[Dark Hunter]

I'd say composers count as musical talent.

[Darklord42]

I should hope so 

[phreak]

Guitar.  Six and Seven strings.  Self-taught.

[ToecrusherHammerjaw]

I played the viola for five years, and sang in choirs since sixth grade.  Man, this is making me want to belt out Staind's "So Far Away" right here and now.

[Stealth]

So you're saying you don't play anything?

piano = 7 years
guitar = 3 years

[Mefustae]

Oboe.

Beat that ****.

[perihelion]

[grimaces]
Thanks.  Now I'm going to spend the rest of the day trying to get the mental image of some freak pummeling a pile of manure out of my head.

[Sasquatch]

Not a drummer in the bunch, eh?  Well, I'm about to raise the cool points of HLP exponentially.  I have been playing percussion for 9 years with a speciality in marching snare and drumset.  I have been on the snare line every year in high school (same school as redsniper) and have been center snare drum captain for three of those years.  My Junior year I made ninth chair in the state band (Texas) for a snare solo and my senior year I made second chair in the state band for another snare solo.  I was then on the drumline my first year of college and we were given the honor of the nation's best drumline for junior colleges.  Now I quit the marching scene and I am in a metal band and I play around with a couple of other bands playing drumset and hand percussion.  Oh, and the best part, I don't want to do anything with music in my career.  Seems like a waste of time, huh?
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[Jeff Vader]

Oh, and the best part, I don't want to do anything with music in my career.  Seems like a waste of time, huh?

I'd say that if you enjoy playing percussion, it's not a waste of time. Every one of us can be a musician but it isn't necessary to create a career out of it. Right?

[Darklord42]

Try spending 27k a year (minus scholarships and all that of course but the initial amount) to be a composition major but have little hope of actually making it be a high paying career.    Its not the money that counts, Its weather or not you enjoy doing it.

[Dark RevenantX]

Six years of piano.

Does seven years of "composing" modifications for various games count?

[Polpolion]

Not a drummer in the bunch, eh?  Well, I'm about to raise the cool points of HLP exponentially.  I have been playing percussion for 9 years with a speciality in marching snare and drumset.  I have been on the snare line every year in high school (same school as redsniper) and have been center snare drum captain for three of those years.  My Junior year I made ninth chair in the state band (Texas) for a snare solo and my senior year I made second chair in the state band for another snare solo.  I was then on the drumline my first year of college and we were given the honor of the nation's best drumline for junior colleges.  Now I quit the marching scene and I am in a metal band and I play around with a couple of other bands playing drumset and hand percussion.  Oh, and the best part, I don't want to do anything with music in my career.  Seems like a waste of time, huh?
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WTH?? What high school did you go to?

Anyway, I was thinking about at least looking at our Winter drumline audition music for snare, but I doubt I'm good enough to audition, much less be in it. You don't get into a "world class" drumline self-taught.

[redsniper]

Columbus High School
Go Cardinals! *waves hand noncommittally.*

[colecampbell666]

6 string Spanish guitar. 2 years. I have played the flute before, for about a year when I was eleven.

[Flipside]

Well, aside from the Ambient/Movie stuff I do, I recently bumped into an old friend I used to be in a band with when I was a teenager, and he suggested writing some more 'pop' type stuff, so I've started playing guitar and bass recently again, as well as the usual keyboards/tabla etc.

Here's a scary moment, I'm playing absolutely everything in this, including doing the vocals, purely because only I was available....phear...

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/IfIHadACutscene.zip

This is an ambient track I did at some point, can't remember what for atm.

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/Settle.zip

This is the Coda to a guitar-based tune thing I was working on, with the vocals of doom

I play everything in both tunes btw, keyboard, tabla, drums, bass and guitars

[Excalibur]

I can play every instrument type ever created as long as I have a sample...
I haven't really got into composing much, and as for "professionalism" does Modplug Tracker count as a "professional" program?

I can also play the larynx.

[Grizzly]

* -Joshua- is a drummer, and therefore, plays the musical instrument called the ... timpani?

Well, I drum too, but most of the times you can find me behind the timpani.

[KappaWing]

I play what I like to call the BC Ravana.



(bc rich warlock)

[TrashMan]

Musical talent?

Piano...self-tought.
I also sing in a choir (have a lot of solo bits..maby I should put it up on you tube) and a klapa (something like a barbershop quartet...but different. Native to my country)

[Mobius]

Piano for a while(but I remember nothing)

But...





I make good melodies with that instrument. I have talent.