Do you play any instruments?

[Maddy]

Thats really cool, Cress! Are you going to go professinal?

[Mel]

Cress: Which inventions? I had to do Bach's 14th-- it was quite, quite hard.

Which rags, too? I'm just finishing up Golliwogg's Cakewalk by Debussy. Not quite a rag, but not quite not a rag haha

ooh Tchaikovsky!

Gah! You have a baby grand!! *drools* I wiiish


Daylily: Opera, eh? Vair vair naaice! Which one?

[Cress]

I'm definitely not going professional, I'm nowhere near good enough, and I'm too old to get good enough at this point. I wish I was, but it takes like 5 hours a day of practicing. It's insane.

I played Bach's 13th. The 2 part invention that is, I haven't even looked at any 3 parts yet. At first it was super, super hard, but once I started to understand how the hands fit together it got MUCH easier. Then the hard part was getting the phrasing to the satisfaction of my teacher who can be VERY demanding. He's cool though. He has a very thick Russian accent. I'll play something for him and he'll kind of go "Well, it was better, but..." and then rip it apart. Kindly, of course, but rip it apart nonetheless.

I'm playing this rag called Graceful Ghost. It's by a modern composer, I don't remember his name at the moment. Very hard. I just finished learning it all, and now my teacher keeps saying "It doesn't sound very ghosty. We'll work on sound later" because I'm still trying to get confident on the notes. It's especially funny because he doesn't say the g in ghost and it sounds like "hosty". Sometimes I get confused.

[Daylily]

First it was a Greek myth
Then it was an english Opera by Handle
Now, I am stuck with being in it.

The word nervous doesnt cover any of the angles.

[Trialia]

I don't play - I learned violin for a couple of years, but once my shoulder started to dislocate, that put paid to that. I do sing, though - mezzo-soprano performing contralto in a chamber choir. It's challenging, and also madly fun - you never heard so much innuendo as we come out with in practice! *grin*

[Onix]

I don't just play an one I invented one its called Ball bearings in the washing machine

[silverflight]

I play piano... next year I can claim that I've been playing a decade!
Same, not crazy good, but I can get to the point where my fingers are liquid and feel like they can do anything--lovely state. I'm also cramming for three piano tests this coming December (Eeek!)

[Zirsta]

I played piano for two years and got nearly no where with it, the violin for a year and a half and got somewhere (a single piece by Bach), and am now in the process of learning the viola for 6th grade band and orchestra.

[Emi]

Oh! I'm just learning to play the guitar. I'm teaching myself actually. Just playing some songs from Sara Bareilles at the moment. I'm also teaching myself to play her songs on the piano as well. It's some hard stuff... Haha.

I'm writing a song on the guitar... I just wish I can record it! Haha.

[AlidaART]

Funny that this topic was at the top of the list when I logged in today...I'm actually leaving on Tuesday to go to a Conservatory to begin an undergrad performance degree in viola. I've been playing for about six years now, and before that I played violin for seven years. Wooo Suzuki method! And I agree with others-- violin/viola teachers can be hard and scary and sometimes it does feel like they're "bossing", but I can say that my old violin teacher (with whom I am still very close--he's like a grandfather to me) never picked up his instrument during a lesson but he literally turned my playing around and brought me to where I am today, about to become a professional. Of course, on the other hand my viola teacher often would play with me during lessons. So really it's not the style but the quality of the instructor.

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

Congrats, Alida! Where are you going? I was accepted at Oberlin for their Double Degree program in clarinet and computers, but decided to go to Brown for the computers instead.

[NoxLight]

I play contrabass, and even though it's really boring sometimes and really heavy, I love it. I like having the bass line in an orchestra, it really gives a nice overview of all the other parts.
I also have a private teacher and solos to work on. I just got a new instrument and it is sooo nice to play on

[Cait]

In high school, I played flute, pic, sax, and tuba. And I was in choir, but I don't know if that counts as playing an instrument exactly. I was a lot better at singing than I ever was at any of my instruments, but I also enjoyed it a lot more. Flute I played the longest, for 7 years. I haven't played it in two or three years. I still sing all the time! But not in a choir, unfortunately.

[Sophia_Rodriguez]

I've never played anything in my life.O_O

I'm more of a dancing person.

[Stormwind]

I can play the piano, though I tend to sing more... I didn't really get the opportunity to learn the violin or any other instrument as my family had limited money and no programs to get help to learn them...