Musician's Pub

The title is pretty self explanatory. If you are a musician tell us your story, if you play professionaly or just for fun, and maybe share your music
This applies for all kinds of music. So far I'm close to being the only musician on KAG I know, so go on and tell me if you are too.

Personally I'm an orchestra guy, playing the french horn for quite a long time now. I play it professionally sometimes, though I'm still a student.

This is what the average hornist looks like:

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Used to play piano and acoustic guitar a lot in my younger years. Might give both another whirl!

 

Ah that's cool, I make duos with pianists very often

 

I started playing bass at 15 now im 21
Lately I play guitar cause a friend lend it to me. Also I made some electronica in the past
I have a soundcloud with songs recorded on my phone and some things i compose:

https://soundcloud.com/deepglpgs/band-of-barons
https://soundcloud.com/deepglpgs/schamas

but mainly i play bass

 

Sounds nice, though you should edit out the noise in the beginning.

 

I used to do quite some competitive classical singing back in the day (2011/12). I stopped doing as much after I my voice decided to go break on me.

 

I love music! I love going to see the orchestra, I listen to classical music, I go to music camp every summer, and I've been in different music classes at my school. (Wow what a nerd lmao)
I play a few instruments, but only at a very low level. Piano was my first and main instrument. Cello has since replaced that position and I play cello at school. I used to play flute in eighth grade for my school band. Other than that I can play guitar, ukulele, and I've been in choirs before but I seriously believe that my voice is awful so I don't count voice haha (also does a little percussion count ;) cause I've done percussion before)
I'd love to learn bass (both upright and electric) as well as viola :))

 

I've played the piano since the first grade which makes 10 years now. I mostly play classical but i wanna learn some bebob jazz in the future. It's a great hobby

 

ACCURATE THOUGH

 

Cool! Are you familiar with wind orchestra? The reportoire for it as been getting better and better over the years, make sure to check that out.
And viola is just lovely, it's sound is "darker" then a violin, so it's not as annoying

Nice, I really like piano because it's a really versatile instrument. A pianist can play pretty much every genre, which is cool. Good luck with Jazz.

Sounds great How long have you been doing this?

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I never did competitive singing, though I was in a choir as a kid, on my music school. I quit the choir when I reached the age limit (was a kid's choir), but since I have practical theory tests I still have to sing, though I only need to stay in tune.

 

Mmmm I have had to work with electronic once, for a composition class, though it was not like dubstep, only messed with some sounds as background for instrumental music. I'd like to try my luck on that genre though, any programs you'd like to recommend?

 

So what do you teach? (Music, yeah, but more specifically).

 

That's cool. So basically you're a conductor? Just curious because I think it works differently in Portugal. My orchestra "teachers" are professional conductors that conduct professional orchestras pretty much around the world. And of course, we give concerts on concert halls, so they're more like our orchestra's conductor then our teachers.

 

Played trombone in highschool, mastered music theory and didn't even realize it till now. Gonna get a trumpet and slowly learn every instrument i liked, can sing like a boss too.