How many of you are musicians?

[User6773]

I tend to note that musicians seem to be better at keeping the beat than people who aren't, normally. I ask - how many of you are musicians? Garage band, high school or college band, drums for the fun of it, even some sort of DJ - it doesn't matter, do you have musical experience?

-Chardish

[SotN]

I have zero musical talent. however, I'm...

...

... yeah, zero musical talent.

[Arch0wl]

I'm not a musician(probably going to play piano soon, though), but I have no problems keeping beat of something.

[Hyrogashi]

I used to play piano, 4 years.

[scorpio1690]

I've bin playin the drums since grade 2

[87x]

nope no musical experience here....

[Freak83]

I've played the piano for several years now. I'm pretty good at it.

[Satsui]

Piano for nearly eleven years.

[MEGAginge]

i again dont play anything. sorry. but yeah i keep a pretty good beat.

[jewpinthethird]

I played the piano for 8 years, trumpet for 4, and I am working on the Banjo. And seeing as I have a song on FFR I guess I could be considered musically talented. Although it takes no musically talent to make Electronic music.


Just kidding.

[Arch0wl]

Although it takes no musically talent to make Electronic music.

You got to and no screwed up.

And you BETTER be kidding.

Jewpinthethird: Don't flaunt my grammatical errors....

[MEGAginge]

electronic takes much talent... keyboard playing alone is hard

oh yeas, by that i meant actuall recording and synth work, not just using Ejay and calling urself a musicial (i dunno which of the two categories you fall into, though.)

[SpookG]

Just so you know Mega, most electronic producers spend weeks on their tracks. A huge amount of time is devoted to creating them.

technical skill shouldn't be compared to composing, since they are completely different. Composing is applying technical skills you've learned. Anyone can play an instrument, but not everyone can write good music.

And uh.. while we're listing.. Bass guitar for 9 years, guitar for about 5, drums for 6, banjo (rules!) , piano, harmonica, accordian, and whatever else i can get ahold of.

[CocoBeans]

Hmmm... I've played the piano for 6 years, violin for 2 and I'm going to learn to play the guitar. :P

[SuperGreenX]

Although it takes no musically talent to make Electronic music.


Just kidding.

I SO hope you are kidding.

Anyway, I played the trumpet for about 10 years and have been writing music (mostly electronic ) for a few years. I think being a musician gives you more experience with rhythm in general and therefore gives you a little of an edge when it comes to learning how to play rhythm-based games such as FFR and DDR well. But, FFR and DDR can also help you out musically. You can subdivide rhythms better when playing and are just in general more familiar with similar rhythms when they are used in the music you are performing.