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HackettFan
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 20 2012 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 7946 |
Topic: Influenced To Start Learning An Instrument Posted: July 13 2012 at 10:43 |
Steve Hackett was my first inspiration for learning to play guitar. Frank Zappa was my second inspiration. I always tried to probe what it would sound like to blend their styles. Very difficult, very different. I was very good at my peak and rather experimental, lots of 30 minute improvs, lots of sound experiments, lots of music theory. I never got a band together, so I went cold turkey eventually and stopped playing. I expect to pick it up again, but I'm actually looking first into effects pedals and racks. It's amazing what is available now that wasn't around in the eighties when I was playing.
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Atavachron
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Posted: July 11 2012 at 23:32 |
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frippism
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Posted: July 11 2012 at 23:03 |
I started drums at 12, just because I always wanted to. But fairly quickly I saw that I need to know notation and more musical theory, so I decided to go with bass. Bass was supposed to be a "second instrument" but very quickly it became my main instrument. The fact that I was starting to get into prog helped inspire me to practice technique a lot. I still do practice a lot of technique, it's one of those things that make me zone out, so it's nice. So I have pretty good technique now :D
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Bj-1
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Posted: July 11 2012 at 15:33 |
Mike Giles from Kcrimson got me picking up the sticks when I was around 10, I've always loved his chops and style. Very melodic, jazzy, intense and powerful.
My mentor now is Billy Cobham (best.drumming.ever) and I try to use some of his tricks in the deathmetal band I play in now. Very effective I must say!! |
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HolyMoly
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Posted: July 11 2012 at 14:52 |
I played saxophone in the high school band, but when I saw a close friend of mine play in his punk band at a birthday party, and I saw how much the girls swooned over the guitarist/singer, I really wanted to be that guy. I got an acoustic guitar first, learned all the chords, then got a cheap electric guitar and continued my chord bashing through an amp. Still no girls. But I guess they were the real reason I started playing guitar. Who's with me?
My real inspiration as a musician (if I may be so bold as to call myself one) has mostly come from punk bands (not just the three chord and shouting variety, either. there's some pretty imaginative stuff out there), and not so much from progressive rock. I just feel like that level of technical mastery is beyond me, and I don't have any pressing incentive to prove myself otherwise. |
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Morsenator
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 13 2009 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 397 |
Posted: July 11 2012 at 14:28 |
Mike Portnoy got me to start playing drums. DON'T. LAUGH.
I had already played the oboe for like 6 years then |
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Dayvenkirq
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
Posted: July 11 2012 at 14:19 |
PF's "A Saucerful of Secrets" -> the organ and the voices made me want to write music on keys, especially for the organ. Too bad instead of the classic Hammond B3 I have this lousy Yamaha church organ.
King Crimson's "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" and "Fracture" and perhaps PF's "Wot's ... Uh the Deal" -> got me into playing the electric guitar. PF's "Wot's ... Uh the Deal" -> got me into playing the acoustic guitar. KC's "Islands" and Chopin's "Prelude in Em (28.4) got me into playing the acoustic piano.
Edited by Dayvenkirq - July 11 2012 at 14:20 |
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Tychovski
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Posted: November 30 2010 at 17:51 |
Wow! No I never even thought to try I wish I knew what happened to my clarinet... |
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Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact.
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verslibre
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 15453 |
Posted: November 29 2010 at 15:07 |
LMAO!!
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: November 29 2010 at 11:22 |
Did you actually ever attempt Who on those instruments? Who are you? Toot toot toot toot toot. |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Tychovski
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 19 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 249 |
Posted: November 29 2010 at 09:38 |
I was already playing recorder and clarinet when I heard my first Who album. After that it was all about the guitar and Pete Townshend.
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Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact.
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benjajl
Forum Newbie Joined: August 03 2009 Location: Missouri Status: Offline Points: 16 |
Posted: November 29 2010 at 09:35 |
I've been playing piano since I was a teenager. I'm 32 now. But it's (mainly Ayreon) has inspired me to expand my range into keyboards and synths. Until I listened to some of the older Ayreon albums I never knew you could do all that with a synthesiser. Blew my mind.
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FordPrefect
Forum Newbie Joined: January 12 2006 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 30 |
Posted: November 28 2010 at 17:07 |
I wanted to learn to play guitar after becoming familiar with Steve Howe's playing.
Still can't play like him though. My first instrument was bass (guitar) but I really wasn't able to play it before I learned the guitar! |
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Stooge
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 09 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada Status: Offline Points: 1003 |
Posted: November 28 2010 at 09:01 |
My love of music definitely got me to play an instrument. It would be pretty hard otherwise. At first I wanted to play drums, but it wasn't practical since it would take up too much space and be too loud. I decided to buy a bass because it fit in with the traditional instrumentation of rock and metal, and every one I knew was a guitarist. I wasn't inspired by any one bass player when I got my first bass. In fact, it was when I started learning the bass that I first really payed attention to bass players. BTW, it was a few weeks before my 16th birthday that I bought my first bass. I actually finally got a drum kit this past January. I was away for university until June, so I left my kit at my parent's house. It's a Yamaha electronic kit, so noise isn't much of an issue. Again, I wasn't inspired by any particular drummer to start playing. Learning any instrument really helps in paying more attention to what each individual musician in a group is doing, so I was already very much tuned into several drummers. |
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TODDLER
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: August 28 2009 Location: Vineland, N.J. Status: Offline Points: 3126 |
Posted: November 28 2010 at 08:47 |
I find it interesting that when I started playing guitar at age 7, "The Beatles" influenced me to want the rock star fame. From age 7 to 18, I secretly wanted that fame. When the real deal made itself available to me at age 18, I then realized that apart from all the shocking criminal activity I witnessed, that this was no different from a normal life. It had all the same disappointments, regrets, and mistakes that any normal kid experiences. So, in that sense...nothing was really different personally. It was an exciting experience to tour with celebrities in the 70's and 80's but your life was no different than the average guy walking down the street. Unfortunately, a few of my long time musician friends didn't see it that way and as a result...committed suicide. Because they were living in a bubble and really didn't know. It was too late for me to guide them in the right direction because they were doing tours like me and sometimes the chances of meeting up again were slim. But that's what it is .....some musicians think that everything is going to be so different when they get a break and it's not. And they are let down because they have high ideals about life. I never fell into that realm fortunately because for years after getting over the Beatles, I studied in a room everyday with my dad and developed an opposite perception about playing music from what my friends had developed during that time. I hope I'm not bringing you folks down. I still think about losing my musician buddies that way and yes! It's sad to see your friends exit like that when you yourself know they were blind and exactly why. Once they were faced with that realization that nothing changes, they started doing hard drugs, sometimes falling off stage and being rushed to the hospital, etc. It felt to me like they died inside and I took it as tragic. It's still hard for me to except it today. It's not a why me? It's a why them. or why does this have to exsist?
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The_Jester
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 29 2010 Status: Offline Points: 741 |
Posted: November 27 2010 at 12:04 |
Chris Squire for bass guitar and Ian Anderson for the flute. Peter Gabriel influenced me in my singing but, I started playing because of the Beatles and the Police.
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29625 |
Posted: November 26 2010 at 18:24 |
Don't bother unless you feel the urge to make your own music in your heart and soul because you can always enjoy listening after all.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Elderflower Man
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 05 2009 Status: Offline Points: 155 |
Posted: November 26 2010 at 16:20 |
To be honest, I never had a particular inspiration to start learning guitar. I was given one for my twelfth birthday, but even so there wouldn't have been a specific guitarist who inspired me. I could learn from David Gilmour, I expect.
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All your hearts now seem so far from me,
It hardly seems to matter now. |
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: November 26 2010 at 16:11 |
I suppose there is no one method that works for everyone. In the end you just have to enjoy the creation of music or just stick to the listening. However if you have become an avid listener, you may want to put your hands on an instrument and see what you can do.
Edited by Slartibartfast - November 26 2010 at 18:25 |
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moshkito
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 16599 |
Posted: November 26 2010 at 14:24 |
Hi,
Keyboards have been my greatest dream and I have now setup a computer and am already starting to play things on various programs, including Jupiter 8V and some others, off the midi board I have.
I know music well enough, but not well enough. Music theory is by far one of the most boring things ever invented, next to math basics. I can create pieces of music, with two things going, and I can create poetry over it, which I am trying to clean up as I go along. I don't know how to manipulate the sequencer well enough to be able to do more with it all around, but I will get it down sooner or later.
I was once told that if someone had locked me up with a keyboard for 30 days, that I would become really good with it, because I have the ear and the feel for translating what I see inside ... which, I can not translate to music, and is the basis of a lot of my discussions here. But I can do the opposite ... I can create a mood and add poetry to it, and that is nice ... considering how much poetry I wrote by listening to music instead!
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