Thinking of picking up an instrument

I have mediocre guitar skill, but due to my stubby sausage fingers, I've hit a wall.

My sister is a pretty decent viola player, and I could prob coerce mrs hat to teach me piano...
I'd like to teach my son something other than proper game controller usage or how to hook up a home theater system when he grows up.

Anyone here proficient in an instrument other then the guitar?

Bass guitar!
Pick one up and try it. If you think your fingers are too big for a guitar or whatever, then you'll probably be more comfortable using a bass. It has thicker strings, and they're more widely spaced.

I've always wanted to learn to play guitar, but I always keep putting it off.

Saxophone.

banjo!

I'll totally teach you piano, haha. I actually just brought had Ehat bring my keyboard back down into the living room!

I'm with Cram on this one. Bass is probably the best next step if you've already got some skill on guitar, and it'll probably suit you better with larger fingers.

I love piano; I like to play it, even though I can't much anymore. It's rather nice because while it does require stamina from your fingers and ankles, it doesn't require you to develop blisters to callous your skin, no embochure pain, and it doesn't require air. It's sounds nice to boot, and it looks good in your house. The only disadvantage is that they aren't really portable, but keyboards lack a "soul". I would recommend the piano to anybody; it's just a good choice of instrument for players of any level/instrument class to learn.

If I could play piano, I would play synth!

I know to a piano player it "feels" wrong, but I love the large array of sounds you can get from a good synth. Add a drum machine and a loop station, and you can be a one-man-band.

I've tried playing, though, and it's not easy at all. I really only use my keyboard to figure out scales to apply them to my bass.

I think that the piano is the easiest instrument to play, personally. There's no pain from learning to use it, all the notes are exactly the same up the piano, and it has one of the greatest range of any instrument.

You should pick up trombone. I love playing it, though it can be a challenge to reach all the notes in faster music.

I'd love to learn piano, I've always loved the sound. I've got a 50 minute jazz band class in the morning where it's just me, the band director and his son, maybe I can get one of them to teach me piano since we really aren't doing much on jazz.

I played the trumpet in high school. I was in the marching band. It was stupid, but it counted for credits toward art. Also, we got to take a trip to the Rose Bowl parade. Art class did not do that.

So I started playing trumpet in fifth grade, and I think I stopped getting better around 7th grade. I just stopped caring. I didn't see any practical use for the trumpet, I didn't like the feel of it against my gums and teeth, and I just didn't want to put in the time for practice. So most of my time throughout high school, I was just pretending to play by moving my fingers.

HAHA I [layed the trombone back in school. Crazy. Here's one my grandfather taught me. Mandolin.

The 360 controller is an excellent instrument. But my sister plays piano and guitar and she loves it, I played guitar a little but I got lazy and stopped. Piano is supposed to be really easy too.

Nobody has suggested drums yet!? Come on guys, drumming is where it's at! There's nothing like beating the crap out of your kit for a few hours after a stressful day.

The limit is in your mind. Or so I've been told. This kinda proves the statement although I have yet to achieve or imitate anything remotely similar or anything even close to being 1% of the skill/talent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnUwA6c67k

Stubby fingers, short fingers, blind, no hand/arms, etc. you can do whatever you set your heart and soul to. I got short fingers and a good number of girls have longer fingers than me. I rage at myself at times because I don't have the finger length to reach (it's not handicapped short just short for a dude) for some complex chords.

Although I haven't touched my guitar since it wasn't putting out so we're now on a break with occasional one nighters.

^That was pretty impressive.
Here's another musician with missing limbs:
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autotune, what? youtube it...



i say this cause of rwj's latest episode

Autotuning is a crutch 99% of the time. If you can truly make something creative with autotune then go for it, but everything I've heard so far sounds like the same shit.

Learn to play a flute like Ron Burgundy. That'd be kick ass.

Drums are great for expelling stress.

You could always try a recorder.