Q. I want to learn how to sing better/sing from my diaphragm, I want to play the electric and acoustic guitar, and I want to learn how to play the piano/keyboard.
Is their any places I could go in (Long beach,Lake wood/Torrance places around those areas I listed maybe a tad bit further if necessary.
People have always told me I sang amazing as a child I sung loud enough for a whole church to hear me but even though people say they don't think I need the lessons I feel I do because I can't sing from my diaphragm. I can hit high notes but it takes a lot out of me to do so. I sing soprano,alto and I dabble a bit in mezzo soprano. I also want to hit low notes like Beyonce does in Halo. My genre of singing is very alternative I sing almost anything. I can sing songs from singers such as Lana del rey to Sarah Bareilles/ Adele/Jessie J/Jojo/Beyonce etc. But I want to sing those songs without harming my throat.
I want to learn how to play my acoustic electric guitar and my electric guitar and play any kind of song without restrictions. (How do you think taylor swift and miley cyrus take care of their hands? I've heard you develop calluses when you play the guitar but I never see it on their finger tips)
I would like to learn how to play the piano as well so that I can play my keyboard at home I want to be able to play any song that I here.
Can anyone help me out I hope that was a good description of everything.
A. California (especially in the LA basin) probably has more singing and piano instructors than anywhere else in the country. The Musicians Institute teaches both: http://www.mi.edu/index/
Singing: Search Google for singing lessons in your area - there are many.
Piano: Search Google for piano/keyboard lessons in your area - there are many
Before you spend a lot of money, you might want to try out all the FREE lessons on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=singing+lessons&oq=Singing&aq=2&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=40986794l40992121l0l40999389l7l7l0l2l2l0l590l1423l0.3.0.1.0.1l5l0
This lady is especially good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmwA0m7e6s
I don't know how old you are but, if yo are still in high school or have not yet entered high school, I believe that most schools in LA teach singing and some may also teach piano. There are some very good piano lessons for FREE on YouTube as well: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=piano+for+beginners&oq=piano+for+&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=123982l128250l0l133533l10l7l0l1l1l0l314l1412l0.1.4.1l6l0
I taught myself to play the keyboard and I thought it was pretty easy to learn the basics on your own. The difficult stuff stuff comes when you want to learn to play piano solos. If you only want to learn to accompany yourself while you sing, all you really need is a good chord book and Chord Wheel and the book "Music Theory for Dummies" (you will need to know some music theory).
Good Chord Books: http://www.amazon.com/Keyboardists-Picture-Chord-Encyclopedia-Piano/dp/0825611326/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329060093&sr=1-4
http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Chord-Progressions-Alfred-Handy/dp/0882844008/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329060195&sr=1-4
Chord Wheel: http://www.amazon.com/Chord-Wheel-Ultimate-Tool-Musicians/dp/0634021427/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329060195&sr=1-1
Music Theory for Dummies - http://www.amazon.com/Music-Theory-Dummies-Career-Education/dp/1118095502/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329060363&sr=1-1
Piano for Dummies - http://www.amazon.com/Piano-Dummies-Blake-Neely/dp/0470496444/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329060363&sr=1-5
Singing for Dummies - http://www.amazon.com/Singing-Dummies-Sports-Hobbies/dp/0470640200/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329060363&sr=1-6
how to arrange guitar chords for a song?
Q. Usually, if you look up a pop current day song and how to play it, it usually has an intro pick and just 4 chords for the rest of the song. I have tried playing guitar to a few songs by looking at the notes and the piano sheet music. Most of them have already chords on top of the music but the ones that are on the piano sheet music are the more specific ones to go with every single note of the lyrics, which mean there are at least 20 difference kinds of a chords for one song. How do people arrange the music for the guitar so that it's somewhat simpler and has around only 4 chords so that I could memorize it easier?
(It would be great if you gave me an example.)
A. If a song only has four chords in it, that means that song only required 4 chords to support the melody. Usually that is a pretty simple melody. The chords that you see at the top of piano sheet music, are only the basic chords required to support the melody. If there are more than 4 that means that those chords are required for changes in the melody in order for the song to sound in harmony. When you delete a chord that needs to be there, it is not going to sound right an if there is a vocalist trying to sing to those chords it may be difficult for them to sing in tune. I'm sensing that you believe that any song can be reduced down to only four chords. That is not true. Even the songs that you believe only have four chords probably only have four chords in the verse but, when you arrive at the chorus for that song, you will find that new chords are introduced in the chorus. I play the guitar, bass and keyboard and I also sing and write music. In my opinion, it would help you a great deal if you purchased Hal Leonard's Picture Chord Encyclopedia and learned some more chords. I taught myself to play guitar so I could accompany myself when I sang. One of the things that makes an accompaniment sound really good is when the all the chords are there including interlude chords that move the song in between the verse and the chorus or bridge and chorus, etc. I think once you learn more chords, you will see how and why they are necessary.
what does nocturne mean in music terminology.?
Q.
A. An instrumental composition of a pensive, dreamy mood, especially one for the piano.
Music Encyclopedia: Nocturne
A title used by Field, Chopin, Fauré and others for piano pieces suggesting night and usually quiet and meditative in character. Orchestral nocturnes include one in Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Debussy's Trois nocturnes.
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: nocturne
Nineteenth-century character piece for piano. The name was first used c. 1812 by the Scottish composer John Field (1782 â 1837) for works employing a lyrical melody over an accompaniment of broken chords. Frédéric Chopin's romantic nocturnes, similar in style, are the most celebrated.
Columbia Encyclopedia: nocturne
(nÅk'tûrn) [Fr.,=night piece], in music, romantic instrumental piece, free in form and usually reflective or languid in character. John Field wrote the first nocturnes, influencing Chopin in the writing of his 19 nocturnes for piano. Others who have written nocturnes include Gabriel Fauré and Francis Poulenc for piano, Debussy for orchestra, and by extension Béla Bartók in his night music pieces.
Music: Nocturne
A night-piece, or serenade.
Work of art concerned with evening or night, especially piano.
A nocturne (from the French for "nocturnal") is usually a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night.
The name nocturne was first applied to pieces in the eighteenth century, when it indicated an ensemble piece in several movements, normally played for an evening party and then laid aside. Sometimes it carried the Italian equivalent, notturno, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's quadraphonic Notturno in D, K.286, written for four lightly echoing separated ensembles of paired horns with strings, and his Serenata Notturna, K. 239. At this time, the piece was not necessarily evocative of the night, but might merely be intended for performance at night, much like a serenade.
In its more familiar form as a single-movement character piece usually written for solo piano, the nocturne was cultivated primarily in the nineteenth century. The first nocturnes to be written under the specific title were by the Irish composer John Field, generally viewed as the father of the Romantic nocturne that characteristically features a cantabile melody over an arpeggiated, even guitar-like accompaniment. However, the most famous exponent of the form was Frédéric Chopin, who wrote 21 of them. Later composers to write nocturnes for the piano include Gabriel Fauré, Alexander Scriabin and Erik Satie (1919). One of the most famous pieces of nineteenth-century salon music was the "Fifth Nocturne" of Ignace Leybach, who is now otherwise forgotten.
Other examples of nocturnes include the one for orchestra from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1848), the set of three for orchestra and female choir by Claude Debussy (who also wrote one for solo piano) and the first movement of the Violin Concerto No. 1 (1948) by Dmitri Shostakovich. French composer Erik Satie composed a series of five small nocturnes. These were however, far different from those of Frédéric Chopin and John Field, based on minor chords.
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