Any Musicians Here?

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I've been playing the trumpet for 3 weeks now after over a decade long hiatus. I played in elementary school band for about a year but didn't really keep going. Some of you might know I'm really into the band Metalachi and my favorite member is their trumpet player, so that's what got me practicing again. I'm sounding less and less shitty every day! :P
 
MerriedxReldnahc said:
I've been playing the trumpet for 3 weeks now after over a decade long hiatus. I played in elementary school band for about a year but didn't really keep going. Some of you might know I'm really into the band Metalachi and my favorite member is their trumpet player, so that's what got me practicing again. I'm sounding less and less shitty every day! :P
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It's a physical commitment to be a good trumpet player, but the world could always use more brass.
 
Guitar, bass, drums and alto sax. Played tenors in drumlines for years.
 
i've played the trombone since sixth grade, but i haven't done anything with one in over a year now. luckily a friend loaned me an old trombone so i dont have to give an arm, a leg, and an internal organ to buy a new one, but the tuning slide is practically flat in parts from how dented it is and the whole thing is rusted. still, i don't know of anyone locally that can fix such extensive damage.
 
I've recently started learning jaw harp - planning on asking my ethnomusicology prof (who's a blues and folk expert) if he knows anybody locally that I can take lessons with.
 
I play violin, guitar, and bass mostly. Except right now pretty much my only musical pursuit is singing since I don't really own any instruments anymore.
 
Zeorus said:
I've recently started learning jaw harp - planning on asking my ethnomusicology prof (who's a blues and folk expert) if he knows anybody locally that I can take lessons with.
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Jew harps are a blast. You just have to take time to practice and experiment.
 
Cuck Norris said:
Chat is useless so maybe the actually musically inclined Kiwis will be of more help. Which is better: full chords, standard tuning, power chords, drop D
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I'm not a guitarist so I'm not sure whether one is easier/more efficient to play than the other, but for that particular riff I really like the sound of the full chords. The higher strings add another layer that is aurally really satisfying.
 
Cuck Norris said:
Which is better: full chords, standard tuning, power chords, drop D
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Depends on what kind of sound you are going for. Full chords give you a much fuller sound. Drop D bar chords lose the high end, but can give you a little more bass, especially when you're playing notes lower than E. Bar chords in standard tuning will sound pretty similar, just lose a little bit of punch. Drop D is easier if you can't stretch your fingers as much, because you only need one finger to cover three strings.
 
Mesh Gear Fox said:
Depends on what kind of sound you are going for. Full chords give you a much fuller sound. Drop D bar chords lose the high end, but can give you a little more bass, especially when you're playing notes lower than E. Bar chords in standard tuning will sound pretty similar, just lose a little bit of punch. Drop D is easier if you can't stretch your fingers as much, because you only need one finger to cover three strings.
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It's more that it was going to determine the direction the song went, as far as bridge and chorus.
 
Sorry, but this is a totally lame answer: it all depends on what kind of tone you want. No one tuning or chord formation is inherently better than the other. I know some guys say its easier to write in drop D, but again is total preference. As far speed goes, drop D with bar chords will allow you to hop around a little faster than full (4-6 string) chord formations in standard.
 
Mesh Gear Fox said:
Sorry, but this is a totally lame answer: it all depends on what kind of tone you want. No one tuning or chord formation is inherently better than the other. I know some guys say its easier to write in drop D, but again is total preference. As far speed goes, drop D with bar chords will allow you to hop around a little faster than full (4-6 string) chord formations in standard.
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I mostly agree, but I have one major caveat.

All open strings on a guitar, or any othert string piece for that matter, produce overtones when devices generating sound which resonate to their own are sounding nearby. More extreme examples can be found in sitars -- and the criminally undernoticed bazantar -- but what degrees of harmonic presence guitar tunings have remains a significant enough choice to take into artistic account by those who know what they're doing.

Sonic Youth made great use of this on such tracks as Teenage Riot, and Thurston Moore's G-A-B-D-E-G tuning* is to-this-day one of the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard anywhere.

A combination of the five notes of the G-Major Pentatonic Scale plus an extra octave on top in addition to the low-G which starts the sequence. Listen for yourself and hear what I mean:

 
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