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In many parts of the world, beginner musicians are taught and examined using a syllabus that is divided into "grades". It is a well known shorthand for ability level ("I play a bit of piano", "Oh real …

Just like learning to read, when you're a beginner, you have to think about every step. … In this case, learning where the beats are in the roll, and therefore where a melody fits around it, is part of learning the roll. Practice is everything. …

Let's be very precise about what we're talking about: A MIDI controller is anything that can send MIDI commands to another MIDI device. Keyboard type MIDI controllers are only one kind. But, for the …

The most widely recognised music examining body worldwide is The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music: ABRSM. Although based in the UK, they operate worldwide. There are a number of other e …

Clearly you can "cheat" by only learning two-thirds of the circle. …

So the question becomes -- how often do you need to perform allegro 16ths, while learning the melody of a part? … By the time they need to sing the melody at full speed, they have moved on from the learning-the-tune-supported-by-solfege stage. …

Different people think in different ways, and what works for you may not work for other people. So you need to do some exploring, to find out how your own mind works. Some alternatives to thinking in …

If you have a certain kind of mind, it's possible to self-learn a lot of musical theory, without knowing the academic names for the things you are learning, simply by working your way through a canon of …

Think of the reason you're giving names to notes: communication. So, it depends who you're communicating with, their expectations of you, and your expectations of them. When I play soprano ukulele, …

It's not "cool" but it's great for learning the basics The Beatles Complete -- "easy guitar" or "easy organ" editions. …

As the horn section you met has demonstrated - smoking and brass playing are not completely incompatible. People can play brass, and play well, despite smoking, at least for a period. Smoking definit …

The best advice, I suppose, would be to take some sitar lessons. This will teach you what you're dealing with. You may find that you can't replicate the microtonal Indian scales to an acceptable leve …

Use other learning methods - a teacher, videos, books, etc. so you know the proper techniques. Rock Band in conjunction with books and tuition might be a good combination. …

I'm not sure whether you're trying to play the vocal line from She's Gone on harmonica, or whether you're trying to play the lead guitar part on harmonica. Either way, the principle is the same: diff …

When you were a child, learning to read, you did process each individual letter one-by-one, and it was by doing that over and over again that you eventually built up the short cut of recognising the whole …