I love music and especially the guitar, but unfortunately I lack the self discipline to learn to play.
Pity Plastic Squirrel isn't here any more, he plays in a band and is reasonably successful I think.

Thank you both for sharing a bit of your knowledge, and Grondy, classical music is truly good.
I practise some operatic vocals by myself and like a lot of basic classical music, but most of all, I like of acts such as Therion, which is one of my favourite bands too, just so epic.

I have been taking piano lessons for 8 years, I can also play the guitar, ukulele, drums, bass, harmonica and I plan to take saxophone lessons when I get some spare time.

I am glad to see that all of you came and stumbled upon this thread
To speak about favourites, I by myself like mostly of classical music and different sorts of metal, mostly classical influenced, folk/viking/pagan etc.

I am not that beast as a drummer, but I've always liked of singing, and I draw inspiration to my singing from many different bands and acts. My best styles are: Low based vocals, clean styles, more higher singing, screams/yells, hymns, grunts and some operatic, but more experimental vocals of the classical side. In the other hand, I would like to take singing lessons, but then again, I can take care on my own too.

And lately, already quite a few years, I've been training my operatic vocals a lot, and I've made some success in my own eyes, and eventually developed a good bunch of styles, which I am going to use in my own band-project in the near future

Well, that's a bit of my singful side, and cheers to all of you, and spend a glorious evening.

- Oerath.

Hello every one!!

I play bass and a little drums and keyboards, write lyrics and sing.

it is metal music that I play and sing but i enjoy all music to listen.

Been in a band called Dead Center Universe for over 10 yrs.

Omneya

Isn't Violin incredibly difficult to master? I'd be glad to hear some of your music when you get your CD's done ^^

I'm glad to see so many musically talented people here in PT, I'm also in the middle of a good process, I've began to practise some stuff for my second project, which will be musically folk influenced melodic metal with a melancholic feel to it + of course some enchanting low vocals (maybe even in a little gothic way), and I've two drum tracks that are nearly ready, but since drum-skin of my bass drum broke the other day, I just have to collect a bit of money to buy myself a new one, and some other stuff too, my set is quite a mess.

But, as I've mentioned, I'm a singer in one local metal band, called 'Agarwaen', and we've had our first demo ready for over two months now, but there has been some problems with publishing, and especially as our guitarist/frontman is serving in finnish army at the moment, but those with interest towards metal music, be sure to ask when and if the demo is out, our music is kind of progressive oriented melodic metal, and my vocals go from low gutturals/grunts to high screeching/screaming.

The Finnish army you say...

Im so happy I don't have to go back there for a long time ^^

I've always enjoyed violin since I first heard it in a old Sherlock Holmes movie

As for myself I play merely for fun.. Mostly Jimi Hendrix and such. Only recently I've started learning the fine art of Blues

I've talked about that one metal band I'm in as a vocalist, well, if anyone is interested to hear some progressive oriented metal with my usual metal vocals, check this out.

I found a way to upload it easily in Sendpace.

Here's a link to the song. You can download it to your computer. But remember, it's unmixed (pre-version), so it's not even nearly in perfect shape yet.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/53nis9

I`ve been taking professional lessons for singing around 6 or 7 years. I dont have a band..... yet :] But its in the process of forming and I applaud the metal bands!

Very cool, you'll find plenty of great musicians here. I'm a bass player of 10 years, drummer of 5, grew up in a very musical family. What sort of music do you listen to? As I'm sure you've noticed, most musicians in this thread appreciate a good break down or two (and of course many Tolkien themed bands are metal)...

Listen to Oerath's band (link above your post), good shit...

It's indeed good to see that there are so many musically talented people here in PT.

I enjoy drumming a lot, since it has always been the most natural instrument for me to play. Mainly I'm a singer, and well, I began to take this more seriously bit over three years ago, and I've evolved a lot since then, and learned a bunch of new vocals, but since one can't be the master of everything, I usually stick to vocals I enjoy the most: clean ones, power metal vocals, gutturals, screams and that kind of stuff.

As for future and other instruments: I've thought to buy myself averagely good keyboard, and begin to practise. It would help me to record some darkwave oriented songs on my own, by featuring only drums, keyboards and my vocals. I'm not sure about other instruments, but harmonica and flute would be very good choices, since I'm a big fan of folk music, whether it's traditional or metal, it's always fantastic.

Okay, that was a little piece of information. I'm Oerath, a metal singer from a small town in Southern Finland, and I sing in two bands, and have some projects of my own, which are under slow progress until I find some fresh band mates and money to buy a lot of new equipments.

Good evening to each and everyone of you. I just went to my regular / daily site, Metalstorm, and I found out something very outstandingly happy.

Kim Bendix 'King Diamond' Petersen has completed Cardiac Rehabilitation Program, which he had to finish after he underwent open-heart triple-bypass surgery about three months ago.

He is one of my most favorite singers, and a very talented musician, and I hope that King can make a full recovery and continue to make divine music.

All hail The King!

That sounds good, Fingeor, and if you want to share a bit of your knowledge, then be sure to throw me a message sometime.

Good day all.

Music is certainly my most favored form of art, as it seems to be for most of us here. I've had a lifetime dedication and obsession of it, and I don't really do much besides practice my instruments, record, or play minesweeper (rise all geeks!). I play drums and piano mostly, and I act like I can play guitar and bass, but my acting doesn't quite cut it. I've been trying to write music lately and it's not bad, I don't think. But I mainly like to just play the piano. It inspires me the most, and my piano and I have come to some what of an understanding, if you take my meaning. It's a little different with the guitar. The guitar doesn't treat me very well, and I don't like arguing with it. But enough about me.

Fingeor, I listened to your song, dreams. Well done! I enjoyed it, and I really like your taste.

LeeLee, could you possibly spare sending me one of your recordings as well? I always love hearing the hard work of our fellow musicians. Don't worry, I'm not very critical.

Well, many of you already know me and my musical interests, but I'd like to give all of you a chance to hear one song from our band's up-coming demo. All of the songs that appear on our first demo, are still waiting to be mixed and mastered, so this is more like a 'raw version'.

I'm the vocalist in that band, and also partially responsible for the lyrics.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/j25say

I'll keep the file up for a couple of days.

Thank you, Rorimac (is that your calling name here on PT?). Considering that it's our first demo, I did quite good job with my vocals, and it was recorded fairly over 9-10 months ago. And since then, I've evolved a lot, and I can do damn high screams these days, but they require a lot of power and balls.

My voice is quite low, so it allows me to use my vocals more diversely. From low, a bit baritonish (maybe a bit gothic too) singing to high pitched yells and screams.

So, that's about it.

Hello there, Communikate, and to be honest, I consider flute to be a extremely good instrument, and I'm going to get myself one too, and begin to practise, when I've enough time to do so.

Flute is one of the key elements of good folk music, whether it's metal or just traditional folk music with additional forest dancing mixed with spiritual and mystical thoughts and a bit of moonshine.

Wow, sounds like a lot of musicians - amateurs, aspiring, students, and pros mixed in together.  I'm a music teacher - and a sometime performer, mostly at church but also sometimes at weddings and parties and such.  But teaching comes first:  Viola and Violin, classically trained.  

But interested in all genres so long as I find (or someone can direct me to) something interesting or beautiful or honest or good there.  

I'm a student too, just started learning to play the organ about 7 months ago.  Good luck and God Bless you in your musical endeavors all!

Good to see more musicians! Welcome, welcome and play it well, sing it well, and enjoy of your stay.

I'm glad this thread has so many replies already, I didn't originally think of that.

Thank you guys, and if more people should feel up to it, tell about your musical experiences. Which instrument you play, or do you play in a band or do solo, it all counts!

I'll try to oversee this thread from now on.

- Oerath.

I finally decided to upload one vocal cover on my youtube account. I've uploaded some in the past (deleted), but this one worked out quite well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmxM7LBq8gY&blend=1&lr=1&ob=video-mustangbase

If you want to go the easy way, just type 'Oerath01' to youtube, and find it out that way.

I used my basic vocals on this one, which are my favorite singing ways these days.

Good, good, Wen. Guitar is a good choice. I'll stick to drums by myself. ^^

Speaking of which, me and a good friend of mine had a jamming session today, and we recorded some shorties for my 'The Oerath Windsoul-Project'.

Nothing serious, but it's quite good, reminds me of some old rock/heavy metal game music.

Rock on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9TdhN4ptW4

Hi! I've been writing lyrics for years but I cannot make any music. I have taken some guitar lesson but I cannot.... I will give it another try when I feel I have enough patience.

Related to music I love heavy, medieval or celtic music with bagpipes and all that stuff. I listen to classical music sometimes, it depends on the moment and mood... of course.

Anyone knows Blind guardian? Last year I went to Wacken festival in Germany and the band signed me a vest. It was really funny when the singer was writing my name and I told him, "just see, I have the ring, I have the power, hahahaha". I was wearing "the one ring", you know, a friend of mine gave me it to me for my birthday, it's a silver one with the markings and everything.

Nice experience!

 

 

Wow! There is a big bunch of talented people in PT! Congratulations for those who can master a musical instrument or sing properly!  I can write lyrics only. I began when I was 14 years old. Despite some people say my lyrics are quite depressive, they like them! I use to write when I need to say something painful; I cannot leave it closed inside of me because it hurts too much. Writing, playing music, painting or creating whatever takes us to our deepest feelings.

Yeah, it's a good track! I listened to some of your stuff and in one song your voice seemed as Pete's Steele. You will reach far man, go on working like this!