What were you a natural at

ojb81 said:
drawing. got burned out on it as a kid, but, i've always had an ability to draw anything you want, with high precision
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Me too. I've not drawn anything for probably 15 years though...just got bored with it. Wasted talent I suppose.
 
Hu War Yu said:
I still want a fiddle someday. But I also want another mandolin and 3 more guitars. Lousy kids want to go to college, though
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You can get a Japanese fiddle for around 100 bucks that sounds fine. Whenever I play with a group, I always play my cheap Japanese fiddle. It sounds just as good as my Ole Bull that I’d rather not say how much I spent on
 
For me, it was math. And it seemed the further along in my education, the easier new concepts were to learn. Except for trigonometry and the fuckin Unit Circle.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
You can get a Japanese fiddle for around 100 bucks that sounds fine. Whenever I play with a group, I always play my cheap Japanese fiddle. It sounds just as good as my Ole Bull that I’d rather not say how much I spent on
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I've seen ones advertised for 100-150, but generally they're the smaller ones for youths. I know how the good concert instruments can get crazy expensive.
 
Hu War Yu said:
I've seen ones advertised for 100-150, but generally they're the smaller ones for youths. I know how the good concert instruments can get crazy expensive.
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Granted, I was 13 when my grandpa bought me the Japanese fiddle I still play, so the price might have gone up, but it’s full size and cost around 100 bucks back then.

My expensive fiddle is from the late 1800’s.
 
beardown07 said:
Ya, there is quite literally no one in my family that can draw or paint. Don't know where it comes from, but I've got drawings I did at 6 years old, that'll rival anything any one of my family could do right now. lol

I am currently working on this....8"x10" untreated hardboard canvas...
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It's my first time ever using acrylics.
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that is fantastic!

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Hu War Yu said:
I tried playing guitar and bass and piano when I was in college but couldn't really get the hang of any of them. Told myself I just wasn't musically gifted.

About a year ago I started learning guitar again, with much better results this time, and then earlier this year I started playing mandolin. I think I have musical ability but when I was younger I just didn't have the discipline to practice because I wanted it to come easier.
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Illustrious Potentate said:
Want to goes a long ways. You get someone like me that doesn’t know how to read music, having an ear for it goes a long ways too
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mmmyeah, maybe. but i think there's a difference between a musician who has natural talent and can master their craft relatively quickly, and someone who's had to chug away, hour after hour, day after day, for a long time to show mere competence. at least, as far as i can see, when it comes to playing most musical instruments.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
Want to goes a long ways. You get someone like me that doesn’t know how to read music, having an ear for it goes a long ways too
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Hu War Yu said:
I've been trying to teach myself how to read sheet music for decades. Thank god for tablature. My ear is pretty good in that I know a wrong note when I hear it, but i still learn better when I have music in front of me. Takes me too long to pick out a tune completely by ear
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My son is a natural drummer. We've got video of him drumming difficult "Rock Band 2" songs like 'Painkiller' by Judas Priest on Expert level as a 7 year old. He plays drums nearly flawlessly by ear; he doesn't read music. He'll put a song on and just play it while he listens. I kinda wish he would've been even slightly interested in actually performing.
 
let's just say the curtains match the carpet here.

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As a kid….running with a ball at my feet. Hand eye coordination sucked so baseball was hell to play. Put the ball at my feet and it was just natural.

Now….probably wood working. Not natural like I could just pick it up and make amazing things. But, it’s felt easy to learn new techniques and tools and think through and ahead of those 4-6 issues that are going to come up with any project.
 
RP-29 said:
When I was 12 years old, I bought my first computer with my paper route money from my friend's grandfather (who actually just passed away a couple weeks ago). It was a Tandy 1000 that was manufactured before the Windows operating system became standard on home computers; it was completely MS-DOS-based. On that computer, I discovered the Microsoft Basic computer programming language within MS-DOS and began creating programs using only the "Help" menu that would generically briefly describe what a command did. There was no internet or available syntax tutorials back then; it was all trial & error. In no time, I was creating my own "Mad Libs" and a "Yahtzee" game and all kinds of stuff.

When I was a senior in high school, the school had a new "Computer Math" class that an algebra teacher "taught". I took the class and wound up teaching the teacher more than the teacher taught me regarding actual coding. Needless to say, I thoroughly aced that class (despite getting a zero on our final big project and getting suspended from school for a week for splicing a "Put Her In The Buck" by 2 Live Crew snippet into the program as an Easter egg).

Fast forward, I (nearly) single-handedly created the software that runs my whole company. (My boss had created one form and some code for that form in a software that includes over 100 forms and has since been replaced by my form and code.)
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Pretty cool. I had a similar start, but my family turned me away from programming because they said there was no future.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Now….probably wood working. Not natural like I could just pick it up and make amazing things. But, it’s felt easy to learn new techniques and tools and think through and ahead of those 4-6 issues that are going to come up with any project.
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Let’s see your birdhouse portfolio.
 
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