How many musicians are here?

I’ve seen comments here and there that tend to make me think there are more than a few of you. I’d love to hear about what instrument(s) you play, the type of music you like… and even better!!! Post a clip? Whether it’s you playing or music you scored and sequenced… It happens to be a topic I have an abundance of interest in.



Me:

I play a number of instruments, but my mainstay is guitar. I used to do session work for a living (10 long years of hell), which took me all up and down the east coast. Shitty job, shitty pay… more shitty people than not.



If you have any interest in hearing me play… I do a lot of guitar oriented instrumental stuff. Here be a pre-mixed bounce of something I recorded a week or four ago. I was sent an AxeFX by someone and was asked to record a sample clip to see what I thought of using it to record. Anyways, here was the rough tracks from that effort (lots of improv aside from a few select phrases)



http://www.dhtmlfoundation.com/AFXTrack01.mp3



I also did quite a bit of pre-production work… scoring, sequencing, etc, etc… have a considerable background in/around/over/under DAWs from ProTools to more common non-hardware reliant solutions (Sonar, etc, etc)



Anyways… again… I’d love to here from/about anyone else who plays/writes/records/etc



Believe it or not… writing/sequencing the scores for the game I’m working on is the part I dreading the most >.<

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdTObaLq_vg

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Hi,



I am mainly a Bass player, my secondary instrument would probably percussion (and drums)

I also play Keyboard and guitar sometimes, used to do a lot of composing as well (Metal, Rock, Hip Hop, Ambience)



That was like a year ago (I only made music for like 2 years) and now I’m trying to get back into it.

Mainly into composing, as thats what I like most.



I dont have anything to show but a wierd sounding midi file maybe xD

Oh wait, I did write this song (but the recording wasnt me!)

http://www.myspace.com/surametal



I never do vocals because all I can do is rapping :smiley:

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Yeah, I think there are a lot of us here. Programming and music tend to go hand in hand.



I started on drums and keys. I picked up some guitar for one band… so I can play a lot of grunge and 80s rock. :wink:



I use my own music in my videos… nothing really “finished” but enough to go on youtube. Someday I will sit down and finish them properly.



Here are the music descriptions so you don’t have to actually watch the videos. :slight_smile:



Some fiddle music:

Mythruna - Auto-generated wide paths. - YouTube



I have at least two other fiddle tunes that I haven't even beat up enough to put on youtube yet.

A repetitive sketch of one of the Mythruna themes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7tSLJypqK0&feature=player_detailpage#t=27s


A roughly produced version of the Mythruna cinematic theme... with no ending and only part of a middle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R82bKkHtjY


Just a new-agy thing I did some time back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4t5ltNCv0&feature=plcp
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Nice, not the guitar work I’d generally expect from a woman :wink: That shuffle is tough, somebody tried creating his own version of the Satch Boogie? xD The few slips are forgivable :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:



I am an audio engineer so I am working with music and musicians a lot :slight_smile: I also play guitar as a hobby and make music but thats mainly for myself… I did the music for the last jME video :smiley:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRC9FDin5dA



Heres some solos, first more in my style and the second is the solo of Jerry Reeds “East Bound and Down” from the “Smokey and the Bandit” movie which I just had to play after listening to the music 15 years later ^^

http://normenhansen.de/music/Solo.mp3

http://normenhansen.de/music/ebad-solo.mp3



…and sometimes I even dare to sing in my songs :smiley:

http://normenhansen.de/music/Brown%20Eyes.mp3

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Drums… me too… played the drums and bass for the clip I posted as well. I have a Sonar kit… use earthworks mics for overheads, snare and kick. Bass was a DI’d Bongo (Musicman) which isn’t what I typically record with… but still a great playing bass. Guitars… hmmm… let’s see… I have a '59 strat and a mid '90’s strat. The '59 doesn’t have the original electronics… but Fraylin’s kill… so that’s what I have in it. That strat (original bridge locked down) is what I used to record the clip above. The other has a single Sethlover in it… one volume… no tone knob. I put a hipshot bridge on it… but it’s been problematic, so I recently locked it as well.

I play guitar, and sing…but not sure one would want to hear it…

I’m a brass player too - Althorn.

One of the guys here also saw a connection between “programming minds” and “musicians minds” :wink:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/is-it-true-that-not-everyone-can-be-a-programmer/

(Edit: wrong link somehow, was some other interview I read with Linus and other programmers…)



I have a few guitars but the precious ones are a 82’ Ibanez from the time when Ibanez first was sued by Gibson for copying their guitars and then simply built the best guitars they were able to :)… And a Fender “Lone Star” Strat from '95. I also love my Line6 VariAx bass :wink:

@normen said:
Nice, not the guitar work I'd generally expect from a woman ;) That shuffle is tough, somebody tried creating his own version of the Satch Boogie? xD The few slips are forgivable ;P

I am an audio engineer so I am working with music and musicians a lot :) I also play guitar as a hobby and make music but thats mainly for myself.. I did the music for the last jME video :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRC9FDin5dA

Heres some solos, first more in my style and the second is the solo of Jerry Reeds "East Bound and Down" from the "Smokey and the Bandit" movie which I just had to play after listening to the music 15 years later ^^
http://normenhansen.de/music/Solo.mp3
http://normenhansen.de/music/ebad-solo.mp3

..and sometimes I even dare to sing in my songs :D
http://normenhansen.de/music/Brown%20Eyes.mp3


Hah! "tried creating HER own version". There are quite a few of us, believe it or not! And as much as I love Satch... this was more inspired by Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs and such).

My husband is an audio engineer as well. Has been doing more live sound work than recording since we moved to LV. He seems to enjoy it though! I actually met him while I was doing some work for an agent I did pre-production sequencing for. I believe it was at Bad Animals studio, of all places.

I've liked everything I heard posted so far! This gives me tons of hope that people will be able to answer all my obnoxious questions when I get around to using the audio library :P
@nehon said:
I play guitar, and sing...but not sure one would want to hear it...


Now I REALLY want to hear it :)

My poor ~1992 Les Paul studio is starting to feel a bit inadequate all of a sudden. :slight_smile:



I do have an out of tune baby grand piano if that balances it out. :wink:

@t0neg0d said:
Hah! "tried creating HER own version". There are quite a few of us, believe it or not! And as much as I love Satch... this was more inspired by Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs and such).

My husband is an audio engineer as well. Has been doing more live sound work than recording since we moved to LV. He seems to enjoy it though! I actually met him while I was doing some work for an agent I did pre-production sequencing for. I believe it was at Bad Animals studio, of all places.

I've liked everything I heard posted so far! This gives me tons of hope that people will be able to answer all my obnoxious questions when I get around to using the audio library :P

I see our tastes in terms of guitarists pretty much match :) Must be something they put in your food over there, I swear to god european female guitarists suck at playing solos ;) I get live and studio work and I'm happy I'm not trapped having to fiddle with a snare drum sound for hours solely :D Live is definitely more "exciting" and the "bad" experiences are not quite as bad as in the studio 'cause you don't have an album with that on it afterwards ;)

The audio support is something I wanted to rewrite for a long time now ;P
@normen said:
And a Fender "Lone Star" Strat from '95.


Oh man I had one of those, it was metallic teal and mother of pearl pick guard, so 50's-tacky look I just loved it. Sold it a year ago tho' with all other gear, stopped playing altogether, not enough time and waning interest after playing for 25 years but with only garage-level of talent :)
@jmaasing said:
Oh man I had one of those, it was metallic teal and mother of pearl pick guard, so 50's-tacky look I just loved it. Sold it a year ago tho' with all other gear, stopped playing altogether, not enough time and waning interest after playing for 25 years but with only garage-level of talent :)

I love the Pearly Gates humbucker. I got it with maple neck, looks pretty exactly like this one:

I have "ghost" saddles with a piezo in them though so I could in theory add a MIDI/Hex output at some point, the old saddles were eating strings.. The new ones come in a slick black ;) My Epiphone Paula has a full hex pickup system I put in after getting the "Axon AX-50" Guitar to MIDI processor.

Lol, I program but have no musical ability :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m more of an audio/recording engineer than musician. Done some live mixing jobs as well and yeah that’s really exciting :slight_smile:



I also does some composing and sequencing, just for fun though… I find FL Studio to meet all of my sequencing needs even though it requires me to use my windows PC…

My music teacher in high school told me to “shut up and stand in the back”… I think that summarizes my musical talent very well…

Quite a lot of drummers here… I’m one myself. :wink:



Beside the drums i learned a bit on the piano, the ukulele ( Its such a funny isntrument. And not as easy as ppl tend to think at the more advanced stuff :wink: ) …

Played in a bigband and two rockbands… The article “Is it true that ‘not everyone can be a programmer’” is nice. :stuck_out_tongue:

@pspeed said:
Programming and music tend to go hand in hand.


Actually makes me wonder if there's something like "music for programmers" similar to all those ~ "[insert programming language] for [insert another programming language] developers" books/tutorials.
If not, I hereby request it.