Just curious!

I've been playing the piano for seven months now! :heh:

EDIT: LoL. I just realized I've been playing piano for over a year. This post is OLD.

EDIT-2: I also play the guitar (for about 5 or 6 months already) and very little drums.

2 years and a half, soon three years...

Piano for 15 years, ahh!

playing for 11 years, clarinet for almost 8 years, bass clarinet for 4ish, tenor sax for 6 months, and acoustic guitar and electric guitar for about 2 weeks :D

I've been playing piano for 2 years (now advancing into level 6 ^_^ ), and flute for 5 years.

:gba: um piano... a month

Hmm... violin for... *counts on fingers* 4 and a half years... a little more maybe... I dunno. I played piano for almost five years before that, but I never got good at it, I'm afraid. :heh:

hmm...
Viola for 7 years
Oboe for......>.>....um...*counts*.....eleven months?
Violin for...*counts*6...7 months?
And piano keyboard for just a few weeks now.

Hmm i've been playing piano for half my lifetime =/

Im 14 and i've been playing piano for 7;1/2 years

I've been playing alto sax for 6 years and acoustic guitar for a year.

Piano for 6 years, stopped for 7 then recently picked it up again
Violin for 4
Flute for 5
Ukelele -on and off...it's a cute instrument to play
I would like to learn the harp and guitar once I have the time and the money ;)

14 years... I felt like 14 years of my life have been wasted...
And even at christmas vacations and summer break I was still obliged to take voilin lessons for the past 8 years...

:eek: Aw, that's not a waste! Imagine what you know that most other people don't about playing an instrument. And 8 years on the violin, that's amazing. I only did 4 years for shit and giggles but I still loved it and I would do more if I could. And for everyone who taught themselves how to play the piano, great job, that's really admirable :)

I've been playing piano for about 7 years or so.

Piano: 8 years....About level 6-7 (but moved veeeerrrrry slowly due to being forced to learn)
Violin: 4 years....Level 4....HA. (but all private lessons totalled to about 3 months in those 4 years...)
Guitar: 1 week.... No Level (not really serious learning...I just want to be able to play and sing..)

I'v been playing flute for...11 months.

Piano for 13 years
Bass Clairnet: 2 years
Flute: 1 year
Trumpet: 2 months

piano-2 years
violin-7 years
guitar-1 year (bass 1 month)
drums-6 months

so short i've been playing these instruments, so good i have gotten at playing em

saxophone - 11 years
guitar - 6 years
bass - 5 years

i have only been playing the violin for one year but next year a get to learn the guitar. ;)

I've been playing hte piano for about..um 5-6 months now. I just wish I could've started ALOT sooner.

i've been playing the violin for almost 5 years and i'm tring to learn how to play piano and some others.
by the way can anyone recomend a good song for the violin?

Dude um there's this one anime that about every song has violin in it and they all sound awesome.

I'll post back here when i figure out which anime it is.

uhm.. the only ones i can think of that have a violin is... piano? even though i never saw that.. i heard kanon has a lot of good music too.. no clue

Piano- 2 years
cello- 7 years.

Piano - since I was a little toddler.
Guitar - Almost 9 years now.
Drums - About 5 years.
Bass - Same as guitar.
Ocarina - About 3 years.
Ukulele - A week.

2 years and about 8 months only started to enjoy :) it because I stopped doing grades about 6months ago.

Violin 8 years. Piano 1 year. Flute ~3~4 years. Piccolo 3 years. Marimba/Xylo/glock 3mos. bodhran 5mos.

yes i am a band geek ^^

Erm.....10 months ago. Yeah 10 months ago =)) :shifty:

Guitar 19 years(Self taught), and keyboard/piano 5years (Also self taught)

flute: 9-10 years (not sure of exact date i started so cant be sure)
piano: 3-4 years (self taught for all but 6 months)

Piano- 6 years
Alto Sax- 5 years
(Had a year of Clarinet, too)

piano now umm... about 6 and half years, i think

I have been playing piano for 9 years, clarinet for 5 years, bass guitar for 1 year and 3 months, and drums for a year, and guitar for a few months. yay!

I knew some girl who played clarinet for 9 years...wowzers.

Piano for 4 or 5 years...wanted to quit but never can..^.^;
and volin for 1 year or so

Piano for a year and one month and flute for month.

hm... for me, i have been playing the violin since 1st grade (i am in 12th grade now). so i think about 10 years..... guitar was nearly two years, but not too professional (still learning) and piano was only one year xP

Piano for about 6-7 years. We don't got the "level-system", so I dunno what kinda level I am. Low one I suppose :heh:

Been going at Euphonium for about 3 years. ^-^

Wow.. Most of you guys have a many many years of experience of music.. Anyway.. I am a new user here! Hi all!

I played 7+ years of trombone and 1 year of oboe. The latter is a fantastic instrument to play on.

Piano for... like 13 years (don't worry; I only started liking playing the piano about 4 years ago; when I stopped taking lessons. As a result, I suck), Cello for about 1 year (though I just started lessons 2 months ago) and violin for 9 months (as a class in school).

This is my ninth year of playing the piano and my sixth year of playing the violin. I prefer piano. Violin is just a secondary instrument, because there are so many more things that you can do with it than piano. -.- Like, there's an orchestras you can audition for and more concerts and not to mention a school orchestra that you can attend to, but... piano, there are not that many choices, it's all outside-school stuff.

2 years on the Clarinet before quitting

6 years of lessons on the Piano and then add another 6 years to that.

3 years of Piano.
Not much, but Im still at it.

Hmm...I would say I started playing the recorder and piano in the 5th grade? I started playing the piano because I found out that I could play the same music that I did on the recorder, on the piano. And I played around with the sounds and notes. I'm in the 10th grade now. Anywho, I can't say I have been playing for 5 years because I'm not as dedicated as I should be. "Never give up on a talent." I'm trying not to, okay xD? I love my talent, but I wish I had all the time in the world for it.

All my talents are pretty useless. They don't really significanly help me in the future.

Piano for 48 years. Jk! lol, umm for a while lol

Piccolo Trumpet: 2 years 5 Months (current Primary, and loving it!)
Trumpet: 9 years (Current Secondary)
Baratone: 1 year
Trombone: 3 months
Tuba: Whenever I can get my hands on one!

Piano for 15 years, ahh!
Holy crap man...

Piano since April, 6 months!:sweat:

Piano-2 Yrs.
Double Bass-2 Yrs.
Elec. Bass-1 Year
Baritone-1 Year
Violin-1 Year

I guess I'll add the other instruments
Harp: 2 1/2 years (approx.)
Violin: like... forever lol
Ocarina: since 2000, but on and off as far as actually playing it

That's an interesting variety of instruments, Darksage.

:heh: thanks

Lucky bastrad! You play almost all my faovrite insturmenst.

Piano - 7 years
Harp - 2 years
Guitar (classical) - 1 year
Recorder - 5 years
Violin - a bit each year...

I really wish I could play the violin more, its my favorite instrument after the Piano. No orchistra is compleate with at least one...

About 2 months ago, I started guitar. :P

Piano: 5 years
Alto Sax: 3 years
Chinese Zither: 1 year
Oboe: 4 months
Tuba: 1 month

Piano: 6-7 years
Guitar: 2 years, I think
Recorder: 1 year (everybody play it, ain't it?)

piano for 6-7 years . . . sadly i think i don't play THAT wello compared to other poeple whom played this long >_<;;

8 years of piano, and...well I can't remember a time I didn't sing!

1. How are piano levels determined? I don't know what level I'm at, but my teacher is making me play a full version of a Beethoven Sonata, so I assume I'm relatively high.

2. I taught myself for about a year on piano, then took lessons about 2 years. When we moved, I lost that teacher, and just friday, I found a new teacher! :D

I been playing piano for 6 years now. I finished all the books on my 5th year and now i'm printing sheet music from here

sarting my 6th year for piano and starting my 4th year for tenor sax.

All percussion (mallet keyboard instruments, drums, set) for 6 years, piano for about 2.

piano for 7 years violin for 5 years claranet for 4 years (i stoppped the wood wind in 10 the grade). Erhu for about an yr now.

i've been playing the piano...for 9 years...lol
and uh...
flute for 3 years...=]

Hmm..

well, been PLAYING piano since like, June of 2004. but that really doesnt count up untill feburary of 2005. before it was just messing around and doing hriid improvations. not even musically.

and clarinet since Sept of 2004. good for arrangements for sharpening composing skills.

Below my Name which is 1.25 years

ister > me in exp on learning. lol but my teachre says im a very fast learner, and i can also remember a piece after 1 or 2 times playing it. like fur elise and the funeral march.

wow! you really have a good memory. right now, i just have moonlight, fur elise, and pathetique memorized.

edit: maybe, photographic memory? perfect pitch? just wondering :)

Well


Photographic memory

and

well

Musical memory? :lol:

Hmmmmmmmmmmm ive been playing violin for three years :)

Well


Photographic memory

and

well

Musical memory? :lol:


conceitedddddddd

Photographic memory? You know how many people would kill for that gift? :P

Piano 13 years

And for all you people who want to quit piano: People who play piano scored an average of 110 more points on the old SAT than people who didn't play. We can extrapolate that to an extra 160 points on the new SAT. Piano is worth it :P

conceitedddddddd


? huh ?

I think he meant bragging much that you have great types of memory. Not that I would know though. I have no idea what cookie monster's talking about.

i was just browsing around on the music forums, reading all sorts of stuff. frankly i don't like to go into detail but i'll just say the greats don't need to say that they're great, others tell them they are.

true.. but its different to me.. its hard to say thing. like if someone gives me a compliment, i always ask myself "Do i say something, or not?" because

if i do:

can be taken as a serious-thank you
can be taken as a snotty comment

if i dont:

snotty or ??

its hard..

I've been playing piano for exactly ten years since four years old and i love it very much!! I played the violin and guitar for only two years because i wasn't interested in it.. And the orchestra flute, i've been playing that for five years. Love that too!! I think right now, i had already forgotten how to play the violin and guitar... :shifty:

I've been player for eight years but really, it's only five considering I took a three year break way back when.

To bad it counts, weither the years show how good you are or not, lol. just kidding

Hmmm... Keyboard, 12 years? Although it doesn't show much XP lol. Played the Cello for a year or 2 against my will. I started to learn the guitar but sort of gave up... I'd love to learn the violin though, I plan on eventually taking it up ^_^

Yea, guitar is a total instrument that you have to like.. and i dont hear it a lot in classical music, which i dont listen to Vivaldi much. I know he has guitar concertos or something. But i'd try guitar, but no one really in my family will teach me notes-single only 1 note- that i can compose or play better music. i know chords are a must, but the the highest must =/

I've been playing Piano for... six years I think.
Plus, the Alto Sax for 3 years.
My sister wants to get me on the guitar, but I'm a bit busy with other things at the moment :heh:

I've been playing violin for only 5 years(wishing my parents would have started me sooner) and Bassoon for 3. I learned how to play the string bass from my friend good enough that I can play year 2 or 3 music well but never got into it. I think I will pick up a brass instrument soon (hopefully I won't have to spend so much money on reeds).

I've been playing violin for only 5 years(wishing my parents would have started me sooner)
Story of my life! :P

Yea, guitar is a total instrument that you have to like.. and i dont hear it a lot in classical music, which i dont listen to Vivaldi much. I know he has guitar concertos or something. But i'd try guitar, but no one really in my family will teach me notes-single only 1 note- that i can compose or play better music. i know chords are a must, but the the highest must =/

I love the guitar, it's a great all round instrument really, it's good with lots of different styles of music but chords killed me... I can't play chords on guitar AT ALL :cry:

Ummm i've been playing piano for 10 years but recently took a break, and now my piano is living at my oldest sister's house... hmmmm
But i still like to play final fantasy songs and that, also still love my Beethoven sonatas :D

2 and a half years on the double bass baby! I can also play some recorder and banjo but treble clef is so foreign to me now that I can barely read it. Oh yeah BlueEgo or whatever the freak your name is I just want to say you're an overacheiver and should be happy with all the instruments you can already play

here's the instruments I play
Flute - Three Years
Guitar - 4 months(although I'm already good at it...I can play songs like "Haruka Kanata" and "Tears In Heaven"
Piano - 1 month (self taught...I have to say that I'm not really that good)
Drums - same as above

I plan to expand my instrument playing to Clarinet too

Well, here's an update on mine:

Piano - 10 months (Lessons since Feburary) PS: I have adapted many, many skills, and people say that I'm playing more advance pieces.. and playing advanced in general. I love how I can almost play some of the piece that I hear in my head, now can come out on the piano !

Clarinet- 1 year, 3 Months (Started in Beginning band in 7th grade. In regular Band now!)

... too much advanced... You'd think that six hours of practice a day would make someone better faster than it does... Ahhh... can't complain, I'm getting to pieces I never thought I would...

Well...

Piano I've played for aproximatly 3 years straight and 5 years in total.

I've played around with the guitar too but, not even for a full year yet. >_<;

Let's see... I play several instruments, with clarinet and piano being my best ones. I've started the piano when I was four, so that makes eleven years. Too bad I didn't practice as much as I should have... (must...practice...discipline). As for the clarinet, I've played it since I was eleven, so that's four years.

I am playing piano for like 11 years??? started when i was 3... but quit after i was 8 years old... fingers not long enough to reach a chord... (damn those bastards who puts friggen octaves in their music...) started again... quit ... started quit.. started quit... u get the idea :D.. but from doing piano again?... iono almost an year?? i do piano now cause i realized i didnt want to quit it because it gives me a sense of peace and relaxation and itz also fun :D... been playing trombone for about 2-3 years... trumpet about 2 months, violin 1 year... but to tell u the truth trombone and piano are the most influential and most peaceful to me. Also cause i like jazz. :P

piano for 5 years and flute for 3 years

hmm i played flute for 5 years and um piano for 11 years ^.^ i enjoy playing all kinds of music really anything i can get my hands on and sounds decent ^.^

4 months piano! loving it! never found anything so satisfying :)

I've been playing the piano for 7 years and the clarinet for 6 years. I taught myself to play the piano, and I think I've made the most progress in the last few years compared to my earlier years. That might be partially due to the fact that I love the music that I'm playing as opposed to the boring songs that I started with. I learned how to play the clarinet through my school's band program. It's not much--just fingerings and the basics that are necessary for band. Yes, I'm lacking one-on-one instruction. :( I also played the recorder for a few years because my elementary school required that, and I played around with the violin for a few months.

So far, I find the piano the most satisfying, especially because of chords, even though I'm much better at the clarinet. The clarinet is a joy to play, but that's only while I'm in an ensemble of some sort. It's not that enjoyable when I'm playing on my own. :lol:

Near 13 years! Whee...

how come everyone has so much time to learn so much instruments?
also do u think learning violin is better than sax?

Piano - 2 yearz -.-
Clarinet - 1 and a half yearz =/
Flute - 8 monthz ><
Alto sax - 2 weeks xD

i started in August this year playing piano. well, i played a bit before that but stopped, i just learnt easy stuff like Fur Elise or one of Bachs Menuets (i think there's more than one) but then, in August i started playing more seriously and learnt music i really like. I'm just finishing off learning ff VII main theme, i love it!

Ive played the piano for about 5 years

I recently started playing bass. Considering I use tabs then I could also play a 6 string guitar....right?

I recently started playing bass. Considering I use tabs then I could also play a 6 string guitar....right?

Yep, except guitar has a lot more to it than bass. It takes a LOT longer to learn. I should know... x_x

Been playing clarinet for about 17 years but i'm stil not very good, but sax i've been playing for 15 and that's my main instrument.
Guitar for 3
Drums for 3

I've been playing piano for 10 years now... i've been singing for nine... wow.... lonnnnggg time

I've played the piano for 6 years, skipped alot of grades :shifty: and Flute for 3 years.
Piano is alot better though (in my opinion) because I'm better at it :P

Been on the piano for 2 years, but my piano teacher kept letting me go WAY past my level.

So, I'm like, intermediate-advanced level-ish. Sorta.

I've been playing piano for about four years and guitar for one or two. I forgoet. >.>

i had been playing the violin for 9 yrs, gotten by grade 8 cert, but ain't a virtuoso lol. Still had many difficulties in my techniques. Also had been playing the piano since young arnd age 6 to 7 but never been to exams.

Well, I've been playing my piano since I was 5 and I'm turning 16 now.....so yea, do the math. Parents hired a tutor and my dad taught me a lot too. I play the paino for personal enjoyment and I hate going to exams.

i had been playing the violin for 9 yrs, gotten by grade 8 cert, but ain't a virtuoso lol. Still had many difficulties in my techniques. Also had been playing the piano since young arnd age 6 to 7 but never been to exams.

Lucky. Been playing since I was about 6 (piano) and the exams come to me..

I've been playing the guitar for almost 2 years in a few months, and now recently I've gotten myself my very own digital-piano which I've been playing for no longer than maybe 6 months or so.

I feel like I'm developing less skills on the guitar now than I used to, and the piano is difficult but I can play a few final fantasy tunes, To Zanarkand, Silence before the Storm, a bit of Eternal Harvest, Underwater palace from FF I and stuff. It's way fun :) I feel I'm making progress though.

I play piano up to 8th grade doing amus soon. .. so since i was a little kid =] And I'm turning 16 this year so about 10 years? ><' dang thats ages and I'm still OK at it. .. I've played guitar for around 3 years and getting electri guitar soon =D

14 years... I felt like 14 years of my life have been wasted...
And even at christmas vacations and summer break I was still obliged to take voilin lessons for the past 8 years...
Dont say that:cry: .....

Like Mozart Father`s say -No le Prive de la vida, le di un talento-

Uf, i have 19 years old, My Father is a Music Theacher......

Soooo............. im not the best yet..... XD

Let's see...
Piano- around...uh..4 years I think? I don't know the exact date or anything, heh heh. It's quite relaxing to play, even though a lot of the time I'm too lazy to practice! But I can play Kingdom Heart's Hikari, For Fruits Basket, You are My Love, To Zanarkand (parts of it, at least), Dearly Beloved, and some of the original compositions of Alex Kim such as Shy Love and Seventh Sense.

Flute-a little less than flute, but I'd say around 4 years too. I think I'm lazier with this one XD. But somehow I made it to Advanced Band...barely..

i've been playing the piano for about 8 years, the flute for 4 years and drums for about a year.

Clarinet - 1 school year (egh..i hate reeds)
Flute - almost 1 school year
Piano - a couple hours...I gave up on it

Piano....for a lot and a lot of years....but I'm only Grade 5.....I think about 6 or 7 years ago I played my first song. It was a star song that went C-D-E -E-F-G -G-F-E -E-D-C.

flute: 7 years (i passed grade 8 in Jan.)
guitar: 5 years (dont do grades cos im self taught)
drums: 4 years
singing (with a tutor): 6 years

:heh:

@ Emerald - woww so you've been playing the flute since grade 1? oi you play awesome instruments :)

Played the piano for about 9 years. I'm not graded for piano.
Steel Pans for the school for about 8 years.
Trying to learn guitar, drums and the violin!

:)

@Asakura: sorry if it came across the wrong way.....i meant grade 8 exam for my flute :heh: (im not tht young @_@ )
oh and thanks about the awsome instruments thing btw ^_^

Where are all the trumpet player's?:(

I've been playing trumpet for about 7 years now.:)

been playin piano for bout 10 years now..violin since grade 5 n guitar 2 years XD i wannalearn cello XD

Clarinet for 4 years, just started oboe.

I can hit 40 notes on the clarinet:lol: .
Right now, I'm just trying to practice tonguing sixteenth notes at a Moderato (80-100 quarter notes per minute).
I can only get sixteenth notes at a 70-80 beats per minute tempo:heh: .

I been play the piano for about 18 yrs going on 19th this year.
I started on my birthday when I turned 7 yrs old.

:lol: I've tried my hand at transcribing and I suck at it. :lol:


Music's a wonderful background for our thoughts, isn't it?

Clarinet, flute, piano...

Piano for *counts* 6 years, and I'm THROUGH...PASSED GRADE 10 (rcm) (sick of classics)
FLute for *counts again* 5 years...

I think I must be a slow piano learner. I've been playing for coming up on 9 years and I just barely got to where I can play Claire de Lune mediocrily (haha, I'm pretty sure that's not a word, but I can't think of a better one!).

Whoa, ive only been playing piano for 6 years, and cello for 4 years. Everyone else has been playing so long!x_x

Flute for 5 years^_^

I've had a cello and been playing since I was 16, but I just started taking lessons last semester.

hmm i been playing piano for just over 2 years now and id say im pretty advanced considering I had to tech myself. I'm quite proud of what I can play but I have absolutely no clue as to what grade id be classed as

Piano for seven and a half years, flute for four and a half years, and piccolo for almost three years. And there's also the recorders I almost never touch: soprano recorder for near eight years, and alto for about six.

I've been playing piano for 3 years, and after reading some people's I'm starting to feel like a beginner again :\

Piano : Feburary 2005 , April 2006 - 1 Year, 2 Months
Clarinet : September 2004 , April 2006 - 1 Year, 7 Months

ive played piano for 8-9 years, but first 5 were slow because of bad teacher, but my new teacher is reeeeaaaaly good! that made up for the bad years
CLAIRE DE LUNE!

Piano 8 years now and clarinet for 5.

Darn I love to have Piano lesson ever since I was small but my family couldn't afford it. Then when I could have lesson I was too obsess with the outdated Super Nintendo :lol: ! I have a really cheap piano at home and been practicing for almost 4 years now. Getting little lessons and tips here and there in school from teachers and friends but not much. Too lazy to practice so I didn't really progress that much :);

I started guitar Friday.

Clarinet for like 3 years
Piano for 7 months. Though I never took lessons so I suck really badly.
I'm really impressed that ya'll stay with your instruments that long.

dpfsj

Man all these years and instruments are making my brain hurt. xD

Piano: 4 years, self taught, and I can barely play one song!
Violin: 5 and a half months, self taught, taking lessons for a month, and my teacher is already calling me "Brilliant."

I don't understand levels, so I'll just say I'm level infinity. =D

Alto Sax Two Years

I've been playing piano for 10 years, violin for 3 yrears, Chinese bamboo flute for 2, and I'm gonna learn the guitar soon. (Hopefully. My dad thinks I spend too much time on music. So maybe I'll have to teach myself. Hopefully it's not too hard... :(

i played piano until i passed Grade 1, then quit cuz it was boring. but i can still play stuff thats harder than grade 1.

Man all these years and instruments are making my brain hurt. xD

Piano: 4 years, self taught, and I can barely play one song!
Violin: 5 and a half months, self taught, taking lessons for a month, and my teacher is already calling me "Brilliant."

I don't understand levels, so I'll just say I'm level infinity. =D
Usually people refer to books or something for their level. Violinists usually judge themselves by Suzuki books... but I am unfamiliar with them. Played for five years, private lessons for two, and never dealt with Suzuki and all. :\

Piano for 12 years (5 years with professor)... I'm getting old :heh:
Guitar for 9 years (totally self taught), but I don't have a great level since I made progress very very slowly in guitar :lol:

Usually people refer to books or something for their level. Violinists usually judge themselves by Suzuki books... but I am unfamiliar with them. Played for five years, private lessons for two, and never dealt with Suzuki and all. :\
Oh. Ok. thanks for explaining.

I am level 1! :sweat:

Organ 16 years (My first instrument. I quit half way coz we cant get a music teacher when we moved, so my dad sold off my organ :P)

Piano 13 years (Should be counted as 10 years, coz the first 3 years was horrible. I changed like 10 teachers in those 3 years coz the music centre just cant seem to keep their music teachers happy)

Guitar classic 4 years (Self taught and totally suck at it. I just cant seem to get the F right coz I've got what they call 'basketball fingers' and F is like the basic of the basic)

Violin 3 years (Self taught also -suzuki books- I can play it ok but tuning the strings just pisses me off. I've chucked it somewhere and hope I'd be able to play it soon when I find myself a teacher - I'm too old to play violin T.T )

Flute 8 years (Due to my occational allergy attacks, I was forced to quit flute coz my lung evaluation was too low. The doctor said it was ok to continue playing, but my parents just did'nt like the idea, so I was banned from all woodwind instruments T.T I'd have tried to learn clarinet if they did'nt do that to me)

Drum less than a year (Totally suck at it too, just cant keep up - self taught)

Oh ya, btw, I'm 19 :P

Electone(also known as organ)-8 years
Piano(self taught)-1 year

Recorder(I had to learn it for music class grade's 3-6) Approximately four years.
Fife - 2 years, mending into flute now - 1 year
Keyboard/Piano Teaching self- 1-2 years
Guitar basics - approximately a year or two, on and off

:heh: I really haven't been playing too long compared to most people...

I've been at the violin for two years now, and going.

I used to play the piano. I was at that for... wow, since I was in first grade! I stopped when I was in eigth.

Wow, so many people seem to have played the violin before. (I wish I could learn it)

ive been playing the piano for almost 3 years now. doing good at it too ^_^

piano 4 years now, i think :huh:

Just going to get off topic. Kinda.

Clarinet - 2 years + 6ish months? (2 Shcool Years)

Just got some kick ass Etudes for Clarinet by Cyrill Rose. Now I will pwn at high school next year. Fun fun Etudes.

Any clarinet players who do NOT know about these, is really missin' out! Fun and good etudes:

C. Rose, 32 Etudes for Clarinet

(Piano - 1 Year + 4 Months)

i've been playing piano for 4 and 1/2 years now.

Violin for 7 years................omdays, that sounds so long........but i did have a two year break from it...........so probably about 5.......

Piano: 16 years and running
Percussion: 6 years
Bassoon: 5 years
Alto Sax: 5 years (Self-taught)
Violin: 1 year (Self-taught)


That just about covers it.

piano....i started at the age of 7....
i quit a year later after doing grade one, but i've carried on playing ever since... so what would that count as, 1 year or 6...??

All My Life......:heh:

Hmm... violin for... *counts on fingers* 4 and a half years... a little more maybe... I dunno. I played piano for almost five years before that, but I never got good at it, I'm afraid. :heh:



Haha I've been playing that long too!:P :lol:

Piano - 1 Year , 3 1/2 Months
Clarinet - 1 Year , 8 1/2 Months

I did play guitar for one month, I can play the flute but that's because I have played the Alto Sax for about 5 years now, and I've been teaching myself piano (badly) for a few months but practice only totals a few days.

I've been playing the Flute now for 2.5 years....I might start playing Piccolo, but for now I'm gonna stick to flute.

I've played piano on and off as long as I can remember, but I never took real lessons. My dad even teaches but he lives a couple states away. >.<

People say I'm fairly good but I don't have a whole lot of faith in my abilities. I've just about given up on playing and practicing as a whole becuase I only have a cheap $150 keyboard without a working petal and it was bought refurbished. Playing without a petal is DEPRESSING.:cry:

i started out playing violin around 2nd grade and quit around 3rd. so i've been playing piano since i am 9 or so, i think... so that's about 11 yrs! it's kind of depressing though, when people who just started out learning are so much better than me!! when i took piano lessons i always refused to conform to the rules, i never wanted to correct the tempo/time signatures/loudness because i felt learning the notes first was more important. i'd isolate those measures and work on them first. i think somewhat i'm right... what good is knowing how to play a piece if the notes aren't readable? i had a lot of trouble reading notes. i really wanted to play piano but it's been really hard up until recently.

i should go back into lessons to have the correct structure on everything. when i hear the kid next door playing piano, i'm so jealous of him! but i also think, people can play piano perfectly but not have any feeling in it. i think although i might play incorrectly, my heart is in it 100%...

i should really know musical terms and things though...

I am almost in the same situation as you, licorice. I have played the piano for about about 9+ years and I play terribly though I have no problem with theory.

i've been playing the piano since i was 7 years old.

Um... well... I don't remember a time when I wasn't able to play the piano... I've been playing it for a loooooong time... :P

Flute: 6years (stopped after highschool)
Piano: uhh...since three but never started lessons until somewhere around 10, give or take 2 years.

Currently 18.

I've played the piano for about 10 years, I think. But I stopped taking lessons. So now it's just something I...know how to play...

I've played violin for 7 years. I've been taking lessons for all of those years. Never self-taught myself, but sometimes I like to sight read some of the later songs in my books. I have no idea how the "level" system works, but I'll tell you that I'm about halfway through Suzuki book 5, can play most 3-octave scales, and can shift up to 8th position. I think I might get a major in music and play as a profession...

I can also kind of play the harmonica, sort of play the guitar, and I can play those plastic recorders that you play in 3rd grade music class.

Played Clarinet since Summer 2001... even though I don't have much experience, I always get ahead of what my instructor is teaching the school band... I can play most 3-octave scales...

I also play Oboe (abt 1/2 year now)... I don't play it much though.

Theory isn't a struggle for me.... My Instructor doesn't really like me getting ahead of everyone in that part... :heh:...

I've played the guitar for a total of three and a half years, and I've taken from the same teacher ever since I started playing. ^^; His name is Dave, and I know that he used to be in an extremely popular local band when he was younger. He has his own book (similar to the mel bay series, but yet completely different. o.o) coming out soon, and has been the best teacher ever. ^^ And I don't say that as just a guitar teacher, but he's a great friend too. I've gotten the opportunity to record things at his little recording studio in the back of his music store, as well as be encouraged to write my own music and further my own goals in music. I haven't taken lessons this summer, but I plan on going back once school starts.

I've also played the trumpet in our school band, until I was switched over in sixth grade to the French Horn, which I have to say, even though I like playing it, is one of the suckiest instruments ever invented. XD Although it's only my first year in a new band with veteran horn players (unlike myself), I'm second chair. >> Same for marching band, even though it's my first year in that as well.

Piano... XD oh boy. I was fascinated by the instrument when I was younger, and at the age of 6, I wanted to take lessons. By age four, I had already known all the keys on the piano, and had watched another girl play all the time when I was younger. So yeah. Age of 6, I was started out in the second book of some series... similar to mel bay, but I know that wasn't it. O.o At age ten, I came across the sheet music sites online, and started printed out sheet music, and fell in love with songs I wanted to play badly, even though they were WAY too tough for me. XD So I pushed myself. Age 11, I started writing my own songs, and entitled the first, Wind Sonata, which I still remember how to play to this day. >> I'm currently a freshmen in high school, and the most prominent teacher throughout my piano lessons has taught me about all she can, so I'm now moving on to learn for a teacher from a local College, Mt. Union. I've never really learned any scales, and I think the only reason I've gotten this far in piano was from the talent of extremely fast sight reading. >>; Most of the things on Ichigos here, I've learned and mastered in one day. With the exception of FF's Eternal Harvest, which has remained sitting in my piano bench, collecting dust for that past 2 years. XD I procrastinate. A lot.

This is my third year playing tuba

I've been playing guitar for about 1 1/2 years (or year im not so sure...) now. :lol:

Been playing piano for 5 years now, flute for 3, guitar for 1 month :sweat:

Keyboard: 4 years...>< but I stopped playing it because it doesn't like me.
Flute: 8 years, and still going on with playing it.
Piano: 1.5 years, kinda stopped because I got lazy to get it tuned.
Guitar: 1 year, too lazy to get new strings...><

I played the piano for about 10 years , I think . My sister's friend (who's my sister age .. 8 years older) first introduced me to the piano . He was pretty good , and I was soon fascinated by the instrument . So eventually my mum let me learn how to play . :D At first it was really fun , and I absolutely loved it . Then after I just got sick of practicing XD . But eventually I got used to it , & it's my favourite instrument . :) I'm still continuing for 1 more year , & then I'll be done all the grades , and I'll finally be able to play only songs I enjoy .

Somewhere back in elementary school , when I first got band class , I learned how to play the trumpet . I was like .. 9 ? But after a year , I still wasn't very accomplished at it . So I just left the instrument .

When I was about 10 , I learned how to play trombone , french horn , & baritone , because I had to play SOMETHING in class . None worked out for me . I wasn't very good at brass instruments :heh:

Eventually I moved to flute , which turned out to be the true calling for me . Other than piano . :P I've been playing that for 5 .. 1/2 ? years . This instrument is more for a fun thing , whereas piano is more serious . I'm probably going to leave the flute after high school . :heh:

I've been playing the piano since I was seven, so ten years now, and the guitar for about three years. But the piano is my no.1 Lover. =P

piano...1-2 years
guitar...maybe 2 years
subdivision bass guitar-1 month
violin...not anymore but before i quit i was going on 7 years
drums-uh...1 day XD

Piano, 1 1/2 Years

i have been playing piano for 1 year and like 3 months :)
and i played clarinet for 1 year

Clarinet- 4.5 yrs...
Oboe- 3 months

Piano: 5 years 0_0
Cello: 1 year
:D

Flute: 5.1 years ^.^ I started in fourth grade
Recorder: started in 3rd grade but I stop playing it for years at a time and have to review everthing to be able to play it
Clarinet: 1 year
Pianno: same as the recorder ^.^;
Violin: 5 minutes without a book self teaching before I quit(it was a 50 year old thing my uncle used when he was in kindergarden, he thought the bow was one that uses arrows 0.o and the sides are splitting from sitting behind a pianno for so long)

Piano, I played for two years and then stopped. I started again and I've been playing for 3 years sense then. 5 years in total.

Guitar, only for a few weeks now.

I play piano for about 9 years now (No. 1 instrument:lol: )
Guitar for 4 years
Violin for 6 months (very horrible!)

Piano for 9 (though stopped twice for brief periods), flute for 8 and french horn for about 4. I suck at all of them anyways...

Piano for 9 years.... I have no idea what level I am because I kinda taught myself and well, I'm scared to take the test for knowledge of my lacking skills, a.k.a level 0.....AFTER 9 YEARS *weeps uncontrollably**stops*

I also TRY to play guitar, and I sing, that's kinda like an instrument, and I tap beats out on my desk at college with my pencil, yeh, so a bit of drums too *innocent smile*

Hmm.

Piano, I've been tinkering around with since I was six, but just about 7 months ago, I stopped memorizing songs and got serious. I'm almost done with Grade 2, but I stilllll don't have a teacher.

Guitar, haha, I suck at it. I started lessons about two years ago, and stopped after a month because my teacher just stopped showing up. I taught myself a little bit, and I play what I know.

I played recorder for about six months and knew quite a lot, but forgot most of it.

I attempted saxophone for two weeks and gave up, since the general message from my teacher at school was, "These people are good, you suck. Goodbye."

I played violin for six months in elementary school, and still suck at it.

And now I might just be learning clarinet from my sister, since she's pretty good at it.

Phew.

I've been playing guitar for like 5 years, I think. And I played trumpet for about 3 years but I had to drop band class at school. Oh, and I have a very basic knowlege of piano (I took lessons when I was 6 or so, so all I remember is the basics and maybe some chords).

10 years.

I've been playing the piano for about 5 months already and I am only level 2 of 8 cause I self-teach myself and also hardly get enough time to practice.

I don't remember if I've posted in this thread or not before, but I've been playing piano for a little over eight years now.

2 going on 3 years on a clarinet, and around 5-7 years on the piano ^^ 1-3 years of lessons on piano, but i didnt wanna be a burden cuz it got expensive.

I've been playing piano for about 9-10 years, and electric bass for 6.. I think..

Piano 10 months- level-um. I'm self taught and I can play Eternal Harvest and some of Chopins Polonaises (Fantasie imaproptu @_@)

Trumpet almost a year-level- I have no clue :S Best trumpet in my school band and my highest note i the 4th ledger line g so whatever level that puts me at (I can't just run that up in a song :O Like play an entire song that high.)

Sorry for the runons,My head hurts and I'm going to a dance hoping that my friend Elizabeth will be there and :S.


EDIT She wasn't,it was so horribly annoying, and the music was bad wish I wouldn't have gone.

I've been playing the turmpet for 2 years. MY band director said I have a gift for playing. I just have truble reaching a ''G'' high.

I've been playing the violin for about 9 years now.

9 yrs you must be a pre-pro arnt you wow im impressed with you

Lol. I met someone today that's been playing piano for 10 years, and their about a Level 6-7.

Sad, I'm a level 8-9, and only for 1 1/2 yrs.

9 yrs you must be a pre-pro arnt you wow im impressed with you

Why thank you soo much, I'm flatered. I'm on my 2nd years at Univ. so I guess we have to be pre-pros at that point hehe.
cel.

I have a few pianist freinds at school who have been playing piano for about 12 years and I'm very jelous of them haha, I wish I had the talent to play tunes like the Revo. Study of Chopin.

Why thank you soo much, I'm flatered. I'm on my 2nd years at Univ. so I guess we have to be pre-pros at that point hehe.
cel.

I have a few pianist freinds at school who have been playing piano for about 12 years and I'm very jelous of them haha, I wish I had the talent to play tunes like the Revo. Study of Chopin.
I don't have much to say except I played the piano for 1 moth and I still play the trumpet I have to go to band class in a little bit I'm at school. :heh: