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I really love live music. I get annoyed if I go to a concert and the artist/band plays the songs the same way as they did on their album. I find it insulting. I always expect them to surprise me with their interpretation and improvise a little. some bands that I've seen live have been such a disappointment in this matter that I actually stopped liking them so much, and other bands that I didn't like as much as the others have made a great and lasting impression on me with the way they played live.

my father is a composer. My brother is a classical composer. My sister is a pop musician and songwriter and has an autistic son. My other sister plays indian instruments. We all learned instruments growing up. it was an intrinsic part of my upbringing. my dad was either reading latin or other languages or composing.

i stopped music to focus on art.

i like listening to classical music live.
i love all types of music and it is a huge part of my life.
I do not like listening to rock/pop music live but love the more regulated and predictable and high quality recordings re these genres.
i love good quality country and western. (not the trash.)
i like some impro music (the necks, tony buck) and i like some jazz. (loathe dixieland, but enjoy coltrane and miles and django reinhardt and pharoah sanders and the greats.)

xanderbeanz from wp is really good too.

My "special interest" in electronic music somewhat faded once electronica became a mainstream norm.

I have most of the early Schnitzler albums, and all of the Kluster/Cluster's albums. I have several thousand LP's from the 60's and 70's covering a variety of artists: Deuter, Rother, Tomita, Kraftwerk, Ash Ra Tempel, etc.

I was an early member of IEMA (the International Electronic Music Association) of which Klaus Schulze was also a member.

I am a musician. I plan to make my living from it. I like listening to others play music as long as they are competent.

I love music. I have to play music everywhere, all the time. At work, when I play WoW, while I browse these forums, etc. I have also been a musician in the past. And for my anniversary later this month, my wife has bought Nickelback tickets.

i love playing and listening to music.
i hated singing in assemblies in junior school so i ended up in the school band playing xylophone instead. i don't know how i came to be in the band but i remember practising on the school instruments during breaktimes a lot coz i wasn't that popular in the playground and it was more fun.
i been playing the guitar since i was 15 and had lessons since i was 19... my electric guitar is my prize possession (i even worry about it's existence after i'm gone and what would happen to it lol)
music is definately a big part of my identity.
i love listening to live music and local bands, and am very fond of my music dvd collection esp all my pink floyd ones coz they're my all time favourites (that never has and never will change lol)
tho i prefer songs to sound like the records.
and i'm simply terrible at improvising lol...

If musician = can mess around on GarageBand then yes I am a musician

i started playing the piano at about 5. we had one at our house.
i always made up my own chordal progressions to play.

they were mainly designed to "paint" a picture of some way i felt. a picture painted for only my eyes to see.


example:
like how i felt about kittens. i played a song i when i was about 6 or 7 that i made up called "kitten in a tempest" which was about a kitten playing in the sun and then a storm comes along and she gets caught in a flood which washes her into a drain that carries her through many pipes and eventually deposits her on a green sunny grassy bank downstream where there is no storm. she darts off happily and continues to play the same way she was playing at the beginning of the song, oblivious to her recent emergency.
so the song starts in a bright and happily innocent major, and then goes into a declension of descending minors (the storm) and then at the climax of the most convoluted minor chord, it suddenly unfolds back to the original major chord, and then the song trails off as if the kitten was bounding happily off into the distance in her innocent and oblivious play again.

i played that so many hundreds of times.

people wanted to teach me music at school, but i could not learn from them. i just played what i wanted how i wanted.

i do not play piano anymore, as my good piano is at my other house. the upright piano i have here is broken and out of tune from frantic playing. i am too lazy to organize it's repair.

so now i have a synthesizer and i use a sound bank on my sound card in my computer that emulates grand piano very well (as well as many other instruments).

i can not play my synthesizer as well as my piano. the "tack" and feel of the keys is too light on the synthesizer. on the synthesizer, it is an "on/off" situation where the key's metal contact either touches or does not touch it's bridge terminal.
i learned piano also with my feet as i used the sustain and damping pedals very much to control the sound of my songs.
i have no sustain or damping pedals on the synthesizer and my feet are itchy to perform but they have no means to do so now.

i worked in a sound studio for about 3 years (until i got an ear problem that ruined my hearing in my left ear by 40%). in that time, we recorded many tv commercial musical scores. often i would play my own idea of a vamped up version of the score during a lunch break, and it would be overheard and then they would ask if they could use those notes to include in their score. i always said yes because i play most things in boredom only once and i never was going to play it again.

i also made up the whole music for a few commercials (like "shoe shed").
i was not able to manuscript the music at that time so musicians listened to me play my composition very slowly, and they manuscripted it and got professional musicians to play it for the ad.

while i can see very pretty and scintillating chords in my mind, and i can play them accurately on a keyboard, i have no depth of soul or personality.

so never have i played a song that made another person "feel" some way or another.
they just say "very good" until about 50 seconds into my song and they switch off because i play very robotically.

i can not infuse "feeling" into my music because i see it as a rigid structure of notes that i must press at exact times to perform the design of my song.
i can not vary my rhythm in subtle ways. i can switch instantly to a new rhythm, and perform it precisely, but i can not bend it in a subtle way that excurs from a rigid notion i have of when i should press the keys.

so i am not a virtuoso or a gifted musician. i just like to play my keyboard to make me happy.

for the last 2 years i have been trying to play other peoples compositions because i was advised to try.

so i have about 300 songs written by others i have "covered" (like "freedom" by that george michael fellow and that ilk) and about 80 of my own design.

i do not show my own designs very much as they are my retreats.