Random question:

Does anyone know what setup John McLaughlin used in the Bitches Brew recordings? His tone is so fucking sexy and cool. I've been trying to tweak my current guitar to get the sound but I'm not having too much luck.

Any TFP'ers play musical instruments
 

Anyone here play any musical instruments? Or read music?

I play electric guitar primarily, have been for about 6 years now. I tried the piano, violin, clarinet and sax, but nothing is as good as the guitar. I can read music, but I'm very slow and prefer to play by tab or by ear. :)

I've played piano for 15 years and flute for 9 years. I can somewhat play several other instruments, but not well enough to count them. :) And yes, I can read music.

trombone baby!!!! all the cool people play it. i've been playing for about 15 years. i get all the chics!

I played the french horn and trumpet in my school years, but it's been quite some time since I last had my hands on either.

I've been singing since 5th grade and've been playing bass guitar for about 3 years now. And yeah, I can read music pretty well. Years of music theory'll do that to you...

Yup, Piano for 6 years, trumpet for 7 years, guitar for 2 years, and drums for bout 3 years. And yea, i can read music, first from piano so the rest were easy.

I play bass guitar (15 years) and I'm currently learning drums (6 months) and guitar (2 years)

Here's another thread started on this very same subject....

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=61111

and this one:

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=386

guitar for 3 years but i play every day (i can't remember a day i didn't play)

alto sax for 8 years

baritone sax for 4 years

And this one time.. in Band Camp.... lol

I played t-bone all through school/university. I didn't get any chicks. But I was amongst the very few that were chicks.

I also played sax, but am now on guitar (electric and accoustic)

I've played piano for almost 30 years now. Guitar and other instruments as well. I also read music and play by ear. I'm the theory snob in my band.

I can play drums/percussion pretty well. I am also currently learning to play bass.

i play the piccolo = 6 years
sax for about 2

i want to start learning how to play the guitar.
i'm thinking of buying one in a couple months.

I've been playing bass for about 4 years hard. Ranging from electric bass to double bass. Seems to be working out for me well since I have a few schollarships lined up for me.

I play double bass, primarily (4 hours a day practicing primarily) and sing as well, though that's a recent venture. And I read music, yes.

guitar for about eight years, I also used to play violin and trumpet :P

Sounds fun. I've got a 4 track mixer on my desk. I can do guitar, sax, bass, or my specialty, voice.

*EDIT*

Oh, piano, and (even though it sounds stupid) recorder (to an advanced level).

I have been playing guitar for about 10 years with the last four focused mainly on flamenco (solea and tangos are my favorite). I have also been mixing and producing techno for about 7 years (I use a jp8000, mc505, and xl7 going through fl studio). I am kinda of a musical recluse though since I live in an area where people think flamenco is a pink bird and raves are unheard of.

This is a cross post between Music and Artwork. I read a suggestion somewhere that we should post requests for critiques in Artwork.

Anyway, there some new music of my band up at www.myspace.com/chessclub. Let me know what you think.

We're till interested in gig swapping between Memphis and towns close enough to drive to.

I play alto sax as a music ed major.

It's good to see the influences music has had on people and the passion people can have for it.

I can play anything with a single reed, but not necessarily well. I like Bari sax best though.

I also play guitar, but just enough to sing along to.

Guitar= 6 years
Drums= 2 years
Trumpet= 4 years
Baritone= 3 years
Vocals = 1 year

I've sung and played at a handful of events, mostly public talent shows.

For You, and anyone else in the learning bass mode. I've been playing for close to seven years now, backing up with Guitar for five, and starting to record alittle on my own (on my second album, finally). Now that some of my credentials are laid down, I can say that to be a really talented bass player, you must be open minded, and ready to learn alot of music theory. Learn all the scales, (major, minor, and all the pentatonics) and modes for sure. A good site for this is www.wholenote.com or www.activebass.com. They are both excellent. It takes a while before you can do the slapping technique.
Recommended bassists to follow:

Geddy Lee (a la Rush) for speed. Songs: Freewill, YYZ, Tom Sawyer, Limelight
Flea (a La Red Hot Chili Peppers) for speed and funk style slapping. Songs: Aeroplane, All around the World, Californication
Jaco Pastorius (solo and weather report) For harmonics and jazz (VERY ESSENTIAL). Songs: Portait Of Tracy, Continuum, Teen Town
Chris Squire (a La Yes) for good solid rock (Songs: Roundabout, Heart of the Sunrise)
Simple Minds: Love Song, Sweating Bullets
and Finally, Victor Wooten, to just blow your mind. (billy sheehan Does the trick too).

Feel free to ask specifics. Some other bands that are worth a listen are:

Black Sabbath, Parliament, Led Zepplin, Kansas, LTJ Bukem, Pink Floyd, The Police, BareNaked Ladies.

Good luck To you All,

Love,

Mouse

Musician, singer, songwriter here. :hi:

I play an electric bass. The music - well, it's a mixed bag.

/Fender fan

I've been singing most of my life but I'm looking at 4 years with guitar, 3 with electric bass, banjo, mandolin, piano, and analog synth, 2 years on drum programming, non-sample based noise music, djimbe, doumbek, pipe organ, and I've dabbled in harmonium, cello, sarood, balinese gamelan, and mbira. I record all my stuff myself except for my first album, but I've got 3 others out and I'm working on the 5th and 6th ones simultaneously right now. Should have number 5 out before I leave Stockholm in December. I usually have my stuff online for free download, doesn't cost me anything to make it and I'm damn flatterred when people like it, so it's win-win. I do have four songs up on this myspace.com thing, so if you feel like it, here's the link http://www.myspace.com/andersolson/ I also make hip-hop beats for a friend of mine who's a rapper and play guitar and do backup vocals for a joke emo band called The Winter of Our Discontent http://www.purevolume.com/thewinterofourdiscontentnc that's just plain awful.

Side note, current gear vs. dream gear. Go.

Draconis man..........great fuckin' stuff you do.


and you play them all.........nicely done.

<b>Current gear:</b>

<i>The following is for studio:</i>

Young Chang PG185 (6'1" grand piano)
MAudio Keystation 88
Native Instruments Colossus
Native Instruments Bosendorfer p190
P4 2.4G w/ 2GB RAM and scads of disk space on numerous drives (both SCSI and ATA)
Sonar 4 (soon to be 5)
SoundForge 8
All of the Izotope software
Various other VST, DX and VSTis (no illegal software)
Aardvark Q10
a pair of Tannoy PBM 6.5
Proton 100W Power Amp

<i>the following is for live playing:</i>

Roland JV 1080
Korg CX3
Oberheim OB12
Oberheim MiniGrand (piano module)
Fatar Studio 90
Yorkville 200KB

<b>Dream Gear:</b>

New computer
More modular synths (preferably the kind that I can build myself)
Better studio monitors
ditto on the studio amp (what I'd give for a vintage Macintosh amp in perfect condition)
another 15" for the Yorkville

I guess I don't have a lot of dream gear. Just upgrades for what I already have.

- Doug

Trumpets
 

Trumpets are simply the best people on the planet. I rule them along with my cohorts Phil Smith, Allen Vizzutti, and Wynton Marsalis. Fear us.

i remixed a song, if that counts. the original is by viktor vaughn (mf doom)...called "change the beat." i found the acapella and added some sound.

here is a download link if you want to hear it.

Current:
Roland JP-8000
Casio CTK-50
Edirol PCR 30 midi board
Apple Powerbook G4
Dell Dimension 8300
Cubase
VST's (ReFX Vanguard, and Linplug Albino are the main ones)


Dream:
Some drum machines
sampler preferably an Akai
a moog or equivalent
modular and/or analog
anything I can make use with.

www.myspace.com/forceismachine

Check it out, and the idea of remixing is cool, perhaps.

playing guitar for 15 years now. I'm currently working on my Masters in Jazz studies at the University of North Texas.

John McLaughlin, bitches brew... I'm not sure. He wasn't big on effects throughout his career. It was in his fingers man, all in his fingers.

Gear vs Dream gear?

Current
Gibson es 335
Fender Deville 65w tube amp
Fender Deluxe 40w Tube amp
Roland Cube 60 amp
Route 101 Telecaster
Gibson 1963 J45
Boss ME-50
other odds and ends

Dream gear
Would love a Polytone amp
Get some individual effects, a Line 6 delay, RAT, nice Passive Volume.
Want a Taylor Acoustic
Want a decent Classical
Would like to have a nice American Strat

ok,
i'm a guitarist, bassist and was trained at piano.
i am currently playing bass in a gold coast metal band "the sever project" just started gigging after getting the band togeter about a year ago, (spent plenty of time getting everything right) we are a 7 piece metal band.
do a search for us on myspace.
ummm, i have been playing guitar for about 15 years, i own 1 b.c. rich warlock a laney aor 50 all tub amp and quad, a ibanez rg an epiphone les paul and an ltd bass.
i was also in gold coast based horror rock band sweet decay. got out of that for many reasons .....
worked in the music industry from about the age of 14 with my own radio show on community radio, writing for metal mags putting on gigs running pa's and i worked for a small record label in melbourne for a year or so.
i think that's about it .... there are a few more things that i have done , but that is all of the major music related stuff that i have done....
so ..... being new here .... hi!

Welcome Alpha....

Vocalist and Bass player in my youth for "RoXauF"...as in, Get Your..heh

Cany say I miss the Lifestyle much....though there are those days

IM from florida, and have been playing guitar for about 6 years or so. I have some stuff i recorded a couple years ago when i started to really get into the instrument... does anyone know any places that i can get some free hosting of mp3s so i can share them with the community?

<a href="http://www.myspace.com" target=_blank>Myspace</a> is a good place to start.

I've played flute now for about 15 years. I also play the piccolo as many flute players do. When I was doing my music education degree I had to learn several other instruments you'd find in a concert band (saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, etc.) I have a pretty decent singing voice too, but I'm not very open about it.