@cambraca I was in a psych hospital at age 12, one of the activities they had was music class, I got "stuck" with the bass and so learned to play the bass, and it was kind of boring so I learned some music theory so I had more notes to play. It was a pepto bismol pink bass, probably a p-bass clone.
I got an acoustic guitar when I was 17ish and had a fender strat in my early 20s, but they both got stolen, and I just became a workaholic.
Now 45 and got a guitar again :)
@cambraca my #FirstDabble was an mystifying encounter with a DX7.
I was 16 I'd moved to Wales to live with my dad and most of his friends were musos. I'd said I wanted to learn keys, mostly cos back then A-ha and Peter Gabriel were big favs.
So, a friend of his lent me his DX7 and I could not do anything with it completely defeated.
Luckily my Dad had a couple of Nylon Stringed guitars and the Complete Guitarist book laying about. Over the next couple of years I taught myself the basics.
#FirstDabble in music-making:
My friends needed a bass player for their metal band... at church. So, I spent my three summers saved pay to buy a Fender P-Bass and a Sunn Coliseum (BIG LEAP). We got kicked out of the church when the guitar player was caught banging out JGeilsBand-LoveStinks on the sanctuary piano.
We quickly moved up in local clubs - opening & co-headlining with Poison and Slayer... back when Slayer only played Iron Maiden covers.
Then, I was out playing biker rallies... Fun!
I started learning music as a kid, maybe 6 years old. Not that I was particularly interested at the time, my family was not even really into music, but that was one of the few activities for kids in my village. I learnt a bit of singing and played the saxophone for a few years but I wasn't particularly enthusiastic and I finally stopped.
Fast forward 6 years or so, I had a few musician friends in high school, got a guitar as a christmas present.
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Thanks to the ones who responded with your beautiful #FirstDabble stories. They all resonated in some way and I was reminded of many things from my own childhood.
🎵 Keep 'em coming!
@cambraca #FirstDabble #MusicRecording
Wow, there was a lot of childhood playing with the #RadioShack cassette recorder. #Sang in church, took #violin & #piano in grade school, started learning #guitar at 13.
Guess my first serious attempt at recording was when I was 15, saved & bought a #Tascam 8track recorder, taught myself how to layer & bounce tracks from articles in Gig magazine. I filled in all the parts but #percussion. On some instruments I have #rhythm for days, but beats? Nope! Lol
@cambraca I had started taking piano and violin lessons around age 4 or 5 and was exposed to a lot of music by my parents, who were both in the music department at our local university.
But my #FirstDabble into actually making music was when my friend Brad and I wrote some lyrics and accompanied ourselves by banging on couch cushions. Pretty sure we recorded it on my fisher price tape deck.
#FirstDabble I had a drum kit when I was 10 but it broke and I stopped playing.
When I was 12 I got an acoustic guitar for Christmas. I picked it up left-handed, as it felt the most natural to me. But when I tried to play the chords in the Mel Bay book they sounded terrible! I figured I just had no knack for it and quit.
But at 14 I read about #JimiHendrix being LEFT-HANDED and changing the stringing. I had no idea there was left and right handed! Changed my strings and never looked back!
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