor to help me. >.> Drums is what I prefer to play primarily though - granted, I don't have a drumkit. Yet.
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I used to play drums but it just kinda fizzled out as I couldn't find a band to play in. It's still mouldering up in the loft, but when I do go up & play I kinda regret giving up. Meh, saxophone & coursework takes up enough of my time. Sheet music is fairly simple enough, especially for drums. However that may be because it's the only thing I've ever played from...
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I strictly play by ear for drumming. Never really liked playing fixed drums, prefer to improvise most of the time since it gives me the creativity I want.
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Playing instruments is by far my favorite thing to do. I like playing with every instrument I can get my hands on. Drumming is by far my favorite instrument. Then Bass guitar is fun and singing is awesome. But Its harder to sing than play beats (For me at least.)
Likewise, You can do allot of sexy things on a drumset :D