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Postby Aqua Dementia on Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:30 am

I don't bash the fans either, just the band. Though there are some rather non intelligent fans of there's who believe they are gods and shenanigans like that.
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Postby PanteraRocker on Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:53 pm

I play guitar right now I have a dean vendetta. Im looking to get a decent acoustic and some sort of synthesizer.
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Postby scarr3d on Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:21 pm

Well, I've played Guitar for 2 years, Drums for 5.

My Guitar's a Fender Bullet Strat, but I've never really played any other brands before so i don't know how it stacks up against them. I personally think it's a great guitar, lol. I play it alot more than my drums at the moment cause I'm still learning.

My Drum Kit's a Pearl standard kit, 1 kick, snare and 3 toms, and I did have a ride and crash cymbal but I destroyed my ride... By accidentally throwing it across my room... I'm going to get a double bass pedal when I can afford it (Probably never, they're ~$400 Aus for a half-decent one) they're lots of fun.

That's about it from me, lol.
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Postby Aqua Dementia on Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:41 pm

So your a drummer eh? I started messing around on my brothers kit this week. It's good fun, difficult but fun. I'm having difficulty with the kick drum, mainly because I think I'm hitting it when I'm not lol.
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Postby scarr3d on Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:56 pm

Lol, it is a bit tricky at first, you just have to laern to move each of your arms and legs independantly. Once you've got that worked out it gets alot easier.
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Postby Aqua Dementia on Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:02 pm

Thats what my brother says. I'm picking up on it fairly quick. I'm good at blast beats so far.
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Postby scarr3d on Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:30 pm

Cool. When i started off I couldn't even get a standard kick, snare, kick, snare beat, now I can do just about any beat.
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Postby Aqua Dementia on Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:40 pm

I can do said beat until I think about it lol.
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Postby kidsthesedays on Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:43 pm

lol i need to start learning drums...the music scene in athens is crazy...i know so many guitarists and bass players and not a single drummer. there are probably 25+ bass guitar duos or bass guitar guitar trios here. i've tried just drumming along to songs in my room on like my desk and stuff, it's so hard. maybe if i actually practice though i could start to get the "move arms and legs independently" thing.
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Postby Tushmeister on Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:41 pm

i play guitar, namely my beloved Epiphone Korina Explorer, but I also have a beginners Ibanez GRX70, not bad for what it cost, I use it as a drop A guitar with .13 strings on it, the neck can't stand the strain in anything above standard C so it's quite the beast to play ;)
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Postby ndhdl on Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:22 am

i play the bass, it is a cruiser cx100.. i think i have an ashton ba150 amp, good for annoying neighbours and parents!!

and i usually use my toneport for effects :)
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Postby metacarpi on Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:02 am

I play the geetar and the bass.

My gear:

Epiphone SG400
Ibanez BTB405QM
Yamaha RBX270
Hohner P bass (fretless)
Ashdown Electric Blue 180 Combo
Roland cube 60/30 (guitar/bass)
Korg AX10B FX Pedal

I always have a mess about on drums at band practices, and can't quite get the swing of controlling my limbs independantly yet!
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Postby Aqua Dementia on Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:50 am

Hey how is the fretless bass Pete? I haven't had the pleasure of playing one before.
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Postby Crucify.Kill.Rot. on Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:51 am

Ive been playing guitar for almost 4 years now. Learned some piano in school, diddle around on the bass. Id like to learn the drums next. But here is my guitar gear

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Squier Showmaster (HH with LFR trem)
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Older Peavey Bandit 112
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Postby metacarpi on Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:32 am

Aqua Dementia wrote:Hey how is the fretless bass Pete? I haven't had the pleasure of playing one before.


I'm not overly keen to be honest.

It's damn good if you want to get some smooth sounds, as when you slide a note, it's sounds absolutely perfect.

However, due to the lack of frets it does encourage sloppy playing, and I don't know if it's just my bass not set up 100%, but it doesn't really produce clean notes when fretting in a single place. I get something similar to fret-buzz, but minus the frets!

Although to be fair, I only really bought it for novelty purpose, I never play it all that much, my 5 string has my devotion!
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Postby JilaX^ on Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:31 pm

I've played guitar for almost a year now and I own a Morgan stratocaster. It's tbh a piece of crap, but I got this local luthier to set it up and intonate it correctly, so now it works for all I want to do with it. I also have an acoustic that I borrowed from a cousin of mine that is a bassist. It's a Vantage. Which I have never heard of before. It plays wonderfully tho, even tho the steel strings are a little hard to press down if I'm doing classical stuff...
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Postby Jack Off Jill on Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:17 pm

Eh, I play all kinds of instruments.

I started Piano since I was five, and I currently have some weird organ thing, that I'm too lazy to get up and actually look at for the brand and model.

I began guitar when I started highschool.. I started on an Ibanez acoustic that my dad has had since the sixties. It's from before the Japanese owned the company.d t

I then bought an Ovation Balladeer.

And for electrics, I play a Gibson SG Standard in ebony finish. I painted the pick guard at some point when I was bored.
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Postby rabidguitarist on Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:03 am

I play piano (13 years), violin (10 years), guitar (9 years). I can play bass and drums, but I've not had lessons.

I also have perfect pitch, and I can play by ear. so I can usually pick up other instruments. but I don't pretend to be good...
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Postby Aqua Dementia on Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:38 am

^Playing by ear eh? Lucky, I've been working on that since I started playing. Getting better :)
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Postby kidsthesedays on Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:54 am

gah i wish i had perfect pitch...that would make things so much easier...

but yea i'm def getting better...i hope...i can figure out a few different songs by ear
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