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[Brad]

piano/sax

[Brad]

Piano sex?

NONE FOR YOU!

[koolgrl512]

Actually, I'm a music major

TAB is always a good way to start out, but don't use it as a crutch for too long. The best advice I can give is to learn how to read real music.

[Jackus]

and how do you go about doing that.. do u know any helpfull sites by any chance?

-GaMeZ-

[koolgrl512]

honestly, go out to your local music store and get a method book. work on learning some basic chords, scales, and getting used to how it feels/sounds. 8notes.com has some good music, too, once you learn the basics. And it's free

[Jackus]

Since getting my guitar i have been relying on tabs...
I will take your advice and get a method book..
I want to eventualy get good enough to start making my own songs instead of just parroting other peoples material.

-GaMeZ-

[foogie]

Haha..exactly like that You know, when you have keyboards connected to computers and you can mess with the sounds. I always go for stuff like that
The lady in the video didn't look to excited.

XD

yeah, by the looks of it, she probably does that exact same performance with the dude like 8 times a day. hahaha

Since getting my guitar i have been relying on tabs...
I will take your advice and get a method book..
I want to eventualy get good enough to start making my own songs instead of just parroting other peoples material.

-GaMeZ-

lol, here's what my tabs look like...




think you'd want to try and get music from that?? XD
my music all has lyrics along the side which i'm supposed to sing, but I haven't tried. I think it might be a little difficult trying to read the music score, play it, read japanese lyrics and sing them in tune and in rhythm with what I'm playing...

[powerman5000]

Since getting my guitar i have been relying on tabs...
I will take your advice and get a method book..
I want to eventualy get good enough to start making my own songs instead of just parroting other peoples material.

-GaMeZ-

To be honest, you don't need to learn how to read music to write your own. As long as you know how to play your song chord/tab wise, you're good.

BUT, you DO need to learn how to read it if you are going to get really serious in to this. Don't expect to take any college classes or anything in music if you don't know how to read it!

I should major in music but I already know pretty much everything. Haha, sad but true. I started writing marches for the military band at our high school whenever I was in 9th grade.

[Jackus]

HOLY SHIZ!!
How can you read that!!!? lol.
why are you using japanese tabs and lyrics anyway?

-GaMeZ-

[foogie]

HOLY SHIZ!!
How can you read that!!!? lol.
why are you using japanese tabs and lyrics anyway?

-GaMeZ-

well, it's how you play the sanshin. lol

guitars have those weird guitar tabs which I don't understand, and the sanshin has weird kanji tabs with weird hiragana lyrics which I suppose most of you wouldn't understand... XD

[Jackus]

nope lol

[Delphinus85]

I just started playing the guitar myself. I just play chords, and I am finding bar chords to be the bigest pain in the hiney I have ever experienced!

[Jackus]

I just started playing the guitar myself. I just play chords, and I am finding bar chords to be the bigest pain in the hiney I have ever experienced!

I know what you mean,
theres a lot of fret buzz.
they are realy hard

[illicit]

My brother used to (try to) play Bass. He wasn't very good at it xD. There was a song by Anti Flag that he tried to play, was the same thing over and over, so it was easy lol. Can't remember the name though

I bought a keyboard a couple years ago. I can play twinkle twinkle little start and Unholy Confessions. I can't read notes though I just remember what keys to press.

I used Guitar Pro for it, it's a nice program, you should download it. You can download songs for it and it shows you how to play them

[Jackus]

My brother used to (try to) play Bass. He wasn't very good at it xD. There was a song by Anti Flag that he tried to play, was the same thing over and over, so it was easy lol. Can't remember the name though

I bought a keyboard a couple years ago. I can play twinkle twinkle little start and Unholy Confessions. I can't read notes though I just remember what keys to press.

I used Guitar Pro for it, it's a nice program, you should download it. You can download songs for it and it shows you how to play them

I also have guitar pro.

Its very usefull..
I also downloaded a whole archive of songs off the internet.
I would recomend to everyone

As for twinkle twinkle... i taught myself lol

Edited by -GaMeZ-, 26 October 2007 - 08:50 AM.

[arthritis]

for all the piano players, do you guys know of any site whereby we can find free classical sheet music?

[NoodleMonster]

I play the soprano and tenor saxophone for my school's jazz band. I'm not very good at it, even though I used to be brilliant at it (for my age at the time). I tried to pick up guitar once, but I couldn't stand all of the chords and tabs and stuff. It's just way too different than the saxophone. I couldn't stand it.

[illicit]

for all the piano players, do you guys know of any site whereby we can find free classical sheet music?

http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/

http://www.virtualsh...c.com/free.html

http://www.music-scores.com/

I just googled it XDDD

[Jackus]

Broke high e string!!!! aaaaaaagh....
Will have to invest in new strings X(

[Ives]

I've been playing guitar for 5 years now, I think....I've been playing bass a tad longer.

I love bass....bass is the best insturment, by far...I started playing upright recently to further my knowledge.

I practice bass when I'm at work....usually about 6 to 14 hours out of the day (there are a few hours when my boss is in and i cant play it in front of him.

My influences are Bootsy Collins, Victor Wooten, Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Billy Sheehan, Marcus Miller, Larry Graham, and Frank Zappa. I could go down the list, but anyways, I'll continue my pro bass stance.

Bass not only requires you to keep a better since of time than the drummer, if you really want to be a great bass player you should be able to do that AND keep a better melody than the guitar. Thats why I have reason to conclude its the hardest insturment out of any conventional rock band out there, and why I think everybody should pick up a bass at some time, whether its to help build a sense of time or to understand the essentials behind a good guitar player.

Tony Iommi would suck if there weren't Geezer.

Nuff said.

[phalkon]

started off singing and playing keyboard.

then picked up guitar.

now learning bass.

of course it helps that i have all these instruments at home.

but not when i get bogged down and can't play anything for like a month

[Ives]

The musicians mentality tends to be the "bark everything else i just want to play music." I think I have that unhealthy obsession, so yeah.

And to the OP: Don't get discouraged starting out. It may feel like it doesnt vibe at first but youll get better by 6 months into it and be able to learn quicker.

Edited by Athean, 03 November 2007 - 09:41 PM.

[Jackus]

inspired by tenacious d and some guy at a summer school thing i went to a while back