I play drums, piano, i sing and i produce a bit of prog and hard trance. I also play in a low-fi/Surf rock/garage rock duo. Done a spot of Djing but haven’t invested in any decks as of yet. My goal is to take my grade 8 drums and singing for Uni.

The instrument i love the most is drums of course, but i don’t think it really fits your criteria. Great instrument. I think learning guitar would be a great choice, it’s an amazing instrument. I never picked it up though… regret it now

i play (at different levels) guitar (classical/electric/bass), piano, sarod, drum kit, saz

@Chrispydelic 540076 wrote:

Can’t help but think about this fella when ever I hear or see a ukulele.

[video=youtube_share;sfmAeijj5cM]http://youtu.be/sfmAeijj5cM[/video]

true, but he was very good at it.

Formby’s trademark was playing the ukulele-banjo in a highly syncopated style, referred to as the ‘Formby style’.

Among the several syncopation techniques that he used, the most commonly emulated stroke of Formby’s is a rhythmic technique called the “Split stroke”, which produces a musical rhythm easily recognised as Formby’s. He sang in his own Lancashire accent. Other strokes in Formby’s repertoire include the triple, the circle, the fan and the shake. In his act, Formby often had several ukuleles on stage tuned in different keys, as in some solos it required an open string to be sounded, not possible when using Barre chords.

On Formby’s last television appearance, in The Friday Show, he modestly told the audience that he could play in only one key. Research has shown that this statement is false, as Formby played transposed solos on songs such as “On the HMS Cowheel”, a melodic solo on “I Told my Baby with the Ukulele”, and many more.

Actually a British Asian lad who might be from the same part of the world as George Formby (Lshak does say he lives up North) playing ukelele could probably do well (would be more interesting than the One Direction lad and he is always being bigged up in Asian Image)

@Acidfairy 540267 wrote:

Thanks.. no i don’t have a sound cloud…. i went to a very musical school so had a great opportunity to learn lots of instruments.. i wanted to go to the royal scottish academy of music and drama i had a place but my parents wouldn’t let me…. 🙁

Sucks dude! 🙁

@Acidfairy 540267 wrote:

Thanks.. no i don’t have a sound cloud…. i went to a very musical school so had a great opportunity to learn lots of instruments.. i wanted to go to the royal scottish academy of music and drama i had a place but my parents wouldn’t let me…. 🙁

@Chrispydelic 540269 wrote:

Sucks dude! 🙁

@Acidfairy 540297 wrote:

Big time…. but with them you had to be exceptional to make money…. ermmm i got a place so i had to be pretty damn good??? music has always been my passion… hence why i still play all those instruments… and I Dj and produce too…
I could teach the instruments if I wanted but have never got round to seeing what all i need to do to become a teacher from home etc…

although you’re a few years younger than me we were still in the generation where music and arts was not really seen as a proper job – although I have limited skills with conventional instruments I used to do all the recordings of concerts etc for my high school and my music teacher in the 80s said to my parents that they should look for a vocational course for me as sound engineer rather than put me through academic University.

However both my mum and dad saw that as a “soft option” which would not lead to a long term career and such courses did not attract grants even then so they could not afford it, understandable as my sister was approaching her high school years as well and they needed to support her. The saddest part of it is Mum and my aunts were talented singers and musicians, my Dad inspired my interest in sound engineering and electronics but unlike richer parents they couldn’t take the gamble and in hindsight they were right, even if I’d landed a dream job in the 90s (there was a very brief boom in arts from the late 80s to late 90s) I’d have been made redundant anyway when the net removed so many revenue streams and probably suffered more from that than having to work in conventional employment and have music as a hobby / sideline.

I play the vertical hermonica 🙂