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How many Instruments Do You Play And How Well?

#41
Steel-string acoustic guitar: very comfortably; well enough to teach, gig, perform, etc.

Electric guitar: peh, not terribly well.

Bass guitar: very comfortably as well.

Synths/keys: I am very skilled at using filter knobs! ...sorry, melodies and chords? What are you getting at? ;)

Baritone ukulele: it's tuned exactly like a guitar with two less strings; no worries there.

Congas: decent enough for a white Canadian, but I am nowhere near as skilled as many actual Afro-Cuban musicians. :)

Udu: from what I can tell, the best udu player that I've met...out of all three that I have met, myself included. :D

Djembe: Sold my djembe recently, I never learned any traditional African patterns. Competently could use it in a drumming session, applying drum kit/conga rhythms to it. I have all the hand techniques down, which is a plus.

Cajon: also sold my cajon a little while back, but miss it. Decent enough at this instrument--though I wouldn't call it the most challenging to master. Lots of fun however.

Darbuka: terrible.

Tar: not bad.

Roland Handsonic (electronic hand percussion instrument): I am a master of this device!



That about does them. I want to get an octave mandolin at some point in the nearby future.
 
#47
Well obviously I'm mostly a bass player. I've been technically a pro at that since 1982. Some years I'm better. Some worse. But I don't suck.

Guitar: I play a lot of guitar, mostly 12-string acoustic. I could maybe get hired as a rhythm player, but not lead.

Keys: I wouldn't hire me. I play well enough to write and that's really about it.

Drums: I suck.

Brass: I'm not as good as when I graduated high school. But I just recently started playing wind instruments again. I did all the low brass in high school. When I started back I included trumpet again. I'm mediocre.

Woodwinds: Makes my drumming look so much better. I always wanted to actually learn sax. But I didn't have one to learn on. Then I found a tenor sax for cheap on Craigslist. It's getting a minor overhaul at the shop right now. Maybe I'll eventually get competent.

Didjeridu: I'm good enough to have fun with it in public.

Hand Percussion (Congas, Bongos, What-have-you): I'm good enough to have fun with it in public.

Chapman Stick: I'm not.
 
#48
Bass-Favorite and Best
Cello-Good
Piano-Good
Guitar- Good
Mandolin- I just mess around
Banjo- same, just mess around
Organ- well, there's one in my house and I can play it like the piano, surprise surprise
Accordion- Two whole songs!

Those are the ones I dared mention, but a few hardly count since I can't play them fluently. I have a few other things I mess around with, but I don't feel like adding harmonic, recorder, bongos, drums (kit), and lap harp to the above list.
 
#51
Bass - my most comfortable instrument. I am always trying to improve but I'm pretty satisfied with a lot of my playing.

Guitar - Second most comfortable instrument. I've been a more capable guitarist than a number of the guys I was playing bass for. Can easily translate the ideas in my head to the fretboard even if not at "virtuoso" level.

Keys/Piano - wish I were better. Not too strong with coordinating two hands to do two different rhythms. Definitely the instrument I'd like to work on next.
 
#54
Bass- Pretty dang good (if I do say so myself :D)
Guitar- Good enough to play at a few gigs
Piano- If I only have to use my right hand, pretty good. Left hand, nada.
Drums- I can hold a beat. That's about it.
Saxophone- About one note, and it sounds horrible
Harmonica- Good enough that I'm not humiliated to play it in public.
 

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