I bet a lot of the people on this forum are musicians.

I'm not in any band although I've always wanted to sing in one.

I started learning to play the piano when I was about 5, but stopped right before getting my diploma (how stupid is that??).

I know a little guitar and I hope to play the violin someday.
 
i have been playing guitars for som 10 years now...
i have a epiphone les paul gothic with a gibson 498t hot alnico treble mic in it, one old... vester telecaster, custompainted... its so ugly i cant sell it..
red with silverflakes all over the entire guitar, one landola clasic spanish guitar, one "lucky 7"... dunno what it is.. sounds like shite, but i found it a closet in a house my friend bought :)
also i play some bass.. ibanez tr, cheap but it sounds realy good.
i wont go in to the vast amount of weird instruments i have laying around though..

´till a couple of months ago i played in a band called in spiritside dreaming..
emo-rock... pretty katatoniaish (imagine the surprise :p )
http://www.spiritside.com
you can hear some of our songs there too... although i accidently deleted the best songs from our server, and am to lazy to re-upload them there :)
 
no not for me !!!! in the past i used to play keyboard/synthesizer.... but that is AGES ago :D only, i really like to play piano, and i will do that in the future, at least that is my plan. :p
 
That's not true, your I Break cover was very nice and I'd like to hear more (Katatonia covers?) of you. It's loads better than the I Break cover I once did :)

For me, I've been playing guitar for a year now, without anyone ever helping me (lessons are too expensive). I have an Epiphone Goth Explorer, nice guitar but not so good sound (I wanna replace the pick-ups by EMG's but in here they're expensive as fuck and I can't afford it :()
The body is good but I fucked it up and I'm very mad at myself now. The neck has deformed just a little bit so it can't be tuned properly anymore as long as I don't have it repaired. It happened because I was changing my tunings constantly (when I play old Anathema it has to be tuned 2.5 steps down, My Dying Bride 1.5 steps, Katatonia half a step etc) and I didn't know that that can fuck up your guitar real bad.
I use Boss effects, I have a Metal Zone pedal, Equalizer and Flanger, but I want a GT-6 (again, it's too expensive).
My amp is a Kustom but I have NO idea if it's good or bad as I haven't played on another amp yet.
 
Yeah I can't do it very well either, I can't do it loud and my throat hurts quickly. Someone told me to drink a cup of warm milk with honey before growling so I tried that once and it helped a bit, hehe. Anyone know other things like this?
 
I don't play any instrument.. by now at least. I would like to play the guitar but I have to learn how to play it first.
I sometimes sing but not in any band, I sing for myself, when I'm alone at home and I feel sad, and sometimes sing when angry too. Makes me feel better.
 
I've been playing for 8 years now. I play a BC Rich Warlock. I'm not nearly as good as I could be. Whenever I play, its usually for only about 30min to an hour. I SHOULD play more, but I can't stay concentrated after a certain period of time. I'm best at mid paced Black/Death metal.

I'm also a vocalist. I sang/screamed in a Black Metal band with a couple of my friends, but then Jeff had to leave for the Army, and Nate had to leave for college so...that was that. But that whole thing only lasted maybe a month..we only had 3 songs written and recorded :Smug:
 
I've been playing guitar about 15 years. My electric guitar is a Jackson Kelly XLR (metallic green :D). Not in a band, but I write songs (doom metal) under the name "Doomed To Solitude" (click on the logo below to go to my site ;)). Planning to go into a studio shortly and do an album.
 
Cerulean said:
Yeah I can't do it very well either, I can't do it loud and my throat hurts quickly. Someone told me to drink a cup of warm milk with honey before growling so I tried that once and it helped a bit, hehe. Anyone know other things like this?

If your throat hurts, you're doing it wrong, remember, use your stomach to breathe with. Use it to push air through the throat, the milk-thing should be unnecesary if you do it right, how long have you been growling?
 
Ergol The Ineffable said:
If your throat hurts, you're doing it wrong, remember, use your stomach to breathe with. Use it to push air through the throat, the milk-thing should be unnecesary if you do it right, how long have you been growling?
I hardly ever do, only for the few covers I've made so far. I've heard Jonas does it wronf as well, and that that was one of the reasons they had to quit with October Tide, and that they can only play one 'classic' at gigs (it's always Murder :mad: ) :confused:
I have no idea how to push the air from me belly, I only use the throat, nothing more.