a couple questions:
- do you play any musical instruments? if so, which ones?
- are there any that you want to learn?
- if you don't play a musical instrument, which one would you be most likely to play?
i've alluded to this on other places on here, but i play The Guitar.
...i actually usually tend to play my acoustic in a strummy rhythm guitar player way, but i've started to branch out a little bit into playing electrics (i love this stupid little telecaster that i have) and actually playing scales and arpeggiation and high notes and note clusters and all that. or trying. anyway, i'm not
amazing at guitar, but i can play serviceably well. enough that i could probably play a non-zero number of songs competently, which is further than i thought i'd ever get
i can kinda play bass, too (branching off of playing guitar) -- i spent a whole week working on my technique earlier this year (i.e. learning to play it like it's not just a guitar but lower, even though that's what it is), but it just kinda fell off for me and i haven't been playing it as much lately. i'd love to get back to it
i've been playing piano on and off, too... mostly off, lately, since i've found it difficult to get myself to play it with how little energy i've had. it's a lot of fun, actually, especially when you get good enough at a song that you can play it without really thinking, and it turns out being dexterous enough to type really well carries over a
little more than you'd think... just a little, though, since it's a completely different set of keys and there's more simultaneous pressing. i'm absolutely terrible at using the pedals, though. just crap. i tend to over-rely on the reverb pedal too often instead of actually learning to sustain my notes properly like an idiot
there's a few other instruments i'd like to learn, too — i've always wanted to play the flute, actually, i think they're tonally just really neat and have more variety than people given them credit for. woodwinds are cool, my mom used to play clarinet. living in an apartment might make actually learning the flute difficult, though...
also this is slightly tangential but there are a jiblion old weird synthesizers i'd like to mess around with too. shit like omnichords and moogs and the ondomo are really cool to me
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