bapu
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What is your main instrument?
And what instrumemt do you wish you could play (or play better)?
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bapu
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 11:40:45
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cryophonik
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 11:42:15
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Bass is my main instrument, followed closely by keys.
The instrument I wish I could play better is guitar.
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 11:46:11
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Guitar.
Though I started on Bass. Played in student and city Symphony.
I can get by on keys thanks to the miracle of MIDI editing
Actually, I can play just about anything after a few days of trying, other than woodwinds. I never could get that lip thing going. Used to be good on numerous Brass instruments and String Bass, Cello...
The one I have the hardest with is the kazoo.
Cryo, I always took you for a keys first guy. Shows how little I actually glean from these forums.
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 11:48:22
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I play guitar and bass. I'd like to master: keyboards.........and standup bass.........and violin.........and mandolin..........and dulcimer.........and especially clarinet..........and sax.........and..........and..........and.........
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 11:51:06
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ORIGINAL: space_cowboy
Cryo, I always took you for a keys first guy.
Nowadays, I actually play keys more than bass, simply because it's pretty much impossible to do create dance music without 'em. But, I spent the better part of my late teens through mid-30s playing bass in bands, doing some session work, etc.
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Dave Modisette
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 11:54:55
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Electric Bass is my main instrument.
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bapu
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 11:57:15
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So far it looks like we're Spinal Tap with all these bass players. 
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 12:13:32
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 12:23:41
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synths / sampler *waits for the flames telling me a sampler isn't a real instrument*
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 12:32:29
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sampler
*waits for the flames telling me a sampler isn't a real instrument* I'll only flame if it's a virtual sampler.  Actually, I think anything you can bang, pluck, push or blow is prolly an instrument.
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 12:34:44
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Ed, well real sampler back in the day = 32mb... patches now 32mb + in some cases..hehe could I ever afford the grand pianos featured in NI akostic or the ones in Reason pianos? nope and they took care of the decent recordings in decent studios.. so thats how I look at it. but I still need to use a keyboard or drum pads to trigger them 
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 12:35:07
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I stumble around my Keyboard, and my Guitar and Bass. Drums not to much of a problem but I do not have a physical kit.
I would like to learn to play them all better.
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 12:38:29
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John , I never got the foot / arm coordination with drums the very few times I messed about with them. I guess that comes with time and a bit like driving etc.
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 12:46:55
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Bapu and Cryo and Dave You guys should conspire to do a cover of Big Bottoms I like the way everyone plays bass on the intro to that song. Except the drummer
post edited by space_cowboy - 2009/02/12 17:05:40
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 13:43:35
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I want to earn a masters degree for being a widely accepted exponent of the 'Air Horn'
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 14:34:11
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ORIGINAL: space_cowboy
Bapu and Cryo
You guys should conspire to do a cover of Big Bottoms
I like the way everyone plays bass on the intro to that song. Except the drummer
Only if it's done in a SKA meets Country sort of way.
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 15:03:43
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Bass for me, vocals second, neither of which very well. Good enough to club, not good enough to get all rich and famousy. Frankly, the studio is becoming my #1 priority, but I can't imagine NOT playing bass. It's how I self-identify. Corey
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 15:15:10
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Keys are my primary instrument. Nord Stage Compact as you can see in my avatar.
I'm working on left-hand bass. Every few months, I have to cover for a MIA bass player.
Also working on finger drumming. But I've got a long way to go before trying this stunt in public ...
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RE: What is your main instrument?
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/12 16:45:53
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Maybe it's because bassists have no lives, so we spend all our time on forums??? yea and they dont let you take a solo very often either. guitar gets all the solos. And if you use distortion they think your amps blown up. i play guitar jimmy
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/13 05:27:59
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Guitar. Reasonably badly, but I play the best air guitar in the known universe. I can muddle by on keyboards - most chords and their inversions aren't a problem. I can also wave a mean air-baton - conducting an orchestra must be totally brilliant.
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/13 07:32:30
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Guitar, but bought myself a Hohner Pianet T back in 1981 and used that to learn keyboards on, then moved to bass just to get a regular gig , then taught myself blues harmonica back in the early nineties, then in 2000 bought myself a drum kit and I am now a gigging drummer !!!
Still consider myself a guitarist first and foremost, just glad to grow up in the 20 / 21st century where virtuosity is not required as I dont think I ever would have made Carnegie Hall !!!
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/13 08:27:57
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1) Mouse.
2) Keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, vocal chords.
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/13 09:13:35
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My ears are my primary instrument. :-)
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/13 11:53:41
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ORIGINAL: mike_mccue
My ears are my primary instrument. :-)
I would expect nothing less 
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bapu
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/13 12:09:49
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My ears are my primary instrument. You got a video of you palyin' those things?
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RE: What is your main instrument?
2009/02/13 12:14:10
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I have seen videos of people playing instruments without their hands. Never their ears though.
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