You have nice hands.
As much as I love music, at 27 I think the ship has sailed for me to learn piano or guitar.
What song do you want me to provide vocals for?
Every key is a halfstep. The white keys are the regular notes, the blacks are the sharps and flats. Harder to memorize scales because you can't rely on translating the gap between your finger. Of course, it's impossible to play the wrong note.
There's this joke that I can only play Wonderwall, but I'm pretty decently legit at guitar. In 2019 my goal is to become a real master."real master"
Breh, all white keys are a Cmaj scale. "iT hArD tO lEaRn ScAlEs" ::)I meant all the ones besides Cmaj and Amin! :bolo
You ain't shit until you're playing gypsy jazz Django Reinhardt pieces in your sleep, tbh
Puppy any tips for classical guitar? It’s my goal to get one this year and learn some classical.4 things and they're contradictory, but that's what it is
I’ll do the narration for you.Combine your crazy schedule with mine? Dude, we'll be ready in 2022. LOL.
No, I didn't say I am a great sight reader, but that wasn't in your post that I quoted. That's a whole different skillset that I am not proficient in, and truthfully have no interest, as I have no desire to do any kind of gigs in a professional capacity. Too old for that and too late in the game. If you think you'll be able to do that in a year's time, more power to you.
Daily Status: 2019-01-02nice. Pretty soon you'll be playing this
- Completed Section #2 of Beginner Piano on Udemy, bringing me to 22% completion for the course.
- Learned how to find any key (A-G) on the piano using some brain tricks. I can name any key now! :)
- Practiced the right hand intro to "Auld Lang Syne" on Flowkey (beginner level.)
Puppy, does learning classical guitar also help with proficiency in other genres? Like for instance, Jazz? Or even metal?Certainly the Guiliani 120 would be perfect on a tele or good for any guitar. The Brouwer 12 should work there too. But once you get to the latter numbers of the Sor 24 you'll likely run out of room to do all the work necessary. I wouldn't try the Villa Lobos 12 at all (though a few Etudes, like #1 do go well on an electric)
Daily Status: 2019-01-02
- Completed Section #2 of Beginner Piano on Udemy, bringing me to 22% completion for the course.
- Learned how to find any key (A-G) on the piano using some brain tricks. I can name any key now! :)
- Practiced the right hand intro to "Auld Lang Syne" on Flowkey (beginner level.)
Daily Status: 2019-01-02
- Completed Section #2 of Beginner Piano on Udemy, bringing me to 22% completion for the course.
- Learned how to find any key (A-G) on the piano using some brain tricks. I can name any key now! :)
- Practiced the right hand intro to "Auld Lang Syne" on Flowkey (beginner level.)
Tasty, I love your gusto here. But a possible word of caution, as you get better and move farther the progress you make will not be able to be measured daily. Or if you did it'll get really depressing. There's been times where I've spent a week working on 4 measures. It can be really depressing. I used to report status weekly so I'd have more to show. I just wanted to point out not to get discouraged when you get to that point where you spend days on one thing. It doesn't mean you're stalled or crap. It's a different kind of progress.
Tasty, is it cool to use your thread as a catch-all for musical thoughts? I'm a philosopher.
I've been messing around with this looper pedal I bought a couple of weeks ago. Man, what a great tool for testing out musical ideas.
What pedal is it?
jagrabag, you should post some of your stuff
Get fully weighted man.
Get fully weighted man.
Rimsky Korsakov is seriously underrated. I always say the best neo-classical Spanish composer was Russian because of him.
I've always wondered, is there a term for a rythmn or bassline that is more or less constant through a song, even though everything else changes for the chorus?Boy, am I going to blow your mind right now
Examples being,
The bassline in Bodies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-_Q8znGMRg
The rhythm in Everlong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG7P-K-r1Y
I'm not listening to 13 minutes of organ music, trying to figure out what's supposed to blow my mind.Your loss. Stay dumb. :trumps
My music theory professor, who had his doctorate in Music theory always quoted Debussy saying "There is no theory. Music cannot be learned."
That confusing asshole!
iirc Berlioz was the first major composer who didn't play an instrument, or could not play his own pieces at any rate.He could play guitar. But he was apparently not very good at it.
I love old timey instruments with nylon (or better yet gut) strinfs. Classical guitars, lutes, harpsichords, they instantly transport you go a long gone era.True story. When I was in college I was approached by the early music ensemble because they needed a lute player and they were asking me to help them. I said OK, and they gave me a lute to use and some tablature. I had to learn to teach myself to learn lute tab (no small feat) and I honestly rather enjoyed it. Not as much as the guitar, but it was a nice diversion. Anyhoo, we play a bunch of concerts and all that then one day I get a letter from the Utah Shakespearean festival offering me a job to come and dress up like a minstrel and play the lute for people at the festival.
:lawd
https://youtu.be/eVabz8LneI4
This is my favourite YT music guy. I like Jak because he's coked to the gills and looks like Bill Murray in drag, but he knows his stuff and he's down to earth. A lot of YT music guys are boring or precious as fuck. Ask James James why he only plays boring 70s shit and it's guaranteed she'll have a mental breakdown and threaten to quit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6N7Y-oHQeQ
I once dated this girl who was in an "experimental" band which made her seem all cool and mysterious. One night I went to see her and her band playing a gig in a half empty pub. It turned out it was just her and 3 Yokos hitting things with spoons. I had to be all supportive and pretend she wasn't a total spaz so I could get into her panties, which turned out to be not worth it. The next day she took me to see some chamber orchestra. I was stuck with her and a bunch of beards watching some divs playing cellos like it mattered. Anyway, the point is you don't even need to learn to play anything cos you can just say your avant garde and nobody will say shit.In college there were several times I was asked to perform with the modern music ensemble. 80% of the performances I did with them I was sight reading/just making it up on the fly. They were always like "Oh man, that was soul touching! Such artistry!" 80% of modern/avant garde music ::)
Tasty doing good :heartbeat
For every guitarist that actually doesn't need theory there's 20,000 playing wonderwall baldy and thinking they're hot shit.
Never understood the "I don't need theory!" people. Unless you're Jimi or Stevie or Randi (who btw he actually knew his theory) why would you not want more insight into your craft?
For every guitarist that actually doesn't need theory there's 20,000 playing wonderwall baldy and thinking they're hot shit.
Never understood the "I don't need theory!" people. Unless you're Jimi or Stevie or Randi (who btw he actually knew his theory) why would you not want more insight into your craft?
Mostly because it's boring and turns music into a mechanical process.
"A lot of oldschool jazz guitarists have a very simple approach to theory. For example, Jimmy Bruno rejects any kind of modal analysis, he just trained his ear very well and knows how each note will sound over any given chord, how intervals resolve, etc. That's theory in itself, but more like theory in practice and very stripped down."
That makes sense to me and I feel like really that's more than good enough for most players, and actually the natural way to learn it over time on your own without really needed to actually study up on theory itself. If you stick to it long enough you'll likely just kind of figure out most of this stuff and likely in a more intuitive and memorable way than studying definitions and vocabulary.
Even 15 minutes a day is better than zero minutes.
I was friends with a guy who was getting his masters in percussion performance and I asked him how it was, he said, "Playing Percussive instruments is less a talent or skill, and more an attitude." Gotta say I can't really say he's wrong.
im interested in a keyboard synthesizer cuz u get to make any sound but it would probably be also distracting to practice on :lol
25 minutes of deliberate practice with a focus on getting better in your weakest areas is better than an hour of practicing on autopilot.
My goal is to get a gig in a band as a guitarist next summer. Have to get good enough by then.
For the most part I've thrown youtube and apps in the trash as far as guitar learning goes unless I want to learn how to play a song or see how a hero/shero plays.
Due to my classical training, I demand structure and unfortunately electric guitar teachers are way, way, way behind classical instrument teachers. So I've turned to books and taking the occasional guitar lesson to check on my progress.
Books >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNG8Jmz5zqI
:heartbeat
Nice! What kind of composing are you drawn to? Or do you anticipate letting the rest of the band have more creative control? Have you played in a band before?
I've basically done the same, in order to try and improve my sheet reading. It's like trying to learn a language but then never visiting where it's used or speaking it day-to-day, you're just never going to be as good as someone who is "forced" to do it regularly.
So I've uninstalled Synthesia. I still use Flowkey as it still includes sheet music, but I wish I could turn off the rest of the UI so *only* shows sheet music (and not the real-time hand positions) as the "repeat a section on loop" part of the app is really useful for practicing, but I digress...
Basically I agree that pretty much all of these new-fangled "learn X easy with just an app!!!" apps are trash for actually learning any kind of long-term skill. But if they work for somebody than more power to them.
This is interesting, I didn't think this was a potential perspective... Why are electric guitar teachers "behind?" Is it just because classical has been around longer and teaching methods are more time-tested?
QuoteBooks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Youtube
Also, YES. YouTube is more trash than I thought for learning this stuff...
I've been listening to Decomposed (awesome classical podcast I linked (https://decomposedshow.org) above) when I take my smoke (#420) breaks, but I'm on the last episode for it now so I'm considering switching to trying audiobooks. I'm actually retaining much more information about each podcast episode despite the marijuana, and it's honestly been perfect for the 5-15 minute gaps I'm outside.
Anyways, just something that's working for me, might work for someone here too. :pimp
Like I said I'm gonna try it with audiobooks about classical music history next. I've always been interested, and have scraped the surface over the years via Wikipedia, etc., but Decomposed has given me an entirely new and exciting way to consider this stuff.
I've been seriously considering buying an acoustic guitar and learning to play.Can ya spare an hour or so a day? Then you can do it.
I played a little bit of piano as a kid and dabbled in bass guitar as a teenager, but never anything more than learning a few songs for amateur gigs.
I really want to just learn to play some Leonard Cohen songs and a few other things like that.
What is the chance of a middle aged man with two active young kids being able to learn to play at least semi-competently?
You can't turn the volume on the amp down?
I guess I take the volume control on my keyboard for granted. :thinking
I only have an electric guitar and it's thundering. I want to jam on my guitar but I'm quickly learning that you can't always play an electric. It can be conditional if you don't have power or there's certain weather conditions. For that reason I need to get an acoustic (preferably classical) so i can play guitar any time I want.
:mindblown
just play it unplugged, i do it all the time
seems like you're just making excuses to buy more guitars
“It’s becoming increasingly common,” Dr. Woods added. “Since so many established bands are doing it, up-and-coming musicians feel they need to as well just to level the playing field. Even beginners started taking lessons. So sad.”
Whew.How's scott's book working out for you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMO-wMy85Dc
Classical guitar is such a beautiful instrument.
Guitar as a whole may be the most beautiful instrument to me.
Also got this as per Puppy.
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51n03tuhkUL._SX373_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
We should all want to be like Bukowski, a miserable alcoholic toiling away at the post office. :doge
Resisting the urge to buy a new instrument is difficult.
I want to post in this thread but I have no confidence
You have very consistent handwriting. :obama
Been a long time since I recorded anything
https://youtu.be/bk9wGwlOkTA
think it came out pretty solid considering both tracks were first take and it all came together in about 40 minutes. I've never been able to get the sound I want out of amp to PC or even with a microphone though :goty
wypipo rap :lawd
(https://i.imgur.com/7BoXGqvl.png)
Time spent practicing this year (in minutes.) Slowly clawing my way back. 😤
Also if anyone has opinions on the Yamaha P-515 vs. the Kawai (:uguu) ES8, speak now before I buy one or forever hold your peace. Leaning towards the Yamaha despite the heavier keys.
https://soundcloud.com/stro-legitshook2
As of today I have finally finished the full cover album for Chinese Democracy that I've wanted to do for years because I'm an asshole. Seemed like as good a time as any to really try to push myself to improve as a player and learn to use my software (FL Studio) that I've had for probably a decade and barely scratched the surface of.
Tbh the most frustrating part wasn't learning the parts or realizing some shit I'm never going to be able to play, but in getting the right amp sound. There are so many variables that go into it, up to and including shit I can't control at all like interference. I'm not satisfied with all the songs, nor the sound on all the songs, but I am satisfied enough to finish it and put it out there. All drum and bass tracks are from the Rock Band 2 stems, but all guitar/piano/synths/strings on every song is all me.
I think I'm most satisfied/proud of There Was A Time, Prostitute, Better, and Catcher In The Rye. Honestly I think the part I enjoyed most was fucking around with the non-guitar stuff. I'm also :dead at roughly 90% of all the non guitar instrumentation (and actually I believe some of the songs on the album do have VST guitars and/or sampled loops) could be almost 1:1 recreated with stock FL Studio plugins. Shit it probably was.
My set up is FL Studio, an Epiphone Casino that probably needs a full tune up and adjustments, a Vypyr amp with line in directly into my PC's sound card. It took me fucking around for a while to realize there's a tool to reduce amp buzz, which sometimes works really well and other times can completely fuck up the sound, again depending on a million variables. But for an amateur that has really never sat down and applied myself and learned most of these songs by ear since there aren't tabs for half of them and I can't read sheet music so piano/strings stuff had to be all by ear by default, I'm happy with how it all turned out.
End of the year update! [...]
Dwight Bell, 64, first heard Mozart’s Sonata in A-major, K. 331, 30 years ago in an episode of The Twilight Zone in which the dolls in a dollhouse come to life. He eventually wanted to play it — a desire that only intensified after he heard Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha’s version on the radio. “It sounded easy to play. Little did I know,” he says.
“I play it when I’m happy or feeling sad,” he continues. “I love playing for people and I love playing alone when no one is listening. Honestly, the piano and the music I create on it has probably saved my life.”
Keep up the good work Andy-kun!
There is growing evidence for the efficacy of music, specifically Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K448), at reducing ictal and interictal epileptiform activity. Nonetheless, little is known about the mechanism underlying this beneficial “Mozart K448 effect” for persons with epilepsy.
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Apart from one other composition—Mozart’s Piano Sonata in C Major (K545)—the therapeutic properties of K448 could not be replicated with other musical stimuli. Stimuli previously tested were other Mozart compositions, Beethoven’s Fur Elise, and a string version of K448.