What instrument are you most fluent at?

For me I can jam out on a sequencer, but id say that it has to be guitar because I know my way around the fretboard and a lot more chords then I know on a keyboard.

My guitar teacher was telling me that even if my forte is composition, it is important to know at least one instrument well so that when you have an idea or music in your head you'll be able to get it out.

so i ask:

What instrument are you most fluent at?

I'm, like other tracker users, most comfortable with the keyboard! I have a bass that play once in a while, but i've never used it to compose a melody/bassline,etc...

drums

skin flute

up there in piano, but never a hint of theory so it helps me diddly squat

guitar (18 years). i'm slowly learning piano as well, but just mucking around really.

i'm only just getting to the point where i'm satisfied with my guitar skills, in that i can make a guitar sound like a synth, piano, etc.

Electric Bass. I'm working on my piano.

i'm pretty good at the guitar and it's such a fun instrument to play, but when it comes to being just able to think out loud i'd have to say piano

So is the consensus that a tracker interface or piano roll is an instrument?

If so I'm really fast at all the programs I use...

If not... I get most of my ideas out on the keyboard. I got a guitar but thats kinda a pain in the ass and I'm still learning it.

I'm also pretty good at rocking gongs

  acid1 said:

So is the consensus that a tracker interface or piano roll is an instrument?

 

If so I'm really fast at all the programs I use...

 

If not... I get most of my ideas out on the keyboard. I got a guitar but thats kinda a pain in the ass and I'm still learning it.

 

I'm also pretty good at rocking gongs

For me it is violine. I haven't played it for about 10 years but i can still play it better

than electric bass or any program..

first instrument which you start to play intensively and continue to play it for a considerable period of time is probably the one you are most fluent at.

it has something to do with LTP.

guitar

cheetah md16

Kaoss pad and drum machine.

if we're talking traditional instruments,

keyboard

otherwise,

korg ms2000

bassoon!

drums. i'm very good at the bass drum pedal. DENNIS CHAMBERS REPRESENT

guitar

Double bass and

  Wall Bird said:

I'm working on my piano.

i've played the drums for over 10 years, and im probably most proficient at that. the thing that sucks is that i dont got a drum set at my house anymore, so i havent played in about a year.

these days i play guitar more than any other instrument, and im getting pretty decent at it, but nothing too special or amazing.

also, borrowed a friend's trumpet and have been tyring to re-learn that. i used to be awesome at playing trumpet,,, but no so much anymore apparently

my piano playing sucks dink, but i can knock out a tune every now and then

ive always struggled to play the guitar, i think its the way that you cant play any note in conjuction with any other note you want similtaneously, you are limited by your hands ability to stretch.

  messiaen said:

ive always struggled to play the guitar, i think its the way that you cant play any note in conjuction with any other note you want similtaneously, you are limited by your hands ability to stretch.

Yeah, that's a bummer. The fun things about stringed instruments is that you can transpose horizontally with little to no extra thought required. Parallel chord progressions abound! Of course, on further thought, that may be why there are so many crappy guitar bands...

I really respect horn players for their ability to think so abstractly when it comes to producing single notes with a combination of button presses that have no immediately apparent reasoning. For some reason, a lot of the horn players I know are also into nonsensical 16th note runs that don't say anything. Perhaps they're just eager to always play hard stuff all the time once they've come to grasp it. Of course, this could really apply to any musician...

drums

wish i had taken the time to learn paino

  Wall Bird said:

  messiaen said:

ive always struggled to play the guitar, i think its the way that you cant play any note in conjuction with any other note you want similtaneously, you are limited by your hands ability to stretch.

 

Yeah, that's a bummer. The fun things about stringed instruments is that you can transpose horizontally with little to no extra thought required. Parallel chord progressions abound! Of course, on further thought, that may be why there are so many crappy guitar bands...

 

I really respect horn players for their ability to think so abstractly when it comes to producing single notes with a combination of button presses that have no immediately apparent reasoning. For some reason, a lot of the horn players I know are also into nonsensical 16th note runs that don't say anything. Perhaps they're just eager to always play hard stuff all the time once they've come to grasp it. Of course, this could really apply to any musician...

Or they just have no taste.

the french horn is easily my favourite sounding instrument.

i am at a point on the piano now where its just infinite fun which is cool.

Awesome. So do you compose with this instrument at your fingertips? Anyone use staff paper? .. Or do sequencers usually eliminate that need to you?

theres nothing left for somebody with my level of compositional skill to write as a pure piano piece, but i use it to figure out chord sequences to then transfer them to the computer.

i want to put the piano through a kaoss pad at some point.