Play a musical instrument? What songs are you learning or have learned?

[KEK Inc.]

As for me, I play the piano.  I played for 10 years (when I was 4-14), and then regrettably quit during high school.  I picked it up about 4 months ago, and fortunately, I was able to pick it up quickly. 

Here's a couple of songs I'm learning:

Here's a couple songs I recently learned:

[NE2]

[expected 4'33" response]

[agentsteel53]

[expected 4'33" response]

what?  you, quiet for 4 minutes and 33 seconds?  unpossible! 

[bassoon1986]

I'm a bassoonist and I'm grad school right now

[Takumi]

I played clarinet in middle and high school. Lost the passion for it years before I stopped, and haven't even seen it since.

I also had a keyboard and a synthesizer, but never really used them to their fullest extent.

[english si]

I played the Saxophone (fingers too small for the clarinet) in the equivalent of grades 3-6, but was never very good at it: I could play all the notes, just not in a tune without knowing it very well - so simple tunes only - and even then I couldn't get the notes the right length, just the right order. I faired better with the recorder, which I played in the preceding years at school.

I find the keyboard might give me potential to play an instrument with some ability as it's easy to pick up and I can play the )right hand) simple tunes almost blind that I struggled with on the sax and lots of practise. However I've heard that the guitar is very easy, so I might give that a go.

[bugo]

I play guitar badly.

[Alps]

Viomalin. Fairly damn good.

[Roadgeek Adam]

I played a mix of the trombone and baritone from grades 4-7. (I never finished 7th grade in a school that had band.)

Of course of all those years, I only had one band teacher that I liked. The others just tended to yell at me. When I got removed in 7th grade, that ended me playing instruments.

[Scott5114]

I played the trombone in middle school/high school, but left it at my mom's house whenever I moved out. Somehow I didn't think the people in the apartment below me would be too appreciative if I played it, especially considering my night shift schedule. I'm considering making an attempt to pick it back up whenever I move into a duplex in June.

[hbelkins]

I played saxophone in high school and in one of the jazz ensembles my freshman year of college. Played in a few alumni band events for my high school while in college and for a couple of years after, but haven't touched the sax since then.

When I was in high school I wanted a career in music. I wanted to be Walter Parazaider. But I realized I didn't have the talent nor the dedication to make it to that level.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

I play a mean "air guitar"

But have since graduated to "drummer wanna-be"

[hm insulators]

I used to play drums a long time ago. Even played in a few bands when I lived in Hawaii.  Nothing famous (Kauai is not a heavy-metal hotbed) but it was fun!

[algorerhythms]

I play the trombone, but haven't played in a couple years. In the physics department here we tried to start up a brass quartet, but we could never find a fourth player, and when one of our trumpet players graduated, we gave up on it.

[empirestate]

I'm a professional musician, so I don't really "learn" songs. I just play them. (I read music, so when somebody hands me a new tune and asks if I know it, I say "No, but I will in a moment.") 

[KEK Inc.]

I'm a professional musician, so I don't really "learn" songs. I just play them. (I read music, so when somebody hands me a new tune and asks if I know it, I say "No, but I will in a moment.") 

What instrument?

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

I'm a professional musician, so I don't really "learn" songs. I just play them.

Poser. 

[BigMattFromTexas]

I currently play tenor sax in my high school band. We don't go to UIL competition yet, but we won our very first band contest, at Schlitterbahn (a waterpark), during an annual contest. Goin' back this May! Hopefully we win again!
BigMatt

[empirestate]

I'm a professional musician, so I don't really "learn" songs. I just play them. (I read music, so when somebody hands me a new tune and asks if I know it, I say "No, but I will in a moment.") 

What instrument?

Piano/keyboards (there is a difference!).

Poser. 

Ah, so you understand as well! You must also be a Professional Musician. 

[bugo]

I'm a professional musician, so I don't really "learn" songs. I just play them. (I read music, so when somebody hands me a new tune and asks if I know it, I say "No, but I will in a moment.")  

I can't read music, but I can read guitar tabs.

[Bickendan]

Entire clarinet and sax families, with a bit on pipe organ and piano.
I play contra-alto/contrabass clarinet with the Oregon Symphonic Band.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Acoustic guitar. I'm not super good, but I can play Stairway to Heaven, and the rhythm parts of many pop and rock songs.

[KEK Inc.]

Here's me playing one of the songs I listed up there.

[kphoger]

I play the following:
Percussion
Drum set
Orchestral percussion including timpani and mallet instruments
Cajón (I own one with a pickup, so I can plug it into a mic jack via DI box)
Djembe
Anything nearby that makes a sound when you hit it

Keyboards
Piano
Organ (not very well)
I once played a Hammond organ for a wedding when I was a teenager

Other instruments
Acoustic guitar
Recorder

My most common pursuits these days are arranging songs and hymns for our church band, and experimenting with alternate guitar tunings (my favorite is Low C).  I used to do a lot of original piano composition, but I find little time for that these days.

[abc2VE]

I played the Trumpet during middle and high school, 2002-09; unfortunately I had much trouble with breathing and achieving the high-end range, so by my senior year I had lost almost all interest. It also didn't help that I was a senior in the last chair in my instrument section and see freshmen play 10x better than me.