Guitar or Drums
Discussion
After 38 yrs of dithering about ive decided its time to learn to play a musical instrument, call it a new yrs resoulution thingy.
Always fancied either the drums or electric guitar, been looking at some great kit on the interweb, including electric drums.
Whats your thoughts folks on which way to go, i ought to mention im disabled and although i do stand, its not well, so the thought of me leaping about with a guitar like slash is out, also with drums of course you have the foot beater/banger thingy, im able to move feet, just not sure to a beat, is there a way round this.
Just really after any advice, tips, pisstaking, pointers or general abuse.
Over to you the PH massive
Thanks
Pete
Always fancied either the drums or electric guitar, been looking at some great kit on the interweb, including electric drums.
Whats your thoughts folks on which way to go, i ought to mention im disabled and although i do stand, its not well, so the thought of me leaping about with a guitar like slash is out, also with drums of course you have the foot beater/banger thingy, im able to move feet, just not sure to a beat, is there a way round this.
Just really after any advice, tips, pisstaking, pointers or general abuse.
Over to you the PH massive
Thanks
Pete
Years ago I swapped from bass guitar to drums and haven't regretted it for a second.
Apart from the "jokes" obviously
What do you call someone who's always hanging round musicians/ A drummer
How do you tell when the drum-riser's level?/ Drool comes out of both sides of the drummer's mouth etc etc
Apart from the 4r5e pain of schlepping it all about and setting up the kit rather than merely opening a box followed by some desultory tuning, it's all good.
I used to have a photo of my ex wife at the point where the bass pedal struck
which, having written it, I've just realised is at least a 9.7 on the Bewilderingly Pathetic scale.
Drumming is great for releasing tension/anger/hang-ups and also gets you laid with a greater frequency than hitherto (largely by tone-deaf boilers who really wanted to shag the singer but know their limitations,admittedly)
Either of them (instruments, not boilers) are capable of giving you enormous pleasure and an hour or so fiddling about with each of them should quickly reveal which one feels "right" (perhaps I did mean the boilers after all)
Your local music shop will have a bunch of adverts offering tuition on all instruments and a few quid spent at the earliest possible stage will save plenty in the long run.
Having said that, it really doesn't matter what you choose. Your life will become a nicer place to inhabit.
There's a possibility that I may be slightly pissed,regardless of which DO IT (before common sense rears it's ugly head)
Edit
just re read your question and realised I missed a bit out. You can get programmable electronic drums
capable of reproducing real drum sounds. You could easily sort out an electronic kick drum and hi-hat
then play snare tom-toms and crash/ride cymbals with your sticks.
Apart from the "jokes" obviously
What do you call someone who's always hanging round musicians/ A drummer
How do you tell when the drum-riser's level?/ Drool comes out of both sides of the drummer's mouth etc etc
Apart from the 4r5e pain of schlepping it all about and setting up the kit rather than merely opening a box followed by some desultory tuning, it's all good.
I used to have a photo of my ex wife at the point where the bass pedal struck
which, having written it, I've just realised is at least a 9.7 on the Bewilderingly Pathetic scale.
Drumming is great for releasing tension/anger/hang-ups and also gets you laid with a greater frequency than hitherto (largely by tone-deaf boilers who really wanted to shag the singer but know their limitations,admittedly)
Either of them (instruments, not boilers) are capable of giving you enormous pleasure and an hour or so fiddling about with each of them should quickly reveal which one feels "right" (perhaps I did mean the boilers after all)
Your local music shop will have a bunch of adverts offering tuition on all instruments and a few quid spent at the earliest possible stage will save plenty in the long run.
Having said that, it really doesn't matter what you choose. Your life will become a nicer place to inhabit.
There's a possibility that I may be slightly pissed,regardless of which DO IT (before common sense rears it's ugly head)
Edit
just re read your question and realised I missed a bit out. You can get programmable electronic drums
capable of reproducing real drum sounds. You could easily sort out an electronic kick drum and hi-hat
then play snare tom-toms and crash/ride cymbals with your sticks.
Edited by root 666 on Sunday 21st December 00:59
gbbird said:
If you want to get into a band easily, then go for drums. Drummers are much rarer than guitarists, so you would be in demand for band and gig work.
Steady on, its taken me 38 yrs to decide i want to play, think a band is a long way off yet, LOL.Thanks for all your advice and general tomfoolery folks.
Pete
Funk said:
I'm 29 and been playing drums since I was 9.
Once a drummer, always a drummer!
28 and been playing since I was 12, here. Interesting the diversity, and yet similarity, amongst PHers sometimes eh?! (www.thedeccas.co.uk if you're interested Once a drummer, always a drummer!
)Agree with everyone above, ultimately it comes down to what you fancy however drummers are far far cooler and get far more of the women
TonyHetherington said:
Funk said:
I'm 29 and been playing drums since I was 9.
Once a drummer, always a drummer!
28 and been playing since I was 12, here. Interesting the diversity, and yet similarity, amongst PHers sometimes eh?! (www.thedeccas.co.uk if you're interested Once a drummer, always a drummer!
)Agree with everyone above, ultimately it comes down to what you fancy however drummers are far far cooler and get far more of the women
Hardly a level playing field...
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