Q. So I got a PDF of this piano piece. I can play the right hand part no problem. The problem is, I learn keyboard, not piano, and we haven't been taught to read left hand chords in piano music (keyboard music just has chord names written above the right hand part - there's no actual left hand music on a stave). So what I'm wondering is, is anyone willing to take a look at the piece and just list off the chords for me?
If you give me your email I'll send you over the PDF file. The left hand is just chords (I can recognise a chord, just not know which one it is), there aren't any complicated bits. All I'm looking for is names of chords - C, Am, D7, etc. Any help gratefully appreciated & I will give Best Answer to whoever agrees to this. Or if you can give me a link to a website that shows chord names and chords on a stave, that would be awesome too.
Thanks in advance.
A. Send me the piece and i will write you the chords
Tips for a beginner bassist?
Q. I'm starting to learn bass any advice? I'm self teaching myself.
A. :) The bass is the most boring instrument to learn alone (by yourself).
If you can immerse yourself around other musicians (preferably of a high caliber) do so. If not...
1. Get yourself a good set of headphones (be careful not to blow your ears out), a head amp, and mp3 player/cd player and a boatload of songs that you like and try playing along.
http://www.zzounds.com/prodsearch?q=bass+headphone+amplifier&pa=29&key=q&form=search
I prefer the Rockman had mine for 10 years and still going strong. The VOX is to flimsy. REMEMBER GET A GOOD SET OF HEADPHONES.
2. Begin your studies.
A. Learn your major scales, well. Learn to play them extended up and down the neck so that when you are playing a song you don't get lost.
B. Learn the "NASHVILLE NUMBER SYSTEM". This will help you a lot in your theory understanding.
C. Get generalized understanding of chords and progressions.
D. Get a generalized understanding of music theory (this is easier understood if you use the piano as model).
E. Surround yourself with other bassist, if not on a physical level at least through online forums
Here's a list of websites to get you started on the "good foot" in priorty order
http://www.simplebassplayingsystem.com/bass-ignition-crash-course
Lot of good free info, tabs, backing tracks, etc. Get to know this guy and maybe even purchase some of his training materials as you improve your playing.
http://www.cyberfretbass.com/beginner-bass-lessons/
More traditional learning methods. Try to sequence you learning through this site
http://www.studybass.com/
Another good site with plenty of freebies..
I wish you the best in your pursuit...
BTW here's some other sites to help with theory, please don't overwelm yourself. As I said in the beginning, if you can surround yourself with other musicians your journey will be a lot less stressful and and a heap big more enjoyable....
http://mugglinworks.com/chordmaps/
http://pianoencyclopedia.com/...
http://www.quiescencemusic.com/creativeatpiano.pdf
B.
Problem with reading Sheet Music?!?!?
Q. hey people! Any help you can give here is going to be realllly helpful.
so, I play the keyboard/piano, and I know the keys and octaves and scales and stuff (the basics), but everything I play till now has been mostly from ear and I suck with my left hands and chords(but never mind that for now). Anyway, I want to learn to read sheet music and I watched a couple of youtube vids and hung around a couple of sites for dummies etc, so now I have a basic idea of what note falls on which line of the staff and a few things about the flags. Other than that, I'm pretty much blank.
So now, I tried playing lilium (elfen lied) from the sheet. I can already play it from ear and it's pretty good. but when I tried with the sheet music, I'm lost. I mean, well take a look.
Here's the link to the sheet. http://ichigos.com/res/getfile.php?id=1000&type=pdf&token=1bda4c789c38754f639a376716c5859f
and if that doesn't work: http://sebastianwolff.info/news/2011/04/elfen-lied-lilium-sheet-music/
(he's got the link to the sheets)
So, now here's what I play (the right hand part)
F# C# G# AA (the first line.)
Buuuut, that's not what's given in the sheet(?)
Um, also, can anyone tell me what those D#/f, and stuff above the staff mean?? Please?
A. Hey there :-)
Ok, first, what you have played in your right hand is correct :-) The first line is indeed F# C# G# AA, and the second line is F# C# G# A B A F# ...
Why do you think that you are playing it wrong? :-)
Those letters above the staff indicate the Chords/Harmony. You don't need those in order to read the sheet, they would be useful only if you, for example, wanted to play the melody but improvise the accompaniment. The "Grave (Crotchet)=60" indicates the tempo (60 beats per minute). The symbol that appears below "Grave" which is like a half circle with a dot in the middle is a "fermata" which means you have to sustain the note/pause for a longer than normal duration. The symbol below the "60", which is two short diagonal lines, is a "caesura", which indicates a small pause, like a short breath.
You can find those symbols and much more here (and what they mean):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols
Hope that helps :-)
Good Luck!
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