Q. I recently got a keyboard but I don't know how to play it? I also don't know any instruments I play that could help me with my hand position. Please help?
P.S. My sister could play a few songs just by ear, so I was hoping after I play piano it could help me with playing the violin.
A. Getting a keyboard can certainly get you started in understanding music and creating a melody, but is physically different in learning how to play any violin.
So for now, and if you want to get started short in any private lessons, get a hold of some manuals as a piano chord book for the (musical) major keys, finger patterns, positions for left hand accompaniment (bass and rhythm) and one for right hand melody.
There are CD, DVD and instructional material for starting piano playing at any music store, piano dealer and GC to help build a personal library for reference and practice exercises.
This can help in providing a good introduction to music, but if a violin is what are really after, then you should have started with that first off to at least get use to handling one.
How do I compose classical music without knowing much about Music Theory?
Q. Hi I'm 13 and I'm interested in composing classical music. I play the piano and I love the works of J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart and Beethoven. And I listen to a lot of classical and baroque music. I never liked Modern Music. So I find it easy to get familiar with other composers work. Now I want to compose my own music. Any suggestions?
A. It is possible, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Cesar Cui is the only famous classical composer I know that never studied music theory.
He composed by sitting down at the piano and fishing for chords.
It took him ten years to compose an opera which a better trained composer could have written in a fraction of the time.
It would be good for you to start composing now, but during the meantime, go to the library, bookstore, or Amazon site and start readomg a college theory textbook.
Don't try to understand it all at once; college music majors spend all four years studying music theory.
But read and study as much as you can at one time.
You certainly have the right musical taste.
You named the three composers who are most highly regarded on this forum.
How do I make a grand staff on Guitar Pro 5?
Q. I have to write a piano trio for school, and I need the grand piano to have bass as well as treble. I don't know how to make the grand staff. Anyone know how?
A. I'm using Guitar Pro 6 and according to the NEW Features listing for this version of Guitar Pro the Grand Staff was just introduced in Guitar Pro 6 (see below under NOTATION) so it would not be available in version 5. Here is the list:
This is a list of the new features in Guitar Pro 6 by categories
Notation
ï· Double accidentals
ï· Free-time bars
ï· Simple and double simile marks
ï· Multirests
ï· Double-dotting
ï· Configurable n-tuplets
ï· Fermata
ï· Accented notes
ï· Left-hand tapping
ï· Rasgueado
ï· Arpeggio
ï· Two types of grace-notes
ï· Ornaments (mordent and gruppetto)
ï· Slash notation (above and/or within tabs)
ï· Extended barre
ï· Timer
ï· Grand Staff for the piano
ï· Tablatures supporting up to 8 strings
ï· Concert tone and transposing tone
ï· Partial Capo
ï· 3 clefs
ï· Complete Stylesheet, to entirely customize your scores (symbols, fonts, proportions, etc.)
ï· Instant switch between classic and jazz styles Edition
ï· Improved options for multiple selection
ï· Extended copy/paste (special paste, between tracks, from multiple selectionâ¦)
ï· Chord Library, to enter chords faster on the score
ï· Simplified capture of grace-notes
ï· More intuitive capture of accidentals
ï· Editing over 4 voices, and in multi-voice mode
ï· Click directly on the elements of the score
ï· Reviewed and improved automations
ï· Unlimited Undo/Redo
Interface
ï· Edition Panel
ï· Instrument Panel
ï· RSE Panel
ï· Mastering Panel
ï· Chords Panel
ï· Lyrics Panel
ï· Multi-document interface
ï· Full-screen mode
Sound
ï· Over 100 soundbanks available in RSE
ï· Configurable chain of effects (pedals, amps, racks) for each track
ï· Global tuning of the master track (compressor, reverb, equalizer)
ï· 5-band semi-parametric equalizer for each track
ï· Choice of playing styles (slap, picking ...)
ï· Humanization of playing styles (stresses, autobrush ..)
ï· Perfected WAV Export
Tools
ï· Reviewed tuner (more precise)
ï· Possibility to swap voices, and copy from one voice to another
ï· Scale-search engine over multiple selection
ï· Transpose part of a score via multiple selection
Guitar Pro 6 works so much better than 5 that I'm surprised you have not already upgraded.
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