How good at you on your instrument & how long?

[Stiggolas]

I've been messing with music for years and still at beginner level. I started with keyboards then bought a guitar. The guitar got put away and I've recently bought a couple of cheap Synthesizers. I love the sounds all these instruments make but I just don't know where to go with it. My problem is a lack of imagination. I'm a scientist type rather than artistic and it shows. I'm the same with other hobbies, Cycling, have 4 bikes 2 road and 2 mountain bikes - again indecision. I don't know enough about music theory but told myself that I'll learn soon. I guess I just like buying equipment....
Will dig the guitar out tonight....promise

[GetCarter]

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[thebraketester]

anonymous said:

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Me too... might be able to buy you both a couple of pints. I was hoping to be able to retire.... no such luck


Apparently Slade stack up £500,000 over Christmas in PPL

[paulguitar]

thebraketester said:

Apparently Slade stack up £500,000 over Christmas in PPL

While the rest of us suffer listening to that horrible song!

Off-topic here, but I think a lot of Christmas music is just tremendously cynical, a ‘pension pot’ song so often by the writers. I am bombarded with this crap 24/7 every time I leave the cabin on the ship I am working on, and it just strikes me how much of it is formulaic bilge.

Having said there, there are a very few genuinely great songs that are also Christmas songs, Mel Torme’s ’The Christmas Song’ always strikes me as a truly superb bit of songwriting in its own right.

[jackofall84]

Stiggolas said:

I've been messing with music for years and still at beginner level. I started with keyboards then bought a guitar. The guitar got put away and I've recently bought a couple of cheap Synthesizers. I love the sounds all these instruments make but I just don't know where to go with it. My problem is a lack of imagination. I'm a scientist type rather than artistic and it shows. I'm the same with other hobbies, Cycling, have 4 bikes 2 road and 2 mountain bikes - again indecision. I don't know enough about music theory but told myself that I'll learn soon. I guess I just like buying equipment....
Will dig the guitar out tonight....promise

Trying to give some constructive criticism here so sorry if it comes across as a bit argumentative, but I know lots of talented musicians who are the 'Scientist' and not the artistic type, the 2 don't always go hand in hand, in fact music in itself is quite mathematical and scientific. As you point out, if you studied a bit more music theory you'd find it much easier to be creative, learning scales, chord progressions and relative major and minor notes in a key.