How many of you play music?

If you do, what instrument do you play, and does it help you clear your mind/calm down from programming stress?

Just curious.

Electric guitar with a lot of pedals, digital or analog. I also experiment with making pedals myself, vintage fuzzes are the hardest. Also digital synths, mostly pads.

Not play anymore though because of consequences of wrongful “therapy”

I used to play the violin up to 25 years ago.

I also used to play violin.

Violin and piano - though I rarely find the time to play these days unfortunately.

I've been playing guitar (electric and acoustic) on and off for 10 years. No idea how to read or write music but I can pay covers.

It's a hobby like any other, but yeah progressing a skill can be therapeutic.

I play electric guitar and bass. I don't think of it as a relaxing element, but it is training parts of brains that doesn't light up when programming. So maybe it's kind of a mode switch for brains that does good to switch once in a while.

I do play guitar, synths and rhythm drum box.
I always play it, one day without music is not a good day. I can't say if it helps for stress ☺️

@uyouthe that sounds interesting although idk what pedals are

@Voxera @mr-user the violin is fuckin dope and beautiful

@AlmondSauce piano is awesome it’s a shame you can’t find the time to do it more

@CoffeeSnake I’m a believer that you don’t need to write music to be able to play and it and enjoy it 😄

@joas yeah it’s always good to train as much as your brain as possible.

@Dakhtara well it sounds like you enjoy it!

@Bubbles pedals are sound effects. Your raw sound comes in and modified sound comes out. You plug your guitar into a pedal, and your pedal into your amplifier. You can stack pedals, for example add distortion and reverb. They called so because often there is a footswitch to toggle the effect

I play music keyboard when I have some spare time. Don't know notations, chords but mostly I can play 2-3 lines of any song I like. It thrills me to set tune of songs I like by doing experiments & unwinds me for next work day.

@uyouthe ohh I see. That’s pretty cool

I play fx pedals and amps. Sound source is usually a bass, electric guitar or synths. And I want to be clear with it: the effect pedals is what I consider my instrument, not bass or guitar or something else..