I had a toodle on my friends one, but the mouth work is harder to master than my sax, I didn’t get the hang of it. If I had more time…
This post is great out of context.
NEVER END A SENTENCE IN A PREPOSITION.
Fuck that. It is one of the least important rules of grammar ever.
Which makes it so fun to point out. 
I play Drumset most of the time.
I also play the MIDI controller keyboard I have, and some day wish to get my hands on a Hammond B3 organ.
I play:
Bass (self-taught and pretty damn good at it if I do say so meself, regularly gigging these days)
Keyboards (officially grade VIII piano, but haven’t played seriously in over ten years now, which sucks)
Voice (Grade VIII singing, yes, you can take singing exams. And one’s voice so is an instrument, albeit one that’s built in and that you can’t see the controls for, but nevertheless, it’s definitely an instrument if used proper like)
have lusted after one of these:
for about 10 years, still haven’t managed to save the $2100 required though :FFFUUU:
I have a third of that money. And I’m 13.
I have kids.
'nuff said.
Oh, so you’re a drummer?
no, I’m a bassist. and, more concerningly, I’m old enough to be most of the people on here’s father :fffuuu:
The image of you beating your kids with drumsticks was funnier :<
okaaaaaay.
[sidles away from the person who thinks beating kids with drumsticks is funny]
Ok so i know theres a ton of piano players in here, maybe you can help me figure out how the fuck i’m supposed to play a C7 with my left hand… do I hit the G with my middle finger, or my thumb? Or do I hit the B flat with my thumb? This shit is killing my hand no matter what I do.
Play it reversed if you can it’s way easier. If you can’t play with your 1 to 4 fingers.
sorry if it doesn’t make sense, I’m not used to english terms[/SIZE]
you mean play the Bb as the root, instead of the C? Or something else (it’s not about the english, more like my lack of music knowledge)
Oooh, you’ll be one of the sexy intelligent violin players!
:jizz:
Well you can either do it with C E G and Bb or G Bb C and E. I recommend the latter, it’s less weird for the fingers.
… Or you can do the hard thing and actually do some practice; after a while the pain lessens as you get used to it. I used to find Cdim7 (as it actually technically is; C7 goes: C-E-G-B, but I digress…) a royal pain in the arse, with practice it’s better, though it’s probably always going to be a slightly awkward chord to play.
I found that hopping from one inversion to another (i.e. C-E-G-Bb, Bb-C-E-G, G-Bb-C-E, E-G-Bb-C - them’s are inversions, just in case your theory’s letting you down there!) helped build up strength, flexibility and accuracy.
Another thing that helps is doing “broken chords”, or arpeggiating (i.e. playing the notes of the chord sequentially, rather than together: C-E-G-Bb-E-G-Bb-C-G-Bb-C-E and so on), which helps stretch the fingers to the positions required.
Sadly there’s no easy route to awesome on any instrument, or I would have taken them on bass & keyboards by now!
[edit]Also, I just realised that you’re playing the chord with your left hand, in which case you probably should have the C as the root (i.e. bottom-most) note, C-E-G-Bb. You can miss out the E for most purposes though, (i.e. C-G-Bb) leaving an “open” Cdim7 chord, this is a far more natural position for the hand and also leaves the right hand freer with it’s chordal voicing (you can switch from major - C-E-G - to minor - C-Eb-G - really easily if you’re not playing the E in the left hand).
All of this depends on what the music requires, whilst it won’t sound off key if you use a different inversion, it will change the nature of the sound (and, effectively, give you a different bass-note, depending on a) your inversion and b) if there’s someone else playing the bass with you, in which case you can get away with whatever’s comfy!).
Apologies if I’m teaching you to suck eggs though!
Ivories.