Q. I am 16 years old in grade 11. I really want to learn how to play an instrument, (i have played piano, violin and baritone in the past) especially the guitar. I am a fairly quick learner. Would it be worth learning, or will it be a long time before I am able to play anything worth playing? Thanks :)
A. hmm....everyone does learn at a different rate but if you learn fast......then with the right sources you'll be able to play some pretty good stuff within 3 months. i dont know what kind of music you want to play but i learned all of stairway to heaven, crazy train , and i made a song that sounded great on the acoustic all in under 3 months. BUT.....playing guitar, was literally all i did for those 3 months. I'm a quick learner myself because im persistent with it. You could probably learn to play a third of the Offspring's songs in a matter of 4 days if you're persistent with it, because its all mostly power chords as is most punk/pop punk music. this is also something that will help you pick up your knowledge of the guitar really fast if you study it. http://www.guitaralliance.com/guitar_lessons/discover_the_fretboard/notes_on_the_fretboard.htm
its a list of all of the notes on the fret board. DO NOT LEARN SCALES. learn this, its all of the scale put together, but by learning this, and not just all of the scales at different times, you will learn EXACTLY where every note is on the guitar. To find A-minor on that chart you just look between A and B. Also.....if you are not willing to suck up every bit of information you can get and study hard at it you will never become a good guitarist and you'll be stuck with power chords for the rest of your life. Trust me, its a lot of work at first, but once you get going with it you dont want to stop. if you have any more questions you can e-mail me at justmadethis123@yahoo.com
What's the Best Way to Teach Yourself Piano?
Q. I can play several instruments already, but I just heard John Schmidt's "Hymn of Nature" and decided I want to make a real attempt at piano. What's the best way to teach myself? I'm an extremely quick learner and can pick up any instrument fairly easily. What are good programs targeted towards adults/fast learners, or at least some good songs to learn that teach basic chords and playing styles?
A. I am mostly self-taught. I think a good way is to find someone who plays chords either on the piano or guitar and listen to chord changes until you can recognize them. Then try picking out tunes on the piano. Also you can get charts that show how to play the chords and chord inversions. The way to learn to read sheet music is just to practice a lot. If you already read music for other instruments, it should not be hard to apply that knowledge to the piano, but it might take time to learn to read several notes instead of one note at a time.
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What is the difference between TABS and CHORDS for guitar?
Q.
A. I. CHORD
A chord is a set of three or more pitch classes that are perceived as one unit, as if sounding together or belonging together, of which not all pitch classes need to sound, but some may be just implied by the other pitch classes sounding. I'll explain:
By pitch classes I mean that all C's are one pitch class, all D's are one pitch class and so on. So if you play three C's (say, C2, C3 and C4) together, it is not a chord because these are three notes, but the same pitch class (though in very rare circumstances even this could suggest a chord). If you played C, F and B together, this would already be a chord.
By ''not all need to sound'' I mean that you can omit some but you will still hear their presence in a way (and if you have really good ears, you may even really hear it). For example you can always omit the perfect fifth, like in C major chord which is build of C, E and G (the perfect fifth), you can play C and E together, without the G and you will still hear it as a C major chord. These two notes (C, E) are simply enough to define the chord. The reason is that whenever you play or sing a note, apart from that note there are also many other notes that are higher in pitch sounding - these are known as overtones, but you perceive it all as only one tone (the differences in those overtones are actually heard as timbre - like piano has different overtones as a guitar).
There is also a quick/lazy definition of a chord as ''at least three notes sounding simultaneously'', but this is rather imprecise.
Now when talking about GUITAR CHORD CHARTS, these contain the easiest and safest ways to define a chord. Let's look at C major chord again. http://sf053.k12.sd.us/C%20Chord.jpg
Look at the chart. You see that the 6th string is muted, on the 5th string is a C, on the 4th string is an E, on the 3rd string a G, on the 2nd string a C again (but an octave higher than the previous one), on the 1st string an E (again, an octave higher). As I told you, a C major chord is build of C, E and G and you see that all of these notes are played, some even twice.
II. TABULATURE
Tabs is short for tabulature (or tablature) and it's a way to show you which string and on which fret should be pressed. But apart from that it doesn't show you anything, so I suggest standard notation instead. It looks like this:
http://z.about.com/d/guitar/1/0/e/7/bbkin_worwor.gif
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