Questions tagged [learning]
Learning is the act of acquiring or developing skills and knowledge.
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How does one "practice conducting"?
This is my first post on the site!
I'm 15, a pianist, and have been interesting in conducting for a long time. I know quite a bit about it, I bought a book on it, have a few batons, a favourite ...
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Start making guitar arrangements
I play classical guitar and usually, I like to play music from movies, video-games or popular songs. However, there are very few classical guitar arrangements for this type of guitar, while there are ...
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A beginner needs help here (acoustic guitar) [closed]
I'm new here and I have a set of questions.
So basically, I am a beginner in playing an acoustic guitar. I have a few questions and I'll put them together in one thread because, I don't want to ...
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Didactic impediments of using simplified versions
I have been discouraged (read: told "don't do that!") from using a "simplified versions" book of famous pieces, and I've read also here many questions (for example this one, or this one). They ask, ...
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How to learn to play the pipe organ?
I have been playing piano for about 13 years now. I want to go to the next level: playing church pipe organs.
A few weeks ago, my dream to play a church pipe organ became true, after a Catholic mass ...
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Starting violin with previous music experience
I have a question with probably not such a straightforward answer, but I'd love some guidance.
I'm 25 years old, and I started learning the piano when I was 11 years old. After 5 years of learning I ...
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Is reading bass clef by reference to the corresponding position in treble clef a bad learning method?
I've taught myself to play the piano when I was young, but I never really learned to read sheet music. Usually I would just look at a synthesia tutorial online or try to do it by ear (which I'm not ...
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Playing Piano By Rote
Despite playing keyboard / piano for many years, I don't think I could play a single piece from memory. In one of my earliest lessons, my teacher specifically told me not to learn the music by rote. I ...
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Would it benefit a beginner pianist to start by learning Bach's Prelude in C?
I'm asking for objective reasons why this piece can be quite useful for beginners, specifically those who cannot yet read music. I'm not asking for meanings or arguments as a discussion but for ...
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I can learn guitar fast, but I haven't got the nerve to sit and practice for hours, how to practice for long sessions?
I've been playing an acoustic guitar for 5 months or so. I noticed a little problem on my way to success.
I feel as if I'm not getting to my potential of playing.
I'm not impatient - I know it takes ...
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LEARNING to play a Cabasa
I enjoy clapping in church while choir sings. I want to buy a Cabasa instead of a tambourine. Do I need to take lessons just for this use.?
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How to apply Tuplets properly?
1. About Quadruplet.
A quadruplet is a note-grouping of 4, played in the length of 3 of its note-type (4:3).
But I'm wondering can we use the quadruplets spanning less and more than 3 notes (ratios ...
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Should I practice on developing Hand Independence from the start?
So I started learning Piano a month ago, and it was hard getting my left hand involved in the beginning. Eventually I figured out that its more manageable if I just map both my hands to the beat ...
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Why do lower pitched string instruments have a larger body?
I know that increasing the length of the string will decrease the pitch, but that doesn't explain why the body of a cello is larger than a violin, only longer.
What would be the "problem" with ...
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I want to play electric guitar, but should I start with acoustic?
I'm 17, and I really want to learn guitar and drums, but for now I want to start with guitar. I have always loved the sound and style of the electric, but I have already played around with a acoustic. ...
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Path for learning cuica
Really hard to find anything for this lovely crazy little thingy. Can anyone give me hints for a learning path?
What are the first skills I need to acquire? Even sounding up and downstrokes I guess? ...
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Only one key possible to play in for harmonicas?
Harmonicas are always tuned in a certain key. Does that mean that I can only play songs in that key on it or that it is just harder to play something written in a different key?
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How should I learn piano being a long-time guitarist?
I'm a guitarist and know a good lot about music theory (don't know sheet reading tho, 'cause I'm lazy lol). I don't have THAT much free time and I know that learning a new instrument requires a lot of ...
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Mnemonic or memory aid for Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Marimba, and Vibraphone
I am a choral director who has been transplanted to concert band. I know the differences between the percussion keyboards in theory, but in practice I still need to do an internet search to remember ...
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Can one be too old to learn an instrument?
I own a guitar. I've owned it since I was about 13, but never really got into it because I was a spiteful teen who wanted to play the drums, and went out of my way to play the drums instead (to the ...
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Transitioning from music theory to composition
I have a good foundation in music theory (ABRSM grade 7 and currently studying grade 8) but don't know how to begin when composing my own works. My main emphasis is Baroque music.
Are there any ...
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Rhythm question about piano sheet notation
This is a part of the song that I want to play, but I'm not sure how I should play the rhythm in the 19th and 20th segments.
I'm a bit confused over the sixteenth notes, at first I thought the ...
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Is there midi software that can show me if I'm hitting notes on the beat?
I'm practicing phrases with a metronome and I can tell that my fingers are sometimes not hitting the individual notes at the proper time, even if the overall phrase starts and ends at the right time.
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Carnatic Vs Western 12 Note system
I was trying to learn the chromatic scale and associate it with carnatic equivalents (I know equal temperment is not the way with indian music, but it interest me to relate and learn it to certain ...
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Is there a way to turn sharps and flats into natural notes?
I realise this might be kind of a silly question, but I recently got a kalimba and I am trying to turn various piano songs into kalimba songs!
My kalimba is tuned to C major and has 17 keys; no ...
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Who particpated In formal musical grading education in England? [closed]
England has produced some very successful musicians in the popular music field in the past five decades. Elton John, The Beatles, The Stones, The Moody Blues, and countless others. But in the U.S. we ...
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What is the best way to learn to play songs by ear using chord patterns?
Is there a simple technique to construct or memorize chord pattern of a song If I know the main chord of a song? Also, how to guess the next chord while playing a song. Specially with a guitar.
I ...
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Should I learn the violin first before I learn the cello?
I love the cello and would love to someday be able to play Bach's cello suites. It has such a warm sound. But 1 thing deters me from going straight into learning the cello, the price of it. I looked ...
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Shaped notes to standard notation
I grew up reading shaped notes and have a firm grasp on this. However, it is necessary that I become better at reading standard notation. I understand how it works since both methods are essentially ...
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"Along the way" ear training in your daily routine
I am an amateur musician, not good at ear training. But I want to improve, unfortunately my time is limited as music is just a hobby. So in this post the author suggests doing ear training in your ...
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How to play notes over one and a half octaves/am I reading this music wrong?
I've been trying to play this piece:
Focusing on the left hand for the highlighted bar, it looks like it doesn't fit in with the 9/8 time (7 beats in that bar I think). But if I try to play them ...
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Record multiple mics on one line
Is there a way I can connect two or more headset microphones to a single jack to record drums?
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How long can it take for a young adult to learn piano? [closed]
I am 18 and I would like to learn piano. I’ve played clarinet in a school band since I was 10 so I know everything about timing and I can read treble staff in sheet music (not bass though). I started ...
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Is it hopeless in terms of becoming decent musicians, if they can't count beats?
My flesh-n-blood guitar teacher has tried to get me to count beats (verbally or at minimum in my mind), and I think that I've tried reasonably hard in doing so for few months now. However I've come to ...
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Do I need to memorize my exam pieces if I don't plan on sitting the exam?
Piano pupils play exam pieces from memory which takes a lot of time. Is it necessary for me, an adult teaching myself, to memorize exam pieces when I don't intend to sit for the exams? As well as ...
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Weird 16th notes (I think) in score, not sure how to count them / not sure of their value
I found this weird grouping of notes in a song I'm trying to learn and I want to understand why they are played the way they are. I can listen to the song and replicate it but I don't understand why ...
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Its more difficult to play tremolo on a single string
I started to learn the tremolo technique (the p-a-m-i-variant) from classical guitar, and for example used in the famous Recuerdos de la Alhambra piece by F. Tarrega, a month ago. As far as good, but ...
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Can I "dive headfirst" into reading sheet music?
I've been playing piano for about 10 years, and in that time I never really learned how to read sheet music. I have a very good ear, and usually just figure out pieces through listening to the ...
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how to learn to play lead parts like this?
This is a song (
) i like from my country. I like the touch of that lead player. This song is in F major. How do I learn to play like that? Do I need to know the F major ...
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Musical Training to help with taking up Cello in the fall
My daughter is 8 and has been taking private piano lessons for around 3 months now but will take a break from lessons over the summer. In the fall (when school starts back up) she will be taking cello ...
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Between a guitar and a ukulele what should one consider when choosing a new instrument to learn?
I really want to learn to play a musical instrument. Ever since my "keyboard" lessons as a kid 3 decades ago - I have been put off.
I learned songs on keyboard by "rote" i.e., the instructor ...
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Why are there transposing instruments? [duplicate]
I just play guitar and harmonica, but I understand that some instruments are considered transposing instruments. Nobody has ever explained the reasons for transposing instruments other than they are ...
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Practical audiation suggestions related with a specific song
In order to enhance my very poor audiation I want to begin transcribing songs and so I've started with a supposedly easy one (and I believe it really is), counting the number of voices, the ...
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How young could a child start learning an instrument?
I play the guitar and have always tried to include my son in the fun when I play. He's 9 months old and seems to always like listening to it so far. Recently he has become very curious about the ...
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Learning an instrument with visual impairment
I have been lately delving into instrument learning now that I can afford some gear and lessons I am seriously thinking into dedicating into it.
The thing is I only have one seeing eye - the right ...
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Beginner at piano with music experience trying to find a place to begin
Recently, I have started playing the piano, but I don't know where to start. I have experience playing the guitar and have 7 years of choir experience: 3 years in middle school and 4 in highshool (3 ...
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Should I start learning a piece of music?
I want to play a piece X, for sake of argument, let's use "Fantaisie Impromptu" by Chopin. How do I decide whether this is a good piece to play to expand my repertoire next?
I am looking for factors ...
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Very little time to learn pretty complex songs. What should my strategy be?
I got invited to join this band. They've got plenty more experience than I do, but I've been playing with one of the members for quite a while and, I guess, I wasn't doing so bad, since he's now ...
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What are the disadvantages of not warming up?
In other words, what are the disadvantages of playing at the limit of your technical abilities straight away, without warming up first? Why is warming up usually recommended?
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Teaching a left-handed drummer on a right-handed kit?
After several months, a drum student of mine still seems naturally to lead with the left, despite practising on a right handed set up kit. It was at my suggestion. I'm at the point where I'm ...