Could anybody identify which key I'm in. The chords are played on a guitar and I want to put a harmonica (diatonic) part over it and need to know which key harmonica to get.

The chords are: Em / Am / D / G / Em7 / C D / G

Thanks

Hi everyone,

I've read a few posts in this sub about guitar vs. piano difficulty and loved the answers. The answers helped me understand most of the difficulty curve, but I was left wondering about if that difficulty came from learning the masterpieces or just learning piano technique. Put another way, how much of the perceived difference in difficulty is attributable to learning songs as opposed to technique?

Okay, I've never played music in my life, and I'm currently looking for an instrument that I might really like. I love almost all of them. My options are:

-Electric guitar

-Drums

-Piano

These are the ones that really catch my attention, since I don't really feel comfortable with the bass, and I don't think I'll be able to choose it because I have a lot of doubts about which one would be best for me. I watch videos of the guitar, for example, and I say... "this instrument could be the right one." I watch videos of the drums, for example, and I say... "this instrument could be the right one," and so on with all the instruments I hear or see, and I don't really know which one to choose. At the moment, there are two that I like the most: the electric guitar and the drums. I love them both, but I'm still unsure. Any recommendations for choosing?

Well, I'm asking here because I really don't know where else to ask you, and if this happened to you as musicians or listeners, I'll try to explain myself.

I've always liked music a lot since I was little, the thing is that I can never be a hardcore fan of a genre or band because I'm always changing and the same thing always happens to me:

I listen to an artist, I like a couple of songs or some songs that fit me, I listen to them on loop... but the rest of the songs seem very meh or that they don't really catch my attention or I'm not that passionate about them, nowadays it's impossible for me to have albums or listen to an artist and be a complete fan because I can like 2, 3 or 4 songs by that artist... but the rest of the songs just don't get to me at all...

The thing is that I've been thinking about it and it seems incredibly strange to me, since my musical style is incredibly varied, but surprisingly I always listen to the same thing because I have a hard time finding another type of songs that I really like... it's like what doesn't fit me bores me in some way... my question is, am I the only one that this happens to? Has anyone experienced something similar before making their own music? Any tips on how to find more variety and not die in the process?

I'm a big fan of obscure musicals and songs. The issue for me as a singer is that it can be hard to find clean copies of sheet music when I find an obscure song I love and want to sing. In some cases, I can't find it anywhere, e.g., "Ten Percent," a song which was cut from the musical Chicago and which I've wanted to have a copy of for over a decade.

What kinds of experts/resources should I reach out to to have someone craft sheet music based on a recording? Again, in this case, the only recording I have is from a Ben Bagley "Revisited" album. (I also have live audio of the song before it was cut from Chicago, but that's not clear enough to be useful here.) I expect this kind of service to come for a premium price, but if I can get sheet music made of songs I can't find anywhere else, I'll be happy to pay it.

I know self-promotion is against the sub's rules, so please feel free to DM me in case you have this kind of service to offer.

Hey, so I don't know anything about music. Never taken a lesson in my life. Unless you count a music production course I took this one time after accidentally ordering a midi instead of a piano (still know nothing about theory or anything like that, just assume I know nothing).

Anyway. I want to implement real instruments into my music, but I don't know anything. I figure piano would be better to start with because it makes learning other instruments easier, but guitar offers more versatility.

In other words, I can only play piano learning piano, I could probably figure out bass and other strummed instruments fairly quickly with guitar (I want a leading instrument to start with).

But I want to know your thoughts. How long does learning one versus another take? Do you wish you had learned one instrument before another? All feedback appreciated.

Any recommendations for grants or funding available to small music artists and/or art projects?

Bonus if there are any geared towards R&B & Hip Hop artists or local to the Midwest or Kansas City. Also, for adults/non-students.

All help appreciated!

Everybody pretty high level industry/musicology questions and apologies if this is too simple, but honest question:

Billie Holiday is probably my favourite singer of all time. But she has a very narrow vocal range, pretty limited sustain, and being completely subjective, never wrote an original song lyrically much better than her contemporaries (a high bar, admittedly).

Yet she remains an icon of her time, incredibly well remembered, and has produced such moving pieces that she’s put in categories with Nina Simone or Ella Fitzgerald. Much more technical singers.

I guess the question is: is there an aspect of her voice that, from a purely musical theory standpoint, sets her apart? what makes her so sonically interesting? What makes her so unique?

Ideally a response based in some music theory would be appreciated but equally understand it’s an inherently subjective question.

Thanks in advance.

Hey! I’m a student in college right now and I’m looking for a songwriting/music-related internship for this upcoming summer. I am looking for something in the Christian sphere of music. Let me know if you have any recommendations or openings! Thank you!

Like I genuinely hate social media but love performing, i don’t like talking to people that much but I would definitely write songs for other people, i have no idea how to network in my area but I have friends that are musicians but don’t know what to do with that. I’ve released music on multiple platforms like bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music everywhere idk what I’m supposed to do. Like all my favorite artists have done it the same way but also they are from different times so obviously they all have different ways of being noticed like Elliott smith signed with independent labels, Dead Kennedys got noticed after one gig, Mika released one song in the early 2000s and just was a success got to tour all over the world. I don’t want to make millions of dollars i just wanna make around 30-600 at least, Is that unrealistic? Probably but I wanna tour, I wanna have people say they like my songs, at most just be able to play in my local basement shows and get paid 10 bucks at least. I still got hope cause I suck pretty much anything that isn’t involving drawing, writing music, guitar, singing, album graphic design and sometimes baking. I’m only 18 so still got a long life ahead but I’d rather die than be bored as hell doing literally anything that isn’t creative. But yeah if you have any advice greatly appreciated 😁

I'm an upcoming musican that wants to do rap and r&b (or just any genre that I feel like doing) I had some questions on my mind that i dont know the answer to, I want to be kinda like tyler the creator, do you have any advice for a young musician like me? What are the key steps to being successful? And, should I make a band or group to introduce myself to the music industry?

So I've got a 12 track album I created. They are .wav files. I have them in iTunes with artwork added and all the relevant details. But when I transfer the iTunes folder to somewhere else only the title of the song remains.

If I right click on the album in the folder the get info shows the artwork. I transfered the .waves in that exact folder to Google drive but when opened and played it says 'unknown artist' and no artwork shows.

This is the way I have always done it. Is there a program I need these days?

Thanks

Hi, im in a cover band and were covering a song by the band "the sounds" and need help figuring out how a certain part of the song is played on keyboard. The song is called "living in america" and his this "breakdown" part where the synth plays in arpeggios almost. Any pianist or person good at transcribing music that think thry could help?

Hi all my friends and I have been playing music since years but we just started trying to record our stuff. One of our buddies is a sound engineer using protools in his work so whenever we have a 'serious' project he usually joins the project. The fact is that now im in a different place and my buddy is far away. I want to record my drumkit (7mics) + my bassist friend (1 direct line ) into our zoom r16. Everything is going well at this stage while saving the data on the zoom sd card,, but now we want to record everything directly onto a DOW with my laptop, to play along with a backing track, and with each mic tracks. but i only have Audacity and it seems to have troubles receiving the full audio, or maybe it doesnt handle that many tracks in live recording. Is there a stronger alternative to audacity able to handle 8 or more tracks, with direct monitoring, that can run on a laptop? (And free at best )

Tldr; Pro tools or Logic are too much for my computer to handle in a 8mics recording setup. Is there any good DOW other than audacity worth the try?

okay so i know the title makes NO sense whatsoever, but like when you have a song right, sometimes the vocals go from clean to a little distorted, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwaRztMaoY0 in the beginning the vocals are a little distorted and after a bit they go back to normal. what is that called?

https://youtu.be/AmkMEoVb6rA?si=j_LqvqbFnbuGwqqp

The people of /r/guitars were not good enough to crack this one, I'm hoping you are, I want to learn about it.

Edit: SOLVED. It was a Danelectro DSITAR, caught by /u/slimindie. I am going to show this to my guitar-playing friends.

how do you learn how to just have proper timing for when you play? like playing the chords at the right timing with the melody, playing a note for the right length of time, etc.??

it just kind of baffles me. and i guess another thing to ask is how do pianists use both hands at the same time when they’re playing different notes??

What the title says, in a few days I will start singing and playing electric guitar, I will sing with a singing teacher and about the guitar I want to learn in a self-taught way, the thing is that my objective is to simply sing and play well, and maybe in a long time join a band, as such the final objective is to be able to sing and write my own lyrics and play on stage, the current objective is simply to slowly play and sing and slowly achieve objectives. What things should I keep in mind and what advice could help me? I'm currently 26, any advice, help or something that can expand my learning is welcome, just say that I'm practically starting from 0.

i recently got an electric guitar, but i don’t have much knowledge or anything. where should i start? any beginner videos on music theory or things electric guitar specific??

Hi y'all, what is my vocal range called if it's F3-C10? My friend is a theater kid, and he thinks I'm a mezzo soprank but I just want to be sure. Thanks!

So I really like this song called "No Calming Ride" by the artist Roebeck. The song would be perfect to me except for this one random bass drum in the intro that makes no sense to me. But then again I know nothing about music theory so if anyone could explain me what is happening or if this is some sort of mistake that made it into the final version of the track?

It's at 00:31.

What are some effective techniques or exercises for practicing with a metronome? I'm looking for tips to improve my timing and rhythm while playing an instrument.

My piano isn’t tuned properly, and is completely flat. Any songs I can play with A tuned to 404/405?

https://youtu.be/pbRfBpwiHu8?si=FDuKqPLWXIrDgKdn

Please help me if u can i want to play at my alumni meet

If it is possible, please let me know the methods. Apart from that, it would be great if you can let me know the things a vocalist needs to avoid to maintain the quality of their voice. Thank you.

Hi so the past few years I have had a desire to learn a musical instrument or thoughts like man I think it would be cool to play a musical instrument just to be clear. I like Christian worship music and also note I have mild intellectual disability and have had trouble with fine motor skills and muscle tone at least in the past

Now I will give you my history with musical now when I was kid my parents signed me and my other siblings in paino lessons now I have a older brother and a younger sister now my brother did amazing in his piano and still plays piano for his church my sister dosent play Piano but as I’m writing that is playing trumpet for her college band 😃😀 and then there is me I don’t play anything ☹️ now when I did piano lessons as a kid it felt like schoolwork didn’t enjoy it it was hard I constantly needed help that I got from my mom so much so my piano teacher helped me during recite Anyway it wasn’t enjoyable and so I stoped taking lessons after maybe a year and honestly I was fine but one Sunday night at my church it was the Christmas concert and there was one part where my brother and sister played a song now my brother was on piano and my sister was on trumpet me just sitting in the audience now I thought they did a good job but I was wondering what was my instrument maybe piano 🤷‍♂️

Now about sometime in 2019 our church was looking for a Cajon player and we scheduled lessons with a Decan in our church and so me and my sister and I were playing at the same time and now with a few instructional points my sister was able to get it me not so much I tried couldn’t get it even with my brother playing some tunes on the piano during that I did something I don’t recommend anyone else did I compared myself to my sister which if you compare me and her were not even on the same level of knowledge she did band in high school played trumpet my special needs high school didn’t have a band so and I didn’t play Any other instrument besides that and I have tried to get it played with click tracks everything just couldn’t get it and I end up just giving up but I do still have one in my house so yeah plus my sister says I don’t have rythum so yeah

I’ve thought about learning guitar but due to parents telling me it’s hard and for the reasons in the first Paragraph I haven’t Donne any my only experience is as a kid I would sometimes play with it and that I mean mess with knobs and move my finger across the strings going from the big end to small end

So some closing thoughts so when this comes up in my head there is 2 sides 1 side says Jake come on let’s do this you can play for church you can grow your like for music and you will be able to learn music theory and it’s something you can do in your personal time whenever the other side says Ok Jake what instrument 🤷🏻‍♂️ when are you going to pratice 🤷🏻‍♂️ see why be constantly worrying this but yet it pops up in my head all the time WHAT SHOULD I DO ABOUT THIS