Thursday, 8 May 2014

Playing Instruments!


So this blog post is just a random idea that popped into my head about 20 seconds before writing it: I wanted to write about the instruments I play. I currently play 3 instruments. Guitar, piano and ukulele; I'm going to write a paragraph about each instrument and why you should play it. Also, I do want to play more instruments but i just don't have the time to start learning a new one yet. 

GUITAR: The guitar was the first instrument I decided I wanted to play. I have played it for seven years now, nearly eight, and I love it so much. I am currently on a payment plan to pay off my new guitar which I should hopefully get by my birthday in November. It is a Tanglewood Nashville IV! I'm very excited for when I finally get it!:'') I would recommend playing guitar to anyone, the feeling you get when you play a song and sing along to it is amazing- it gives you such a buzz and I love it so much, with a passion. I also love writing and playing songs on the guitar, in the next few videos I will do a guitar cover hopefully... But I would rather wait until I get my good guitar to do a video with it. But if you've not got a guitar or you don't play, you're missing out big time! 

PIANO: Piano, piano, piano. What can I say about piano!? Lots of course! Obviously the piano is the only instrument that you have all seen me play on, on my youtube. I find it much easier to learn piano songs quickly, and to write piano songs quickly. Guitar takes a lot more time I find. The piano really is a beautiful instrument which you can express so much emotion on. I love playing songs where I play a riff and just the chords which are my backing to singing the song, but I also love playing classical pieces, like Yiruma (a famous pianist), because classical pieces can also create so much emotion. I have an electric KAWAI piano which I prefer to acoustic pianos sometimes because of the effects you can create on the piano, it's so easy. However acoustic pianos are beautiful. Like in Please Don't Feel That Way (my original song if you didn't know) I use strings on the piano to back it up and give it a more angelic feel. Which I think I create successfully. I have been playing the piano for about five years, and have been having lessons for nearly three. I would recommend piano to anyone because of how easy it is to pick it up, it really is. It's one of the easiest instruments to pick up quickly in my opinion... So is the other instrument which I am going to move onto... The ukulele. 

UKULELE: I have only owned my ukulele since November 2013 and honestly, I haven't picked it up much since I got it. However, the times I have actually taken time to sit down and play it and learn something on YouTube I have found it so easy! I think that is definitely down to having played the guitar for seven years but it is a simple instrument. It's really cute too, and easy to take around places.  They're pretty cheap, starting at £30 for a decent starter one and they're a nice size to store if you don't have a lot of room. I really enjoy it. I don't have lessons for it but I don't need them, I have guitar lessons and I have YouTube for ukulele lessons really. I don't need ukulele lessons because it's that simple to figure out. So this one, out of the three instruments I play, is definitely the instrument I wouldn't recommend that everyone should try out because of it's simplicity. 

So I know this isn't the longest blog post I have done but I hope this helps you in some way. If there is anything else you would like adding to or telling about my instruments more then feel free to say so in the comments, I always read them! And make sure to keep giving me suggestions for fufutre blog posts, and make sure to check out my youtube too, there is currently 3 videos up on there, and another one coming this Sunday at 8pm. 

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