Q. I would like to learn a easy-ish popular guitar piece to play for my boyfriend. I am technically a cellist, but I know the basic chords, music theory and such. any suggestions for a romantic but not corny song?
A. you know whats good to do.
write your own song. sounds funny i know. but sit down and take some cords you know, and play randomly until you like how it sounds. write them down so you dont forget (dont worry about neatness) and do another and keep going. after you have alot written down (this may take lots of time, months its self) mix them together. and then after you have something that sounds nice, you might change things up , write out the notes and cords, then go to this web site, and print out what you need. http://www.blanksheetmusic.net/
and write them it. and look you wrote a song.
this will help your playing skills more then actuly learnign a song. it teaches you how to listen and pick out good and bad sounding cords together. it will help your reading music abilty because your writting it from paper to staff paper. AND its your own creation, it something that wont become anything good with out all your own work. so you can tell your progress. and it will keep you determed on playing and going.
even if you dont want to be a music writter someday. THIS is something you should do. i promise if you try it and finish what you started youll enjoy your guitar skills much more then you did before. because youll need to dig deep and learn more then you ever could just printing out a song and reading it and playing it.
i do this with piano, guitar and drumming and im glad my teacher MADE me with piano because it helped me alot. and now i want to someday publish what i write. so you never no what will happen.
What are the things you will learn in a music theory class?
Q. i mean like the staffs? notes? can you tell me please..
thanks
and also, will learning music theory helps me learn piano too? even if i dont have piano yet?
A. I learned quite a bit in a semester class. Four different clefts/notes, musical notation, ear training, intervals, triads, chord construction, inversions, and so much more. Yes music theory will help you play the piano (even if you don't have one). You'll know how to put things together, it's just learning what is where on the keyboard.
What should I know to be able to improvise well on piano?
Q. I've been playing for a year and know all the basics of chords scales and music theory, but I'm stuck in a rut of not knowing what else to learn except more songs. I want to be able to jam with my friends but I can't improvise at all because I don't know what to play, what should I learn or do to be able to improvise on the piano?
A. There is most definitely no simple answer to this question.
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One of the simplest thing to do is just practice to a lot of different songs. Everyday. Constantly.
Pandora.com is great because it will throw random Blues songs that you have not listened to. Then you MUST improvise. It's like homework, you MUST do the things you are not good at Until you GET good.
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#1- LISTEN!
- No musician on this planet knows everything. But with a good Ear, we all are able to learn from sound. Since there Are enough musicians in the world to have Everything "covered", we have the means to Learn Anything. If we simply Hear and Analyze.
If you are at a jam, a song starts and you don't know what to play, "Listen". Hang back for a progression or two and Use your ears. Ask yourself, "What are the other instruments playing"?
Play what they play with variation.
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- Start Slow. There's no need to play EVERY space. No need to use fast thousand note runs.
***The Less you play, the Less you have to know to sound "good". If you are not confident in your abilities, don't worry. Play what you Do feel confident with and then practice afterwards.
- Repetition with variation. If you find a riff that is Killing on a song, Play It! Play it to Death. But use minor variation so that you don't sound like that lick is the Only lick you know.
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Numerous different and NEW Scale practice exercises will help you develop new pathways to improvisation. There are Billions of ways to play a scale. It doesn't just have to be CDEFGABC. It can be something as simple as CD E FG A BC. Using your imagination when you are practicing means you don't have to use it as much while you are onstage.
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Time and Practice! That's it.
A basic understanding of Anatomy/Physiology, Nuerology/Psychology doesn't hurt either. Simple things that most of us never think about make a HUGE difference in learning a new skill.
When I practice, I have a Specific improvement I want to make. I Obsessively think about that improvement Before, During and After my practice. This gives my mind a "Heads-Up" that I NEED to retain the Data pertaining to the specific targeted improvement that is heading it's way.
Be Obsessive. I have never met an Obsessive person who fails.
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