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I'd say that a lot of jazz players cut their teeth on classical or serious music, then felt the need to take things further, so into jazz.Most will know the classic rules of music, which still apply in jazz, even if they're not obeyed all of the time. The classical training you probably had may have left you staid in your playing - mine did on piano - and ...
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The existing answers cover much of what I would want to say but I would like to add a few points.
It would be unwise to argue that any one instrument is harder than another: each takes more than a lifetime to master. But it is easier to make really horrible noises on the violin than it is on, say, a piano or a guitar. For that reason getting basic ...
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It's really okay if you're not in to Jazz Music, and still be a professional musician. That case of yours is the same case like those professional rock musicians who do not play classics as well.
Besides, accordingly, it would take you 20 years of experience playing jazz music just to be branded as a Jazz musician. However, if POP is your main genre, ...
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The simple answer is yes - it is of course possible to become a trained professional musician without any study of jazz. There are various extremely successful keyboard players who did not come from a jazz background - take Rick Wakeman, for example.
You will slightly limit yourself if you explicitly avoid jazz, but it is not absolutely necessary.
The ...
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For starters, the recorder is a great instrument that is played by everyone from the absolute beginner up to conservatory-trained professionals. There are some differences in how it is used in European compared to American culture--for starters, almost all professional-level players hail from outside of the US, whereas in the United States it is seen ...
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Child-proof instruments are a rarity. Recorders are pretty well bombproof. They can easily be twisted to accomodate left-handers.It's quite easy to play each note in tune and the tone , whilst not over-pleasing, is acceptable, unlike, say, the violin in the hands of a beginner. The fingering is similar to flute, sax etc.So paving the way forward for ...
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The instrument is simple to learn which causes the player to more focus on all other stuff necessary to become a good musician. Learning to read sheet music, writing it and ear training. The faster and younger you learn these skills the more advantage you will have when you later switch to another instrument as you will then 'only' learn the instrument. The ...
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The reasons (in addition to those of DrMayhem), which I think of are:
easy to find a teacher
affordable even in decent quality
no tuning efforts for solo play
as all other woodwinds: ear and breathing technique trained
traditional instrument for an orchestra
many small ensemble formations and musical styles open to choose
neighbour-friendly (closing the ...
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This is the same in the UK - they are very easy to carry, and relatively easy to learn the basics.
My childhood instrument was strathspey and reel violin, and it certainly did help my understanding of music in general, and my competence in playing guitar. I think any instrument will aid in your learning of musical concepts,rhythm, harmony etc., so a ...
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In order to sight read music you need to build up a learned repertoire of common finger patterns. The best way to start to do this is to practise playing scales and arpeggios, however you must read the scales and arpeggios off the music when you are playing them. For sight reading it is very important to get a good eye to hand recognition, and if you play ...
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The first step in learning to sight-read is to read music, a lot. If you feel like you don't need the music anymore after a few playthroughs, test that assumption by writing out the whole piece from memory. I would encourage you to continue to look at the music while playing even if you do have it memorized though.
Having a deep knowledge of theory will ...
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You're probably going to have to explain this in more detail:
My goal to be able to play a piano piece, however intricate, at first sight, even if my lack of dexterity forces me to play it at an uneven/halting tempo, and/or in an utterly mechanical way.
Playing it haltingly is not playing the rhythm and possibly wrecking the harmony. Rhythm is often ...
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I also have to secondate slim, but would like to add a bit. Im my opinion piano is the worst common instrument to learn sight-reading, since there are so many notes. (Harp would be similar and organ would be worse with the additional pedal voice.) So to come down to a managable amount of information you have to abstract significantly like, "oh we are ...
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I endorse Slim's answer. Knowing the main scales( major and natural minor,perhaps look at harmonic minor) will enable you to put the right hat on for each tune.When you see 3#,and they'll always be the same 3, you know it's in A maj. or F# minor.In A, for example, there'll be maybe more A notes and the tune will generally have F# C#and G# instead of F C and ...
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You probably do need to commit some pieces to memory, and here's why.
As a fluent reader of English, when you see the word "penguin", you don't process each individual letter in your head. You see the whole shape of the word, and immediately get a mental image of a black-and-white bird.
When you were a child, learning to read, you did process each ...
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Ear training is an unfortunate problem here in America. For children during their earliest formative years, precedence is given to visual and tactile learning. While this learning is undoubtedly important, too often are ears left under-developed. If hearing were trained the same way as sight, everyone would have perfect pitch.
If I were teaching this ...
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Listening to myself through a microphone and headphones solved most of my problems with pitch. I spent a very long time dealing with this issue.
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As a piano teacher, you'll be aware of the aural part of ABRSM,et al exams.These could be a basis for starting her pitching.When she practises at home, does she sing along to tracks, backing tracks or what. She needs to bring along whatever , to give you a better idea of how she performs with them.If she's singing acapella, it won't help pitching at all. ...
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You could try severals things:
Intervals training (you can check my answer to this question)
Then have her sing the root of each chords of different chords changes. Then the third, and the five.
Eventually, have her sing intervals that are not in the chords (play root and fifth and let her sing the thirds)
Plus the regular singing exercices:
five notes ...
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