(Unofficial) LTT musicians Club!

[RGProductions]

Alright, this is a club for all the musicians out there. 

 

All rules in community standards still apply (duh)

 

But please keep this discussion limited to musician things PLEASE!

 

Have fun!

 

Some conversation starters are

• What instrument do you play (if any)
• What genre do you find yourself playing most
• Marching band or concert band
• and other music related things!

[RGProductions]

I'll start. I play

• Tenor sax
• Clarinet
• Piano
• some trumpet

I've tried playing a while other host of things that I could never have time or money to pick up, like french horn and alto sax.

[Energycore]

Uh, followed!

 

- Bagpipes

- Some Piano

- A little Viola

 

- Play in a bagpipe band

- Likes to play baroque music on the piano

[RGProductions]

8 hours ago, Energycore said:

Uh, followed!

 

- Bagpipes

- Some Piano

- A little Viola

 

- Play in a bagpipe band

- Likes to play baroque music on the piano

Nice!

[EricTrujillo]

Necrobumping for a good cause.

 

I am primarily a singer, but I've also been playing guitar for 12 years now, bass since 2009 and keyboards/piano since 2010. I primarily work out of my home studio and I have put out 2 releases, one while my old hair metal band was still together, called Diamond Dust, which you can find below.

 

https://diamonddustrocks.bandcamp.com/album/love-dont-pay-the-bills

 

Also my new solo album which is called Strength, can be found at

 

erict.bandcamp.com

 

I'm also the lead singer in an 80's hair metal tribute band called Hollywood Blvd here in the Tampa Bay area.

 

My newest project though is a band called ShinraCo which I joined about 6 months ago and we're working on our debut album, which is entitled 'Come To Grips' which will be released July 30th. I do a bit of singing in it, but its primarily for me to play guitar in.

 

I play Carvin/Kiesel and Charvel/Jackson guitars almost exclusively and run them through my Line 6 HD Pod Pro X.

[Volbet]

Intersting topic (if it gets off the ground this time)

 

I primarily play guitar, but I'm also capable of playing bass, piano and drums. 

Apart from piano I'm self-taught on all the instruments. I really do regret not taking any music lessons when I was younger, but what can you do?

I have been know to sing live aswell. I can't sing for shit, but that has never stopped me.

 

I have primarily played various genres of metal and punk music, but I've dabbled in electronic music lately (mostly noise, industrial and drum'n'bass). 

And I've played live in most bands and projects I've been involved with. 

 

As of right now I play a Chapman ML1 Pro Modern and an Ibanez RGD guitar, often times paired with a Revv Generator 120 amp.

 

[EricTrujillo]

6 minutes ago, Volbet said:

Intersting topic (if it gets off the ground this time)

 

I primarily play guitar, but I'm also capable of playing bass, piano and drums. 

Apart from piano I'm self-taught on all the instruments. I really do regretting not taking any music lessions when I was younger, but what can you do. 

I have been know to sing live aswell. I can't sing for shit, but that has never stopped me.

 

I have primarily played various genres of metal and punk music, but I've dabbled in electronic music lately (mostly noise, industrial and drum'n'bass). 

And I've played live in most bands and projects I've been involved with. 

 

 

Nice dude! I really would like to learn to play drums but space is always an issue. I feel I'd be pretty good at it too

[Volbet]

2 minutes ago, EricTrujillo said:

Nice dude! I really would like to learn to play drums but space is always an issue. I feel I'd be pretty good at it too

I pretty much had to learn drums out of necessity.

There's hardly a lack of good guitarists, but good drummers are few and far between. Which is too bad, since your entire band often end up sucking if your rhythm section suck.

[EricTrujillo]

12 minutes ago, Volbet said:

I pretty much had to learn drums out of necessity.

There's hardly a lack of good guitarists, but good drummers are few and far between. Which is too bad, since your entire band often end up sucking if your rhythm section suck.

Either that, or become a bass player, which is what I did. The rhythm section has to be on point, otherwise its just awful.

[Elite14]

hmm cool thread, I play the bass, self taught I'm not very good tho and I haven't played in a while. I am trying to get back to play again. mine is a OLD yamaha bass that is at least 40 years old with the original strings on it 

[Volbet]

2 hours ago, EricTrujillo said:

Either that, or become a bass player, which is what I did.

Also, yes.

 

Although, good bass players also tend to be few and far between. A lot of bass players I've been into contact with tend to be on the slacking side. 

I would even count myself in that category. Whiich reminds me, I need to get new strings for my bass....

I guess Glenn Fricker does have a point afterall.

 

And just becuase I'm curious, what bass do you play?

 

2 hours ago, EricTrujillo said:

The rhythm section has to be on point, otherwise its just awful.

I actually have a funny story about that. 

 

There once was a small, local cover band that played bars not too far from where I live. 

Their lead singer once told me that their drummer was so awful, that they resorted to not micing up his drums when they played live.

When the drummer found out they resorted to desoldering the cartridges within the microphones themselves. All just to remove as much of him from the live mix.

Unfortunatly, the drummer was pretty much the leader of the band and all the equipment was apperently his, so throwing him out of the band wasn't an option. 

 

There's also this. The drummer seems to always be 1/2 a beat behind the rest of the band. 

I wonder how a sound engineer heard this and though: "yep, that's fucking great". 

How stuff like that happens with a major commercial release is beyond me.

[theninja35]

Hi.

 

I played Trumpet. My valve got stuck a lot. I was in concert band.

[EricTrujillo]

1 hour ago, Volbet said:

Also, yes.

 

Although, good bass players also tend to be few and far between. A lot of bass players I've been into contact with tend to be on the slacking side. 

I would even count myself in that category. Whiich reminds me, I need to get new strings for my bass....

I guess Glenn Fricker does have a point afterall.

 

And just becuase I'm curious, what bass do you play?

 

I actually have a funny story about that. 

 

There once was a small, local cover band that played bars not too far from where I live. 

Their lead singer once told me that their drummer was so awful, that they resorted to not micing up his drums when they played live.

When the drummer found out they resorted to desoldering the cartridges within the microphones themselves. All just to remove as much of him from the live mix.

Unfortunatly, the drummer was pretty much the leader of the band and all the equipment was apperently his, so throwing him out of the band wasn't an option. 

 

There's also this. The drummer seems to always be 1/2 a beat behind the rest of the band. 

I wonder how a sound engineer heard this and though: "yep, that's fucking great". 

How stuff like that happens with a major commercial release is beyond me.

I have a Jackson JS2 Concert Bass in quicksilver, and a very beat up Kramer bass, which I don't even know the model of. The Jackson is pretty awesome, the Kramer used to be great, but now its garbage. Its the bass on the Diamond Dust record, the Jackson was used on my solo album and it sounds huge even with the stock pickups.

[Energycore]

Since the creation of this thread I took the drums lol

 

Currently on a lease set. The snare is a converted air tom because #DIY

[EricTrujillo]

My collection, the Jackson is off to the left along with my Kramer, but these are my babies.

[Energycore]

Can we use this to link amazing solos?

Spoiler

 

[MrDynamicMan]

12 hours ago, Volbet said:

 

As of right now I play a Chapman ML1 Pro Modern and an Ibanez RGD guitar, often times paired with a Revv Generator 120 amp.

 

Lucky man. The ML1 pro is probably the prettiest guitar I've yet to see. 

 

As for myself, I'm really still a novice. I picked up acoustic in January and have been really enjoying it so far. I have a teacher, hut I've been somewhat self taught as I get lessons infrequently. 

[MadModder]

I play the guitar on an old (but wonderful) Martin D15 acoustic, and electric Fender Squire (cheap version of a Strat).

Blues, Jazz, and some old rock.

Most recently I bought an Akai mini-midi controller with a compact keyboard, drum pads, etc. Having an absolute blast with it ,

 

http://prntscr.com/fwgwif

 

[EricTrujillo]

11 hours ago, Energycore said:

Can we use this to link amazing solos?

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I have no problem with that haha.

[Volbet]

23 hours ago, EricTrujillo said:

I have a Jackson JS2 Concert Bass in quicksilver, and a very beat up Kramer bass, which I don't even know the model of. The Jackson is pretty awesome, the Kramer used to be great, but now its garbage. Its the bass on the Diamond Dust record, the Jackson was used on my solo album and it sounds huge even with the stock pickups.

Nice. I don't really have any experience with Jackson's bass lineup. Maybe I should give them a try.

 

Personally, I use an older Rickenbacker 4004L. It sounds really good, but it's somewhat tricky to work into a live mix.

 

15 hours ago, MrDynamicMan said:

Lucky man. The ML1 pro is probably the prettiest guitar I've yet to see.

It sounds great aswell.

The clean sound is great and it distorts really well. Especially with a good quality tube amp.

[EricTrujillo]

39 minutes ago, Volbet said:

Nice. I don't really have any experience with Jackson's bass lineup. Maybe I should give them a try.

 

Personally, I use an older Rickenbacker 4004L. It sounds really good, but it's somewhat tricky to work into a live mix.

 

It sounds great aswell.

The clean sound is great and it distorts really well. Especially with a good quality tube amp.

Jackson basses are a little less common than their guitars but they're pretty fantastic. Hell their JS series of 5 string bases is really good for the price.

[Spork829]

Just recently started to play electric guitar again. I took lessons as a little kid but I was forced to practice and kind of hated it so after that I put it down for a while. Getting back into it is really fun, though I was actually decent before and I regret stopping for so long because I barely remember anything. 

 

Currently on a Fender Squire and a crappy effects amp that I need to use the PC software for to get a clean sound... working on upgrades

[EricTrujillo]

9 hours ago, Spork829 said:

Just recently started to play electric guitar again. I took lessons as a little kid but I was forced to practice and kind of hated it so after that I put it down for a while. Getting back into it is really fun, though I was actually decent before and I regret stopping for so long because I barely remember anything. 

 

Currently on a Fender Squire and a crappy effects amp that I need to use the PC software for to get a clean sound... working on upgrades

Keep at it dude, I've been at it 12 years and it's still way too much fun.

[JoaoPRSousa]

Oh hai there

 

Nice to see a musicians club in LTT

So, I play classic guitar and bass, find myself playing mostly rock (Muse, Nirvana and all that).

I am part of a concert band. We don't perform that often, and the band is composed by guitars only...

Started playing classic guitar when I turned 8. Almost 10 years later, here I am, and I still feel like I don't know shit

[RGProductions]

Nice seeing some people here!