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A Telecaster plugged into an Xbox running Rocksmith finally got me through a complete song after xx tears.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I learned piano at an early age by listening to songs and just picking out the notes. I took lessons for a few years, but I found them boring...I just wanted to play what I heard, not what was written out on a piece of paper so I never really learned to read music properly...just enough to hear how it sounded, then I didn't need the paper anymore! 
I played trombone and baritone in elementary/jr. high band but found it boring as well...learn this sheet music and don't improvise. 
In high school, a group of friends started a band and needed a synth/keyboard for some songs. I somehow got credit and got a state of the art Korg DW 8000 and an amp and joined in the fun. That last for a few years until I went off to college where I played bass and keyboards in a few different cover bands that never achieved more than a local following.
As far back as I can remember my brain has always focused on bass lines. If I hummed a song, it was usually the bass line, maybe because as a kid, my grandmother taught me to sing the bass lines from the hymnals. As I got older, I started hearing more intesting music and gravitated toward bands/music where the bass is more than just a background instrument...Rush, Iron Maiden, and Yes are probably the most influential for me (in the late 70s, early 80s) though many other classics such as Zepellin, The Who, and the Beatles deserve mention. The first two things I learned on bass were Tom Sawyer and Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. 
I've got a 4 string Fender and a 5 string Gibson, both collecting dust, sitting behind me in my home/office. There is also a 300W amp on top of a 4x10 speaker cabinet to my left, also collecting dust. In the old days, one of the guitarists I played with in college would stop in and jam for hours, but really there's only so much you can do without drums. He went off the grid about 8 years ago and I'm actually not that interested in hauling stuff around or playing in a group anymore. I've also got a fantastic digital piano that my grandmother left me. Unfortunately, it's located in the living room (like a piece of furniture!) which is in the same room as the TV, so there's no competing with that. I'll play it when company insists or rarely when the wife is absent.
Nowadays, my current morning ritual consists of coffee, worldle, news, and playing bass on an old Ibanez acoustic guitar to whatever is playing through the little Bose radio in the kitchen...this morning it was Beatles, yesterday is was Neal Morse, most of the time (if she gets there first) it's a crappy top 40 station the wife likes.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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kmoorevs wrote: he first two things I learned on bass were Tom Sawyer and Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.
Starting with the easy ones I see! 
Good for you, I wish I had started guitar at that time, my 'playing' would probably suck a lot less.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Oh, I have been known to play a tune or two, especially on guitar.
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Slow Eddie wrote: If musicians ruled the world it would a much more harmonious place
This from the guy who left the group because of the disharmony 
I admire people who can make music, and also speak multiple languages. From a tone deaf, mono language person.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: From a tone deaf, mono language person
I hear you brother!
The steering wheel in my car convinced the engine to blow a head gasket just so that I would stop driving it, singing at the top of my lungs (actually the bottom, good diaphragmatic breathing here) to whatever was on the sound system.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have 6 of em. 
Since '70 up until 3 years ago that's what I did. In 93 at 30 I quit the metal band scene in So. Cal because I was old and bugged out to the high rockies to just record my songs myself in the basement rumpus room go skiing and go country. In order to finance my GAS I opened the rumpus room to the public and did multitrack recording of the jam bands around town until after 10 years I burned out and kept the good gear, sold the rest and went back to songwriting by myself again - just for fun.
All this time i ran Up and Running Computer Services by day and I had a chance to acquire a retail CBD shop and with no POS I set about to write my own, which I did and still do. That's now my obsession and the control room sits quiet..........
https://reverbnation.com/ronnierocks
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I don't I actually have a talent for producing a decent noise out of instruments but I just don't care enough to persue it. My middle daughter however is most excellent at any instrument she chooses to play. Watched her pick up a clarinet one night and by the next night be ready to join a band with it. She plays very well at last count Flute(primary and first love), piano, guitar, bass guitar, trumpet, tuba(yes seriously lettered in high school with both tuba and flute), clarinet etc....
She is a joy to have in the house because there is always decent music coming from somewhere.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Slow Eddie wrote: If musicians ruled the world it would a much more harmonious place!
I just listened through a couple of the YouTube concerts at 'AC Recoletos', which appears to be a Madrid hotel providing a scene for regular concerts in the Spanish jazz/flamenco style (with a significant slant towards flamenco).
Highly recommended - but any non-touristified flamenco will change your ideas of what is 'harmonious'.
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I'm a bit weird. I have a pretty good ear. I can play drum machines, and some basic keyboard, but being left handed a lot of instruments eluded me, and I never seriously picked up playing anything.
I got into hand sequencing though, and can come up with some nice hooks and melodies that way, so I've acted as something of a muse from time to time for my musical artist friends.
I can make electronica tracks pretty easily, but that bores me.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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A lot of musicians think being left-handed conveys advantages for some instruments. On guitar and other strings, doing chords and scales often takes more strength and agility than picking. On keyboards a solid bass and chords help too.
Maybe it doesn't help much with brass instruments?
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yowza, i plays classical guitars: a beat to hell yamaha c40, and a high-end LAG Occitania (designed in France). Back in the US, I have an Asturias high-end classical cut-away with a custom guitar to midi electronic system from RMC. Haven't seen my Asturias in 12 years 
i often play in altered tunings like E A D A D E.
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I am both amazed and pleased to see all of the responses and musical talent out there.
I always wanted to learn to play "Lounge Lizard piano" but never could find the time to take lessons.
I really believe there is an incredible similarity between writing programs. In both, you must be creative in a structured format.
For those that pointed out the "Conflict" in my post:
1. It was 90% meant to be a pun and,
2. there is a difference between bickering and global conflict.
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I studied early music (Mediaeval, Renaissance, & Baroque) and some ethnomusicology in college. Most of my lesson hours were on harpsichord, but I usually performed on viola da gamba, Baroque flute, Renaissance lute & orpharion.
I don't have much playing time with my current commute, but I'm sometimes called for stand-in work on upright bass in oldtime/American roots music for contradances, etc, or play 1-key flute in Irish jams.
On the ethno side, I can play Egyptian ney flute (but zillions of scales!), and Chinese dizi and xiao flutes.
I could probably open a weird instruments zoo.
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Gag her grandmother with Berger's disease. (10)
Solution:
Gag definition
her She
grandmother nan
with Berger's disease igan Gag[^]
Shenanigan[^]
Nan[^]
Berger's disease[^]
modified 17-Jun-22 9:39am.
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@Randor or possibly @petepjksolutionscom - it's difficult to tell ...
Where's the CCC?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I gave it to Randor
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I can see why, but technically he didn't give the answer, just an almighty clue!
So ... I confusselated, me.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I have a few prepared just in case I was called out. I am beginning to think Pete likes my puzzles. 
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I do - the assembler code was the best one
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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noooooooo! Don't encourage him!
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Sencit & Fjøra – Déjà Vu[^]
A soundtrack today, from the game Deathloop.
In Deathloop you're stuck in a time loop, making you relive the same day over and over.
However, you're on a strange island and someone who knows more, and is not a friend, is talking to you over the radio.
And now you have to escape, accompanied by some great tracks that are somewhere between rock and jazz.
I looked up the soundtrack on Spotify and this track stood out.
It's the first one with vocals and it sounds like a James Bond soundtrack.
Sencit is not a musician or a band, but a sound design studio.
Fjøra works mainly in the movie soundtrack industry and is credited for coining the term "cinematronic".
The track was used in gameplay trailer #3, so I don't think it's in the actual game.
Awesome game, awesome soundtrack, awesome song, SOTW
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Easily one of my favourite games from last year. I really hope we get a second one, but I am worried that it wasn't as successful as they had expected. Hopefully I am wrong.
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Wow, you react to my SOTW (almost) every week, but I think this is the first time you actually leave a reply 
I like the game and the story/gameplay is pretty brilliant, but unfortunately it gets boring quickly.
Playing the same maps, shooting the same enemies using the same weapons...
I play one or two maps in a sitting (about one to two hours) and then I get bored.
Compare that to a game like Hades, another roguelike.
I was able to play that one for hours each day, weeks on end...
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Sander Rossel wrote: Wow, you react to my SOTW (almost) every week
Gotta show my appreciation so you keep them going. It makes Fridays even more Friday-ey 
If I don't react, it means I'm off work that day/week
Sander Rossel wrote: I play one or two maps in a sitting (about one to two hours) and then I get bored.
I guess that is where my trophy obsession saves the day. I was loving it for hours on end, but yeah I can see what you are saying.
Sander Rossel wrote: Compare that to a game like Hades, another roguelike.
I still need to get around to this. For some reason, every time I look at it, I end up talking myself out of it thinking it will be a chore to play.
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