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Where did you discover your musical talent?

NeoFlash	Date: October 27, 2002 @ 11:52 PM Just a question to the artists. Where did you first figure out you had a musical talent? Like for suppose Chillin and Omega, how did you first figure out that you could play the keyboard like that? Did you just want to try to or did something happen or did someone tell you that you sounded like you had musical talent or what? And milla what popped into your head for you to make the good lyrics? Groove, where did you come up with those awesome beats? How did CPsick and RUBiX first start coming up with those rap songs? What started that little hamster cage in your head rollin'? I am asking because I think I am developing a good talent for playing piano and I want to know how other artists found out they had musical talent.
NeoFlash	Date: October 27, 2002 @ 11:53 PM Almost forgot guppy, add him to the list.
THEORIAN	Date: October 28, 2002 @ 1:04 AM I first started doing poetry. A LOT of spoken word. I consider myself a pretty good poet. Won a national contest or two, blah blah. And I've always loved music. I was a huge Tupac fan. I started out listening to him, discovered other rappers. Started reciting different rhymes from different artist. I then experimented putting a poem to music, and ever since then, I guess that's where I just picked up the love and curoristy for rapping. I just stepped up the game some and instead of kickin one deminsional freestyles and battle rhymes, began to explore the topical, as I would in a poem. It then became addictive and for 5-6 years, I just kept doing what I'm doing rapping till I progressed to where im at today. I love Rap and Hip-Hop music. lol
RUBiX	Date: October 28, 2002 @ 2:50 AM When I was like...5 I heard the Beatles cuz my pops was a Beatle buff -- and instantly fell in love with everything musical..I heard rap on a movie afterwards and was fascinated by how many words those people could say at a time...Afterwards I found rap incredibly boring, and began working (this was my first musical project) when I was 9-10 years old on alternative music. It went alright and then I started getting back into rap..and now, for 5-6 years, I've been working on my music...Influenced by all sorts of music : Hip-Hop, Hard Rock, Arabian, Alternative...You name it ! I try to implement as many genres as I can into my music to make it more interesting... Quite weirdly, my favourite musicians are Nickelback, Godsmack, Jurassic 5, Del the Funky Homosapien, (hed)pe, Method Man and Limp Bizkit -- All different kinds of music...So you see I come from a wide ranged musical background -- Unfortunetly, I'm an incredibly pale individual and I get teased and discriminated for rapping...Being only 15, people I deal with are not mature enough to realize a talent, or future profession when they see it -- all they see is something different, therefore leading to being teased..But I deal. That is my history..and that is how I progressed to where I am today. RUBiX
NeoFlash	Date: October 28, 2002 @ 8:55 PM When you are annoyed by dumb people it usually means you are right
ChillinBuzz	Date: October 28, 2002 @ 10:02 PM I'm 4th generation musician in my family; so it's been with me whenever I used to see my Dad before I picked up my first instrument (which was a keyboard) when I was about 6 or 7. I also started playing guitar about that time too. So I can quite happily play either the metal or the electronic genre, it's just whatever presents itself I've heard much music and have been influenced by so much but the bandsin my history which were influencial in my choices of music are probably headed by the Beatles, my Dad and I jammed their songs a lot, also Metallica and Megadeth circa the late 80's and then the early 90's was consumed by some great old skool rave and techno, plus a bit of Nirvana.
theguppykillers	Date: October 29, 2002 @ 5:01 AM I didnt! I made myself have talent.
Jennae	Date: October 29, 2002 @ 5:03 AM The first time I could make a farting noise with my arm pit!
pog	Date: October 29, 2002 @ 11:44 AM lol ...charming
ChillinBuzz	Date: October 30, 2002 @ 10:40 AM ewww!
thumbtack	Date: October 30, 2002 @ 3:27 PM I'm still looking for mine, but I suspect I never had it...
Molenkampf	Date: October 30, 2002 @ 11:09 PM When I heard Ronn Moss sing.... MY GOD!!!
wallyadimeck	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 1:56 AM I still question my musical abilities...LOL LOL LOL... but I first thought I had some talent one day while sitting on the toilet... LMAO Oh and making farting noises with my armpits... but they're (i think) hairier noises than Jennae
OmegaDaemon	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 7:06 PM Musical abilities, and my name in the same sentence? (oxymoron) I remember inadvertantly growing up to good ol' rock from records when I was a wee lad in the 80's. I bought my first cd only 5 years ago (OMG), and since then I have figured: What goes in, comes out in the end. As for musical ability, my family doesn't have musical talent, so that leaves only one thing: me. I learn quick so if I actually had the time and resources to learn a new instrument, I would, and I will. I have a little piano training, but that is about it. As for when I figured out when I had musical talent.......I feel I only know what I like, therefore I go for it. If I need to learn a new style or instrument, I'll do it. It only adds to skills and styles of ones repitoire(spelling?) when gaining knowledge and insight to artistic tools of manipulation, whether it be in visual, audio or any other form of art. O o xxxx
Frawgster	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 8:05 PM I have no musical talent.
creativetim	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 8:27 PM When I was in the shower and I looked down ... oh musical talent!!! When I was 4 or 5 and my dad taught me the Batman theme song on the guitar.
Fiji	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 8:38 PM What a dork.
NeoFlash	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 8:40 PM I think I may be discovering mine. In keyboard class, I can play the pieces he gives us with one finger by ear instead of with 2 fingers or my whole hand with the notes. Arrrgggghhhhh, I HATE notes!!! Why can't they just write A-G on the sheet music instead of those annoying ass symbols with #s to say if it is a whole note, quarter note, or a half note!!!! I may start taking piano lessons, I just wanted to see how other people discovered that they had it. And tim, too much information there...
creativetim	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 9:12 PM #'s tell you if the note is sharp.
NeoFlash	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 9:13 PM I mean there should be a new note system. Instead of that, why not just put the letters there? And write a s or a f next to it?
OmegaDaemon	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 9:14 PM or have the letter in a different color maybe? red=increase in freq.=sharp(I think) blue=decrease in freq.=flat
NeoFlash	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 9:19 PM I can't look at notes and play at the same time. I would have to memorize it somehow.
Svensta	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 9:22 PM You are supposed to memorize the keys, not the sheet music, Lou. It's like typing, after all.
NeoFlash	Date: October 31, 2002 @ 9:27 PM I know. My music teacher is such an annoying pr*ck!! He keeps telling me to look at the notes as I play, and gives me a low grade on the playing tests if I look at my hands. he tries to make it so we play only like him and doesn't let us develop our own styles. Which is why the class is trashing his room, putting stickers of stuff all over the place, just today I put a listerine strip and an eraser in his coffee.
Wordsense	Date: November 1, 2002 @ 9:51 AM I just looked at life....noted my love for hip hop and expression...put 2 and 2 together and realized i had something to say...so now i'm sayin it..
Svensta	Date: November 1, 2002 @ 1:46 PM This is why the education system is in the toliet I am pretty sure. Not looking at your fingerwork makes you a better musician (classically-trained pianist with no creative ability speaking right now) It gives you a more innate, natural relationship to the music and the flow of it. Just my opinion, but you will note most of the best musicians never look. Christ, some of the most interesting ones are blind (and some of the geniuses deaf) I dicovered my musical talent listening to the classical compositions of George Gerswhin and just having to at least try to play them. I think I was addicted to music in uetero as my mother would play loads of Frank Sinatra and Elvis when she was pregnant with me, I'm told. The reception in there was horrible.

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