I'm a singer, keyboardist and guitarist. I was in a band in high school. I still get together with two of the members and we do mini acoustic "concerts" whenever we all get together for a party. It's informal and a lot of fun.
I also played piano in a jazz band, and was a member of the choir and chamber singers in high school, and sang in an acapella group in college.
In my small apartment, all I have is an Ibanez acoustic that I've owned since 1996, a Fender Strat that I inherited from one of my band members, and a Korg X2 that I bought in 1994. With the advent of
GarageBand, I've finally started to try and create a very small, modest recording setup, using the aforementioned instruments and a Shure 57 mic. All I gotta do is buy a
USB interface for all these suckas.
I don't write a lot of my own music. I was raised, pianowise, on Billy Joel, and guitarwise, The Who for rock and Indigo Girls for folk. So I play a lot of that stuff. But I'm always noodling around, playing whatever comes into my head, so with GarageBand, I'm hoping to more efficiently and spontaneously capture that.