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Jennae	Date: August 29, 2003 @ 9:59 PM "monster monster up the stairs" :lmao: I was always afraid of the narrow steep steps to the attic. :zombie: :scared: At 7 I tried to learn guitar, banjo and harmonica from my father a bit... but too frustrated and small I gave in to that attempt. choir for a year at 11... man did I suck! 12 I started trombone in band.. :bleh: never liked it.. I always wanted to play sax... 17 picked up a bass for the first time.. held on to it til 20... then once in a while here and there ... and started singing and teaching myself gutiar at 27... and here I am. Tah Dahhhhhhhh!!!!" id="60415">I believe I was i was 4ish when my grandmother use to try to teach my songs on the piano. "Mary had a little lamb" and "twinkle twinkle little star"... me and my cousin use to bang away on the keys and even had our own song within a year... it was called "monster monster up the stairs" I was always afraid of the narrow steep steps to the attic. At 7 I tried to learn guitar, banjo and harmonica from my father a bit... but too frustrated and small I gave in to that attempt. choir for a year at 11... man did I suck! 12 I started trombone in band.. never liked it.. I always wanted to play sax... 17 picked up a bass for the first time.. held on to it til 20... then once in a while here and there ... and started singing and teaching myself gutiar at 27... and here I am. Tah Dahhhhhhhh!!!!
Kundara	Date: August 29, 2003 @ 10:04 PM i learned piano for hmm half a year when i was 6. so i knew basics. and from 13 till now i lerned avrething by myself now i play in piano, flute, guitar (beginer), hmm and computer!
Jennae	Date: August 29, 2003 @ 10:14 PM piano, bass, guitar, trombone, and sing... I can't play the computer yet but can
outofgravity	Date: August 29, 2003 @ 10:32 PM Hummm , when I was 10 my brother started teaching me acoustic guitar, and everybody used to say he would be the musician in the family. Then when i was 12 some people from my family (my bro too) got together to make some sound and my dad bought a bass ( he loves instruments but plays nothing) and made me play. I HATED THAT, till the band finished and I listened to jaco. Then I started to study real music and practiced some harmonica, guitar, piano, percussion and now I'm here, playing bass for professional stuff and studying musical composcing at UFBA (best brazilian music university) jannae, u play bass ????? GIVE ME SOME LESSONS !!!!! =þ
Jennae	Date: August 29, 2003 @ 11:07 PM give you some lessons as if... but I can tell you the Zique on here is one hell of a bassist
ChillinBuzz	Date: August 29, 2003 @ 11:31 PM 4th generation musician in my family, and the only generation in my family to spawn more than one musician this time round in over 100 years. Been playing instruments since my first keyboard at 5, my first guitar lesson at 7, my first band at 16. and god knows how many instruments i tried and gave up on. I have my father to thank for my musical interest, my love of 60s music and the ability to play by ear. he and i used to practice Beatles songs, except he would make things difficult and select a key before we started computers are easy to program. guitars, now theres an instrument thats hard to master but it sure makes a nice sound
Veracohr	Date: August 30, 2003 @ 12:08 AM Started playing guitar at 15 (9 years ago), keyboard about 4 years ago.
Cryxan	Date: August 30, 2003 @ 4:11 AM I'm not one yet, but I'm going to get a guitar in the very near future and start learning.
Expose	Date: August 30, 2003 @ 4:27 AM I remember wanting to play piano, so in music class, all we did was break the keyboards. Before that, I tried experimenting with two different keyboards, I wound up making a 7 second porno beat which got a bit of attention. So I bought a nice keyboard, and all I could do was that same beat, I had writer's block... so I said screw it and bought a Gamecube instead.
Izekial	Date: August 30, 2003 @ 4:52 AM I went to my little brother's 6th grade talent show back in 1995 or 96. Maybe 94, but anyway, there they were, these little guys kicking ass, and I thought, 'Hey, if they can do it, so can I.' Then I got my old drum set back and proceeded to rock.
Etheracide	Date: August 30, 2003 @ 9:46 AM I started writing lyrics very at a very young age. I could always come up with great melodies in my head to which I could fit my lyrics. But hadn't learned to play any instruments yet. I had always been in school choruses and then started singing in a church childrens choir when I was younger. I ended up making a select choir in school for which there was a quite difficult audition and I made it easily. The following year I was struck (unbeknownst at that time) with the onset of Lyme Disease symptoms and I was afflicted by tremors which included my vocal cords. The inability to control my voice with precision made me decide to leave school chorus altogether (general chorus and select chorus). I still do not sing much even today even though I really, really wish that I still could. I attempt it on Etheracide stuff, but am rarely very unhappy with it. I forget what year it was but my mother bought me a keyboard for Christmas one year so that I could actually give sound to the melodies in my head to which I could sing my lyrics. In elementary school I had taken up a brass instrument, but my desire faded on that quickly. Not my desire to create music. But to create music with that particular instrument. In the 8th grade (I believe it was) a friend of mine played his electric guitar for a presentation in English class. The assignment was to pick something that you enjoy to do...your favorite hobby...and explain what you enjoy about it. What makes you do it. To see if you can get other members of the class interested in it. You had to bring in objects involved with your hobby. So he played for us and the sound just put guitars permanently in my head. It took me approximately 2 years of saving before I could afford to buy an electric guitar, amp and distortion pedal on my own. I played in nearly non-stop. I had never had any guitar training. No instruction. I didn't know about chord formations and fingering techniques. But everything I made up sounded like a song. I decided to take guitar lessons mainly to learn how to write down the music that seemed to just flow from me. This was a little while before I'd stumbled onto tablature. Of course I'd always written my songs down in a tablature style, but I still wanted to learn to read and write actual music notation. My senior year of high school I decided to take Intro to Music Theory which Chad had taken the previous year (which put him in Advanced Music Theory our senior year) just to see if there was anything else that I could learn. I guess I was just born with some form of musical talent. Things seem to come to me most easily when I try the least. Trying seems to inhibit whatever it is in me that allows me to write.
mracky	Date: August 30, 2003 @ 12:33 PM These are great. For me, both parents were musical-- mom, classical; dad, swing band stuff. I had lessons on accordion, guitar and piano and played baritone horn in high school band/orchestra. Like chillin', I tried a lot of instruments...harmonica, banjo, tenor sax lasting a little longer than the others. I chose to become a musician after college because of the club scene culture, the fun, immediate gratification, and ambitions of fame and fortune. Silly reasons, but true to my heart.
sinai	Date: August 30, 2003 @ 12:58 PM in a town this small, you aint got much to do, so if you got friends, you start a band, so we did, it evolved from there
BlackFlame	Date: August 31, 2003 @ 12:35 AM To be honest school. They had me play all kind of instruments in there, and after a while of playing the snares in high school I started to make hip-hop beats with the knowledge I learned from music class and it took off from there. I rarely sample anything on my beats. If i do I change it enough so it does not sound like orginal but I would consider that musicianship but when i make from bottom upo I do consider it that. BTW I still play the drums and always will.
BlackFlame	Date: August 31, 2003 @ 12:39 AM Wouldn't* not would lolol. I play the piano and flute as well. My dad was in band in his youth days.
JFF	Date: August 31, 2003 @ 7:49 AM I started messing around with computer music way back in the days of the speccy and C64, but didn't really do much until I got my Amiga, a tracker prog & a sampler, that progressed onto the PC and Fastracker, followed by Rebirth, FL, & Reason. I can't play any instruments at all, so in that respect, I am not a real musician, but damn am I having fun
Acumen	Date: August 31, 2003 @ 10:45 AM I started out of spite. No, not really. I started out of revenge.
Jennae	Date: August 31, 2003 @ 3:17 PM not a real musician??? well I think you are making music. and I think that still makes you a musician I am still curious as to how electronic artist with software could do live showcases
pog	Date: August 31, 2003 @ 4:32 PM I started on c64's and amiga's also. And then at 15 I picked up my first guitar. Now I can play guitar to grade 4 or 5, and drums and piano to about grade 2 level.
IDOUBLEYOU	Date: August 31, 2003 @ 7:41 PM peer pressure lead to weed, weed lead to an addiction, the addiction lead to a mic, the mic lead my voice to me...
DetroitJimmy	Date: September 1, 2003 @ 3:35 AM old.We played partys schools partys outdoor mostly and LOUD to the point that I didn't know how to play at a low volume and get the same feel as LOUD feelin'. It's just not the same. Struggled with that for years. I can't play soft I used to say. That limited our bar gigs after the first five songs, added and lost some members by them days. Got an outdoor gig for motorcycle clubs all over the country "Bikers" before having a motorcycle was popular. rave wha'.Went to School, Sight Singing and Reading,Music Theory, History of Music,Piano 101,102,104. Ran sound for band in Canada. Played a '71 fretless Gibson Les Paul Custom Delux Black Beauty (U won't find one) Now out of all my vices I like my PRS Custom 24 '92 Keeps Me!" id="60656">I sang in choir in church and in school. My mother played church organ at Sunday mass every Sunday as far as I can recall. I used to love when she played Christmas tunes on the organ at home and I got to stick the pack of matches in between the keys so that the keys stuck and played a continuious high C until I pulled out the pack of matches at the end of the song. The illusion of the stuck note was supposed to be bells ringing continuiously. The nuns at school took me around the school and had me sing to all the higher grades in an assembly that I hadn't figured out was to exploit me. I think I went into shock and could never sing anymore because I was never concious of singing. I just did it and like the bells note I loved to do with the pack of matches I harmonized without a thought from one end of the scale to another with all the people that were singing like they were at a board meeting with the undertaker. Keys were no fun. Guitar did it for me. Had all my friends in a band by 12 years old.We played partys schools partys outdoor mostly and LOUD to the point that I didn't know how to play at a low volume and get the same feel as LOUD feelin'. It's just not the same. Struggled with that for years. I can't play soft I used to say. That limited our bar gigs after the first five songs, added and lost some members by them days. Got an outdoor gig for motorcycle clubs all over the country "Bikers" before having a motorcycle was popular. rave wha'.Went to School, Sight Singing and Reading,Music Theory, History of Music,Piano 101,102,104. Ran sound for band in Canada. Played a '71 fretless Gibson Les Paul Custom Delux Black Beauty (U won't find one) Now out of all my vices I like my PRS Custom 24 '92 Keeps Me!
notserp	Date: September 1, 2003 @ 8:03 AM I learned more chords, bought a better guitar and wrote a few songs that I've since completely forgotten (although one song, "Down in Cortland County", stuck with me through the years and is on my first CD "Away"). After college, helping raise a family took priority in my life. I bought a nice Guild D-25 in the mid-eighties, but only played occasionally. As the kids got older, I began playing more. I joined a band three or four years ago and decided to go solo this past January. About the same time I starting writing songs again in earnest. I bought a 4 track digital recorder last December and I'm still amazed that I can sit down, write a song in the morning, record it the same afternoon, upload it to dmusic in the evening and receive a comment from someone on the other side of the world who's listened to it the same day." id="60670">They say that I was singing and making up my own songs when I was two, although I can't remember back that far. I do remember discovering harmony at a very young age and wondering why some people would say they couldn't sing. I just thought it was easy for everybody. At age 15 my mother bought me a guitar out of the Montgomery Wards catelog and I taught myself how to play the G, C, and D chords - which fit "The Ballad of Snoopy and the Red Barron" perfectly. My best friend Jigger also started playing guitar at the same time and we soon imagined ourselves as guitar playing babe magnets. I learned most everything by ear back then, playing 45's over and over on a cheap record player. I learned more chords, bought a better guitar and wrote a few songs that I've since completely forgotten (although one song, "Down in Cortland County", stuck with me through the years and is on my first CD "Away"). After college, helping raise a family took priority in my life. I bought a nice Guild D-25 in the mid-eighties, but only played occasionally. As the kids got older, I began playing more. I joined a band three or four years ago and decided to go solo this past January. About the same time I starting writing songs again in earnest. I bought a 4 track digital recorder last December and I'm still amazed that I can sit down, write a song in the morning, record it the same afternoon, upload it to dmusic in the evening and receive a comment from someone on the other side of the world who's listened to it the same day.
Jennae	Date: September 3, 2003 @ 11:49 PM :nod: indeed ! That is one of the great wonders of the internet ain't it.... gotta :love: it!" id="61109">"I'm still amazed that I can sit down, write a song in the morning, record it the same afternoon, upload it to dmusic in the evening and receive a comment from someone on the other side of the world who's listened to it the same day." indeed ! That is one of the great wonders of the internet ain't it.... gotta it!
fireball87	Date: September 4, 2003 @ 12:16 AM um... didn't use to like to sing but loved listening... not that long ago i tried to learn guitar and learned it a bit but failed to get far without a guitar teacher (learned basic strumming and a few chords... could play a few songs crappily)... got into mixing not that long ago... now that is a long story
Jennae	Date: September 4, 2003 @ 1:34 AM hey to this day I still only know a few chords and I am even more impressed if I know their names I was 27 when I first tried my hand at guitar you got plenty of time to still work through your frustrations yet
monsquaz	Date: September 5, 2003 @ 8:50 PM My father is an instrumental music teacher, and had a good musical background. So he'd always play jazz and classical CDs around the house. Strangely, he didn't force me into music, or even try to get me interested in it. I was apathetic about it in general. Later on in elementary school, we were supposedly all supposed to try learning an instrument. But due to some bad encounters with one of my classmates at the end of fourth grade, my parents decided that I would be better off if I transferred to the school my mom works at. There, joining band or chorus was optional. So I still didn't learn an instrument. During the 5th grade, I listened to pop music stations in my mom's car on the way to and from school, rather than listening to classical in my dad's car. That piqued a passive interest in music. Later on it became a deeper interest, and when I discovered Motörhead in 2001, my interests in music took a huge turnaround. My preferences changed drastically. No longer did I like pop music, but I would listen to all sorts of music. To this day, I have never learned an instrument. Last year I discovered the true musical properties of my computer, and thats how Monsquaz was started.
invocati	Date: September 5, 2003 @ 9:10 PM Started out playin drums at 14 ...Got into a band at 15 then one thing led to another learned some keyboard riffs and how to use a synthesizer and here I am...Left out of this story was all the frustration and alot of good times in the studio and on stage.
invocati	Date: September 5, 2003 @ 9:11 PM By the way I am now 39. Yike time flies!!!!
Veracohr	Date: September 5, 2003 @ 9:42 PM Actually, when I was a small boy, I was kidnapped by aliens. They installed Musician 4.0 in me, set to activate at age 15.
kredd	Date: September 20, 2003 @ 8:24 PM i was an obedient child..." id="62537">my parents locked me in my room when i was 15 and said, "YOU'RE GONNA LEARN TO PLAY METALLICA WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, MISTER!" i was an obedient child...
SoulBeats	Date: September 22, 2003 @ 7:53 AM 1998 - got fruityloops, made some shit 1999 - learned, by making more shit 2000 - learned, by making more shit etc. 2001 - made my first real songs (they we're trance) 2002 - made my trip hop songs. got drums. 2003 - got double bass drums and acoustic guitar. started making metal. made 5 metal songs. got synth and made a sixth metal song. Now searching a basist to join a band me and my friend started.
4H2SO4	Date: September 24, 2003 @ 8:23 PM 7th grade - First time I heard "Forgot about Dre" I knew I was meant to rap, 8th grade - I heard "Dragula" that got me into metal and then Slipknot, Mudvayne, Rammstein came, and my style was born, but it is pretty hard to put metal-style rap to rap beats, there are so many metal songs I would love to steal beats from...
woodhead	Date: September 27, 2003 @ 8:38 PM IT was simple, I started to be honest to get girls, oh come on the guys that started in middle school or high school started for that reason, but then found out I loved playing and started playing other instruments, then got into different genre's and kept going. I believe to be a well round musician you need to learn as many genre as you can and also have an open mind to all forms of music. Hey I tell every one that when a tune is good, it is good and when it is bad turn it off,
Tudris	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 12:19 AM ...And they wanna tell us that filesharing is stealing from musicians. Please. I got started with music pretty early. My dad was into metal and rock, played drums and sang in several bands in the 80's. That sparked my interest in music. My friend introduced me to electronica. I liked it, I wanted to make my own. After several years dabbling with drum machines and cheap midi composers, I finally got a hold of Reason, and I've been learning ever since. Of course, metal and rock hold a big place in my heart. I'm a drummer, and I'm trying to learn guitar. Emphasize trying. Hard to learn on a $50 pos that goes out of tune every strum (if you can even tune it in the first place). I'm working in a band right now, but we haven't gotten beyond jamming covers yet... Even then, we're not too put-together about it. We did have a live concert once. It was fun, but we winged it halfway through. Once we do get together doing stuff for real, we'll be up here on DMusic. :nod:" id="64301">"I'm still amazed that I can sit down, write a song in the morning, record it the same afternoon, upload it to dmusic in the evening and receive a comment from someone on the other side of the world who's listened to it the same day." ...And they wanna tell us that filesharing is stealing from musicians. Please. I got started with music pretty early. My dad was into metal and rock, played drums and sang in several bands in the 80's. That sparked my interest in music. My friend introduced me to electronica. I liked it, I wanted to make my own. After several years dabbling with drum machines and cheap midi composers, I finally got a hold of Reason, and I've been learning ever since. Of course, metal and rock hold a big place in my heart. I'm a drummer, and I'm trying to learn guitar. Emphasize trying. Hard to learn on a $50 pos that goes out of tune every strum (if you can even tune it in the first place). I'm working in a band right now, but we haven't gotten beyond jamming covers yet... Even then, we're not too put-together about it. We did have a live concert once. It was fun, but we winged it halfway through. Once we do get together doing stuff for real, we'll be up here on DMusic.
Arthen	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 12:35 PM Entire family and relatives are studious, engineering protocol assholes, I'm the only musician. Fell in love with game music from young, that was what sparked it. Learnt piano formally at 8, quit at 10 (grade 2) because the stupid teacher kept making me play the same old fuckin tune. Self learnt drums from 12 to 14, chinese stringed instrument called the Er Hu from 13 to 16, chinese flute at around the same time, chinese big drum percussion as well. When Yngwie Malmsteen came into my life, self learnt guitar from 14 till now (19). Based on my self earned knowledge of the guitar; the bass, sitar and the chinese 4-stringed guitar called the 'yang chin' was not hard to figure at all. At age 17 my interest in film music began to develop, as Hans Zimmer's tunes tore through the fantastic good old 90's action films. So far my knowledge of orchestral arrangement and planning's based on purely listening to the records by ear. And...learning...always. The journey has been a myriad of very important self discoveries [specially my first "time" ] till now.
Lcrowley	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 12:59 PM I started writing at a young age ... poetry .. lots of it .. lol..I always loved the piano .. and so I taught myself to play, by ear .. I was in choir from the 6th grade and all the way through college .. Singing was always my passion, as well as entertaining a crowd... I didn't actually start writing songs until I met My hubby Randal and he read some of my poetry and said DAMN you should be writing songs .. lol.. I still don't have as many as him though .. and today we write most of our stuff together ... and although I love to write music .. cause I feel it is a way to show your soul to the world .. my love is and always will be entertaining people ..
CowgirlBebop	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 1:41 PM Someday I'll really be justified in posting on this thread because eventually my group will actually record something. I could match pitches by the time I was a year and a half old, no one told my mom, who was a singer, that that was kinda, you know, impressive. I started piano lessons in first grade, but I could play stuff by the time I was three. And then I joined my first choir when I was in 2nd grade (we had to lie about my age to get me in), and my second choir in fourth---I'm still in that one---one of the best children's/youth choirs in the world. Hooray. I love my musical history; it's so random. I'm just lucky I have a musical mother.
Dogasse	Date: October 7, 2003 @ 11:39 PM Playing in drum circles in Forsyth park 1991-92. The power of rhythmic improvisation and group synergy has kept me playing ever since.
chriskmusic	Date: October 9, 2003 @ 3:42 AM My dad owned the first jazz night club in Alaska in about 1960 ... I started by playing brass til I was a teenager (1969) then picked up guitar and never stopped ... first paid gig in 1970 ... still gigging ... still touring ... and will finally release a studio effort after over 30 years of performing.
Veracohr	Date: October 9, 2003 @ 4:23 PM I sold my soul to be a rock star and get lots of girls. I'm still waiting to collect...
starseven	Date: October 9, 2003 @ 4:38 PM Yo, i went to websites like this one.. unti i finnaly found someone to make beets for me.. then i called it my own.. and caleld my self a musician... word Dogg peep my shit yo ....um.. and stuff
Hazard369	Date: October 10, 2003 @ 1:30 PM Born.
Nitemair	Date: October 11, 2003 @ 12:13 AM I'm only 20 and only been doin this since last january. Some friends wanted to try to write some ryhmes, so i was like ok. So i started out pretty shitty to be honest, but worked at it, and finally got good at writin, then worked on my flow, and just really enjoyed doin it. People told me i had a talent with it, so i stuck with it. I didn't really think i'd get anywhere with it, for the mere fact that i'm a white boy from long island, but everyones gotta start somewhere right. I put some stuff on some sites, and ppl liked it, and that's basically what's happened up until now. Not really interestin, but truthful. 1!
robin101	Date: October 14, 2003 @ 9:07 AM Heard Elvis'version of "Hound Dog" at about 5. I thought...maybe, but not quite. Saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan at 12 years old...that was it. Never stopped playing daily from that point on.
CountryMusikMan	Date: October 14, 2003 @ 4:59 PM SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST BORN WITH IT. AND I AM ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE. I HAVE BEEN SINGING SINCE I WAS OLD ENOUGH TO MAKE A NOISE SINGING COMMERCIALS OFF OF TV AND LATER SINGING IN FRON TOF PEOPLE AT CHURCH AND ALSO TO THE RADIO AS A CHILD OR THE RECORD PLAYER. YES I AM THAT OLD WE STILL HAD RECORDS WHEN I WAS A KID AND EIGHT TRACKS! ONE OF THE FIRST RECORDS I HAD WAS DURAN DURAN WILD BOYS I HAVE A RECORDING ON CASSETTE TAPE OF ME SINGING TO IT AS A CHILD. THE FIRST CASSETTE I BOUGHT WAS MICHAEL JACKSON'S THRILLER AND YES CULTURE CLUB WAS IT COLOR BY NUMBERS I THINK BUT BEFORE THAT I USED TO LISTEN TO HALL & OATES ONE OF MY AUNTS CASSETTE TAPES. THROUGH THE EIGHTIES I GREW UP SINGING WITH A LOT OF HAIRBANDS ONE OF MY FAVORITES WAS DOKKEN SECOND FAVORITE WAS VINNIE VINCENT INVASION I USED TO BE ABLE TO HIT SOME OF THOSE NOTES AND SOME OF THEM I STILL CAN. DURING THAT TIME THROUGH VOICE CHANGING AS A TEEN I DISCOVERED GEORGE STRAIT FROM MY GRANDAD'S CASSETTE COLLECTION HE HAD ONE OF THOSE SUITCASE COLLECTIONS AND I LISTENED TO THIS RELIGIOUSLY AND LEARNED EVERY SONG. I ALSO REMEMBER TAKING MY DAD'S FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS AND LEARNING EVERY SONG ON IT AND I CAN STILL SING THIS MUSIC TOO. GOSPEL ON THE OTHER HAND IS IN MY BLOOD I HAVE SUNG GOSPEL SINCE A VERY SMALL CHILD AND I AM GETTING BACK INTO IT NOW. PRAISE JESUS.
CountryMusikMan	Date: October 14, 2003 @ 5:15 PM OH I FORGOT I TOO WA SIN CHORUS AND EXCELLED SO FAST I HAD TO MOVE TO THE SENIOR CHOIR AT THE HIGH SCHOOL I WASIN THE EIGHTH GRADE. I WAS ALSO A TRUMPET PLAYER WHO DID NOT READ NOTES AND FAILED EVERY WRITTEN TEST BUT SET IN THE SECOND SEAT IN THE CONCERT BAND AND MY TEACHER SAID THE REASON I DID NOT GET FIRST IS BECAUSE I FAILED MY WRITTEN TEST I LEARN EVERYTHING BY EAR. I ALSO HAVE A GOOD EAR FOR TALENT AND I WANT TO START MY OWN LABEL ONE DAY AFTER I AM DONE SINGING. MAYBE I CAN HELP SOMEONE MAKE IT IN THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY OR WORRY ABOUT GETTING CHEATED. I AM THE TRUMPET PEOPLE.
fireball87	Date: October 15, 2003 @ 12:27 AM i change my answer... im never was musitian at all... looks at the previous post and falls over damn you, howed you know that all caps was my weakness goes into sesures
CountryMusikMan	Date: October 16, 2003 @ 11:33 AM Sorry FireBall My bad I just reviewed a song on garageband and forgot to take my caps off
markkuvu	Date: October 17, 2003 @ 11:15 PM I started playing accordion at the age of 7. When I was 15, I started teaching accordion at a local music store and went on and taught myself a little piano since I already had the knowledge of the keyboard. When I was 17, I heard the bossa nova beat and fell in love with it. I knew then that I had to learn guitar. I took a few lessons, quit and taught myself to play. I became quite effecient at it and went on to college to major in music. My main instruments in college were piano and flute. I didn't know jack squat about flute but learned it along with several other instruments of the orchestra including bassoon. I used to get some pretty strange looks from people when I took the bassoon to a local jazz club to jam with on jam nights. I learned more, jammin with the jazz trio there than I ever did in class. Never the less I became a music educator with a degree in music and taught for a while. That was in the seventies. To-day I sit on my ass writing and playing the keys, some flute, bass, guitar my self and what ever else I need to get my songs out.
Jennae	Date: October 17, 2003 @ 11:23 PM CMM is a hip hopper wanna be
GeneHilbert	Date: October 18, 2003 @ 1:39 AM It was a voodoo curse from a previous life. I must have been a real asshole.
Arthen	Date: October 18, 2003 @ 1:30 PM fireball - LOLL!!!!!
kLash	Date: October 18, 2003 @ 2:03 PM I became a musician by sittin around, playin with my computer, and a few beats, by my man Cheq-Z. Peep Us
podyman	Date: October 21, 2003 @ 3:24 PM 1982 - birthday... uuuaaaahhh... (singing) 1988-1991 - listening to different music (classic, rock, Russian bards and songwriters) 1991-1992 - one year at Russian music school... but it was boring... Mother bought me synthesizer... 1992-1994 - I'm lazy doing nothing... 1995 - Love have made me a music fan... Metallica... Iron Maiden... A lot of pop and dance music... Making some poetical works... 1996-1997 - really mad music fan listening to everything that sounds... 1998 - suffering that I can't create music by myself... improvizing with old piano and synthesizer... 1999-2000 - poetry and suffering... decision to become a professional writer... listening to music, of course... 2001 - new friends and decision to learn acoustic guitar... some knowledge about computer music, trackers and synths... 2001-2003 - listening to computer music and own tries, some mixes... April 2003 - second birthday, understanding of harmony, desire to live and create music... April 2003-Nowadays - day by day growning up, creating melodies from nothing, constructing them like builder... no inspiration at all... I don't need anything like love feelings to create something... Freedom....
skender	Date: October 27, 2003 @ 3:40 PM I first started playing piano when I was 9... Then I moved to another city where I finished my music elementary and high school (that's how they do it in Europe..) along with attending a real H.S... lots of work, but gave me a solid foundation in music theory. I picked up guitar back in my 8th grade, mostly because I had no piano at my house, and needed to make some noise .. I also had to play trumpet for 2 years, which turned out to be a lot of fun... Back then I played in three bands.. two for fun (rock & funk), and one for money at the restaurants, hotels etc. I was the richest 15yr old back then I loooved Iron Maiden btw. Not that I was a Headbanger, but I just loved their music.. and still do. I think their music has a lot of influence on me. Anyway, when I moved to Chicago I played piano for my school, and then moved to Boston in '97 to go to Berklee College of Music. I played piano there for three semesters, but ended up changing principal instrument to bass guitar, mostly because I couldn't stand pno dept. and their competative nature. Bass players/dept was cool as hell.. Teachers were almost ready to roll one up, and kids would share ideas (unlike pianists), so I liked that a lot. Anyway, I played bass, mostly funk, jazz, rock.. but I always kept my piano skills up and loved electronic music since the days of DX7. Of course, I really got into it when I started going to all the raves in the mid 90's.. so I just took my real love a step up when Berklee came around... So here I am, now. Done w/ college, with no real job, not enough money, big dreams, and lots of music in my head... to be made. And i love it Good things take time, someone said...
zique	Date: November 2, 2003 @ 9:11 AM Started playin sax in grade school.Faked it for 4 yrs.Saw a live band .As I watched I could actually see the big fat strings on the electric bass move!And that was all she wrote for me.
LowREz	Date: November 16, 2003 @ 5:32 AM everyone wants everyone else to see how they became who they are, but they don't wanna read how other people became who they are.oh well human nature i guess.
KevBrock	Date: November 16, 2003 @ 12:44 PM I started playing the acoustic guitar when I was 18 years old. I am now 26, so that makes me a musician for 8 long years. It was my guitar hero Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin that put a guitar in my hands. Led Zeppelin are one of my favorite bands, I love all of their music. They are the ones that made me a musician. After I heard the music of Led Zeppelin, I wanted to take guitar lessons. I had a tough time trying to find a local guitar teacher in my area. I didn't know anyone in town that gave lessons. So one day, when I was hanging in town for something to do. I was in a bookstore, just looking around. And there was this guy behind the cashier counter playing the guitar. I thought he was really good so I went over to talk to him for a while. He said he was the owner of the bookstore. I asked him if I pay him if he could teach me to play guitar. He said he wasn't really a guitar teacher but he said he'll do his best to teach me to play to get me started. So off I went, I regularly went to the bookstore to take guitar lessons when the store wasn't busy. Then when the owner put the bookstore out of bussiness, I went off looking for a different guitar instructor. So the former owner of the bookstore reccomended me someone else. So I took lessons with a different guitar instructor for a while. But my 2nd guitar instructor moved to Nashville, Ten. in hopes of furthering his music career into becoming a possible country music star. Then I decided to give up lessons for good because I began to feel uncomfortable with people teaching me to play music when I just want to do my own thing. As for my singing, I was self taught. I wanted my own singing style. But for the rest of my life, I just spent a lot of time writing new original songs and learning covers.
johnnygnote	Date: November 25, 2003 @ 1:14 PM When I was about 5 I use to go to this groove of elm trees and sing to them, my first audience. The wind would come up and it sounded like the trees were clapping as the wind blew through their leaves. I was a troubled child (bad home life) so I did it often. Confidence grew so my teacher in school noticed my voice and sent me to the choir teacher it was all downhill from there About the time the Beatles second album came out (I'm showing my age) some friends of mine and I would play the record in my garage and we would pantomime to the record each of us playing broomstick guitars, I was always John (my fate was sealed). I got my first guitar at 13 and things got worse . This could go on forever :0............
furiousBall	Date: November 25, 2003 @ 2:22 PM When I was 6, I was in a t-shirt store with my Dad at the mall, I spotted this shiney Kiss belt buckle, my Dad caved and bought it for me. I had no idea who they were, but I wore that belt buckle every day for at least two years. My first grade class picture, the shine of that buckle is blinding! About a week after my Dad bought this, he brought home Kiss Alive II (vinyl of course) and from there on, I knew I wanted to be Ace Frehley. Over time, my tastes changed, but those superhero kind of personas Kiss had drew me in. Never spit blood or fire on a audience memeber yet tho ... keyword yet.
Bill43	Date: November 25, 2003 @ 4:06 PM No one in my family was musically inclined. I started out in elementary school "sneaking" over to junior high (attached to elementary) and fooling with the instruments. I got caught playing on a sax by the band director. He offered me a way out of the "trouble" I could be in. He needed a baritone player and I thought I was in a lot of trouble. Went through high school playing all sorts of different instruments. Sousaphone to sax... trombone, snare... I would do anything necessary to continue playing music. After that... I picked up the guitar at 12... to impress the girls! It worked well, but I found that I really enjoyed playing guitar. So I've stuck with it... or has it stuck with me?
hottestsauce	Date: December 3, 2003 @ 9:41 PM http://www.NationClicc.com
BenRebel	Date: December 15, 2003 @ 2:28 PM My parents made us play .. but I'm glad they did
rapidhopeloss	Date: December 20, 2003 @ 8:27 AM Neither of my parents play instruments really, but songwriting and music has always been in my family. My dad sang for a band as a teenager, and on my maternal side i have amateur guitarists etc. My brothers and sisters all learned piano, so obviously i wanted to. I started when i was about 9, and i just got my Grade 5 the other week. I was much delayed by my house getting flooded (had to learn a full set of songs over). Ironically, none of my siblings made Grade 5. Maybe it's due to my ineptitude at sports that i concentrated better on music. When i was about 10 or 11 i started learning tenor horn (it looks like a mini tuba). I got a few levels in that and i think grade 5 by the time I left secondary school. I still have one that i bought for sixty pounds from some woman who had it in her attic for 20 years. My brothers also play guitar, though it looks like i've surpassed the oldest one in skill, and i'm not far off surpassing the other one. I was raised on Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, Weezer and similar bands. I started learning acoustic when i was 13, failed and started on bass. I joined a jazz band and by the time i was 15 had got some pretty good bass skills going. During this time i started learning guitar for the 2nd time, and now I'm at a decent standard ie, i can play barre chords. After all that music, all that music theory, etc, i'm finally playing and singing in a band. Because music's been in my life most of the time i can remember, I'm more able to create original stuff than most guitarists who are in bands. I feel its finally paying off because i'm getting a bit of attention to my stuff on DM, and my band's getting attention around college (BTW im only 16 now).
sepidman	Date: December 20, 2003 @ 1:50 PM Let me see now. All the time I was growing up I had wanted to play something musicla....and there was never anything around the house that would really lend itselt to my musicla pursuits. Oh sure, there were a drwaer full of spoons and a cupboard full of pots and pans, but come dinner time MA would always take away my instruments! Around the age of 16 i decided i wanted to be a piano player. Don't even really know why myself. I studied with the Ontario Conservatory for a year or so and then they asked me if I wuld teach part time. Soooooo, I did. During that time I became part of a badn sponsered by Conservatory. We did not do much, but we practiced a bunch. In fact the night of the first gig the band broke up! My first encounter with the politics of the music industry. I always had a hard time following the curriculm of the concervatory and often I would add my own little pieces tidbits of brilliance into a piece. Even managened to win a series of awards and medals during competitions. I began to write songs, a bunch of them. Thought I was pretty good until I went back and listened to my own things a few years later and realized most were crap! But what a learning experience it was. I still draw from some of that crap and revive the odd song or two. At some point I decided that I needed to express myself differently. Had a fear that all of my songs would end up sounding the same if i kept writing them on the piano. Bought a cheap guitar to find out if I could even learn to play. Found out it was not so bad so bought a couple of more guitars. Still cannot play them real well, but they are a heck of alot easier to carry around than the pianos!! Depending on my mood or the song I will either write it with the piano or the guitar. Most of what I write with the piano is what I describe as "HEAVY MELLOW". Brian
Rodrica	Date: December 20, 2003 @ 3:27 PM Started playing the keys on my grandmother's piano as soon as I could reach it! Joined the school choir, then took piano lesson from the age of about 7, took classical exams in that for 4 years. Also took cello lessons during that time and started writing short classical songs. The school gave me some voice coaching lessons. At about 13 I took classical guitar lessons, then gave up classical to write my own rock/pop material. Learned a bit of electric/bass guitar and here I am....
Jesuszilla	Date: December 20, 2003 @ 6:56 PM I stole someone else's identity.
dgtzr	Date: December 21, 2003 @ 12:55 AM Well, first I was frozen with my crew in the southern polar region of this mudball planet for being "too efficient at killing things" in other parts of this universe. Glam rockers created a hole in the ozone layer of this planet with their hair spray back in the 80's and freed us from our frozen tomb. Immediately afterwards, we were signed do a crappy record label when we we were discovered by this no talent ass-wipe of a human traitor who then showed us where civilization was so that we might enslave and destroy it. I wouldn't really call what we do music, but for some reason you humans flock to our public appearances like flies on well, y'know. Oh wait, that's not my story. That was the story that inspired me to create the death, debauchery, and other horrendous acts that I call "music".
robin101	Date: December 21, 2003 @ 5:54 AM I believe it was Jennae's grandmother who use to try to teach me songs on the piano. "Mary had a little lamb" and "twinkle twinkle little star"... I made up my own song: Mary had a little lamb and the doctor had a heart attack... The "twinkle twinkle" song didn't seem to be commercially viable... so I rejected it and became a record producer.
ChillinBuzz	Date: December 21, 2003 @ 6:23 AM the electric guitar couldn't have arrived in my life at a better time, i was 14... school sucked, i was depressed, life was tough... then the following year i got my Yamaha SG700... and its never really left my side... its still around, i still use it but my acoustic helps me to release now
PaBlikMM	Date: December 21, 2003 @ 8:37 AM Ohhh ... this can be a really long story ... o.k. in short dates 6 years ... violin school ... 7 years .... decision i ´ll never be an musician 9 years ... i meet with computer 10 years ... i have my first computer 11 years i met vith my best friend and we srarted of making computer games 12 ... i decide to write some music for your computer games 13 ... someone tells me i´m good in composing music ... 14 ... my first PC and my first soundcard 15 ...i started to study rec.studio equipment and music comosittion at a musical school ... 22 i found DMusic on the web
Veracohr	Date: December 21, 2003 @ 6:53 PM :D" id="75264">...And on the eight day, God said "Let there be a musician" And there was a musician, and he played with the square waves, and the sawtooth waves, and the filters, and all manner of the things of synthesizers And there was rejoicing
ebarbarella	Date: December 22, 2003 @ 8:54 AM ... to make a long storie short : I since I remember, 3 years old, my father is a musician so at 15 ... Then... when I was 17, my friend Paul, told me : Hey! lets play together!... my first cool band was that one : The Others (I have some tapes somewhere )
onewhodreams	Date: December 22, 2003 @ 7:01 PM I started writing lyrics/poems in my early teens. My Mother bought me a Fender Squire, a small Fender amp, and a Heavy Metal pedal when I was 15 and when I was 21 I enrolled in Music Theory, Creative Writing, and Voice at my community College. Then I took private vocal lessons on and off for 6 years and then I met Ron and we started writing together. Exciting huh?
sepidman	Date: December 23, 2003 @ 10:51 PM It was either become a musician or get a A REAL JOB!! BaHA... Lucky me I get to do music full time. That means I drink poop loads of espresso and such!

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