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Posted by: Rik Veldhuizen Nov 1 2008, 03:17 PM

Having enjoyed GMC for well over a year (since july 2007), I just found out I never introduced myself. Shameful, so here goes...

My name is Rik Veldhuizen, 37 yrs old and living in the Netherlands. Married, 2 daughters...

Started playing the bass guitar when I was about 15 yrs old, nothing serious, just 'inspired' by my father, who was a bass player in a hobby band when I was a kid (that means a lot of Creedence, Pink Floyd and others when I was really young). Played it for a couple of years in a band that went nowhere, but heaps of fun (typical friends band), but stopped playing around 1994 . For many years, I hardly touched the bass at all, though the ability to buy a real american Fender Jazz Bass in the late nineties re-inspired it.

But I wanted to play the guitar as well, so I bought a cheap electric guitar about 6 yrs ago. Great fun to play with, bought an acoustic as well, and 2 years ago I finally laid my hands on an american Fender Strat. A real joy to play.

In the meantime, I added some drums (electronic Roland drums) and keyboard (midi keyboard through Garageband) possibilities after I created some studio space in my house (actually, in a detached garage, also used for office and movie purposes ), so I can now finally play around with all the instruments that I really enjoy. Which of course, leads to a lack of focus, but that's a different story. Sometimes it is just fun to hack around on the drums with Helloween's Victim of Fate in the background, sometimes it's more fun to jam around on the guitar using Led Z as the background.

I'll probably end up being able to play a nr of instruments, but none properly or really well at all... But I do enjoy it all

And now my 7 year old started to play to guitar as well (though she needs a capo on the normal sized guitar that was not being used to make the neck short enough for her . Let's see where that ends up...

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Nov 1 2008, 03:23 PM

Hello and welcome to GMC!! Great to hear about your experience with different instruments!

Posted by: audiopaal Nov 1 2008, 03:25 PM

Welcome to GMC

Posted by: Jesse Nov 1 2008, 04:27 PM

Goeieavond^^

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Nov 1 2008, 04:55 PM

Welcome to GMC Rik

Posted by: Rik Veldhuizen Nov 1 2008, 04:58 PM

thanks!

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Nov 1 2008, 05:46 PM

welcome man!

Posted by: Muris Varajic Nov 1 2008, 06:34 PM

It's never too late to say a few things
about yourself,welcome to the forum.

Posted by: Emir Hot Nov 1 2008, 06:38 PM

Welcome

Posted by: Chokehold Nov 1 2008, 06:42 PM

Welcome

Posted by: MickeM Nov 1 2008, 06:51 PM

Welcome Is that your gear in the avatar?

Posted by: Rik Veldhuizen Nov 1 2008, 07:11 PM

yes, my engl amp and fender are in the avatar...

Posted by: skennington Nov 1 2008, 11:39 PM

Welcome to the forum Rik, hope to see you around here more..

Posted by: Hisham Al-Sanea Nov 1 2008, 11:43 PM

welcome to the site

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Nov 2 2008, 02:48 AM

Welcome, and blessed with daughters as you are, it is your duty to guide them to the guitar

Posted by: Rik Veldhuizen Nov 2 2008, 09:40 AM

I take that duty very seriously... she's got that little roland microcube in her room now, first actual recognizable notes (other than strumming freely) are smoke on the water (well, she's almost there..)

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Nov 2 2008, 05:03 PM

Welcome aboard man, very cool intro

Posted by: Vinod Saranga Nov 2 2008, 05:08 PM

Welcome to the Forum

Posted by: kaznie_NL Nov 3 2008, 11:59 AM

Hey Rik, succes hier, gaat wel lukken denk ik

Posted by: Jose Mena Nov 3 2008, 03:02 PM

Hi There

There is nothing wrong with being a multi-instrumentalist, many singer/songwriters are, I am trying to make my daughter play guitar to, but she doesn't seem interested, she doesn't even like me paying because it draws attention from her. How did you get her interested?

Posted by: Rik Veldhuizen Nov 3 2008, 05:00 PM

Good question. She says she likes the sound of the guitar, when I play the acoustic or even the electronic, and she thinks it is cool to play the guitar (well, it is, isnt it ).

May be the fact that Drake (from Drake & Josh) plays the guitar helps a bit as well...

Also, some friends in her class went to music class in the weekend, and she wanted to join as well. However, I told her to try the instruments at home first before making any decision on going for a paid class (in the weekend, on top of the 2 sports she's already doing; in my opinion, 2 is a max of any obligatory activities for a kid). That's when she started to play around on the guitar...

Btw, she won't play for very long at a time, she can keep her interest up for about 15 minutes max, which is perfectly fine. I'll let her use the guitar whenever and however she likes, and only occassionally teach her a chord (she's still trying the E, Em and Am, she just started .

hope it helps a bit...

Posted by: Dejan Farkas Nov 5 2008, 09:52 PM

Nice to hear from you, never really too late to get introduced

And regarding kids, I think it is important to teach kids about music, but not to force them to play any instrument. Just to show them a good music and possibly it can make them want to learn playing

Posted by: Hisham Al-Sanea Nov 5 2008, 10:12 PM

welcome to the site