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I've been practicing guitar for the last few years. I'm not as good as I should be by this point because I usually just play shrimple parts I already know while watching YouTube videos, but the main thing for me is learning to play in time properly. If I'm playing somebody else's music, I just try to learn riffs and chords I like rather than entire songs. I'm aiming just to use my playing a source for samples and will just end up chopping up my bad off-time playing if need be.
I started off on electrics but ended up going acoustic for the clean sounds. I don't see much use for distortion in what I'm currently trying to do and can always add other effects after I'm done recording.
Recently I was looking into lap harps and came across this instrument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHA2kFjoGSQ
Harps and wind chimes have always been two of my favorite acoustic sound sources, so I fell in love with this due to it sounding like a harp with the sustain of a wind chime. I was wondering what it is about it that gives it that sound and if it wood be cheaper to get something similar custom made that's more tailored to people who want a more traditional instrument in terms of options.
I have a cheap fife lying around that I need to learn to play.
Other than that, I learned a little bit of basic keyboard stuff a while ago. Synthesizers are my main interest musically, and I'm just venturing out into these other areas from there to spice things up and to try and learn to record things live. I actually plan on shelling out a bunch of money for a new synthesizer toward the beginning of next year.