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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Ask me which weird musical instrument you should learn this summer
 
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The Letter A
Nov 8, 2002

 I have been playing ukulele for a few years now, and that is a ton of fun, but I figured last week it was time to try something new.

I can't wait to get this thing home and tuned :D

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The Letter A
Nov 8, 2002

 Okay, time for me to assault your ears.

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I got the tab and chords for this from Bing Futch's website, and just kinda made up the uke part as I went along.

I'm so very excited about learning all these cool easy instruments. This is the best thread ever.

* # ¿ Jul 16, 2011 18:17
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The Letter A
Nov 8, 2002

Nuggan posted:

So far, I've loved my violin and the NAF that I bought. I'm curious as to how everyone else that bought instruments because of this thread are doing with them.
I've bought so many instruments because of this thread. After a few years of musical experimentation, I have two tenor ukes, a soprano and a UBass, a 5-string bass guitar, a violin, a tinwhistle (Here's my horrible attempt at playing along with a fast track from Flook after about a week of tinwhistle ownership; forgive the facebook message sounds), two harmonicas (in C and Bb) and I borrowed a real transverse flute from my mom that she wasn't using anymore.

So far I really am enjoying learning flute. As a trumpet player since the fourth grade, I found the flute strangely similar to trumpet--I guess that's because it's also a wind instrument. I've been getting books from Music Minus One, which is a fantastic resource for anyone in this thread. They're like $15 or so and they include a CD with the piano or orchestra backing to very common contest solo pieces. Here's an embarrassing video of me playing along with the Hindemith track. Sorry about the terrible angle but I filmed the video from my MBP which was chillin on my bed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R89cRFWdtAw

I've been taking violin lessons every week, too. I tried to learn it myself but I became a little scared of developing terrible habits. I've been really enjoying my lessons though. I have to say, violin is probably the hardest instrument I've ever attempted to learn, and I have attempted to learn a lot of instruments. I guess since I'm sharing all this stuff with you guys I might as well post the other video I took. Excuse the lack of vibrato--I haven't gotten to that yet in my lessons. But this song has SHIFTING in it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0l2nV7mBBQ

oh god that's horrible

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