I want to make music. i also know nothing about the technical skills that go into making good music. my plan is to learn an instrument (ideally two) to develop an understanding more efficiently. is this a solid plan, or is there something im not doing?
also, this might go on /mu/, but /adv/ has always worked for me in the past.
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>>16509899
Learning to read music should be your first objective.
piano's a good place to start, pretty straightforward and a great skill to have, especially being able to do two different things with your hands at once. you should look up the book "piano for the developing musician", I found it as a pdf for free on google a while back but it's the same book I was required to have in a piano class a while ago, starts off pretty simple and slowly gets more difficult, as long as you commit yourself to practicing every day and using a metronome you'll be shreddin' in no time.
>>16509899
Musician here
I would say start out with anything that will teach you how to keep a beat (I'd say drums) and then move on to piano to learn notes and how each note falls into a scale.
There are plenty of instructors that are out there, and some teach for free or low cost because they're trying to fulfill a requirement of some kind for their degree.
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>>16509951
thanks anions. would learning something more difficult (flute, trumpet, ect) be something to do early on? or will that be too advanced to learn on effectively ?
>>16510012
I learned trumpet before I moved on to piano and drums and I really regretted it.
Don't get me wrong, I learned about keeping a beat and scales, but there's something about learning drums and piano first that kind of give you a better understanding.
>>16510020
I think that having a picture in your head of CDEFGABC as a linear progression of steps on a piano is the best foundation for learning music a person can have.
I couldn't imagine having started with a trumpet. I would think that my mind's eye would view music as like a circle or something.
>>16510012
The trumpet (imho) shouldn't be a first instrument. It's all about tone and knowing what a G vs. an F sound like before you even pick it up. There's three keys and not that many combinations.
Go for the piano, serious. You can get a shitty keyboard at Value Village or Goodwill for $10 and you can actually SEE the notes. The piano is designed as musical notes in physical form.
>>16510071
It wasn't a tough transition, it was just re-learning how to visualize notes, really. I will always advocate for drums/piano first, however.
>>16510080
I couldn't agree more.
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>>16510080
picking up a very cheap keyboard sounds like a really good idea. is there anything I should be wary of though? I don't really want to learn on one incorrectly because it was faulty in some way
>>16510146
might wanna buy a sustain pedal to go with it, makes it feel like you're actually playing piano. I agree with the others in this thread though, piano's best place to start just 'cause it gives you a good foundation of where all the notes are. if you can get your scales down on piano it's pretty easy to figure it out on other instruments from there
