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Stagnant_Pig  ·  3991 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What kind of instrument do you play, and why?

I play bass and guitar.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to play guitar. One of my earliest memories is listening to The Dark side of the Moon when I was ~5, and I wanted to be able to play everything. Around this time I got one of Walmart guitars for little kids. It was the most amazing gift I had ever gotten. I rocked around the house with that thing like it was my job. If things didn't sound right I would "tune" it like my music teacher did in class. When my little brother pissed me off I would play songs about how annoying he was, Dylan is a buttface, Dylan eats chalk. Fast forward 5-6 years and there was an opening to play electric bass in jazz band, close enough right? So I learned to play bass and continued with that for a year or so.

Somewhere along the way my music teacher found a guitar one of his students had left in a closet and offered it to me, as no one was going to claim it, and that was my first electric guitar. I've since purchased a Fender Stratocaster and am fairly good.

tldr;listened to Pink Floyd as a child and loved anything with six strings and distortion.