RageDeltaz! I first looked because of your user name,
and for sure, I wasn't expecting a young man like you, also thinking teenager.
What you said about people turning pop songs, or any other songs,
into songs using their instruments, is just what musicians do, so I thought you were confused.
Not the love and confusion Jimi Hendrix sang and played about, just yours.
"Acapella" means just vocals, no instruments at all. That's not only traditional, it's historic.
"Acapella groups", as described by American media, was about people from a ghetto,
four or five guys, standing outside on a street corner, singing and harmonizing.
And if they could afford the same clothes, nice suits, that got more attention,
and could become a gig indoors with a band, even making it up onstage at the Apollo Theater.
That's not what I'm seeing here.
I used to date a bassoonist for the Ottawa Symphony and Ottawa Symphony Orchestra.
She was so beautiful, a Mennonite girl who never ever even tried to drink or smoke a cigarette,
Oh yeah, we got into the ice cream sundaes, with lots of bananas on the side.
She was so beautiful, even the conductor liked to conduct her around,
meeting two Prime Ministers at Ottawa functions. She liked me way better.
First of all, a bassoon can be a very expensive instrument.
Some symphonies already own one, and if you get the job, they let you use it.
My girlfriends' practice bassoon cost $18,000, her performance one cost over $40,000.
That's what you're looking at, as you progress on bassoon.
I've never seen one used onstage by any other kind of musical group.
Cellos were hot here for a while, for rock and folk and whatever alternatives there were.
If you're going to present something here that top level symphony and organist can enjoy,
you're going to not only have to write music and read music and compose music,
it's going to have to be good enough and your playing great enough, to keep any interest.
Watching your video, I wasn't sure what I was seeing.
One of you was playing the bassoon, that's for sure,
but were the other squares of you holding it the other parts I was hearing,
or was the one square what I was hearing, and the others were just waiting to be clicked.
I didn't look. Your playing is very basic, making me think you need lessons,
more than getting up and out, expecting other musicians to watch and listen to you.
But that's what these forums are about, communicating and sharing.
With a name like RageDeltaz, you need some distortion, phasing and flanging,
to make you sound like your name, unless,
I should have watched all the way, to when you take your bassoon and smash it,
and then light the splinters on fire, and stick them into your trumpet,
and aim that at the camera, blazing away... yeah, that might go viral.
That might be the only musical heat you can generate here.
I hope other musicians in your home town let you jam with them.
That will help you decide which instrument is best for you,
but I recommend keyboards, now doing it all, from computers to historic pianos.
I used to have a nice trumpet, that I took camping, sitting behind a waterfall,
with the trumpet sticking out. Lotsa percussion on the canteens too.
Where did you get your bassoon, and who made it?
Fretting fingers want to know. I just play semi-solid-body guitars I build myself.