Bear in mind know absolutely nothing about playing guitar. Not even basic chords. But i want to learn from zero just so i can make arrangements on my own. What should i focus on? I was trying to play Moon from Turn a Gundam but all i can do is imitate the vocals by sliding my finger on a single string and of course it doesn't sound good enough lol

Will people with breathing issues face difficulties when playing the flute?

Because flute seems to be an instrument which involves breathing control when playing it.

Hi, so I am fairly experienced with music in general and am considering learning piano and guitar at the same time at community college, I was wondering how doable this is. I already know a good amount of theory and have a great sense of music in general but have never played either of these instruments.

So my music teacher often requires me to, for example, increase the speed of a sixteenth note passage by 10-20 clicks per week. Early on, I had no problem with it, but at faster speeds(160bpm) it's getting exponentially harder for me to do so. Another example would be requiring me to memorize a song in a day for a local performance the next day. Is this unreasonable or am I not practicing enough?

*I play 9hrs/week, if relevant

Is it easier to learn the keyboard first then switch to the piano or the other way around? Since they're sort of different. I learnt a bit of the keyboard before but now i want to get serious and i don't know if to continue with the keyboard or the piano. I'd love to learn both eventually, though.

Sorry if this isn’t allowed but I’m a music student and my theory is abysmal idk how I’ve been passing lol but was wondering if anyone could help me understand what the assignment wants from me composition wise¿ I think I need someone to explain it to me like I’m 5. None of my lectures have made sense either ://

Hi. I’m a classical voice major in college currently and Im struggling with my vocal ear training class level 2. We do things in fixed do, my teacher doesn’t teach the solfège for the accidentals which I feel makes this harder for me because I can’t connect the accidental pitch to its own solfège. She doesn’t like it you use a different method that’s not hers. Recently we have been doing a lot of melodic dictation in minor keys and sight singing in minor keys. Even with melodic dictation and sight singing in major keys I struggle besides C major which I’m pretty good at. I did a mediocre job on my midterm. (Melodic dictation in D minor, E minor and A minor, melodic dictation in two voices, and identifying qualities of chords) My final is coming up in a month and week, if I get a atleast a B on the final, she’ll get rid of my midterm grade and let me go to the next level.

Are there any tips on how to help with learning ear training faster with the fixed do method. I’m trying to dedicate an hour a day outside of class time to like plug everything in my brain. But I need like a curriculum on what to practice everyday for my brain to stay focused and make progress. My main thing for help is definitely melodic dictation. (We never do past 2-4 measures in 4/4 and 6/8 by the way)

I’ve been playing violin for 3 years, I had a teacher but mostly practice myself now, I found a old guitar in my grandmas place and after cleaning it and tuning, want to learn. I know teachers are the best option but I can’t get one at the moment, so what is the second best in your opinion to learn guitar?

I enjoy reading the ''which instrument is most in demand'' posts on Reddit, but most of them are pretty old now. The answer always used to be drums or bass. Maybe that hasn't changed.

In my country there's one website that seems to be THE place to look for people wanting to join a band, or for bands that need a specific player. I've noticed that there are quite a few bass players available, and most posts made by bass players get maybe 30 to 40 views in total. In contrast, right now there are only a handful of posts made by keyboardists and each post has like 350+ views.

I started out on keyboard and switched to bass. I think bass is more fun to play, but I see way more possibilities for unique songwriting with synths.

I'm going to be honest. I'll probably never be anything special on bass. And I really want to do something different from everyone else. With synths, there's an extra component in sound design. I believe your playing technique can be super basic, but with proper sound design skills you can do some really unique stuff with it. Anyways, now that I see these changes in demand, I'm wondering if I should switch back to playing synths (would love to learn both, but I just don't have the time for that).

I'm curious what you all think.

Hello everyone,

I am currently a college student interested in learning an instrument. I played piano when I was a little (about 7 years old to 11 years old) but I haven't touched my piano since middle school. On the one hand, I do miss playing piano recently and want to pick it back up. However, on the other hand, I've also been interested in learning electric guitar. It's just so cool, and I like the how much you can do with it.

I think I only have time for one of them. I was wondering if y'all have any suggestions for me. Anything would be appreciated. Thanks!

A short lesson about Tobias Hume https://youtu.be/kF2Zw4WjKRg?si=b4MxIV6zQGhflKaj with English subtitles

I know there are other posts about people with small hands choosing an instrument, but I figured I'd make another post that is perhaps a bit more personalized to my musical interests and specific "issue".

I don't have small hands, but my pinkies are very strange. They're a good bit shorter than the rest of my fingers, and they're also crooked, double jointed, and "weak" if that makes sense.

They're not entirely useless, but I'd be curious to hear your recommendations to a person who theoretically had no fourth fingers.

I would certainly consider percussion, but would also like to know if there are any brass / wind or bowed instruments that could be played effectively without much pinky strength. I enjoy piano but feel that my reach would be limited, and I am not interested in guitar / electric bass / ukulele.

I am a fan of many music genres but I enjoy jazz, classical, and rock.

Thanks for the help!

Playing syncopated music has always been really hard for me. But I made a huge breakthrough today and I wanted to share with folks if it helps others.

So what I discovered is that for me to do multiple things simultaneously and in time, I had to start with some basic coordinated muscle memory and then slowly improve the timing.

This really worked well. It's still not easy but it opens up doors to being able to do this for more difficult material

If you want to read the details of what I mean, please read below...

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I was playing a chord progression on this 4 bar phrase where the bolded text is where I need to play:

1 e + a | 2 e + a | 3 e + a | 4 e + a

1 e + a | 2 e + a | 3 e + a | 4 e + a

1 e + a | 2 e + a | 3 e + a | 4 e + a

1 e + a | 2 e + a | 3 e + a | 4 e + a

It was really weird because I discovered some things about where I struggled:

1. If I just vocalized the notes while I tapped my foot, I was fine. I worked up in terms of tempo using a metronome: 68, 74, 80, 100, 120. I did this with my piano teacher and she said I was accurate.
2. If I tried to play the phrase on the piano with a metronome, I could do it, but it was really hard and I couldn't tap my foot.
3. If I tried to play the phrase on the piano while I tapped my foot, I kept losing the beat, especially on measures 2 and 4. My foot would start tapping inaccurately and I would also start to play imprecisely. My foot had a tendency to want to sync with what I was playing.
4. Even if I didn't play the note, and just tried to tap on the piano, I kept losing the beat like in the second case. This was also at my piano class.
5. If I played on each beat with my left hand and played chords on my right hand, I could do it. I could even tap my foot while doing this. This is something I had done a few weeks earlier both in my piano class and at home.

So my breakthrough came after I got home, by using this approach:

1. Start with a slow tempo (without metronome) the basic muscle memory first. ie: for bar 1:
   1. Tap foot and play chord simultaneously
   2. Play chord
   3. Tap foot
   4. Play chord
   5. Tap food
   6. Play chord
   7. Tap foot and play chord simultaneously
2. Get the timing accurate for the bar.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each bar of the phrase.
4. Put all 4 bars together.
5. Increase the tempo. (although I would also do this sometimes during Step 2).

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INTRODUCTION

Hello, I am a pianist in year 4.1, I joined when i was 6 years old and now im 16 so im in intermediate level still. I'm assisting a music school this is individually and in a group in the direction genre classical.

Apart from piano, I had an online class for 6 months with a guitar teacher where I learned the basics of guitar (I started with acoustic guitar and moved on to electric). I really liked it because there were a lot of different things that had the guitar and the piano didn't, but it was pretty easy for me to learn it (still beginner level). I also learned other smaller instruments like the kalimba and the harmonica.

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EXCEL and NEGATIVITIES

I'm more of an intuitive player and a performer, actually my best manner to learn to play a song is by hearing it alot of times i also developed deafening sounds and only focusing on an instrument in a song around time. My negativities would be the rythmn. (i swear it's the only thing i keep failing on).

QUESTION:

I'm planning to complete my piano and get the master. After i finish it i was planning to learn one more instrument but i can't chose.

(As i learned many other instruments around the years).

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In the past i always wanted to learn to play the Accordeon or the Harp.

Now i'm getting really interested in the Drums i think it would be good to learn it as it could teach me alot of the rythmn and coördination but im also very fascinated by the sound of it. But i'm also fascinated in the sound of the Eufonium it has a gentle yet soft and powerful sound into it that attracts me into it too. In the past i couldn't get any sound of any air instruments while my brother could so thats kind of funny. (this took place where we could try instruments out in the academy open-door day)

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I was wondering if someone could help me choose between them? I know its impossible to learn all of them so i will have to choose wiselly.

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EXTRA

English is not my main language sorry if there are some miss-types + have a hard time explaining whats on my mind. Feel free to ask if there's something u didn't quite get abt me and would be useful for the question it self! ^^

I've been learning piano on my own for a while. What I do is to look for music sheets of simplified versions of songs I like and practice them, for example I learned Zombie and Bohemian Rhapsody. I also try to play by hearing, and I'm becoming somewhat decent at it. If I can hum it, I can play it

However I have very little knowledge of music theory. I know chords and scales, but that's about it. I know that things like Lydian or Mixolydian exist, but I'm not really sure how they work. Also when people start calling chords by numbers I mentally check out

With all the skills I've acquired I was able to write this song, and this is the height of my abilities so far

I feel like I've reached the ceiling of what I can learn on my own, and I'd like to use a book, but I'm not sure which one to buy, in part because they all mention levels and I have no idea what my level is. Too low and I'm gonna get bored, too high and I'm gonna give up

Also, I'd like to have many music sheets for many popular songs that are already for piano and at my level. I don't want to keep "translating" between guitar and piano

What books do you recommend me?

Here are some requirements:-

I need a line to show where each bar or quarter note starts.

The song should be at correct tempo.

Pause and play function. Skipping back and forth few seconds is required too.

Hi All,

One of my relatives gifted me a keyboard Yamaha PSR - E473 and I would like to learn music. But, I live in a small town and do not have access to a music teacher nearby.

Can you suggest any online course/series of videos I can start learning with from the very scratch like hand positioning, finger movements etc. I tried to check YouTube but most of the videos are not structured/beginner friendly.

I would like to start with free learning material and willing to pay if I make any progress in coming days.

Thank You for response. 🙏

First of all, I apologize for my bad English, I used a translator and help from my friend.

Currently, I play two instruments: the guitar and the saxophone. (I've played saxophone since middle school and guitar since the beginning of grade 8th.)  I've already learned a lot about the two instruments, so I'm thinking of learning another one, and I'm stuck between the violin and the piano. I enjoy how they both sound, and I don't care for the cost, but I'm wondering which one I should play. Please give an opinion. Thank you.

So I'm planning on getting into the music world, not really deeply I just want a way to express myself, I really like both sounds of guitar and piano. I feel like piano is easier but I really don't know what should I aim for, I'm not gonna be an official musician or smth I just want to be able to put my feelings into music. Or just play infront of my friends. I've never played an instrument my entire life so idk where to start