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I do.. play the recorder a little bit (we had to start out with that in music school ) and I play the guitar. NOT at any level or anything, just playing a bit to keep my self-taught self busy Currently learning Romanza. TAB notation though, for the life of me I can read scores but I cannot transfer those to the guitar *giggle*


Who else plays an instrument?

Does air guitar count?

Of course!!! Especially if you do the moves as well!

Then I do. Keith Richards moves.

You rock!!

I play the Guitar, mainly rhythm, but I don't Rock ( unless I do it in a rocking chair).

I play acoustic guitar reasonably well, although primarily by ear or tab rather than score. I do a lot of finger picking.

I find a lot of guitar tab notation isn't as useful as it could be because they don't recognize a capo is being used and therefore show difficult to play chords instead of the ones the original artist was playing.

I also have some bamboo flutes I picked up at Medieval Faires (not recorders - they are blow over the hole flutes, not blow into a mouthpiece ones) that I noodle on sometimes.

In primary school I played violin (not that well) and in school grades 7 - 12 (Jr High School & High School by US reckoning) played baritone horn, so I did learn to read music. That means I can pick out a tune on a piano but I wouldn't say I can really play one.

Yes, I used to play recorders too - I used to have a sopranino, a soprano, an alto, & a tenor - but I gave them away to family.

I now attempt to play ukuleles, mainly picking melodies, (various scale lengths, but mainly tenor scale/concert body), various harmonicas, (chromatic, tremolo, solo/orchestra tuned diatonic, & occasionally Richter tuned diatonic), flutes/piccolos, (mainly simple system folk flutes, but do have a Boehm flute & piccolo - just find the folk flutes more relaxing), loads of high whistles, & a few low whistles, (these have replaced my recorders).

It was my retirement project, to teach myself to play a musical instrument, but I seem to have got carried away.

I'm also trying to teach myself to read music notation, it's a slow process, but I'm getting there with simple tunes.

Well.. it's a good thing to be carried away by, so...

I would love to learn the bodhrán as well. I might pick one up at Castlefest (https://www.castlefest.nl/en/) this year. That is provided the weather is going to be nice on the 2nd of August

richb wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:12 am Does air guitar count?

That's about my speed.

But the real pros play the air guitar in sync with the car stereo while driving at 70MPH (call it 110KPH)! Gotta have very good wheel alignment and a virtually un-crowned roadway. My wife HATES it when I do this!