Aspies For Freedom

I have an oud, but I don't know how to play it yet.

Mostly, I play keyboards, synthesizers and anything thats pro-audio software (e.g. software synths, samplers, drum machines etc.). I have also bought some instruments from abroad, such as a small djembre (african hand drum), maracas, guiro (shaped like a frog) a wooden flute and a tambourine.

In the past I have played pianos, keyboards, electric organs, drum sets, guitars (acoustic, electric and bass), the violin, glockenspiels, xylophones, tambourines, cowbells, agogos, triangles and many more hand percussion instruments.

Recorder. Descant, treble, tenor and sopranino. A440.

Guitar, Bass, Drums and some piano/keyboards. My guitar amps are currently not functioning at the moment.

flute, piccolo.

I used to play piano and guitar but no so much anymore.  I think learning the celtic harp would be awesome but I don't have one.

I play bass guitar (my only instrument I really love to play now).

My main bass playing styles and influences are 70s disco, retro 70s to 2000s funk, jazz, and groovy Carol Kaye-type/melodic-bass rock/pop and psych etc from around the early 70s period; plus funky hard rock artists like Chilli Peppers, Lenny Kravitz, Hendrix etc. But mainly, I love playing a lot of groovy funk bass guitar.

I have just recently bought my very own 5-string Squier Precision (rosewood fretboard and glossy purple body finish). It produces a very funky sound every time; I found I can play slap-bass even better on it (this is now my main slap-bass guitar) and it matches well with my purple strap.

My 4-string electric bass guitar collection also includes an early 70s Topaz "Fender Jazz Bass" (maple fretboard with black block inlays and varnished natural body finish) which I still also use for slap-bass; an early 70s Canora "Fender Jazz Bass" (a slightly smaller-sized beginner Jazz Bass suitable for kids 8 up/younger teens starting out young etc, with sunburst body finish and black block inlays on a maple fretboard); an early 70s DIA "Fender Jazz Bass" (almost like the original "grungy" Jaco Pastorius style, only fretted and with pearl block inlays); a late 80s? Torch "Fender Precision" (sunburst body finish, maple fretboard; use this one for country music-type tunes); and I recently added a Monterey "Fender Precision" (rosewood fretboard, sunburst body finish and smooth flatwound strings) which is now my main 4-string melodic bass.

The rest of my bass gear includes a Samick MB-15 Microbass (15W) bass amp, a small portable Squier 10W bass amp, and a genuine Jim Dunlop Cry-Baby Bass-Wah effects pedal (which I use for most funk tunes).

I'm currently just a home "tinkerer" on the bass guitar, but have plans to go out there and busk as a funk bass guitar soloist and eventually want to start playing in a backing band situation for whatever local family shows/festival projects, talent quests or any interesting all-girl pop-vocal band projects could do with a very funky bass guitarist to liven up the atmosphere.

Cheers,
Steven.

I feel so inadequate compared to all you musical polymaths.

Have you had any more luck playing your recorder with other musicians than I have? (see my threads on "Finding other musicians to play with" and summer schools)

Two of my guitar amps are now functioning, the Diezel, and one of the Seymour Duncan Convertables. The other Seymour Duncan needs new power tubes and perhaps grid resistors. The Ampeg needs a few more preamp tubes, and most likely power tubes as well as electrolytic filter capacitor replacement. The Nolan needs tubes, rectification diodes, and most likely the choke hooked up correctly, as the power section was originally a chokeless design. --I bought it as a project amp anyways.

in no particular order...items in parenthasis are on the top of my wishlist, the rest i own and play regularly...

ludwig 14,15,18,20,26 and tama 12,13,16,20 w/zildjian and pastie 2002, 17"caribean style slatted djembe, 13" ashiko, 14" angled cajon, agogos, cowbell, more cowbell, (vibes, marimba, bells, glock, chimes, timpani, steel drums, v-drums), spd20, washer/drier, 10,000k gallon tank, pots, pans, and anything else you can beat with a stick.

ob12, v-synth, prophet vs, motif, dx200, nord lead 3, jx305, darkstar, sh1, jv2080, xv3080, sp303, warp factory, sk1 x3,  kc500, motion labs leslie top (fizmo, motif ex7, triton rack, fantom xr, hartman neuron)

remix 16, sp1200mk3x2, pmc06pro, pmc07pro, mo-fx x2, killerEQ x2, serato, 26+ linear feet of plates, 10k+ tracks on drive/cd (cdj800, pmc37pro, repeater)

dual g4 qs, g5 imac, emac g4, LOGIC pro 7 with various plugin instruments, amt8, unitor8, onyx 1620, filter factory, mfc42, ef1, effectronII, ep4+, c414b tlII, mc012 x2, om3, om7, beta58 (m2000, ksp8, h3000, komplete, waves mercury, guad g5, tannoy eclipse, apogee ad16x/da16x, drum mics)

american special MAHOGANY strat, steinberger synapse transcale baritone and 5-string bass, fender bullet w/ emg89 and gk3a/gi20 midi, alvarez yari acoustic, takamine acoustic bass, pos clasical, pocket pod, bass pod xt live, (pod x3 live, echoplex, vg strat, les paul baritone, klein-berger, road king, urei 811c x2, bagend subs)

120 base accordian, possesed theater organ w/ builtin leslie, trumpet, trombone, bugle

im also an avid beatboxer.

looking foreward to tring tabla, marimba lumina, malletkat, ztar, guitaron, theremin, v-acordian and yamaha gx1

thats off the top of my head, im sure i forgot something...

after reading what i just wrote, i realize three things...
a) the tama kick is 22 not 20 and
b) holy crap! i need to start a museum!
c) my aspie interest just might be music!

Am I the only monoskilled musician here?

Try "The Introduction Thread" in "Time out", which has recently reawakened from a six-month slumber.

Where do you go to practise?
I ask this because my university's music centre did not permit bagpipes to be played in the practice rooms. That was St Andrews. If you're not allowed to practise Scotland's national instrument at Scotland's first university, where can you? Maybe the University of the Highlands & Islands...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHI_Millennium_Institute

When I was in Northumberland last September (the occasion of the photos of me on page 65 of "Post your pic") I met a lad playing bagpipes on the border ridge. The interesting thing is that Northumberland has its own version of bagpipes - Northumbrian smallpipes - but this boy (who was from Morpeth) was playing Scottish bagpipes. So that made him a Northumbrian Scottish bagpipe player, as opposed to a Northumbrian Northumbrian piper (like Kathryn Tickell), a Scottish Northumbrian piper (are there any?), or a Scottish Scottish piper...