Browncoat Musician's Thread

POSTED BY: Gomithrous
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DOCTROID

Wednesday, January 3, 2007 4:50 AM

Artcat81, sounds like we'd get along. I hesitate to call myself a "musician", even though I've played melodeon (diatonic button accordion) for a local morris dancing group for about 17 years now and they haven't kicked me out yet. I have three melodeons I play (and a few I don't).

I took a couple years of piano lessons when young; my mom cancelled them because I never practiced (and boy, was I mad) -- I've messed around with keyboards ever since, and have been trying to learn a simple Beethoven piece and resurrect a Bach piece lately. I own one electronic keyboard, no real piano.

After piano I took clarinet lessons at school -- and I was diligent about practicing -- not that I ever got much good at it, but I did practice! Switched to bass clarinet, then to alto, then back to bass. Stopped playing for many years, but lately I've bought two soprano clarinets, an alto, and a bass on eBay. Haven't done much with them yet, but I hope to.

I have a couple of recorders I used to be able to play some, and a handful of pennywhistles, and a bamboo flute, and a tabor pipe or two that I never fully got the hang of, and an ocarina or two I never got the hang of at all, and a concertina I would've learned to play better if it weren't such a cheap crappy instrument (moral to the story: buy good instruments, even if you're a beginner), and a 5-gallon plastic water carboy I've used as a drum, and a couple of drums I've used as drums, and a washboard, a couple other miscellaneous percussion instruments... I think that's about it. I'd like to try sax, but haven't yet. I had a guitar once, but gave up on it after spending several weeks learning how to go:

chord
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chord
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chord oops that wasn't right chord yuck chord
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chord

It just was not the instrument for me. (Or maybe it was another case of I should've bought a better instrument.)

Then there's my wife's instruments.

And my son's. If we all had time to practice, we could be a band.

Some (extremely varied) examples of how I'm not really much of a musician here:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=136095
and here:
http://music.download.com/doctroid/3600-8575-100572467.html?tag=quicku
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, January 3, 2007 5:32 AM

Hey Gomithrous. Can't make any promises, but I downloaded a file of about 100,000 Guitar Tab Pro 4 & 5 files about a year ago. I use it pretty frequently, but never looked for that song. I'll see what I can do. Sometimes the tabs only have guitar, but other times they have bass and drums and voice and keyboard too. I'm not sure if you're familiar with that program, but it's great for learning how to play. All of the tabs are user generated though so the quality varies... not much unlike ASCII tabs there.

Trust me, even if I can't find the tab for you, you gotta check out that program. The site is Guitar-Pro.com. You should pay for software this great.... but... if you wanted to, say, download a trial version before you decided to do the right thing and pay for it, you could always use a bittorrent client to download it. Plenty of tabs on there too, but you can find free tabs on sites online. Some freeware alternative to Guitar Pro can be found on this link: ( http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa082299.htm )I've never tried them though.

Message me private on here if I don't get back to you on this. I got a lot going on and I might forget to check.

Later

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

GOMITHROUS

Wednesday, January 3, 2007 1:28 PM

Thanks alot for your help 6ixStringJack. I'm also really glad to see a couple new people are posting.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Scorpion owns all <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SHINYSTRAWBERRIES

Thursday, January 4, 2007 2:01 AM

I'm relatively new to this site and I was looking through the forums and I saw this and I had to post. I love music. I was kind of disappointed though when I didn't see any drummers on here! There have to be some more Browncoat drummers out there!

Anyway, I play drums. My kit's a Sonor 500 Series, I believe. I don't like my snare all that much, but the rest of it's pretty cool. I've got great cymbals, especially my ride. Zildjian! Not that any of that means anything to anybody...

I also play trombone, though I'm in the beginning stages. I just started in like October. It took me nearly a whole month just to learn the B flat scale! Now, I can play a few songs. I play from piano books since they have more variety than the few trombone books I can find.

I've been playing piano for about a year now, but I'm not all that good at it.

Girls are bonkers, boys are crazy, and there's only a few sane people in this world.

GOMITHROUS

Thursday, January 4, 2007 2:13 AM

Yay for our first Drummer!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Scorpion owns all <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 7, 2007 2:18 AM

Hey man. I'm back at work now. I had a few days off, but I forgot to check my tabs. I'll write myself an email now to see if I can find it when I get home. I've got a really bad memory about things sometimes. It's been real hectic personally with the holidays and the aftermath.

Did you check out any of that software? I don't know if you use tab or not, but those programs are great, particularly Guitar Tab Pro 5.

I forgot to mention Power Tab. That's a great free program. Not as good as Guitar Tab Pro though.

Download it here: http://www.power-tab.net/
Get tabs here: http://powertabs.net/

You can find tabs for both all over the place. Just Google em.

If you haven't used one of these programs before you'll probably be amazed at how much you can do with them. RIP ASCII tabs.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

GOMITHROUS

Sunday, January 7, 2007 2:23 AM

I do use tabs, I can't read music for s . I'm afraid I haven't checked out the software yet, I've been away for a bit but I'll definitely get to that sometime soon.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Scorpion owns all <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

DJTOES

Sunday, January 7, 2007 2:42 AM

I play trombone.

"When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl, when you can't do that...You find someone to carry you."

You don't truely understand that quote. Until you needed it.

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Monday, January 8, 2007 2:40 AM

The neck on my Gemini got broken. I don't know how, but it happened. Since I keep my guitar at school, there's a tiny chance that somebody broke it, God knows why. My Gibson's messed up beyond my repair, and there isn't a repair shop for hundreds of miles.

Hold me...

SHINYSTRAWBERRIES

Friday, January 12, 2007 11:41 PM

Hey, DJToes, I have a question. My trombone is having issues with the slide. You know that part of the trombone slide that screws into the part that connects to the bell? Well, my inner slide there is stuck to my outer slide, and when I try to move my outer slide, the inner slide comes right out with it. Got any tips other than taking it to a fixer place? I've tried using slide grease where the inner slide meets the outer slide, but no luck. I will be forever thankful if you know what to do.

Girls are bonkers, boys are crazy, and there's only a few sane people in this world.

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