Musicians Thread

I play the viola and violin

 

I'm a bassist and songwriter for a thrash/power/prog metal band that's trying to get off the ground. Aside from bass, I can play rhythm guitar, and aside from metal, I like to write video gamey stuff as well as the occasional orchestral arrangement. I've been tasked with writing the score for an MLP RPG being planned by a friend of mine (as well, I've volunteered to contribute music to Eight Star's RPG here), so I'm hoping that such collaborative undertakings will prompt experimentation and overall development from me as a composer.

My favorite metal bands are Slayer, Megadeth, Exodus, Testament, Destruction, Sodom, Kreator and Iced Earth. There are many, many more that I like, but those are my biggest metal influences. My favorite classical composer is Tchaikovsky, and my favorite video game music composer is Koichi Sugiyama of Dragon Warrior fame.

 

I play guitar, the drum set and a bit of bass.

 

I've played drums for 5 years, guitar and bass for 2. Then there's flute and keyboard for one. I also sing (badly).

Pasted from last.fm profile:
I'm into black metal, doom metal, metal, progressive metal and death metal, including:
Darkthrone, Burzum, Mayhem, Bathory, Reverend Bizarre, Gorgoroth, Angerfist, Lifelover, Shining, Gojira, Rammstein, Lamb of God, Zimmers Hole, Carpathian Forest, Electric Wizard, Marduk, Five Finger Death Punch, Limbonic Art, Venom, Xasthur, Skitsystem, Devin Townsend, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Rob Zombie, Immortal, Satyricon, Behemoth, Isengard, Cathedral, Creature Feature, Meshuggah, Leprous, Devin Townsend Project, Judas Iscariot, Ahab, Emperor, Bloodhound Gang, Dr. Steel, Saturnalia Temple, Vallhall, Korn, Celtic Frost, Leviathan, Shape of Despair, Rhapsody, Woods of Ypres, Slagsmålsklubben, Ayreon, !T.O.O.H.!, Finntroll.


Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/X4nith

 

i used to play guitar, but i got bored of that, i know some stuff about synths, and right now ive started bass lessons and i love playing my bass.

in terms of what im into:
Favorite Genres: Hardcore (mostly Post-Hardcore), Post-Rock/Metal, Post-Punk, Stoner Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, and Downtempo electronic music

Favorite Bands: Massive Attack, Converge, At The Drive-In, Norma Jean, Isis, Radiohead, Swans, Boris, Thursday, Underoath, Thrice, Glassjaw, Circa Survive, Poison The Well, Mogwai, The Fall of Troy, Deafheaven, Deftones, Hopesfall, The Velvet Underground, Brand New, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, From Autumn To Ashes, Placebo, Taking Back Sunday, Dance Gavin Dance, Botch, La Dispute, Touche Amore, The Devil Wears Prada, Kylesa, Mastodon, Eyehategod, Old Man Gloom, The Ocean, Burial, The Antlers, Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Botch.

Also since were sharing last.fm profiles too:
http://www.last.fm/user/MoogInRow

 

wow, almost everyone plays the guitar, drums, etc.

 

I Used to play drums, i would like to learn to play a piano

 

I have to restring my violin, woopy-frickin-doo

 

They're basically just slightly larger violins with a slightly lower range (a perfect fifth lower than violins, if I'm not mistaken).

 

I play electric/acoustic/bass guitar, Piano/keyboard, Violin, Bell/marimba/xylophone/glockenspiel and of course anything that I can utilize on a computer =)

 

triangle for best instrument?

 

Band story of the day.

Today, the high band of my school had to go play at the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in town square, as they do every year, so I brought home the school's marching baritone horn in order to bring it later.
Of course, it had to 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
So I got there, greeted some of my friends, and one of my friends came up to me in shock and said that his trombone slide was stuck. Sure enough, the cold and breath combination had frozen his slide to the tubing inside.
Of course, that can't happen to my baritone's valves...

My band teacher counted us off to start playing the first song, and I pressed down the first valve, and sure enough, it was stuck halfway down the valve. For 2 whole songs, it was stuck there, and I was unable to play. Thankfully, it started to move, albeit rather slowly. I was only able to play half of the notes in the rest of the two songs.

Oh yeah, and the band sounded pitiful.

Moral of the story: Avoid playing in the cold, and if you have to, please keep your instrument warm.

 

I play synths, which basically means I space out and make bloopy noises

 

Electronic artist and Gutarist. I like to do alot of different genres but my favorite have to be Hardcore/Punk, Orchestral Variants, Trance, and Industrial.
I have a Bandcamp and a Soundcloud