Questions tagged [learning]
Learning is the act of acquiring or developing skills and knowledge.
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Explain chord progression
I'm just starting learning musical theory and trying to grasp chord progression and modulation concept. I was watching youtube video about evanescence chord progression (C-Em-C-Em), and tried to come ...
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Learning a new piece -- tips to make sure to get all the notes accurately from the start (piano)
As a self-learning piano beginner, I make tons of colored markings in the score of a new piece. First I must highlight all the notes that are included in the key signature so as not to forget they ...
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Why would expectations of students vary largely between instruments?
I have been learning flute for about 3 years, and we (myself and fellow flutists) are basically expected to play whatever we are presented with at the band we play in. We would be expected to play ...
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Shall I stop my daughter's violin practice or how should I adjust
First let me summarize the current situation. We live in the United States east coast. My daughter is six-and-half years old. She started practicing violin two years ago, following the Suzuki method. ...
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Fingering for the higher C for an Irish low whistle in D
I have got an Irish low-whistle in D, and have been searching on the internet for the fingering for the higher C, but have been unable to find a working one anywhere. I also tried experimenting by ...
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Will learning to play another instrument help me to become a better guitarist?
I am a programmer and I do this for living. As a programmer, I've noticed how much difference it makes to learn another language - the quality of your work improves greatly, just because you know how ...
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How do I get back to violin after an 11 years hiatus
I stopped at grade 6 and intend to complete to grade 8. But after 11 years of not touching my violin, I basically have forgotten every single note on the violin. How can I get back all that I learnt ...
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Invert open voice chords
when playing open voiced chords, do I still want to invert them so they fit each other? Or isn't open voiced chords as common to invert?
And when I play chords with my right hand, and bass note with ...
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Mode mnemonics instead of memory
Does anyone know a mnemonic for modes?
I am not asking how to remember what they are, Ionian, Dorian...etc..
I am asking about one that will enable me to know what the Dorian note is in any scales.
I ...
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How did western music label and calibrate around C Major as having no sharps/flats rather than A Major? [duplicate]
This is purely academic/speculative, but wouldn't it have made more sense and been easier to learn if Western music were based on A Maj, rather than C Maj, as having been the one designated to have no ...
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Why do guitar teachers and lesson books teach playing a G Major chord without using your pinky?
Why do most guitar teachers and beginner guitar lesson books teach the fingering for the G major chord using the ring finger to fret the g note on 3rd fret of high e string rather than using your ...
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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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Piano pedagogy: lots of finger numbers? Best practice?
I have a question about piano teaching / learning.
I am a beginner, older student, working through grade 1 ABRSM piano. I know theory (key sigs, note letters, chords, intervals) from rhythm guitar ...
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In which cadence can parents reasonably expect multiple key signatures to be introduced in piano instruction?
If a child starts to play the piano at six (at or about the beginning of Grade 1) with a teacher, reading sheet music from the first lesson, at what point can one reasonably expect the pupil/teacher ...
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Chord Progression ear training
Got this ear training app. And I was wondering what to listen to when hearing chord progressions? How the app work is simple, it first play I-V-I progression in random keys, then proceeds to play a ...
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Am I too old? Is it too late? Starting, Resuming, or Mastering an instrument [duplicate]
Age is a commonly expressed concern in studying music, and there are many questions on this site addressing "late starts" from a variety of perspectives. This post is intended as Link ...
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Are there any effective strategies for memorizing/learning unfamiliar chords?
I'm learning how to play a song on my guitar and there are some chords I haven't encountered yet. I studied the chords and everything one would expect when encountering something they've never seen ...
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Universally effective techniques to read and learn the Concord Sonata fast
I hope this question is not too opinion-based, and if there are any problems please tell me about it.
I'm currently studying Ives' Concord Sonata for my graduation, but I have many other projects in ...
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Modes by ear tips and tricks
Going to learn all the modes by ear. But finding info about is this strangely hard?
Ionian and Aeolian is the same as major and minor, right?
And what about the rest, you guys got any tips?
So far I'...
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Teaching music to my 4 year old
I gifted an 8 key toy piano to my son (Image above) more than a year ago. He played with the toy on and off. Recently he started playing rhymes on the piano after listening to pre-recorded rhymes from ...
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Were there any well documented self taught musicians who struggled to adjust to conventional written music methods?
Were there any well documented self taught major musicians who struggled to adjust to conventional written music methods? By self taught I mean learning, for example, by ear and making up songs but ...
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Does energy in Spotify api featrue mean arousal? [closed]
I have a question about the spotify api feature.
The spotify api has valence and energy features. Is it correct that energy means the arousal of valence-arousal?
Thank you for your reply.
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Using Rhodes Plugin changes loop length in MPC Beats
In a tutorial how to create a simple House Track , I use MPC Beats with an AKAI MPK mini. If you start MPC Beats you'll be asked to open a template or your stuff. I chose open a House template. And ...
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How to restart my guitar studies from scratch?
I have being playing the guitar for quiet a while now(12+ years but more dormant years within this). I am able to deduce guitar tabs of a given song on my own(mostly with some minor errors). I have ...
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Meaning of "Battuta" in Counterpoint
What is Battuta and does it only apply to voice leading by
contrary motion?
For example, in treble clef, if going from "E-G" (major-tenth - that
is, the "E" is in the bass and the "G" is in ...
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How do I play these chords? (Parentheses around chord symbols) [duplicate]
How do I play the chords I marked with red dots? First, in measure 4, can I alternatively play C#m7 and F#7? Why does it sound off with the melody then? Second, the chords in measures 8, 9 and 10, how ...
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Which fingering system is easier on the Roland AE-01, trumpet or recorder?
The Roland AE-01 (digital wind instrument) has fingering for recorder and trumpet. There is no need to develop blowing technique.
I played the trumpet years ago so I can recall some of it.
In terms ...
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Is a semi-weighted keyboard good enough to play classical music?
I recently purchased an 88-key, semi-weighted keyboard without doing my research and only recently found out that the weight of the keys has a big impact. I was under the assumption that they are ...
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Why is the last string on a guitar called the first string and the first string called the sixth string?
I learned early in my guitar playing journey that what I would naturally assume would be the first string (the fattest string) is actually known in proper guitar anatomy parlance as the sixth string. ...
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Is it a bad idea to learn both violin and viola?
I have just started to learn violin. But I was thinking of buying a viola too. Mainly because the intonation is a bit easier on the viola due to longer scale length.
But I wonder how hard they are to ...
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What is the most effective, structured way for an adult beginner to learn drums without a teacher?
I've wanted to play the drums since I was kid. I tried to learn when I was 11 but I lacked the psychological confidence to keep myself on it - my teacher at the time had learnt by banging on his ...
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What does it mean to play "behind" or "in front" of a root scale note [closed]
I've been playing bass for a couple of years now, learning mostly from tabs. Now I've turned to actually trying to learn more than robotically copying bass lines without understanding them. I've ...
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What am I missing about learning French horn?
I started French horn lessons in April and since then I've already "fired" two teachers, both for the same reason.
The reason is that they have frustrated me by refusing to explain how do to ...
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Describing minor triads as 1, b3, 5: convoluted, misleading, or am I missing something?
I've found myriad sources describing “Minor Triads” as “1, b3, 5” with emphasis on the b3. Following an embarrassing amount of head scratching and research, the implication seems to be that b3 in ...
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Do pianists look at the chord letter or notes on the stave to tell what chord to play?
I am doing a piano course and my feeling is that they try spoon feed you every step of the way by making things very VERY simple. One example is when learning chords you are taught to recognize the ...
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Broken 7th chords fingering
I'm learning piano and came across an exercise called broken chords, when you play arpeggios for every inversion of a particular 7th chord.
The problem is that different sources use two types of ...
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Can a 24-year-old learn to play violin/viola proficiently?
I've seen a few of these questions asked, but it seems like most of the students to be where just starting out in music. They didn't have limber fingers, couldn't read notes. That's not a bad thing ...
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How can I slow down a YouTube video I'm trying to analyze or transcribe?
Sometime I want to use a YouTube video to
figure out what notes/chords are being played,
figure out how (i.e., by what technique) the notes/chords are being played, or
transcribe a (part of) a song.
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Moonlight Sonata vs K.331 Andante Grazioso
I learned the first part of K.331 "Andante Grazioso", and I was moving to the first variation. However, I am finding very huge difficulties in learning it, especially when I compare it with Moonlight ...
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Guitar versus electronic keyboard workstation [closed]
Between a guitar and an electronic keyboard workstation, which one takes less time and/or effort to become proficient with just for singing privately in my home with my family?
(for an absolute ...
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Guidance on selecting an instrument meeting certain criteria
I want to preface this question by saying I'm a beginner to music.
I recently attempted to learn the piano. I was fine with one hand but encountered several difficulties as soon as I switched to two ...
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Is it possible to play instruments without being able to read music?
Can a professional musician play a song with an instrument without any written music notes? For example, you could play "I See Fire" immediately after hearing it once without a chance to practice it.
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Researching Music [closed]
I have recently started researching music in the area of music and learning instruments. While my university has given me access to a number of resources such as JSTOR and EBSCO in addition to their ...
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Jazz Harmonic Analysis of "The Way You Look Tonight" [closed]
So I was asked to do an analysis of The Way You Look Tonight, but we didn't need to include the roman numerals. Just the symbols. Apparently it still isn't right, so is there anything I'm missing? In ...
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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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How do you write a chord that has add#9, add-9 at the same time? [closed]
I'm confused about how to write a chord that has add#9 and add-9 at the same time. This is an example. What are the notes?
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Why don’t piano teachers teach the chord method of playing to young children and adults?
I have been playing piano since I was 10 and now I am 43. I have never really been good at sight reading sheet music. I have recently been researching alternative methods of learning songs fast as ...
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Mastering carnatic gamakas (slides, deflections)
I started learning Indian classical violin a couple of years ago. There is a lot of rigor in getting things right with my instructor, and sometimes I feel I'm plateaued and not making progress.
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Are "unobtrusive drum studies" possible?
I have and idea to take some drum lessons with the goal to learn more about rhythm which I really like.
I think it may be good to take also some homework from the teacher, but the ordinary drum set ...
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What is it like studying in a music conservatory?
I hope this question is relevant to this site's themes, if not let me know and I will delete it.I have started to plan the plot for a story that takes place in a music conservatory. The problem is I ...
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