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 No.85819>>85825 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

I've decided to pick up playing music for fun and got me an electric piano second hand.

The only music theory I know is what was burnt into me by middle/high school symphonic band.

Could a kind-hearted anon direct me to where I can get good resources for learning piano and music theory in general?

music learning thread I guess

 No.85820

>I guess

Cut the numale dialectic.

How do I get better at singing lads. Any vocalists here? What type do you do?


 No.85824>>85827 >>85843

First .pdf is a piano book for OP. The other ones are all singing books. I don't play piano or sing, so I haven't read any of these and I don't know how helpful they are, but here they are either way. I have a fuck ton of other shit if anyone wants to learn some stuff. A lot of them come from >>>/pdfs/, but there's some stuff in there that I found somewhere else.


 No.85825>>85843

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>>85819 (OP)


 No.85827

>>85824

Thank you anon.


 No.85829>>85830 >>85844 >>85989

>Want to git gud at playing bass guitar

>Either procrastinate 2much and ignore bass altogether or just sit down and play old metal songs instead of learning new shit or practicing

What kind of routine do you have for learning and applying theory, anons?


 No.85830

>>85829

Play old metal songs with a twist.

Improvise walking basslines.


 No.85843

>>85825

>>85824

thank you very much!


 No.85844

>>85829

>git gud

>theory

What's your definition of getting good at an instrument? If you know theory, that doesn't automatically make you good at bass. With string instruments, it's a technique thing. Find songs that have tapping or something like that in them.


 No.85846>>85851 >>85858 >>85860 >>85862

I kinda wanna learn to sing but I don't live alone and I would be embarrassed for anyone to hear me. I also want to learn how to write lyrics. I thought of rapping because that seems easier than singing. I need something to differentiate myself from the 5 million other people making music with their computers.

I also have have writers' block.

I'll listen to something really good and get super excited about making music and then I'll try making a beat and get discouraged very fast. Then I'll listen to something great and feel even worse. I've been making music off and on for many years and I haven't made anything worth hearing. I constantly wonder if this is worth the effort I put into it and if the pain of failure is worth the potential reward of feeling good. The pain of sitting around instead of trying is pretty bad but probably equal to the pain of failure. I want to do something unique and I hate the fact that 10000 people are doing the same thing as I am. I have seen so so many soundclouds with single digit listens it depresses me. Even on this nearly dead corner of the net there are hundreds of posts in the soundcloud and bandcamp threads.


 No.85851

>>85846

>I kinda wanna learn to sing but I don't live alone and I would be embarrassed for anyone to hear me. I also want to learn how to write lyrics. I thought of rapping because that seems easier than singing.

Figure out what you really want to do, with singing is simpler than it seems (don't listen to the voice gurus on youtube they're all bullshitters) just start singing in a range that's comfortable for you and were you can sing well. If you feel ashamed just start by humming, loud enough that you can hear yourself.

>need something to differentiate myself from the 5 million other people making music with their computers.

>I want to do something unique and I hate the fact that 10000 people are doing the same thing as I am.

Everything's been done, if you come up with something you think is original or really "out there" it's probably been done several times in the past. Just forget about that and make music, whatever you can come up with, if it sucks then make more.

>I'll listen to something really good and get super excited about making music and then I'll try making a beat and get discouraged very fast.

Even that music started a a simple melody or chord progression.


 No.85858

>>85846

Is there a forest or an abandoned building or something like that where you live? If you have a car you could drive to the middle of nowhere to do your singing practice. Also

>I need something to differentiate myself

>singing, rapping and making beats and putting it on Soundcloud

How much do you know about theory? The kind of music it sounds like you're making is incredibly generic, so if you really want to differentiate yourself you need to pick apart every aspect of what you're doing and what everyone else does and find something that hasn't been done yet or hasn't been done much. In terms of marketing, there are plenty of books and internet courses that you can use to learn about marketing that will put you leagues above people who just tell their friends and write their Soundcloud links on the walls of bathroom cubicles.


 No.85860

>>85846

So what, if you can't get past the embarrassment of your own home then you won't make it on stage lad.


 No.85862

>>85846

idk man. go to karaoke places if that exists around where you live. in general, singing together with friends is probably the best way to go for it, at least to get acquainted with your voice enough that you can start with serious practice.

and no, rapping isn't easier than singing. but it's easier to bullshit people with shitty rapping than with shitty singing, I'll give you that.


 No.85989

>>85829

I picked up an electric bass a couple of weeks ago, played on Rocksmith a lot, that was fun but that doesn't teach you theory at all.

So now I'm learning scales and all of the notes on the fretboard. Also arpeggios. That's less fun but I have no fucking idea how to create bass lines that sound good or to jam with another musician, real or pre-recorded.




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