What different styles of music do you play?

[BrianDamage]

I pretty much assume everyone here plays metal, heavy rock and classic rock style stuff. Anyone play any other styles? In addition to the metals and rock bass/guitar action I play classic country style guitar, rockabilly and bluegrass mandolin.

What "out of the ordinary" styles do you guys play and what got you interested in them?

[I,Galactus]

I play classical piano.  Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, etc.  Got forced into it at a very early age and it stuck somewhat.

Also, my folks wouldn't let me pick up guitar without starting out on classical first.  I still try my hand at some Villa Lobos etudes every now and then or mess around with a little flamenco.  Shit's hard.  Ties them fingers up in knots, it does.

Trying to get into acoustic fingerstyle and/or bottleneck blues of late.  Not too out of the ordinary there, though.

[johnny problem]

I'm trying really hard at playing Soul.

[Cursed71]

I play classical piano.  Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, etc.  Got forced into it at a very early age and it stuck somewhat.

Also, my folks wouldn't let me pick up guitar without starting out on classical first.  I still try my hand at some Villa Lobos etudes every now and then or mess around with a little flamenco.  Shit's hard.  Ties them fingers up in knots, it does.

Trying to get into acoustic fingerstyle and/or bottleneck blues of late.  Not too out of the ordinary there, though.

I wish someone had forced me into classical.  I lack discipline!

[Lumpy]

I play experimental noise with stompboxes and stuff. I like noise because it can have a lot of the same excitement as hardcore and metal, without the dumb genre rules ("this song rhymes and we play it in time" - Flipper). We just make it up as we go, we don't have any songs -- it's exciting to play music that way, especially performing live, but sometimes it works better than others. It was originally based around me playing with one specific guitar player, who is totally undisciplined as a musician but he can play weird stuff. He's not in the band anymore, and yet I carry on, somewhat foolishly maybe.

I also play electronics in a Hawkwind cover band. The other guys don't have their shit together. I'd like to play original space rock with guys who do.

I've tried to play stoner and doom type stuff for years (I can play bass) but it never worked out. At this point I think I'm too old. Nobody wants to watch their Dad up there, rocking out on the doom bass. I know I certainly didn't. Plus, a monkey can play doom bass. Get a 20 year old cute boy to do it, and he can probably draw some chicks to the show. Chicks don't want to look at me. When I was younger, it was even harder to find people who wanted to play heavy shit. Back in the day, one friend of mine (a drummer) told me "your bass sounds like a motorcycle!" (he liked Rush). I think maybe time passed me by, on that one.

I had a 'fake jazz' band for a few months, was going pretty well at first, and then fell apart because I was working with slackers. Sounded like the Shaggs or Captain Beefheart playing 50's lounge jazz. Interested? You can hear it here, try "Knuckle Sandwich"  (wow, the Myspace music player is total shit. Good luck.)
http://www.myspace.com/midniteautosupply
"Midnight auto supply" is 50's 'juvenile delinquent' slang for going out at night to steal hubcaps and auto parts. Probably a phrase made up by Hollywood.

[Instant Dan]

I really like to play Indie/Garage Rock as of lately. Been trying to get into country but the discipline it requires can be daunting.

[eyeprod]

I'm always trying different things that interest me. I experiment a lot and none of my music fits neatly into any genre, though it usually has characteristics that are known in certain circles of music geeks who think too much about categorizing everything. I'm trying to get away from that myself. I can play the usual acoustic guitar stuff quite well; blues, americana, etc. and some arabic and african drum beats, which I occasionally incorporate into heavier music. Right now I'm making heavy psych stuff of varying flavors, but all built up around drum parts and bass lines. It's a lot different from making songs out of guitar riffs and I'm playing drums now which helps my writing in a big way.

[Drama]

Aside from the obvious, mostly Jazz and Country.

About ten years back I was hired to produce a country record for a Texan band, the guitarist just could not play the parts so I re-tracked them all and enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. Thus a passion for country guitar was born.

That and the bitchin' fashion...

[Chovie D]

I LOVE the fake jazz Lumpy.  Id like to do something like that.

[Mr. Foxen]

Singer is trying to get gigs for my drone band, but he cut all the drone off a one idea jam (which was mostly testing new guitarists dynamic control) and put a vocal on top of it, and is telling people that is what we sound like (rather than what we actually sound like which is my amp collection feeding back into my bass). So maybe I'll end up having to play like this to not upset everyone he is pitching to: http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=78134976&ac=now

[liquidsmoke]

I'd like to get an acoustic to learn some classical, folk, country, western, bluegrass, etc on although I could learn some of that stuff on my 6 string in B. Had a steel stringed one many years ago but I basically just messed around in the blues box with it. I hate real chords and figure the sweetness of an acoustic this time around, so long as it was set up properly and with light strings, might make me learn some and expand my playing vocabulary.

[Jake]

Mostly play Post Nü Christian Death Country. But since that's getting too mainstream, it's on to Dub Yodel Folk Ska.

[liquidsmoke]

You know Christian Death may have done some country stuff at some point, I'm not sure. haha

[Demon Lung]

I'd like to get an acoustic to learn some classical, folk, country, western, bluegrass, etc on although I could learn some of that stuff on my 6 string in B. Had a steel stringed one many years ago but I basically just messed around in the blues box with it. I hate real chords and figure the sweetness of an acoustic this time around, so long as it was set up properly and with light strings, might make me learn some and expand my playing vocabulary.

i have a banjo. It's a family heirloom

[liquidsmoke]

I like some bluegrass and need to mess with one in a store sometime.

[da_qtip]

Rock, metal of the progressive variety, and funk/fusion.

[Demon Lung]

I like some bluegrass and need to mess with one in a store sometime.

its difficult to play. You have to move all of your fingers  at one time.

[mortlock]

lumpy and i follow very similiar paths..i too play in a 'noise' band as most of you know because i spam the crap out of this place. i also played in a few 'fake' jazz bands..
actually i dont play in rock or metal bands anymore and im not sure id ever go back, not that id have the chance, but if i did..my ass is way to old and worn out for that shit..

the beauty of harsh noise is its every bit as heavy and any metal band ive ever been in and its not nearly as physically demanding to perform..

[Metal and Beer]

I don't "actively" (in a band) play anything now except the heavy sludge/doom/screamin' shit but I grew up learning and loving all the three chord usuals (blues, country, reggae, etc.) and I'll play that stuff again at some point. I can scratch out "music" on piano, mandolin, get a few notes out of a fiddle and such

[khoomeizhi]

whatever tickles my fancy  .

besides the heavier stuff...gillian welch/townes van zandt type folky country, ever since we got an organ recently i've been periodically kickin' the smoove r&b jams, put down a bass track for the (sooo cheesy) reggae track that my boss wrote for use in a contest,...y'know, stuff. some blues, some weird acoustic rock.

[RAGER]

Started out heavy in the classical and blues which are still very evident in my playing today.  Ya know like phrygian tinged solo with a blues turn around sort of thing.  But when I get an acoustic in my hand I usually play real purdy stuff.

haven't really delved into bluegrass but I've found that I can fake it pretty good on a mandolin.

I have a jazz bass player friend that I jam with on occasion on drums and he thinks I can fake it pretty good to where he keeps asking to put something together.  Id feel like and imposter.  Got asked to sit in for Mel Brown a few years back.  i panicked and declined.

[lordfinesse]

If I'm playing by myself (with myself?), I'll play keys more often than guitar. Usually it's poppy stuff like Billy Joel, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, or whatever my kids want to sing along to (Blur, Alkaline Trio, Yo Gabba Gabba songs). Or Sinatra, Dean Martin, Matt Monro type stuff.

If it's guitar, I'll play classic rock. And stuff for the kids.. Ok Go, Blink 182, ZZ Top, that other stuff listed up there ^ ). Not very exciting I guess.

[clockwork green]

Music's for suckers, I play silence...and surf and I've been working on some minimal/ambient/drone (both of the metal and non-metal flavors).

[VOLVO)))]

So, that Marty Stuart dude rolls banjo tuners on both E's so he can DADGAD on the fly. Very, very legit.

If you would like, I have one of the Arlen Roth hot licks country videos around here somewhere, I can mediafire it or something for all. I can't find any of those fuckin' tapes anywhere.

Honestly, when I'm not playing metal, I'm playing blues or country. I'm not good enough to play jazz, I lack that fluidity. Chicken Pickin' and those pedal-steel-y bends? Yeah, all day.

[fallen]

Just lap steel but now that I'm past the beginner stage and into the competent stage I'm a bit stalled. Also been playing a little uke since my gf is learning it. I used to do some electronic music but haven't done that for ages other than programming midi drum parts.