/mu/ - Music

I have a drumset, a bass guitar, and a guitar I found in the trash at different places. I have the cheapest midi keyboard, and am pretty much learning scales in C. I just use the transpose function like a capo. I'm ok, but I like my bass lines the best. I wish i could play jazz, or with people.

I play the drums and organ in a psych noise rock band. I'm not that great at drums but I like to think I get the job done. I've played piano for something like 13 years and do classical so I can fuck around on an organ. If you actually care to listen I can link SoundCloud for the album we released a few months ago.

No but i want to learn Piano and Violin, just to play Bridge and Frates basically and be more like Frank

>>99615

Damn that sounds sick, I play guitar in a psych noise band

>>99624

We try but our recording is rather primitive so it's not the greatest representation.

I took up guitar last summer and try to play for an hour most days. I pretty much just practice simple chord progressions while watching videos. When I hit the year mark I plan on trying to learn basic lead work.

Synthesizers are what I'm really interested in, though, and I'd like to learn how to play keyboards eventually (rather than just playing around with a MIDI controller to come up with ideas). It's kind of a hassle to draw notes in with the mouse, but my setup isn't too good for learning while multitasking like I do with guitar. I'd probably sequence everything anyway, but it's definitely something I should learn in the long run.

I've been practicing guitar for he past year. I'm still really shit, but what I really want to learn is bass. Thinking of signing up for Scott's Bass Lessons, but I'm flat broke.

Anyone got a pirate or something better?

>>99626

Yeah same, we use this thing my drummer got from his drum teacher who's in a semi-famous local band

>>99893

Why not learn Diatonic major, Diminished Harmonic minor, Melodic minor, and Whole tone scales. then follow the chord changes and learn percussive holds and you are done.

>>99599

Piano, Sax: alto tenor and baritone, Guitar and recently got a bass.

>>99893

Been using this as a guide

https://www.studybass.com/

I have a fender jaguar bass and a knock off strat guitar that I play through a fender bass amp. Started messing around at 15 but didn't follow through (although I noodled around a lot and had a lot of little melodies and compositions in my head). Trying to actually sit down and learn at 23. Starting with the major and minor scales, as well as the e harmonic minor scale on guitar. Learning time signature counting on bass and basic notes. The goal is to be able to compose an EP or album of original material that mixes prog and jazz fusion time signatures and tempo changes with my own melodies.

>>99615

Link pls

>>99972

Lmao bruh

i play guitar decently, im better at bass even tho i dont play it as much. right now i wanna sell my Indy Custom Jazz Bass and get a short scale fender bass or something like that.

I play the bones.

Me trying to play the first few measures of Orion after practising for ~4 days (learning bass for about a year)

https://vocaroo.com/i/s073y5bEGIO7

my guitar is broken, very little sound coming out of it when connected to amp/interface. :(

>>100547

Maybe the amp is broken or maybe the connection coming from the pickups just came loose somehow.

>>100547

Turn the volume up

>>100547

I think it's a pickup-related problem. I have something similar going on with my old guitar.

>>99612

Have you managed to get the guitars all set up and working properly?

>>99692

Feel good that you play anything

>>99695

Buy an old 80s keyboard synth to practice your playing they're like $15

>>100158

What kind of amp do you have? Grab an overdrive pedal like the crayon Imo to make a better guitar toan and also add bass grind

>>100182

Keep at it man, what kind of guitar you got

>>100431

Bass is a little easier in some ways but gets hard again when you try and get advanced

>>100518

Nice thanks for posting this

>>100547

Easy fix, broken solder somewhere.

>>100896

I see you let your little sister decorate it

>>100898

guitarking.nl/Solid-Body/Fender_Classic_69_Telecaster_Blue_Flower_Japan_FSR_

I'm sorry you can only afford a Squier. This was the nicest playing tele in the 3 stores I went to.

I've played guitar for 16 years. I started when I was young and barely practiced in middle school, and haven't been practicing enough in the last year. I'm lead guitar in a prog rock/metal band (we never got around to fixing a genre) but we haven't gigged since September and I'm pretty rusty. I've been studying music at a state school (sounds shitty, but half of our professors also teach at Berklee and our Sound Recording program is actually well regarded as one of the best) so my theory knowlege has improved dramatically, and I learned how to read music. Lately I've been working on Bach's Chaconne in D minor for classical guitar as a personal project. I also play bass, basic keyboard and the ocarina, though I'm not as good at those.

>>100370

Sorry for the double-post but I have the same model of Les Paul, bourbon finish and everything. Great guitar, plays like butter and sounds amazing. I probably won't need another one for years. I've never played a Jaguar, though. How does it play?

>>100650

>Buy an old 80s keyboard synth to practice your playing they're like $15

I've already got a decent collection of vintage digital rack synths:

>Yamaha TX802

>Yamaha FB-01

>Casio FZ-10M

>Roland JV-1080

I also have a Matrix-1000 for analog polyphonic stuff, but it's out of tune unless I adjust the notes it's playing slightly. I'm not crazy about the workflow of sound creation with it (or even its sounds themselves necessarily), either. On top of that, I've got a Twisted Electrons AY3, but I only plan on using that in niche cases.

I plan on getting the Behringer Model D to cover monophonic analog duty when I get some extra money. Maybe when their OB-Xa knockoff comes out I'll replace my Matrix-1000, too.

Overall, I think the FB-01 is my favorite out of what I own, and I only paid $60 for it. It instantly gives you that gritty late '80s-early '90s video game FM sound.

As far as actually playing anything, I'm trying to move on from sequencing everything to playing things myself (I even recently bought a budget MPC controller for drums), but I'm going to need a lot more practice for anything but chords.

>>100900

I wish I was as knowledgeable about music theory as you and also had formal training. Never stop playing you lucky slut.

>>100901

No thanks for the bump man, the jaguar is a MIM blacktop 90, it plays very well. I like it because it has a hardtail, a short scale length, and P90s. It was a gift from my mother for my 18th birthday so I'm a little biased, but it's one of my favorites, behind the Gibson and my MIJ Tele. I really recommend trying a blacktop if you see one, they aren't terribly expensive used (out of production now)

>>100904

Ok nevermind, it sounded like you wanted to get in to keyboard. You already have an awesome setup but I still recommend a $15 fuck around mono synth. Since you're midi post a link to something you played if you can

>>100965

>Ok nevermind, it sounded like you wanted to get in to keyboard.

I do in the sense that I've never really used my MIDI controller as anything but a composition tool. I can play some chords, but that's about it so far.

I recently decided that I'm going to try to begin playing every day, though, so hopefully I can start improving. I think I might just continue focusing on chord progressions right now until I have no problems playing them smoothly.

>Since you're midi post a link to something you played if you can

I haven't made any recordings of my playing, but I used to be able to play link related really sloppily. That and the "Jump" riff were the extent of my playing ability.

I can play bass, drums and guitar. I sold my drum kit since I never used the fucking thing, and looking at getting rid of my guitars(5)/pedals/amp/speakers - again because I never fucking use them. Getting old sucks. I'll keep most of my bass stuff, since I've been playing that for 18+ years.

I tired my hand at FL Studio to make those sweet memewave songs, but I was completely shit at it.

>>100983

>I tired my hand at FL Studio to make those sweet memewave songs, but I was completely shit at it.

But isn't that babby tier in terms of difficulty?

How do I into guitar scales? Can somone give me a chart?

>>101070

You can find scale charts all over the place. I'm still a guitar newfag but would recommend learning the E-minor pentatonic scale if you're just starting off.

>>101071

I'd like to learn the flute at some point just to record it and mangle the sounds.

The only instruments I can play fluently are guitar and bass. I'm good at playing "rhythm piano" or whatever you call it when all you do is play chords, but I can't do much else without weeks and weeks of practice.

>>100900

16 years wew, upload something pls

>>100998

>>101066

>But isn't that babby tier in terms of difficulty?

Probably, but I have 0 understanding of music theory (even though I played clarinet, classically, for 8+ years). Maybe FL just doesn't suit a qwerty keyboard.

>>101144

Nah FL can just be counter-intuitive sometimes. pick up a copy of reaper, it's free (annoy ware) or $60 and one of the best DAWs around.

I'm mediocre at piano and also half-assedly teaching myself organ. So far I can play up to about the first minute of embed related, but I don't have any bass pedals.

>>101144

What exactly are you trying to do in FL? If you're trying to create an entire track from scratch, it can take a while to learn what you're doing. Piddling around with a MIDI controller can at least help with coming up with ideas.

I have to admit that some of the changes they've made in the newer versions bug me. I'm still using FL Studio 11 because of it.

>>101191

Whats wrong with an oldschool ss amp?

>>101196

Not much obviously, that's mine

>>101147

>reaper

I'll look into that, thanks for the rec anon. I used reaper for audio recording, but wasn't aware it had the capability of being a platform for creating shit without external inputs.

>>101163

>If you're trying to create an entire track from scratch

That's what I was trying to do. I was using FL 12 and that was my first foray into the 'artificial sounds' world. I'm kinda ok at coming up with stuff on bass or guitar, but trying to transpose that onto a qwerty interface fails miserably.

>>101191

I upgraded to Orange amps. I assume they fall into normalfag tier. I would invest in an Ampeg, but I don't record or play live anymore so I can't really justify it.

>>101208

Oh whoops, creating stuff. Yeah for that I'd actually recommend logic, if you can afford it. Sometimes sorta hard to use but has a ridiculous amount of really good sound presets and stuff to help you write music

Also invest in an ampeg anyway they make a cheap mini stack that sounds pretty good

>>101208

Although you can still create shit in reaper, and it works pretty well so I stand by what I said earlier logic just seems to make creating things easier than reaper even. FL was my least favorite, along with protools

>>101215

Obviously yes. Even if you suck it's just good for you as a musician to work with others

>>101208

I got started just by creating rhythms into the step sequencer and then by going into the piano roll and learning what combinations of notes go together to create major and minor chords based on the empty spaces in between. A three-note chord with two empty spaces in between the top and middle and three spaces between the middle and bottom comes out as a major chord, for example. I'd suggest just getting a MIDI controller if you don't have one and learning that way.

Orange amps are considered pretty good from what I understand, at least certain models.

I play the trumpet. Theoretically in the city marching band but I've been busy so haven't really played with them in a while.

I'm not consistent in practice and as a result I haven't been getting better in the last three years. I'm pretty bad, and have a shit range.

I'd like to play the guitar and piano, but never actually tried for more than two days in a row

>>101310

You sound like me with guitar. I suck because I don't practice enough, I don't practice because I'm not good enough that I feel good about my playing.

>>101311

For me the problem is I feel like I don't really get better when I actually put in the effort to play everyday for a week or two. I know I should just push it till I do get better but life gets in the way, mixed with demotivation. Another big problem is I don't listen to music with trumpets. <5% of the music I listen to has trumpets in it. I don't know what to play. The marches got boring after three/four times I played them. Trying to get into jazz to fix this but I'm getting pleb-filtered hard and it seems hard to play, way above my current level

>>100899

awe poor baby ;(

do you want some mashed peas and carrots little baby? hmm?

>>101321

P.S. Improvement not valid if you aren't mindful aka paying attention at what your fingers are doing and honestly calling your own fuckups.

Currently, I got a proper bass after plinking on a shitty 80 dollar yamaha.

I recommend Rocksmith 2014, pretty fun if you play mindfully instead of thinking it's OSU / DDR.

101320

101321

101322

Get the fuck out of my thread halfchan samefag. Don't need your cancer here.

>>101331

You should supplement with songs at your level or above it. But good exercise books should have a few interesting sounding sections to spice it up.

>>101324

>calling other people halfchan

>can't even quote properly

I bet you typed those numbers out.

>>101336

>You should supplement with songs at your level or above it

Where to get them?

I guess I can look at online sheet music and play from screen/print it out

101341

You don't get a (you) because you're posting low quality garbage. Fuck yourself with a cactus

I used to play clarinet way back, but I play violin now. Not at a super great level but I can do some songs now. Like any stringed instrument, it's like pressing your fingertips against a cheese grater but this one has the pleasant addition of rosin dust.

>>101419

Get back here nigger.

>>101474

Hey nothing wrong with fruity guitars, I bought an edgy ass Ibanez and boy do I regret it.

>>101558

>In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

My nigger.

>>101473

No, 4niggers are afoot

101474

Yes I'm I faggot or whatever because my guitar has flowers on it. My counter argument is you are the fox, because you couldn't afford it anyway.

>>101561

>>101558

Now all of you fuck off the thread is over sage please. I made this thread to try and make something better than halfmu /gg/ but instead Im just getting the same exact thread but slower.

I've been playing guitar for 5 years, I'm not much of an electric player

https://vocaroo.com/i/s0l5yeStQBoH

https://vocaroo.com/i/s0HnwV7x3E1p

old clips of me noodling to loops i made, tho not much of an electric player

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1YH8ct0Lyip

me singing something with acoustic, playing rhythm and lead licks

I think im alright

lately ive been writing a lot of midi music, like gamey stuff

>>102017

>lately ive been writing a lot of midi music, like gamey stuff

Did you get your start in music that way or is it something you've taken up an interest in more recently? I started off making music that way but now am trying to learn to play stuff I've written more by hand. I don't know if it's out of insecurity or what, but I figure I should learn to do it anyway.

>>100370

Wow wow a Fender and a Gibson side-by-side that's nuts.

>>100650

Old 80s keyboards in good condition are expensive and hard to repair if it's anything but a DX7, at least if you're counting synths.

>>102036

No I started by playing guitar. It’s just easier to write when you have various different things to write with. Sure I can do plenty of things on guitar, but I don’t have much interest with writing solo guitar instrumental shit. I like writing piano, and getting ideas from synths. Also I have discipline problems so sitting through and writing out shit with just my acoustic is annoying. It’s much faster to transcribe something to midi and write another part afterwards, I’ll do that with no intention of refining it or memorizing it on guitar. Then I’ll write other parts and transcribe to midi. But if you’re not a strong instrumentalist and mainly write with the computer definitely focus your time into an instrument of your choosing, I would say piano but it’s your preference. You’ll be much better for it.

>>102039

>Old 80s keyboards in good condition are expensive and hard to repair if it's anything but a DX7, at least if you're counting synths.

That's especially true for analogs. Back when digital synths started taking everything over, you could get them for ridiculously low prices. Now even a Juno-60 is over $1,000.

>>102132

Learning how to make MIDI music is probably the best choice if you care more about writing music than actually playing it.

I'm most interested in using guitar for simple instrumental pieces and arpeggios and background textures. I was trying to learn stuff like power chords recently but put that on the back burner for now since those really don't have a place in the music I currently make. It's not like it's rock or anything.

There are also programs out there that allow you to use your guitar as a MIDI controller, but I haven't tried one at this point.

Learning keyboards is less of a priority for me in that I can just sequence everything and get largely the same sound in the end, but it's still something I'm trying to learn. There are little dynamic subtleties in music that I'd rather get from playing music than fiddling around with it on a piano roll.

>>102134

I mostly play acoustic so I couldn’t use it to get midi data from it probably, though I’ve seen the hardware that’s for it. Well I personally don’t play many power chords, but if you’re looking to add texture and arpeggios, you should just learn to fingerpick for now. Flat-picking is a whole nother thing and it takes lots of times to develop. I just prefer to pick cause I hate the empty feeling of using my fingers. Not quite as satisfying as the pick cutting throughs strings. And you should definitely learn basic triads for now, and definitely over power chords if you’re not making rock or metal or indie bedroom shit. And I’d say don’t be afraid to delve into “harder” shapes. I mean it takes a while but they stop being so hard. What kind of music are you intending to make with guitar?

And I love playing guitar, usually do for hours a day if I’m not writing, but it’s a pain in the ass to write or play what I’ve written and remember it on guitar, or sit down and totally get it down. I just like making music for the sake of music, won’t be performing unless I want to write songs, and I like a wide variety of music not just guitar music. So writing with MIDI is definitely very very helpful and it helps to have my instrument for reference if I want to write some parts or am on an idea. It will also inform your style as you get better. But I’m sure you have your writing style that will translate to guitar already.

>>102142

>Well I personally don’t play many power chords, but if you’re looking to add texture and arpeggios, you should just learn to fingerpick for now. Flat-picking is a whole nother thing and it takes lots of times to develop. I just prefer to pick cause I hate the empty feeling of using my fingers. Not quite as satisfying as the pick cutting throughs strings. And you should definitely learn basic triads for now, and definitely over power chords if you’re not making rock or metal or indie bedroom shit. And I’d say don’t be afraid to delve into “harder” shapes. I mean it takes a while but they stop being so hard.

As far as chords go, I know a fairly decent amount of the basic (G, E, E minor, C, C7, A, D, and maybe a variation of an F and a few others).

I might learn fingerpicking eventually, but I started off using a pick and have found a style of pick that I like using.

>What kind of music are you intending to make with guitar?

Lo-fi, heavily processed instrumental stuff. I was working on synthwave-style tracks a while ago (among others) but have decided to focus on making stuff that's slower and more atmospheric than a lot of that is.

Here are a few rough samples of the type of guitar work I'd use for something like that:

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1Lifo4x5iiw

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1Wzr0b42cyt

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1giTldYRMTB

Well, maybe not that last one. I was thinking of Timecop1983 when I made that and would only use it if I made it more distinct.

You probably get the picture, though.

>And I love playing guitar, usually do for hours a day if I’m not writing, but it’s a pain in the ass to write or play what I’ve written and remember it on guitar, or sit down and totally get it down. I just like making music for the sake of music, won’t be performing unless I want to write songs, and I like a wide variety of music not just guitar music.

I only seriously took up guitar last summer and have found it to be pretty rewarding but am largely in the same boat. I practice daily but don't plan on joining a band or anything. I might also take up other instruments eventually when I get to a certain level of proficiency.

>>102155

Nothing wrong with flatpicking, I love it. As long as you stick with guitar you’ll learn plenty of techniques.

https://clyp.it/bsqhaafb

This is a shitty track I made when starting to use the DAW so didn’t have much of a clue what I was doing and is mixed like shit. Recorded guitar with mic from laptop. Leave a comment and we can talk out of this thread if you want.

You sound like you have definite goals and a respect for the undertaking, so I’m sure you’ll get to a good level sooner or later. Though a satisfiable proficiency is a high bar depending on the person. You should definitely learn more chords outside of first position though. Idk what kind of ambience you’re looking for or what exactly “lo-fi” would encompass with guitar as a texture, or how much theory you know. But you should definitely start on basic extended chords and suspended chords sooner than later, I know you didn’t ask but just putting it out there. And everybody moves differently. I did listen to your reversed bit and major to minor arpeggio thing, and they could fit in a million contexts so the Lofi umbrella is very vague to me. The third bit is a sound I like and reminds me of a lot of things, and I play similar things as well. Reminds me of post hardcore type shit and VGM shit like this https://youtu.be/Vu3RGFkfVgI

And this other VGM track of this game I didn’t play some anon had posted but I have no idea what game it was

>>102176

Sooner rather than later*

>>102176

>This is a shitty track I made when starting to use the DAW so didn’t have much of a clue what I was doing and is mixed like shit. Recorded guitar with mic from laptop. Leave a comment and we can talk out of this thread if you want.

Considering the circumstances I don't think it sounds bad, but I'm not that qualified to comment as far as mix-related stuff goes. I like the tinkly electric piano-sounding thing in the background and the reversed guitar part. The track has a nice sunny feeling to it that makes me think of Lemon Jelly.

>You sound like you have definite goals and a respect for the undertaking, so I’m sure you’ll get to a good level sooner or later. Though a satisfiable proficiency is a high bar depending on the person. You should definitely learn more chords outside of first position though.

I can easily come up with chord progressions I like on a keyboard, but I have a harder time with guitar and knowing what I should learn. I do a lot of chord progressions with notes held between chords, so I think suspended chords are something that should be a high priority for learning on guitar.

>Idk what kind of ambience you’re looking for or what exactly “lo-fi” would encompass with guitar as a texture, or how much theory you know.

I'd like to do music along these lines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK-5uN2nHX0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prMXL3MclAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbyp6gE8aMg

These tracks are a lot like the ones I like to come up with in terms of mood and chord progressions (though better than mine, of course), and the first one is especially similar in that I plan on taking the warbly cassette tape route.

As far as how guitar fits into that, The Campfire Headphase is an album that has an aesthetic like what I'd like to go for. I prefer more of an '80s-style guitar sound and more arpeggios, though.

>Reminds me of post hardcore type shit and VGM shit like this https://youtu.be/Vu3RGFkfVgI

Wow. I don't think I've ever heard that piece before, but that bittersweet mood is exactly the kind of thing I'm after. There's a sense of melancholy to it that hits you right in the feels, but it's not cartoonishly dark or anything.

I play guitar, I hate halfchan's guitar general because they have this thing called kakaposting where they'll answer anything you wish to discuss about the instrument with this kaka meme

>>102189

Regarding that last bit, you should learn minadd9 and min9 chords then

An Emadd9 open would be (022002) Em9 would be (022032) Am9 would be (x02413) a Bmaddb9 would be (x24532) or (x2453x) these are just first position ones and all in the key of Em

You should just learn maj and min 9s, add9s and sus2s in general, I can post a voocaroo of what these chords sound like later as well. Em-Am-Bm is i-iv-v

https://youtu.be/vwBjCKWaO_0

Also another track akin to the one I posted, I believe it’s in Dm

I liked what I heard from what you posted and I can’t give you tips on producing or anything but definitely check out these chords I posted and Idk if you know how to build them, but they probably will help you out a lot with the kinda mood, and definitely more accessible then thinking about further extensios. Also not wholly sad and not happy either.

>>102191

Thanks. I've written those down and will keep them in mind.

I want to learn bass but there are too many niggers crowding the subject. I really wish people who worship nigger musicians, in general, would just fuck off. Is this too unreasonable, or am I gonna give up bass altogether?

>>100900

>Bach Chaconne

good luck. I still mess around with that every few months but since I have no real ability on the guitar it's just noodling.

>>102494

Ignore them. Nigger musicians also love drums but they program them like shit.

>stomp clap stomp stomp clap

Anyway bass is super underrated any effort at all and you'll be good.

>>102495

Thanks anon, you give me hope. I really look forward to starting the bass. At the very least, I want to see how far I can get without having to hear from a nigg player.

>>101319

Thats an insane find anon. Those conti's run up to 1.3-2k. Take care of it and learn 2 play iron butterfly songs

>>102515

Meant the second part for >>102511

>>99599

Been playing piano for 10 years, AMA

>>102550

How expendable are keyboardists? Is it true that they are less valuable/essential to a band than the other members?

What's the hardest song you can play well?

What's the dumbest aspect about pianos that you wish would change?

>>102552

A keyboardist and pianist are two separate things, but for the sake of convenience I'll treat them like they're the same. Basically, like violinists, it's a problem of supply. There are a LOT of pianists, so you've got to be really good and keep yourself participating otherwise they will go to the very long line of other pianists gunning for that spot. But musically, they are not expendable at all. They are very unique in that the entire orchestra (minus percussion) can be played at once in an arangement. You simply can't do that with other instruments.

Keyboardists are more expendable than pianists, the difference being that a pianist has more technically (technique) and musically challenging parts and plays on a traditional piano, while keyboardists play less musically challenging pieces with more sound engineering/technical (technology) jobs. Pianists often have a central or semi-central role in a piece, whereas the keyboardist is almost always just for support. I've been both, but being a pianist is WAY more fun. Keyboardists just sit in the back playing simplistic chords, with all the time and effort going into finding the right pads and leads and soundscapes to go with a composition. Also keyboard is 100% contemporary, pianists have a much much wider range. Besides, this is all for ensembles. Solo pianists are a thing. Solo keyboardists (usually) are not. TL;DR Keyboard is the backing sound, piano is more versatile, and both can be replaced because of the large supply of both.

The hardest piece I've attempted, which I have tabled for the time being, is Chopin's Op. 25 no. 11 (winter wind). Its hard as FUCK. I recommend valentina lisitsa's version on youtube, her technique is actually god-tier. Currently I'm finishing up learning Liszt's Liebestraum No. 3. Tiffany Poon has a great recording. Honestly, I'm a great pianist from an outsider perspective, but I'm fucking dogshit in reality. I have no right to be as bad as I am after 10 years. I sounds like a pretty impressive 5 year student, which is really impressive to someone who doesn't play, but I ought to be as least two or three times my current skill level, but I'm a bad student who practices very irregularly and spent much of his early lessons winging it from lesson to lesson without preparation. I'm a freshman in college now, and I intend on getting much more serious. The dumbest thing about piano for me has been how immature I've been with lessons.

The dumbest thing to do when trying to learn piano is to go for a very long time without an instructor. Your ear will carry you a ways at first, but after 6 months to a year of regular practice, unless you're autodidactic as fuck, you will actually hurt yourself. I self taught alongside a shitty teacher for a few years and spent the next 4-6 years undoing bad habits.

Thanks for the questions, sorry for the late and lengthy response. Any music suggestions? I might be able to record and upload it.

>>102554

>the late and lengthy response

Don't sweat it, anon. It's not like I was owed an answer. I enjoyed reading your tale, and to me it sounds like you are squandering your potential. If you can half ass chopin's black ops. 25, then you can do that all the more better than someone with no skill.

>Any music suggestions?

I'm not a pianist, or any kind of musician for that matter (yet). I wouldn't know of any songs to test your might. But I do find the organ piano fascinating, especially Bach's Toccata and Fugue. If you ever learn the oregon piano, that would be my one suggestion.

As slow as this board is, I figure this thread could use a bump.

Here's me. I essentially just sound like watered down Tool.

https://geighreighthart.bandcamp.com/track/separated-sample

>>102819

Lurk before posting. This belongs in the self promotion thread.

>>102820

I just realized I put this in the wrong thread. I was getting pissed at the captcha and I guess I didn't realize I was on the wrong tab.