Quote:Original post by FlamingBoi
well, piano for around 6 years, playin in sch band for 2 years already and im playin the euphonium. composing? i would say 1 year? i'm not that good at it but i really enjoy composing music. And i really do not know what's in studying of music? how do they teach u to compose? o.O.. im self taught ;).. and i might take up composing as my profession when i get higher quality samples like GPO ;).. for now.. free soundfont ..
btw im only 14 :)

There are many ways to study music. If you were to major in something music related in college, you'd study music history, composition, and theory, at the very least. You might study the physics of sound, the anatomy of the human ear, counterpoint, and famous figures in music history. If you're going for a more technical education, you're looking at recording, production, construction of synthesizers, synthesizer programming, mastering, and sequencing.

I plan to be a rock star, and if that falls through, I'll stick with programming [grin]

Seriously though, I have played drums for about 4 years now, keyboard & piano for 12, and classical guitar for about 1 year.

It's kinda wierd playing thrash metal drums at a gig one night, then waking in the morning and playing some classical guitar :)

My Dad used to do a lot of music production, which meant him buying a nice 16 track mixer that I get to play wiith at home. Me and my brother (he's the guitarist in our band) have just finished recording an album, to be released soon and were hoping to get some bigger venues after that plus we will be recording other bands soon as they seem to like our work!

I've been playing both guitar and trombone for 7 years now. I have an AMEB (Australian Music Education Board) Grade 5 in trombone, contempory guitar, and classical guitar. In addition, I have an AMEB grade 3 in Euphonium, which I have been playing for 5 years. I also play mandolin, harmonica, bass, cello, trumpet, and homemade bamboo flutes, as well as various types of percussion.

I guess my band 'Veyr' could be considered a 'garage band', although we're somewhat unusual for that in the sense that we play neoclassical metal, using a fairly unusual assortment of instruments (for some examples, I play an 8-string electric guitar with scalloped fretboard, we have a guy in the band who plays a 6-string electric viola).

I've been composing music for about 5 years, although much of my earlier work isnt very good. I started out using Modplug Tracker but have sinse progressed to composing on paper, as well as using tools such as Sibelius 2 and FLStudio to produce my music. Some of my music has been played live by my local sympony-orchestra as well.

I play several instruments semi-professionally in musicals, with my local symphony, and in various other regional bands.

So yeah - I guess that qualifies my for 'serious.' [smile]

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It's kinda wierd playing thrash metal drums at a gig one night, then waking in the morning and playing some classical guitar :)

Try playing some neoclassical rock/metal with your band. If you dont know the genre, I'd highly recommend checking out anything by Yngwie Malmsteen as good examples.

Yngwie is one of my favourite guitarists! Along with Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Adres Segovia! I'm lucky to have two guitarists in my band that can play that sort of guitaring, but I ain't quite that good yet :)

a) Keep working at it, all it takes is practice.

b) Learn 'Midnight' by Joe Satriani.

First my record:

5 years of playing guitar (2 years of taking it serious). 2 years of music theory (Thought by myself mos of it). 1 year of music composition (getting better at it). I plan to work as a programmer just to get enough to dedicate full time to music (to go study music somewhere out of my country). Well, about my band, I play something like prog metal with a little of jazz, chill out and neoclassic metal. (very wierd mix! don't you think?)


Well, now I guess I'll add John Petrucci to the guitarris list Mosh did!

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Well, now I guess I'll add John Petrucci to the guitarris list Mosh did!

I second that one and add Marty Friedman and Jason Becker.