Or have you played something else in the past? What’s your favorite piece to play?

Edit: thanks for everyone that has replied. This has been so heartwarming to read :)

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    11 days ago

    My favorite to play is the acoustic guitar, because it’s largely unchanged for a couple hundred years.

    You don’t need to plug it in, just strum or pluck. It’s incredibly versatile, highly portable, and it sounds amazing.

    My favorite thing to do is playing chord melodies. Basically, I’ll find chords to a song online and then play part of the chord and the melody on top of it. It’s a quick & dirty way to arrange an instrumental version, though I do like to sing and play too.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      2·
      9 days ago

      Yeah, the acoustic guitar is an amazing instrument. Beethoven loved the guitar, and called it a portable orchestra.

      I have a degree in Music History, so like you, I like to do my own arrangements. Sure, the first draft is basically just the chords with the tune on top, but I always try to add little ornaments, deedly-dees, walking bass lines up and down, cool little turnarounds, imaginative intros and endings, etc., I usually try to arrange at least one passage that is beyond my ability, and then torture myself for a few months to master it. That’s how I know I’ve improved. I look over all my arrangements, and all the hard passages that I wrote, and then conquered, and I have actual proof of my improvement. That’s satisfying, right there.