What song inspired you to learn music?

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No one song inspired me...I've been around the piano since before I could walk. Even though my father died when I wasn't quite 5 yrs old, I still remember him playing. Everybody on both sides of the family (mother and father) were very musical, but I guess I'd say my father's playing (mostly I remember blues and blues-gospel type music played by ear) is what solidified my desire to play/learn piano.

 

He was a violinist and carried his violin with him all day. Even when he played at the schools carol concert he never used the piano.

Part of history that is almost unknown today, stems from him being one of the hundreds of German Jews who fled to the UK at the outbreak of WW2.
When the UK entered the war, being German they were rounded up and thrown in prison.
Due to a huge shortage of teachers and our government realizing that they was probably more anti Nazi then we were, a large number of them were released in exchange for teaching at our schools and we ended up with a teacher who had played in a major orchestra back home in Germany.
Quite a few of these people (both male and female) settled in the UK and taught until they retired.
After the war, quite a few guys who had been seriously injured and who could not work in industry also took up teaching.
Although many of these people had no formal teaching qualifications, they were just amazing people and a true inspiration to people of my generation.

 

Ah...I see. I guess maybe I misunderstood your other comment. I thought you were saying he was kind of slamming you and saying piano wasn't a very serious instrument or something.

 

What he was saying is that there is nuance when you play an instrument like a violin. You, allegedly, don't get that with a piano. A note is a note. There is no stroke against the string identifying you as a player.

No particular song inspired me to play music. Lots of different artists did. It used to be that I'd hear a song and want to write a song. But I'm so jaded with most musicians. Hard to get inspired when you don't think the creator would even be nice to you.

 

You would not believe it if I told you half of what happened. The guy was artistic to the point of being a complete nutter by today's teaching methods. Many a violin bow was broken on someone who had failed to rehearse and the punishment for a few notes out of tune included stripping down to your shorts and sitting in the yard for 30 minutes in heavy snow.

When he joined the teaching staff, no one could play a note of music. By the time that I left the school had a symphony orchestra.
It was the forerunner of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra, that still exists today.

 

I don’t remember how old I was, I was a kid, but Aerosmith Toy’s in The Attic album in general steered me toward rock n roll. The first song to inspire me to play the drums was Walk this Way...

 

re: What song inspired you to learn music?

No one song but I'd have to pick Led Zeppelin's Heart Breaker

These Days I mostly listen to Sleep, OM, Epica, Heavy Temple, Telekenetic Yeti, Holy Sons, Grails, High on Fire. Zep will always have a special place for me. Pink Floyd and David Bowie were also influential.

Electric wizard is a good one, they are a little dark but it doesn't bother me.

I'd also have to say Paul Stamets and Terrence Mckenna were big influences, and Ram Dass. That kind of influence carries over into every aspect of your life.

Credit to Psilocybe Cubensis mushrooms. They can show you the Truth about everything but it's difficult.

First I got a guitar but recently swiched to base - inspired by Al Cisneros of OM, Sleep and Shrinebuilder.

And thanks to Cannabis...

I have a type of synesthesia where I "Feel" music when I listen. more so that the average person might. I'd love to meet another person who loves music like I do.

atm: Sleep - Sonic Titan - That base solo!!! oh man... what a ride!

Be well my friends and spread the love!

plus a good word to my friends in Dogbane!!!

 

Not so much a song but a performance. Watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in 1964, I was 10.

 

i've always gravitated towards music one way or another, whether it be piano, guitar, wind instruments, or downloading every single album i could get my hands on.

bach
linking park
dmx/tupac

 

As a kid, my parents turned me onto the Beatles. I've always loved the "Taxman" solo. I also got into other stuff, but I was one of many kids that rocked out to those songs with a tennis racket pretending to play some killer guitar, lol. By the time I was a teen, though, I couldn't take it any more and I started playing the electric guitar for real. I was very much into rock and metal then, and my primary inspirations included Yngwie Malmsteen and Joe Satriani. In the beginning, though, their songs were obviously too hard for me to play, so I started out playing along to songs I actually could, like the Nirvana songs or AC/DC, some Guns N' Rones, Smashing Pumpkins, or Metallica. So I don't know, I don't think I can say there is one particular song that inspired me to learn music. Rather, I would be more comfortable saying there have initially been a number of bands/artists who inspired me to develop the foundation for my own music: the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, Van Halen, and Def Leppard.

 

I never had an opportunity as a school kid to learn to play a musical instrument until one lunch time when a supply teacher tried to teach me the clarinet. For a couple of weeks I started to learn to play it, but when the supply teacher moved on, my learning came to an abrupt end. However, what had triggered me into being interested in 'classical' music was when a music teacher started to give us music appreciation classes. The first one started with this:



and I've been a classical music fan ever since !!!

 

I was really into Eddie Vedder when I was an adolescent.

 

I learned how to play the drums when going through high school. I remember as a kid growing up i used to bang my bedside table often as an act of stimming. I did that to release some pressure coming from any autistic meltdowns i used to have.
So i learned the drums.
I had to be very careful of what times i'd play them.
Also my cousins and late uncle were learning the drums.

As for songs John Farnham's You're the voice got me started.

 

Metallica instrumental

 

He said "All this land is my master's"
At that I stood shaking my head
No man has the right to own mountains
Any more than the deep ocean bed

 

Like many on here, it wasn't so much a particular song. As a child, I saw the local Salvation Army holding an open-air service in our town centre one Sunday morning. The next day, I went to my music teacher and told him I wanted to play a brass instrument. The school already had an active brass band and I started off on tenor horn at the age of 9, progressing to euphonium at 12 and moved onto tuba by my early 20's, playing in a number of local bands until the late 90's.

 

One of our school teachers was away ill for a while and we had a series of supply teachers. One of them was keen on music and played the Clarinet. He was practising as I passed the doorway and I stopped to listen. For the next two weeks he tried to teach me some of the music he was playing. I don't read music, so was learning to play 'by ear'. It was only some considerable time later I learnt what he was trying to teach me - this:

 

It wasn't a particular tune, but a genre; bagpipes.

 

1970s Catholic folk music

 

The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, UFO, Thin Lizzy, Rush, Black Sabbath, Randy Rhoads era Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Steve Vai, Pantera, White Snake, Neil Young, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani .... too many inspirations to post !!!!